v1.9.4

🌼 Pollen Levels v1.9.4

🧰 Release tooling update focused on more reliable HACS packaging and stricter CI guarantees.
No runtime or sensor behavior changes in this release.

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🚀 Highlights

• 📦 More reliable HACS release packaging

  • The HACS zip_release automation now validates that the produced ZIP has the correct integration-root layout.

• ✅ Fail fast when the release ZIP is missing

  • Releases now fail strictly if pollenlevels.zip is not generated, preventing incomplete uploads.

• ⬆️ Updated artifact uploads

  • The package-test workflow now aligns artifact uploads with actions/upload-artifact@v6.

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🔧 Detailed changes

[1.9.4] – 2026-02-24

Changed

• Updated release packaging automation for HACS zip_release by validating the integration-root ZIP layout, enabling strict release upload failure when pollenlevels.zip is missing, and aligning package-test artifact upload to actions/upload-artifact@v6.

Full Changelog: v1.9.3...v1.9.4