Release 1.6.1
WhatsApp Integration 1.6.1 
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Release Risk: Medium
This release contains standard updates and feature enhancements to the integration logic or translations.
Affected areas: ⚙️ Core (3 files · 11%) · 🚀 CI/CD (21 files · 78%)
📋 What's Changed
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Pass seconds parameter to video and audio messages #50 (7b5cc67)
- Add per-file ruff ignores for T201/E501/SIM102 in script files (3b3e6e7)
- Avoid clear-text logging of sensitive location and recipient data (b63679d)
- Hacs release zip file & improved release workflow (07faab2)
♻️ Code Improvements
- Improved logging and removed sensitive information (c4ab39c)
🔄 CI / CD
🔧 Maintenance
- Clean up gitignores, caches, and fix Shields.io case-sensitivity (fba9d72)
- Fix CI linter issues and format code (e9f350f)
- Enable HACS zip release (4dfdf47)
- Fix zip release structure for HACS (c028c77)
- Auto-fix linting issues (ff48607, b65d453, 13a0d02, e487ffe, 40ab16d, 2840446, 5320706)
- Optimize template updates with robust regex patterns (07e83e2, 916fd48, 8392260)
- Update template automations to dynamically track service versions (f998bb8)
- Add automated template updater and clean privacy sensitive fields (e086f5d, 5bcdd1f)
- Add addon-specific bug report template (1271966)
- Improve issue templates with my-ha links and WhatsApp-specific fields (5d2edae)
- Repair issue templates and scripts (45f8cb0)
- Sync release workflow tag-fetching and contributor attribution script updates (a388835)
- Sync CI/CD workflows and scripts from ha-db_infoscreen (b5104ad)
- Fix pull rebase workflow bug (197df1f)
📦 Other Changes
- Update funding information in FUNDING.yml (44f18f6)
- ⬆️ Update actions/checkout action to v7 (#51) (33cd2de)
- Update manifest version (4851080)
24 significant changes from 40 total commits since v1.6.0.
📊 Release Details
| Version | 1.6.1 |
| Channel | stable |
| Released | 2026-06-22 17:26 UTC |
| Commits included | 40 — since last stable release (v1.6.0) |
| Downloads (this release) |  |
| Downloads (total) |  |
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