v1.9.1

🌼 Pollen Levels v1.9.1

🛠️ Maintenance release focused on resilience, privacy, and safer service behavior.
Includes one breaking change: removal of color_raw from pollen sensors to reduce state size.

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🚀 Highlights

• 🧩 More resilient coordinator updates

  • The integration now preserves the last successful coordinator data when the API response temporarily omits dailyInfo, preventing entities from going empty due to transient API glitches.
  • Shutdown/reload paths are cleaner: coordinator CancelledError is re-raised so cancellations are not wrapped as UpdateFailed.

• 🔐 Stronger privacy & safer UI errors

  • API keys are now redacted from config flow error placeholders derived from API responses, preventing secrets from appearing in setup errors.
  • Diagnostics are safer and leaner:
    • redaction returns the final redacted payload correctly (no accidental awaiting of sync helpers),
    • payloads are trimmed to avoid dumping all keys,
    • and precise coordinates are hidden while keeping rounded location context for support.

• 🔄 Improved pollenlevels.force_update behavior

  • The service now requests a refresh and waits for completion before returning.
  • Failure logging is sanitized to avoid exposing raw exception details.
  • Cancelled refresh results are handled explicitly so logging and control flow stay consistent during shutdown/reload.

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⚠️ Breaking change

• Removed color_raw attribute from pollen sensors to reduce state size.
  Use color_hex or color_rgb instead.

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🔧 Detailed changes

[1.9.1] – 2026-01-10

Fixed

• Preserved the last successful coordinator data when the API response omits dailyInfo, avoiding empty entities after transient API glitches.
• Redacted API keys from config flow error placeholders derived from API responses to prevent secrets from appearing in setup errors.
• Cleared stale setup error placeholders when per-day sensor options are incompatible with the selected forecast days.
• Ensured diagnostics redaction returns the final redacted payload without attempting to await the synchronous helper.
• Trimmed diagnostics payloads to avoid listing all data keys and to hide precise coordinates while keeping rounded location context for support.
• Updated the pollenlevels.force_update service to request a coordinator refresh and wait for completion before returning.
• Sanitized pollenlevels.force_update failure logging to avoid exposing raw exception details in warnings.
• Handled cancelled force_update refresh results explicitly to keep service logging and control flow consistent during shutdown/reload paths.
• Re-raised coordinator CancelledError during updates so shutdown/reload cancellations are not wrapped as UpdateFailed.

Changed

• Breaking change: removed the color_raw attribute from pollen sensors to reduce state size; use color_hex or color_rgb instead.
• Refactored config flow HTTP validation to reduce duplicated error handling logic without changing behavior.
• Updated README attributes list to remove color_raw now that it is no longer exposed by sensors.
• Removed unused internal color_raw coordinator payload fields to reduce update payload size while keeping color_hex/color_rgb behavior unchanged.
• Clarified diagnostics coordinator access when runtime_data is missing, without changing diagnostics output.

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If you’re upgrading from 1.9.0, please note:

• If you relied on color_raw in templates or dashboards, switch to color_hex or color_rgb.
• If you saw entities briefly go empty due to API hiccups, this release should prevent that by retaining the last good data.

Full Changelog: v1.8.6...v1.9.1