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Frient joins Works with Home Assistant

2 September 2025 om 02:00
Frient joins Works with Home Assistant

Weโ€™re making new frients this week, and theyโ€™re bringing an extensive line of Zigbee devices to our Works With Home Assistant program. Each device is tested by our team, ensuring they provide the best experience possible for Home Assistant. Frient is widely available across Europe, and are well-known for their sleek, unobtrusive designs that its customers love for their high Home Approval Factor.

Our newest frient

Based in Denmark, the frient brand was developed by Onics, (formerly Develco Products), and they have years of experience with Zigbee devices. Frient is bringing its proven technology to the Works With Home Assistant program, as well as their Danish design that easily blends into almost any home.

Recent Works With partners have brought Z-Wave, Matter, and even Bluetooth devices to Home Assistant, but itโ€™s been a couple of years ๐Ÿ˜… since Zigbee-specific devices have joined the program. Zigbee is one of the most popular open protocols that is used with Home Assistant, with hundreds of thousands of users making use of it today. Itโ€™s a proven technology that connects directly to Home Assistant, no cloud or Wi-Fi connection required. Zigbee is a mesh protocol, where some devices act as repeaters, strengthening the network as more are added. It was built from the ground up to power the smart home, and has been optimized to give devices really long (sometimes multi-year) battery life.

"Joining the Works With Home Assistant program is a proud milestone for frient. It reflects our strong commitment to open, user-centric smart home experiences and ensures that our products seamlessly integrate with one of the most trusted platforms in the market. For Home Assistant users, it means more choice and flexibility โ€” and for frient, it strengthens our position as a key player in the connected smart home space."

- Martin Langballe, International Business Development Manager at frient

All you need to get started with Zigbee in Home Assistant is a Zigbee adapter or โ€˜stickโ€™, such as the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 (wow, we released this in 2022, I wonder when weโ€™re finally going to build a successor? ๐Ÿ˜‰). By plugging the adapter into a USB port on your Home Assistant system, it should then discover the device and add the ZHA integration. After that is set up, you can start adding devices to your Zigbee network.ย  Weโ€™ve even added in a cool new visualization so that you can see how your Zigbee devices interact with each other.

ZHA is built with the support of the Open Home Foundation, and it even has a full-time developer (@puddly) dedicated to improving it and helping certify new Works With partner devices. Your support makes this possible, whether through a Home Assistant Cloud subscription or by purchasing official hardware.

Devices

A frient device attached to a energy meter When your energy company wonโ€™t provide your raw usage data, thereโ€™s always another way ๐Ÿ˜‰

In case you didnโ€™t know, Works With Home Assistant differs from other certification programs as products are rigorously tested in-house to ensure they work seamlessly out of the box with Home Assistant. Any company joining also commits to providing long-term support and firmware updates while being a positive force in the Home Assistant community. Works With Home Assistant is operated by the Open Home Foundation, and the support of Home Assistant Cloud subscribers funds this work.

Our team has worked extensively with frient to ensure that the following items work seamlessly with Home Assistant.

This is a big portion of frientโ€™s product line, and provides energy monitoring, device control, safety, and security sensors. The frient IO Module is the first certified Zigbee module that can be used to turn low-voltage dumb devices like electric blinds or garage doors into devices that can be controlled by Home Assistant.

There are some great devices here for building a more sustainable smart home. The Electricity Meter Interface 2 LED allows you to get the data off your energy meter and record it into Home Assistant. Another win for sustainability is their use of AA and AAA batteries wherever practical, meaning you can use rechargeables instead of constantly buying and recycling coin cells.

I also selfishly love to see some great UK-specific devices being brought into the program with the frient Smart Siren having both UK and EU versions.

Best frients forever

Itโ€™s great to see Zigbee get some high-quality certified Works With Home Assistant devices after a multi-year wait. Frient has put a good deal of work into this launch and are big fans of our work and the community. There are more exciting Zigbee developments to come, so stay tuned!

FAQs

Q: If I have a device that is not listed under โ€œWorks With Home Assistantโ€ does this mean itโ€™s not supported?

A: No! It just means that it hasnโ€™t gone through a testing schedule with our team or doesnโ€™t fit the requirements of the program. It might function perfectly well but be added to the testing schedule later down the road, or it might work under a different connectivity type that we donโ€™t currently test under the program.

Q: Ok, so whatโ€™s the point of the Works With program?

