Home Assistant News / planned features
Thanks to the active community, Home Assistant is constantly being developed and improved, but Home Assistant is still not (quite) perfect. On this page I collect missing functions, features or small things that have potential for improvement, as well as changes worth mentioning inside and outside the official release notes
Pipeline: Proposed changes: Home Assistant 2025.10?
The following notable pull requests for the Home Assistant interface have not (yet) made it into the next release:
🚧 Home Assistant - Activate long-term statistics
In future, the long-term statistics (history recorder) can be switched on and off easily via the GUI. This long overdue change will be available in one of the next releases. This will allow the LTS status to be displayed in the entity overview and easily activated in the entity properties. ... continue reading
🚧 HA: Undo / Redo for the automation editor
An undo/redo function will soon be added to the Home Assistant automation editor, making it possible to quickly revise or restore changes. ... continue reading
🚧 Linking charts: Synchronize Zoom status?
Something is happening: the long-neglected history in Home Assistant is getting numerous improvements. With the 2025.1 release, the charts are getting a rudimentary zoom function, among other things. Rudimentary, because currently only one chart can be zoomed if there are several charts. And it is not yet possible to scroll to an older section. With the 2025.2 release, the chart library was migrated from chart.js to Apache Echart, as the chart library Chart.js originally used was increasingly re... ... continue reading
🚧 Create / edit Home Assistant blueprints (GUI)
Admittedly, I haven't used Blueprints much so far, but this could change with the next release: Similar to the Automation Editor, Blueprints can soon also be created or edited in the user interface. ... continue reading
🚧 Energy dashboard, planned: previous year comparison
One of the next releases is expected to bring the option of comparing the current month in the energy dashboard with the month of the previous year. ... continue reading
Home Assistant 2025.9
The following notable pull requests for the Home Assistant interface have made it into the 2025.9 release:
- new features for the tile map, for example an additional history chart function
- New sidebar for the automations
Home Assistant 2025.8: Sankey chart for the energy dashboard
- Added quietly and secretly as a separate card at the beginning of 2025, the Sankey Chart Card became a fixed component of the Energy Dashboard with the 2025.8 release: see also: Energy Dashboard: Cards for other dashboards too?
Home Assistant 2025.2 - Construction site charts
- Change the range of the statistics charts via date selection: Statistics chart: Date / time selection
- Another change suggestion that I submitted to Home Assistant has now been implemented. In the "More info" view of text sensors, not only the history but also the logbook is now displayed. This change has been part of Home Assistant since the 2025.2 release. Commit: https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/pull/22997
Home Assistant 2025.1
- Back and forward buttons for the history also for mobile devices
- Sankey-Chart-Card
Home Assistant 2024.12
- Back and next buttons for history and logbook
- After essential details were missing in the HA automation traces, I created my first feature request on Github in April 2024. Due to a lack of response, I set up an HA development environment in September and adapted the source code myself. The September pull request was then moved to the DEV version in mid-November, see HA Automation: Step details (Traces)
Relevant links
- https://community.home-assistant.io/c/month-of-what-the-heck/61/l/latest?order=votes
- https://rc.home-assistant.io/
- https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/commits/dev/
- https://github.com/home-assistant/core/commits/dev/
- Source thumbnail video intro: www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/05/07/release-20255/
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