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.

Home Assistant 2025.8? Energy dashboard, planned: Comparison of the current month with the previous year

• 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. Here is the corresponding pull request: https://github.com//home-assistant/frontend/pull/25037 /
  Discussion: community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-why-can-i-only-compare-periods-in-the-energy-dashboard-with-the-previous-period/467189

Home Assistant 2025.8: Sankey chart for the energy dashboard

Added quietly and secretly as a separate card at the beginning of the year, the Sankey Chart Card is expected to become a fixed component of the Energy Dashboard from the 2025.8 release.

See also: Energy dashboard: Maps for other dashboards too?

Home Assistant 2025.6

• New visualization of the Bluetooth network and improvement of the Zigbee visualization, see: https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/pull/25457

Home Assistant 2025.5

• Display of details when selecting entities and better search (+user option: display entity IDs in the picker)
• Copy / Paste of YAML blocks directly into the UI mode of the automations

Home Assistant 2025.4

• New automatic dashboard for areas 

Home Assistant 2025.3

• Numerous small improvements and performance optimizations to the charts: e.g.: Possibility to zoom a certain area by selection available again: Add drag to zoom & double click
• One of the key new features of the 2025.3 release is the ability to create headers for Lovelace cards. I have to admit that I don't quite understand the advantage of this, as similar functionality could already be put together before the release with a section, a heading and a Markdown card.

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)

Current development areas

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/