Home Assistant OS 18.2.rc1

Changes

• Add the Open Home Foundation AI Policy (#4911) @frenck

Home Assistant Operating System

• Do not start Supervisor from HA CLI and serial getty units (#4918) @agners, @claude
• Enable CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_XR (MaxLinear/Exar USB-to-serial) (#4915) @joelmansford
• Adapt OS update test to Supervisor no longer auto-rebooting (#4906) @agners, @claude
• Fix offline connectivity test for fancy busybox ping (#4905) @agners, @claude
• Bump Buildroot to 2025.02.16 and Docker to 29.6.2 (#4903) @agners
• Bump OS Agent to v1.10.0 (#4897) @agners
• Enable CONNMARK netfilter target and match support (#4890) @agners, @claude
• Make Supervisor startup resilient to transient network failures (#4874) @agners, @claude, @Copilot
• Enable CONFIG_FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE in busybox (#4853) @mhansen
• Enable CONFIG_WHICH in busybox (#4855) @mhansen
• Enable CONFIG_FEATURE_FANCY_PING in busybox (#4854) @mhansen

Raspberry Pi

• raspberrypi: Ignore UAS for Crucial X9 SSD (0634:5605) (#4893) @agners, @claude
• Make RAUC tryboot backend report staged updates on RPi 5 (#4888) @agners, @claude

Home Assistant Green

• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.39 (#4904) @agners
• Fix Ethernet failure after runtime MTU change on stmmac devices (#4876) @agners, @claude

Open Virtual Appliance

• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.39 (#4904) @agners

Generic x86-64

• Enable Apple SMC hardware monitoring support (#4912) @KingKaom
• Enable Intel RAPL / powercap on generic-x86-64 (#4908) @agners, @claude
• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.39 (#4904) @agners
• Enable Intel LPSS I2C for integrated touchscreens (#4900) @angelolsantos, @agners, @cursoragent
• Enable Intel VMD support for generic x86-64 (#4902) @andreabosman16, @codex

Hardkernel ODROID

• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.39 (#4904) @agners
• ODROID-N2: Revert U-Boot "meson_gx_mmc: reduce maximum frequency" (#4878) @agners, @claude
• Fix Ethernet failure after runtime MTU change on stmmac devices (#4876) @agners, @claude

Khadas VIM Series

• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.39 (#4904) @agners

Generic aarch64

• Linux: Update kernel to 6.18.39 (#4904) @agners

Dependencies

• Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 7.5.1 to 7.6.0 (#4909) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump actions/setup-python from 6.3.0 to 7.0.0 (#4910) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump actions/stale from 10.3.0 to 10.4.0 (#4895) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 4.1.0 to 4.2.0 (#4873) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump docker/login-action from 4.2.0 to 4.4.0 (#4872) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 7.2.0 to 7.3.0 (#4871) @dependabot[bot]