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ESPHome

INFRA · APIS
Velocity5.0

System for controlling ESP microcontrollers through simple YAML configuration

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ESPHome ships on a calendar, and the August beta train is now five builds deep

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◆Current state
The 2026.8.0 beta line has reached its fifth build in six days. Every one of them is a version-bump merge commit with no release notes — b5 is 70 characters, and that is the entire record. The last entries with readable content are the 2026.7 patch releases, which is where per-component fixes and contributor work actually become visible.
◆Where it's heading
The cadence is the product. Betas arrive every day or two as bump merges carrying no notes, the final release points at a changelog URL, and the real detail lands in the patch releases that follow it. Five betas in this cycle against four in the last suggests a slightly longer stabilization, but the feed gives no way to tell what is being stabilized. Anyone tracking ESPHome from this feed learns the release rhythm and nothing about the releases.
◆Prediction
Expect 2026.8.0 final within days, followed by the 2026.8.x patch releases that will carry the first readable account of what the August cycle actually changed.

◆Recent moves

  1. 12h ago

    2026.8.0 beta 5 tagged

    A version-bump merge commit and nothing else, the fifth in the August beta train. It extends the stabilization window by two days over the previous cycle's four betas but says nothing about what changed.

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  2. 2d ago

    2026.8.0 beta 4 tagged

    The fourth 2026.8.0 beta, tagged by a version bump merge with no release content of its own. Its only signal is that the August train is still open — a longer beta series than the 2026.7 cycle ran.

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  3. 4d ago

    2026.8.0 beta 3 tagged

    The third 2026.8.0 beta, tagged by a version bump merge with no release content of its own. One more step through the pre-release series before the August final.

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  4. 6d ago

    2026.8.0 beta 2 tagged

    A version bump merge with no accompanying notes. The beta entries in this feed exist to mark the train's position, not to describe changes.

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  5. 6d ago

    2026.8.0 beta 1 opens the August cycle

    Opens the 2026.8 beta series, with the entry body pointing at the beta changelog site rather than listing anything. The content for this cycle will surface at the final release.

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  6. 13d ago

    Device adoption and API buffer fixes land in 2026.7.4

    The most substantive patch of the 2026.7 line: git device adoption no longer fails on first attempt now that the clone cache is locked against concurrent resolutions, and the epaper_spi init sequence defaults to empty rather than None. The rest is automated dependency and bundled device-builder bumps.

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