A: It highlights the devices we know work well with Home Assistant and the brands that make a long-term commitment to keeping support for these devices going. The certification agreement specifies that the devices must have full functionality within Home Assistant, operate locally without the need for cloud, and will continue to do so long-term.

Q: How were these devices tested?

A: All devices in this list were tested using a standard HA Green Hub with the ZBT-1 and with the ZHA integration. We havenโ€™t tested these devices with Zigbee2MQTT, so we would recommend checking their device compatibility documentation. If you have another hub, Zigbee adapter, or integration, thatโ€™s not a problem, but we test against these as they are the most effective way for our team to certify within our ecosystem.

Q: Will you be adding more frient devices to the program?

A: Why not! Weโ€™re thrilled to foster a close relationship with the team at frient to work together on any upcoming releases or add in further products that are not yet listed here.

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Part-DB 2.0.2

Door: jbtronics
31 Augustus 2025 om 15:55

Warning

Part-DB now requires PHP 8.2 or higher. It is recommended that you read the upgrade guide from v1 to v2 before upgrading.

Part-DB 2.0.2

This upgrade introduces a new web based configuration system. Existing configuration using environment variables will continue to work. If you want to configure these parameters via the WebUI in the future, an additional migration step is required. See the upgrade guide for more information.

Bug fixes

  • Properly pass environment variables to Part-DB in jbtronics/partdb1 docker image to prevent startup issues (issue #1006)

Improvements

  • Updated translations
  • Do not pollute docker error logs with deprecation notices

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.0.1

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5.1.10-beta.1

31 Augustus 2025 om 10:43

Note

UpSnap is, and always will be, free and open source software.

If someone is asking you to pay money for access to UpSnap binaries, source code, or licenses, you are being scammed.

The official and only trusted source for UpSnap is this repository (and its linked releases).
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Part-DB 2.0.1

Door: jbtronics
31 Augustus 2025 om 01:51

Warning

Part-DB now requires PHP 8.2 or higher. It is recommended that you read the upgrade guide from v1 to v2 before upgrading.

Part-DB 2.0.1

This upgrade introduces a new web based configuration system. Existing configuration using environment variables will continue to work. If you want to configure these parameters via the WebUI in the future, an additional migration step is required. See the upgrade guide for more information.

Bug fixes (compared to 2.0.0)

  • Fixed broken english translations
  • Fixed problem that wrong column was sorted after columns were reordered in a table

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.0.1

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Part-DB 2.0.0

Door: jbtronics
30 Augustus 2025 om 22:55

Warning

Part-DB now requires PHP 8.2 or higher. It is recommended that you read the upgrade guide from v1 to v2 before upgrading.

Part-DB 2.0.0

This upgrade introduces a new web based configuration system. Existing configuration using environment variables will continue to work. If you want to configure these parameters via the WebUI in the future, an additional migration step is required. See the upgrade guide for more information.

Breaking changes

  • Part-DB now requires at least PHP 8.2 or higher. If you are still using PHP 8.1 you need to upgrade PHP first
  • Nodejs 20 or higher is now required
  • The config/banner.md file does not exist anymore. If you wanna customize the banner, either do it via the WebUI or the BANNER env.
  • The parameters partdb.sidebar.items, partdb.sidebar.root_node_enable and partdb.sidebar.root_expanded in config/parameters.yaml,
    were removed. You can configure them now directly in the admin interface.

New features

  • Introduced capability to configure system settings and info providers via the WebUI. No need to work with environment variables anymore
  • Improved emoji dialog for rich text editor

Miscellaneous

  • Updated dependencies

Full Changelog: v1.17.4...v2.0.0

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Part-DB 1.17.4

Door: jbtronics
28 Augustus 2025 om 23:00

Part-DB 1.17.3

Important

If you are using Part-DB it would be helpful if you fill out this short survey on your usage of Part-DB (Google Forms): https://forms.gle/Q15twx3YYq3qCNfe8

Tip

There is a new experimental docker image, which is much faster. See this post for more info.

Tip

You can help to translate Part-DB to other languages. See this post for more info.

