Download openHAB 3.0

OpenHAB is home automation software with which components can be read and controlled. You can think of light switches, various sensors, LED lamps, security equipment and many other home automation hardware. It can be done through so-called binding talking via ZWave, Nest and ZigBee, or controlling products from Ikea Trådfri, Xiaomi Smart Home and Philips Hue. For more information, please refer to this page and for user experiences you can also visit our Forum, in the The Great OpenHAB topic. The developers have released OpenHAB 3.0 and the announcement for that version looks like this:

openHAB 3.0.0

This is the official release of openHAB 3.0.0. The binaries are available on Bintray and via “Stable” on our APT repository.

New and Noteworthy

The openHAB 3.0 release is a major release that contains many structural changes, new features, enhancements and bug fixes, both for the core runtime and for many add-ons. You can find the most relevant ones listed in detail below.

Please especially note that there is no full backward compatibility with existing setups – so please carefully check the section on breaking changes. While the upgrade procedure tries to do as much as possible for you, you might maybe want to consider this major update as an opportunity to clean up your installation from what piled up over the years and start with a clean installation and manually migrate the relevant parts of your existing installation.

Quick links:

• Notes about new add-ons
• Notes about the core runtime
• Notes about the add-ons
• Notes about the legacy add-ons
• Upgrade Process for openHABian, APT, RPM, Manual Installations
• Breaking Changes that require manual interaction after the upgrade.