Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Home Assistant 2025.5 lands today, the may release of 2025 and this month we are talking about very nice improvements to the Backup system, UI improvements, new features to the automation editor, thousands of new voices and a new z-wave network type!

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0:00 - Intro
0:15 - Backups
2:19 - Automation/Script editor
4:01 - UI Improvements
4:35 - Network Discovery
5:15 - Z-Wave Improvements
5:51 - New voices
6:22 - Device renaming
6:43 - The little things, new integrations and breaking changes