Merge branch 'beta' into next

Author: swoboda1337

content/changelog/2025.11.0.md

@@ -22,6 +22,17 @@ params:
 
 ### New Features
 
+- [ci] Reduce release time by removing 21 redundant ESP32-S3 IDF tests [esphome#11850](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11850) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
+- [esp32] Update the recommended platform to 55.03.31-2 [esphome#11865](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11865) by [@swoboda1337](https://github.com/swoboda1337)
+- [core] Fix wait_until hanging when used in on_boot automations [esphome#11869](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11869) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
+- [api] Eliminate heap allocations when transmitting Event types [esphome#11773](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11773) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
+- [esp32_ble_tracker] Use initializer_list to eliminate compiler warning and reduce flash usage [esphome#11861](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11861) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
+- [api][event] Send events immediately to prevent loss during rapid triggers [esphome#11777](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11777) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
+- [thermostat] Replace std::map with FixedVector, reduce flash usage [esphome#11875](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11875) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
+- [mqtt] Fix crash with empty broker during upload/logs [esphome#11866](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11866) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
+- [light] Fix dangling reference in compute_color_mode causing memory corruption [esphome#11868](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11868) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
+- [wifi][ethernet] Fix spurious warnings and unclear status after PR #9823 [esphome#11871](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11871) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
+- [wifi] Fix slow reconnection after connection loss for all network types [esphome#11873](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11873) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
 - [esp32] Accept more framework URL schemes as sources [esphome#11125](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11125) by [@j9brown](https://github.com/j9brown) (new-feature)
 - [esp32_ble] Add support for hosted BLE [esphome#11167](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/11167) by [@swoboda1337](https://github.com/swoboda1337) (new-feature)
 - [esp32] Add option to disable libc locks in IRAM, saving ~1.3KB RAM [esphome#10930](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/10930) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco) (new-feature) (breaking-change)

content/guides/supporters.md

@@ -2271,4 +2271,4 @@ ESPHome was originally founded by [Otto Winter (@OttoWinter)](https://github.com
 - [Christian Zufferey (@zuzu59)](https://github.com/zuzu59)
 - [Zynth-dev (@Zynth-dev)](https://github.com/Zynth-dev)
 
-*This page was last updated November 11, 2025.*
+*This page was last updated November 12, 2025.*

data/version.yaml

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-release: 2025.11.0b1
+release: 2025.11.0b2
 version: '2025.11'