Bug fixes

  • Pass the proxy related settings to the docker application (issue #1001)

Full Changelog: v1.17.3...v1.17.4

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OBS Studio 32.0.0 Beta 1

29 Augustus 2025 om 00:40

32.0 New Features

  • Added a basic plugin manager [FiniteSingularity/PatTheMav/Warchamp7]
  • Added opt-in automatic crash log upload for Windows and macOS [PatTheMav/Warchamp7]
  • Added Voice Activity Detection (VAD) to NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects, which improves noise suppression for speech, as well as several optimizations to NVIDIA Effects [pkviet]
  • Added chair removal option for NVIDIA RTX Background Removal, allowing removal of chairs [pkviet]
  • Added Hybrid MOV support [derrod]
    • Brings ProRes support on macOS and HEVC/H.264 and PCM audio support on all platforms

32.0 Changes

  • OBS Studio will no longer load plugins built for a newer release of OBS to prevent future compatibility issues [norihiro]
  • Added custom OBS widgets in preparation for larger UI updates [derrod/gxalpha/Warchamp7]
  • Added preparations for Metal renderer (stay tuned!) [PatTheMav]
  • Improved audio deduplication logic to cover more cases of nested scenes, groups, and multiple canvases [pkviet]
  • Prevent audio duplication when sources are set to "Monitor and Output" while the monitoring device is also being captured [pkviet]
  • Updated the default settings for AMD encoders [rhutsAMD]
  • Improved accuracy of chapter markers in Hybrid MP4/MOV [derrod]
  • Re-hid the cursor in edit fields on macOS [gxalpha]
  • Improved format selection for PipeWire video capture [tytan652]

32.0 Bug Fixes

  • Potentially fixed a rare crash on macOS when moving or resizing the OBS window [PatTheMav]
  • Fixed a crash with SRT when using an invalid URL [pkviet]
  • Fixed a crash when setting non-default pkt_size with SRT [pkviet]
  • Fixed a crash in Media Source when playback starts with certain video files [howellrl]
  • Fixed rare occurrence of multiview becoming blank [norihiro]
  • Fixed SRT reconnection failures [pkviet]
  • Fixed overflow texture rendering sRGB-awareness [PatTheMav]
  • Fixed incorrect color range property setting for AMD AV1 encoder [rhutsAMD]
  • Fixed Hybrid MP4 file splitting not working correctly in some cases [derrod]
  • Fixed not being able to capture higher than 60fps with macOS Screen Capture [jcm93]
  • Fixed focus not displaying properly in hotkey settings on macOS [gxalpha]
  • Fixed the scrollbar appearing invisible in Light and Rachni themes [shiina424]
  • Fixed HEVC frame priority not being set correctly in some cases, potentially causing playback errors when dropping frames [dsaedtler]
  • Fixed an issue that could result in increases to output latency after temporary encoder stalls [dsaedtler]
  • Removed a workaround for older Qt versions that prevented docks from loading correctly while OBS is maximized [RytoEX]

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chdir

Door: 9001
8 September 2025 om 02:02

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

๐Ÿงช new features

  • new option chdir to change the PWD (process working-directory) before volumes are mapped 14555d5

๐Ÿฉน bugfixes

  • fix using empty folders as statefile storage (v1.19.6 made this a bit too strict) 0d96786
  • holding I/K to scroll through folders quickly now works better 914686e

๐Ÿ”ง other changes

  • #717 docker: fix the image repo metadata (thx @EmilyxFox!) 6f08711
  • docker: change $HOME to /state 01cf20a d1f7522
    • and use the new chdir option to preserve old config-file semantics 14555d5
    • helps avoid statefiles accidentally landing in /w as a consequence of misconfiguration

๐ŸŒ  fun facts


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NVIDIA Driver 581.15

28 Augustus 2025 om 00:00
Release Highlights:
Although GeForce Game Ready Drivers and NVIDIA Studio Drivers can be installed on supported notebook GPUs, the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) provides certified drivers for your specific notebook on their website. NVIDIA recommends that you check with your notebook OEM for recommended software updates for your notebook.

Game Ready for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giant and Wuthering Waves.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

  • Marvel's Avengers - The Definitive Edition: Game crashes to desktop on startup [5350712]

Fixed General Bugs

  • Certain monitors may display a random flicker when hot plugged over HDMI [5280259]

Learn more in our Game Ready Driver article here.

