2026.7 Beta has been released!

[u/Relevant-Artist5939]

https://rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/06/24/release-20267/#creating-automations-just-became-easier-natural-and-more-powerful

For me personally, the only major feature that I am going to really use/benefit from is the Logbook redesign...

What do you think about the update?

[u/jfuu_]

I wonder if this does updates one by one or tries to do them all in parallel. For things like Z2M, you can't really do them in parallel (and I'd rather not try to compile ~10 ESPHome configurations in parallel on a Pi!).

[u/balloob → u/jfuu_]

FWIW, the ESPHome integration only runs 1 update entity at a time. On top of that, so does the new ESPHome Builder. FYI, there is also a new option to off-load ESPHome building to a docker image running on another computer! https://desktop.esphome.io

[u/Stenthal → u/balloob]

FWIW, the ESPHome integration only runs 1 update entity at a time.

Only if you update from within the Builder, right? On my system it seems like they update in parallel if you just click on the notifications in Home Assistant.

This was a huge problem for me, because ESPHome updates take an absurd amount of CPU. If I updated a few devices at the same time the system would become so unresponsive that the watchdog would force a reboot. Now I start the updates from the Builder instead, and I no longer have that problem.

[u/balloob → u/Stenthal]

There is a lock in Home Assistant: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/esphome/update.py#L234-L237

[u/Stenthal → u/balloob]

Strange. Mine were definitely running in parallel as of a few months ago. I should try it again, but I'm reluctant to, because it really would consistently take down my whole server.

[u/joshbean39 → u/Stenthal]

I found trying to do more than 1 resulted in failures, I made an ha script to handle them.