Home Assistant has officially dropped its October release. Home Assistant 2025.10 is bringing some massive quality-of-life improvements to the Automation editor, along with smarter dashboards and even the ability for your connected AI model to generate images.
If you’ve ever built a complex automation, you know the pain of making a mistake only to realize the only way to fix it was to close the editor and start from scratch. That nightmare is finally over, as this release introduces the much-needed Undo and Redo functionality. You can now undo up to a whopping 75 steps back in your editing history, and yes, the standard CTRL+Z and CTRL+Y keyboard shortcuts work perfectly.
Another major headache is solved because pasting with CTRL+V is now super simple. If you’ve copied an automation block (like a trigger or action), you can now simply select any other block and hit CTRL+V to paste the copied block right below it. This is a small but huge change that is so welcome.
The sidebar, which was introduced in the last release, is now thankfully resizable. The team also apparently noticed that the “repeat” building block in automations was trying to do too much, covering four different use cases in one complex block. To simplify things, Home Assistant split it into four smaller, easier-to-understand blocks with clearer descriptions.
The blocks are Repeat multiple times, Repeat until, Repeat while, and Repeat for each. This is a great move to make complex looping automations much more accessible without changing the underlying structure for advanced users. Finally, the overflow menu is back in the main section of the editor, making essential actions like testing a condition much easier to achieve.
Home Assistant 2025.8 gave us the ability to generate data using an LLM, but now that AI is getting a lot more creative because it can generate images. The example the Home Assistant team showed off was that every time your doorbell is pressed, you can get a notification with a cartoon version of the snapshot. This is pretty cute and opens up a ton of possibilities. I’m genuinely curious to see what wild and useful image-generation automations the community comes up with.
The dashboard is also getting even smarter by introducing suggested entities. A basic algorithm now tracks the entities you interact with the most and suggests relevant controls based on the hour of the day. It’s basically letting your home suggest what you need to see when you need to see it. Even better, you can integrate these predicted entities directly into any of your own manual dashboards.
For those in dual-language households or anyone who wants a separate local and cloud assistant, Home Assistant is finally opening up multiple wake words for ESPHome-based voice assistants. Now you can define two wake words and two assistants for every voice assistant in your home. This means you could set “Okay Nabu” for a French cloud-based assistant and “Hey Jarvis” for an English local one.
Even better than that, Assist is getting a little less chatty. If you issue a voice command and all the actions take place in the same area as the satellite device (like turning on a light in the same room), Assist will now play a simple confirmation “beep” instead of the full verbal response. This is super helpful because you already saw the light turned on, so you don’t need a full speech confirming it.
Source: Home Assistant
