Home Assistant OS 11.0.rc1

[agners]

Home Assistant OS 11.0.rc1 is built from Buildroot version 2023.02.05. With this release Home Assistant OS uses Docker 24.0.6 and containerd 1.7.6.

Most notable changes are:

• Using Linux' Preemptible Kernel configuration across all boards (lower latencies even on busy systems)
• Filesystem freeze is relayed to database engines on Proxmox/KVM based VMs (this makes VM snapshots always coherent)
• Various Bluetooth improvements (newer BlueZ, better fix Bluetooth LE advertisement stalls, Bluetooth device cache management)
• Improved Kernel configuration should improve Docker's overlayfs performance
• Improved containerd build and configuration makes containerd use less memory and CPU resources
• Adjusted development work-flow which allows more incremental changes

Changes

• Improve grammar in README.md (Improve grammar in README.md #2790) @davet2001
• RAUC update: Use verity bundle format (RAUC update: Use verity bundle format #2786) @agners
• Bump docker/login-action from 2.2.0 to 3.0.0 (Bump docker/login-action from 2.2.0 to 3.0.0 #2757) @dependabot
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 4.2.1 to 5.0.0 (Bump docker/build-push-action from 4.2.1 to 5.0.0 #2758) @dependabot
• Bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 2.10.0 to 3.0.0 (Bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 2.10.0 to 3.0.0 #2759) @dependabot
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 4.1.1 to 4.2.1 (Bump docker/build-push-action from 4.1.1 to 4.2.1 #2748) @dependabot
• Bump buildroot to 2023.02.4 (Bump buildroot to 2023.02.4 #2737) @agners
• Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 #2728) @dependabot
• Bump docker/login-action from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 (Bump docker/login-action from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 #2727) @dependabot
• Remove checkout twice in dev build workflow (Remove checkout twice in dev build workflow #2719) @adeepn

Home Assistant Operating System

• Set containerd root explicitly (CPU usage bumped from 2% to 10% after Operating System 10.0 upgrade (caused by containerd) #2476) (Set containerd root explicitly (#2476) #2791) @agners
• Remove unnecessary plug-ins from containerd (Remove unnecessary plug-ins from containerd #2789) @agners
• Bump buildroot to 2023.02.5 (Bump buildroot to 2023.02.5 #2775) @agners
• Bump buildroot to update Docker to v24.0.6 (Bump buildroot to update Docker to v24.0.6 #2774) @agners
• Disable overlayfs features not used by Docker (Disable overlayfs features not used by Docker #2773) @agners
• Update and fix containerd v1.6.22 (Update and fix containerd v1.6.22 #2770) @agners
• Adjust Home Assistant OS versioning to prepare for new release strategy (Adjust Home Assistant OS versioning to prepare for new release strategy #2767) @agners
• Download latest stable Supervisor after device wipe (Download latest stable Supervisor after device wipe #2765) @agners
• Use latest Network device naming scheme (Use latest Network device naming scheme #2763) @agners
• Create swapfile even when not using the multi-user.target (Create swapfile even when not using the multi-user.target #2762) @agners
• Delete Bluetooth device cache regularly (Delete Bluetooth device cache regularly #2751) @agners
• Bump buildroot to update go to v1.19.13 (Bump buildroot to update go to v1.19.13 #2749) @agners
• Bump buildroot to revert containerd to v1.6.21 (Bump buildroot to revert containerd to v1.6.21 #2744) @agners
• Bump HAOS Agent to 1.6.0 (Bump HAOS Agent to 1.6.0 #2734) @agners
• Improve LED representation in Home Assistant Green device tree (Improve LED representation in Home Assistant Green device tree #2730) @agners
• Use full preemptible kernel in Home Assistant OS (Use full preemptible kernel in Home Assistant OS #2721) @agners
• Bump buildroot to update BlueZ (Bump buildroot to update BlueZ #2715) @agners
• Use proper fix for Bluetooth LE advertisement stall (Add patch to fix Bluetooth LE advertisement stall (#2535) #2598) (Use proper fix for Bluetooth LE advertisement stall (#2598) #2714) @agners
• Add tools for SPI NOR flash storage (Add tools for SPI NOR flash storage #2696) @agners
• Update U-Boot patches and configuration (Update U-Boot patches and configuration #2694) @agners