Game Ready  Driver

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BookStack v25.07.2

28 Augustus 2025 om 18:46

Links

Full List of Changes

This release contains the following fixes and changes:

  • Updated new WYSIWYG editor with various fixes focused on collapsible block behaviour & interaction. (#5775)
  • Updated translations with latest Crowdin changes. (#5759)
  • Updated versions of PHP dependencies.
  • Updated code to address some remaining PHP 8.4 deprecations.
  • Fixed diagrams in ZIP imports not being editable post-import. (#5761)
  • Fixed books detaching from shelves on shelf update where users don't have permission to view child books. (#5728)

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Counter-Strike 2 Update

28 Augustus 2025 om 00:34
[ MISC ]
  • Stability improvements when using multi-command input binds.
  • Fixed issue where Jonathan Young music kit would loop incorrectly.
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auth-precedence

Door: 9001
28 Augustus 2025 om 22:57

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

๐Ÿงช new features

  • #673 add Portuguese translation (thx anonymous!) 4b8c221
    • ...and enable the Polish translation (whoops) 8f235be
  • #689 add option to control authentication priority/precedence 543b7ea
  • url-parameter ?dl forces file download instead of displaying in-browser 48d6224
  • #533 more ways to make the QR-code always-visible in the console 2848941
  • #695 option to log invalid xml from clients 28b93d7
  • #552 configurable markdown newline behavior 0491123
    • and tweak the styling of monospace in links 6850344

๐Ÿฉน bugfixes

  • #628 FTP-server now accepts connections from IPv6 link-local addresses 978801d
  • incorrect assumption that all IPv6 link-local addresses start with fe80 d39c74c
  • ftp: fix file rename d40f061
  • u2c: couldn't upload files located at the very top of the unix file hierarchy 599e82f
  • #699 markdown-editor: fix panic if the table-formatter is executed on something that isn't a table 4c042b3

๐Ÿ”ง other changes

  • #696 a volume can be one single file, not just folders aa1c921
  • #442 strongly prefer XDG_CONFIG_HOME as config location 3547255
  • #691 album-art collected from audio-files can now become folder thumbnails 0b50fde
  • allow spaces in more of the comma-separated options d30240b
  • docs:

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v11.11.0

27 Augustus 2025 om 22:08

โš ๏ธ Potential Breaking Changes

Fixed Content Versioning to correctly merge relational data and support all query parameter functionality (#25437)
The following changes should be kept in mind when updating:

  1. Relational versioned data now requires explicit field expansion to be included in the response.
  2. Invalid data (e.g. Fails validation rules) will error on query
  3. Filter conditions now apply to the versioned data instead of the main record
  4. For more information, please read the breaking change docs for a full list of changes.

Additionally there will be further breaking changes to USER_CREATED, USER_UPDATED, DATE_CREATED, DATE_UPDATED default values in a followup PR to improve this behavior further.

Check in with #25744 to see more info about the breaking changes.

โœจ New Features & Improvements

  • @directus/api

    • Fixed Content Versioning to correctly merge relational data and support all query parameter functionality (#25437 by @Nitwel)
  • @directus/app

    • Fixed links in WYSIWYG missing underline and pointer cursor styling (#25739 by @Abdallah-Awwad)
    • Added a new field to conditions for clearing hidden fields on save (#25646 by @robluton)

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes & Optimizations

๐Ÿ“ฆ Published Versions

  • @directus/app@13.14.0
  • @directus/api@30.0.0
  • create-directus-extension@11.0.18
  • @directus/extensions@3.0.10
  • @directus/extensions-registry@3.0.10
  • @directus/extensions-sdk@16.0.1
  • @directus/schema-builder@0.0.5
  • @directus/types@13.2.2
  • @directus/sdk@20.0.3

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Firefox 142.0.1

27 Augustus 2025 om 16:11

Fixed

  • Dragging multiple non-adjacent tabs in horizontal tab strip mode now correctly moves them together as a group. (Bug 1982933)

  • Dragging multiple tabs no longer causes toolbar unresponsiveness or visual glitches. (Bug 1984342)

  • Fixed an issue where the text cursor appeared in the wrong location.. (Bug 1984045)

  • Fixed a crash related to gamepad use, particularly on macOS. (Bug 1870379)

  • Fixed an issue where the expand on hover feature in the sidebar would sometimes stop working. (Bug 1982129)

  • Fixed a crash in KDE Plasma when using certain custom window decorations. (Bug 1984823)

