v9.0.0

9.0.0 (2026-11-04)

Requires Home Assistant 2026.11.0 or greater

⭐ New Features

• add custom sidebar panel item redirects (#688) (964f440)
• Add layered config to Forge which allows for element_base which is fully owned by the element and can include the element's native templates eliminating need for nested templates in such scenarios. (#658) (22f8d93)
• add optional popover auto-close timeout (#689) (f769f06)
• Add UIX Forge UI editor for card and badge elements (#666) (50f9729)
• Support external links and open in new tab for custom sidebar items (#690) (2782a71)

🐞 Bug Fixes

• forge: Guard async Forge render paths with template generation. Fixes possible rendering of raw config to element with unpredictable results and errors. (#661) (b77ef49)
• Resource leak in icon styling patch (#674) (6b683f0), closes #673
• UIX styling of App ingress panel frames missed when panel route.path does not start with app. e.g. Tailscale (f43afab)
• use frontend contexts for Forge visuals (957d577)
• Update --uix-image... image override for entity-badge to align with Home Assistant 2026.11.0 (#683) (da3da26)

⚙️ Miscellaneous

• Serve Frontend JavaScript asset bundles from temp snapshot. Allows upgrade of UIX with deferred restart. (#660) (c800e60)
• Update home-assistant/webawesome compatibility to 3.14.0-ha.0 (e990dba)