Home Assistant OS 18.1.rc1

Home Assistant OS 18.1 is a minor release on top of 18.0. It resolves the Raspberry Pi 5 display freeze on older firmware that was present in 18.0, and brings broader Intel hardware support along with incremental Linux kernel updates across all platforms. All users are recommended to update.

Changes

• Prepare 18.1.rc1 (#4825) @agners
• Enable iwlmld driver for Wi-Fi 7 Intel devices (#4809) @agners

Home Assistant Operating System

• busybox: Disable seedrng applet (#4836) @agners
• busybox: Drop unused netstat applet (#4835) @agners
• Add usage to busybox utils (#4831) @mhansen
• Remove timeout from data partition resize service (#4821) @agners

Raspberry Pi

• RaspberryPi: Update kernel to 6.18.34 stable_20260609 (#4814) @agners

Home Assistant Yellow

• RaspberryPi: Update kernel to 6.18.34 stable_20260609 (#4814) @agners

Home Assistant Green

• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.37 (#4833) @agners
• Build NFS as built-in module consistently on all targets (#4773) @sairon

Open Virtual Appliance

• Add Intel BZ and SC WiFi firmware (#4837) @agners
• Enable CONFIG_BT_INTEL_PCIE for Intel PCIe Bluetooth (#4834) @agners
• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.37 (#4833) @agners
• Enable Intel NPU driver (ivpu) for x86-64 boards (#4816) @agners

Generic x86-64

• Add Intel BZ and SC WiFi firmware (#4837) @agners
• Enable CONFIG_BT_INTEL_PCIE for Intel PCIe Bluetooth (#4834) @agners
• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.37 (#4833) @agners
• Enable Intel NPU driver (ivpu) for x86-64 boards (#4816) @agners

Hardkernel ODROID

• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.37 (#4833) @agners
• ODROID-N2: Fall back to other slot when a kernel fails to load (#4832) @agners
• Build NFS as built-in module consistently on all targets (#4773) @sairon

Khadas VIM Series

• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.37 (#4833) @agners
• Build NFS as built-in module consistently on all targets (#4773) @sairon

Generic aarch64

• Add Intel BZ and SC WiFi firmware (#4837) @agners
• Enable CONFIG_BT_INTEL_PCIE for Intel PCIe Bluetooth (#4834) @agners
• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.37 (#4833) @agners

Build System

• Add sanity checks for correct release channel to the build workflow (#4771) @sairon

Dependencies

• Bump actions/cache/save from 5.0.5 to 6.1.0 (#4841) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump actions/setup-python from 6.2.0 to 6.3.0 (#4840) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 7.4.0 to 7.5.1 (#4839) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump actions/cache/restore from 5.0.5 to 6.1.0 (#4838) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump shogo82148/actions-upload-release-asset from 1.10.1 to 1.10.2 (#4797) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 7.3.1 to 7.4.0 (#4798) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump actions/checkout from 6.0.3 to 7.0.0 (#4799) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump mikepenz/action-junit-report from 6.4.1 to 6.4.2 (#4800) @dependabot[bot]