Hell yeah
Upgraded today. Ui is vastly improved. The breaking changes are minor (for me) and I haven’t noticed issues. Great update. Cheers to the devs.
Summary:
HACS 2.0: A Major Update to the Home Assistant Community Store
• HACS 2.0, the latest version of the Home Assistant Community Store, brings significant improvements, including an easier installation method, faster updates, a revamped user interface, and improved notifications for Home Assistant updates and repairs.
• HACS serves as a platform for users to discover, install, and update community-created integrations and user interface elements, enhancing the functionality and customization of Home Assistant.
• The new version introduces a user interface that closely resembles the native look and functionality of Home Assistant, providing a consistent and intuitive experience.
• To enhance performance, HACS now utilizes a remote dataset stored in Cloudflare R2 buckets, reducing the number of API calls to GitHub and resulting in significantly faster updates.
• System and add-on updates are now displayed in the same format as native Home Assistant updates, eliminating the need to visit the HACS page for updates.
• HACS 2.0 introduces Template management, leveraging the new template type to improve Jinja templates.
• While HACS offers a wide range of community-made integrations, cards, themes, and more, it is important to note that these are not officially supported by Home Assistant and may affect system stability.
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/08/21/hacs-the-best-way-to-share-community-made-projects/
Either they A/B tested this or they accidentally released some of it early because I got all of that new UI stuff a few months ago, complete with addons appearing in the HA updates section. A few days later, just as I’d got used the change, it disappeared!
At least I now know I wasn’t going mad.
Maybe you installed a development/beta branch or something?
I have had this for a while, I believe I have enabled experimental features on it.
Yes of course! I enabled experimental features to use a template add-on, but I later removed it and turned the option off.
its been on the experimental branch for a while now
Just updated and it looks like this one fixed the log spam:
json_loads was called from hacs, this is a deprecated function which will be removed in HA Core 2025.8. Use homeassistant.util.json.json_loads instead, please create a bug report at https://github.com/hacs/integration/issuesIt’s a little weird they don’t have a download update button on the new HACS dashboard for an individual repository, now you have to go to Settings > Updates. I also wish I could hide new and available repositories and only show the ones I have installed (you can’t seem to select Pending Restart, Pending Update, and Downloaded at the same time.)
