Is Home Assistant 2026.10.1 safe to update?

• LIFX bulbs going unavailable: the fix is merged for 2026.10.2 and is not in 2026.10.1 (core #185640)
• MQTT select entities can stop Home Assistant from starting (core #185571, open)
• Lutron Pico buttons fire a single press twice (core #185449, open)
• Tasmota energy sensors lose their state class (core #185407, open)
• A hung DNS lookup can block one hostname until a restart (core #185645, open)
• UniFi Protect: snapshots fail with HTTP 503 and cameras go unavailable - 1 report (core #185706)
• Home dashboard: the welcome banner came back and dismissing it wiped favourites - 1 report (frontend #54822)
• Custom (HACS) integrations: some stop loading or lose an action until their authors update them (exact library pins, cv.vol, hass as first argument, pkg_resources); the built-in Tank Utility is switched off in 2026.10

Read by us on 2026-10-11 from the projects' issue trackers; not verified by us.

• 2026.10 lists 22 backward-incompatible changes in its release notes (counted 7 Oct) - read them first
• UniFi Network did not load for several users (core #184838 and #184987, closed since)
• LIFX bulbs going unavailable: the fix is merged for 2026.10.2 (core #185640)
• A false shell template repair for command line sensors, a Hue light crash and the Bosch SHC child lock: fixed in 2026.10.1
• MQTT select entities can stop Home Assistant from starting (core #185571, open)
• Custom (HACS) integrations: some stop loading or lose an action until their authors update them (exact library pins, cv.vol, hass as first argument, pkg_resources); the built-in Tank Utility is switched off in 2026.10

Read by us on 2026-10-11 from the projects' issue trackers; not verified by us.