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Counter-Strike 2 Update

27 Augustus 2025 om 01:35
[ MAPS ] Ancient
  • Restored some grenade lineup visuals.
  • Misc clipping fixes.
[ ANIMATION ]
  • Fixed issues with the classic knife's inspect animations.
  • Fixed the deploy for the Stiletto knife.
  • Fixed the deploy for the Butterfly knife.
  • Updated Talon knife inspect while 'fidgeting' to be more responsive.
  • Adjusted Flip knife animation when inspecting immediately after deploying.
  • Adjusted Bayonet knife animation when inspecting immediately after deploying.
[ MISC ]
  • Fixed a performance regression when creating bullet impact effects.
  • View angle velocity now affects spectator target viewmodels the same way it affects local player viewmodels.
  • Fixed a case where looping weapon inspects weren't networking to spectators.
  • Fixed a bug where matchmaking was avoiding servers playing the nighttime version of Ancient.
  • Removed legacy sprite-based shell casing fallback particle effects.
  • Fixed case where overlapping smoke clouds would prematurely extinguish molotov fire.
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5.1.9

26 Augustus 2025 om 17:02

Note

UpSnap is, and always will be, free and open source software.

If someone is asking you to pay money for access to UpSnap binaries, source code, or licenses, you are being scammed.

The official and only trusted source for UpSnap is this repository (and its linked releases).
Do not pay third parties for something that is provided here for free.

Changelog

Bug fixes

Others

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5.1.8

26 Augustus 2025 om 14:18

Note

UpSnap is, and always will be, free and open source software.

If someone is asking you to pay money for access to UpSnap binaries, source code, or licenses, you are being scammed.

The official and only trusted source for UpSnap is this repository (and its linked releases).
Do not pay third parties for something that is provided here for free.

Changelog

Features

Bug fixes

Others

Go dependencies

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5.1.7

24 Augustus 2025 om 22:41

Note

UpSnap is, and always will be, free and open source software.

If someone is asking you to pay money for access to UpSnap binaries, source code, or licenses, you are being scammed.

The official and only trusted source for UpSnap is this repository (and its linked releases).
Do not pay third parties for something that is provided here for free.

Changelog

Features

Npm dependencies

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August 22nd, 2025, FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman"

23 Augustus 2025 om 08:26

A new major release, FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman", is now available for download. Thanks to several delays, and modernization of our entire infrastructure, this release ended up being one of our largest releases to date. In short, its new features are:

  • Native decoders: APV, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, G.728
  • VVC decoder improvements: IBC, ACT, Palette Mode
  • Vulkan compute-based codecs: FFv1 (encode and decode), ProRes RAW (decode only)
  • Hardware accelerated decoding: Vulkan VP9, VAAPI VVC, OpenHarmony H264/5
  • Hardware accelerated encoding: Vulkan AV1, OpenHarmony H264/5
  • Formats: MCC, G.728, Whip, APV
  • Filters: colordetect, pad_cuda, scale_d3d11, Whisper, and others

A new class of decoders and encoders based on pure Vulkan compute implementation have been added. Vulkan is a cross-platform, open standard set of APIs that allows programs to use GPU hardware in various ways, from drawing on screen, to doing calculations, to decoding video via custom hardware accelerators. Rather than using a custom hardware accelerator present, these codecs are based on compute shaders, and work on any implementation of Vulkan 1.3.
Decoders use the same hwaccel API and commands, so users do not need to do anything special to enable them, as enabling Vulkan decoding is sufficient to use them.
Encoders, like our hardware accelerated encoders, require specifying a new encoder (ffv1_vulkan). Currently, the only codecs supported are: FFv1 (encoding and decoding) and ProRes RAW (decode only). ProRes (encode+decode) and VC-2 (encode+decode) implementations are complete and currently in review, to be merged soon and available with the next minor release.
Only codecs specifically designed for parallelized decoding can be implemented in such a way, with more mainstream codecs not being planned for support.
Depending on the hardware, these new codecs can provide very significant speedups, and open up possibilities to work with them for situations like non-linear video editors and lossless screen recording/streaming, so we are excited to learn what our downstream users can make with them.

The project has recently started to modernize its infrastructure. Our mailing list servers have been fully upgraded, and we have recently started to accept contributions via a new forge, available on code.ffmpeg.org, running a Forgejo instance.

As usual, we recommend that users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.

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it runs on iOS

Door: 9001
28 Augustus 2025 om 22:57

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

๐Ÿงช new features

  • #328 run copyparty on iPhones; see install on iOS in the readme ca98d54
    • cannot run in the background, doesn't have full access to your files, and is slightly buggy, but it works
    • running on android gives you a much better experience
  • save the qr-code to a file (txt/svg/png) 202ddea

๐Ÿฉน bugfixes

๐Ÿ”ง other changes


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