Build System

• Add action job to upload artifacts to R2 (Add action job to upload artifacts to R2 #2779) @ludeeus
• Fix versioning set during build (Fix versioning set during build #2771) @agners
• Adjust Home Assistant OS versioning to prepare for new release strategy (Adjust Home Assistant OS versioning to prepare for new release strategy #2767) @agners
• Unify release and dev GitHub actions (Unify release and dev GitHub actions #2764) @agners
• Don't combine GitHub action caches (Don't combine GitHub action caches #2745) @agners
• Combine downloads and compile cache in GitHub Action cache (Combine downloads and compile cache in GitHub Action cache #2743) @agners
• Execute stale workflow only once a day (Execute stale workflow only once a day #2739) @agners
• Improve GitHub Action caching (Improve GitHub Action caching #2732) @agners
• Separate build step when loading container images (Separate build step when loading container images #2731) @agners
• configs: Enable LTO if available (configs: Enable LTO if available #2713) @agners
• GitHub action improvements and cleanup (GitHub action improvements and cleanup #2710) @agners
• Create builder group only if required (Create builder group only if required #2709) @agners

Open Virtual Appliance

• Fix fsfreeze support on OVA (Fix fsfreeze support on OVA #2787) @agners
• Add fsfreeze support for QEMU/KVM/Proxmox installations (Add fsfreeze support for QEMU/KVM/Proxmox installations #2781) @agners
• Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 (Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 #2769) @agners
• Bump buildroot to update openvmtools (Update open-vm-tools to latest version 12.3.0 #2733) (Bump buildroot to update openvmtools (#2733) #2735) @agners

Generic x86-64

• generic-x86-64: enable backlight support (generic-x86-64: enable backlight support #2772) @craftyguy
• Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 (Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 #2769) @agners
• Enable ECC memory support via EDAC (No ECC memory support on AMD64 with generic-x86-64 images #2708) (Enable ECC memory support via EDAC (#2708) #2736) @agners

Hardkernel ODROID

• Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 (Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 #2769) @agners

ASUS Tinker

• Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 (Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 #2769) @agners

Khadas VIM Series

• Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 (Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 #2769) @agners

Generic aarch64

• Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 (Linux: Update kernel 6.1.55 #2769) @agners

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This discussion was created from the release Home Assistant OS 11.0.rc1.

[tjorim]

For those wondering, the upgrade went fine on my HA Yellow with a nvme data disk.

[bschatzow]

Upgrade for me on RPI 4 with SSD had no issues.

[gieljnssns]

Upgrade on a nuc also had no issues.

[rennokki]

To some degree, #2592 (comment) is still present even with the pybluez update.

[ssbarnea]

It would be quite useful to document which image we could use to import into Parallel Desktop running on M1/M2 macs. For some reason conversion of the vmware image does not seem to work and the OVA images seem to not have the architecture mentioned, which makes me believe is might not be aarch64.

[pimw1]

I've very positive feedback to mention: cpu utilization went down from 12%-16% to 6%-10%. This is on a RPI4 with SSD, comparing 10.5 to 11.0.rc1.
Since aprox a year ago with one of the previous OS version upgrades, cpu utilization went up and the root cause never became clear. I'm happy to see that this is resolved now.

[yousaf465]

Since installing HAOS 11.0.rc1, my Homeassistnt is rebooting every 15 minutes.

my current system is rpi4 2Gb with the following home assistant specs.

Home Assistant 2023.10.0
Supervisor 2023.10.0
Operating System 11.0.rc1
Frontend 20231002.0 - latest

also noticed an steady increase in storage usage

[N3rdix]

Have you checked if tons of log entries are causing this issue? I could not see an increase in storage usage on my Pi test landscape

[N3rdix]

Although Raspberry Pi's seem to not have been affected by this issue I checked 11.0rc1 on a test environment and it still works flawlessly. No CPU increase, pretty much the same as with 9.5 / 10.5
Awesome work @agners 👍