Download Home Assistant OS 8.1

Version 8.1 of Home Assistant OS has been released. Home Assistant OS is a minimal AArch64-based operating system that allows Home Assistant to run on a physical or virtual machine. Version 8.1 comes just a week after version 8.0 and the changelog shows a modest collection of mostly minor changes.

changes

• updated generic_raw_uart package to latest 1.26 version fixing issues with HB-RF-USB-2 and HB-RF-ETH. †#1927†
• Linux: Update kernel 5.15.40 (#1907†

Home Assistant Operating System

• Make NTP dispatch script executable (#1798†#1933†
• Update RPI-RF-MOD/HM-MOD-RPI-PCB/HmIP-RFUSB related packages (#1901†
• Add support for rtl8821cu WiFi Dongle (#1899†

Open Virtual Appliance

• Align GRUB2 disk read buffers to block size to fix boot issues (#1912†#1929†
• Linux: Update kernel 5.15.41 (#1928†
• Update qemu-guest-agent to 7.0.0 for improved agent functionality (#1904†
• Add support RTL88x2BU USB WiFi adapters to OVA (#1903†#1906†
• Shutdown immediately on ACPI Power Button events (#1896†#1898†

Generic x86-64

• Avoid using simplefb to fix boot crashes (#1920†#1930†
• Align GRUB2 disk read buffers to block size to fix boot issues (#1912†#1929†
• Linux: Update kernel 5.15.41 (#1928†

Hard Kernel ODROID

• Linux: Update kernel 5.15.41 (#1928†

ASUS Tinker

• Linux: Update kernel 5.15.41 (#1928†

Khadas VIM Series

• Linux: Update kernel 5.15.41 (#1928†

Generic aarch64

• Bump buildroot to add openvmtools to Generic AArch64 board (#1932†
• Align GRUB2 disk read buffers to block size to fix boot issues (#1912†#1929†
• Linux: Update kernel 5.15.41 (#1928†
• Add NVMe boot support to Generic AArch64 (#1050†#1918†
• Add open-vm-tools to AArch64 for better VMware support (#1050†#1915†