Release Home Assistant OS 18.0 · home-assistant/operating-system
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Home Assistant OS 18.0 is a major release bringing significant updates to all platforms. The Linux kernel has been updated from 6.12 to 6.18 across all targets, Docker has been upgraded to v29.5.3 ...

There are some notes specific to rpi installs, so give it a read if you run HAOS on that platform.

Raspberry Pi 5 users need a bootloader from at least 2025-02-12, otherwise the display output may freeze early during the boot. Update the bootloader before installing this update, using one of the following methods:

  • Run rpi-eeprom-update -a while connected directly to the device (using a display and keyboard), prior to installing the OS update.
  • Use Raspberry Pi Imager with a spare SD card to flash a bootloader update image to it.
  • Alternatively, if you have an SSH terminal app installed, you can run ha os boards raspberrypi firmware update over SSH right after updating the OS.
  • Mark Gjøl@mstdn.dk
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    2 days ago

    @Scheisser @limelight79 So if I do not have a display connected, then it’s not problem? Can I just use the terminal app?

    What I don’t get is that if the new HAOS should be able to do a bootloader update on its own, so why doesn’t it just have a button for that?