Home Assistant 2025.12 released

Version
2025.12 of the Home Assistant home-automation system has been released.

This month, we're unveiling Home Assistant Labs, a brand-new space
where you can preview features before they go mainstream. And what
better way to kick it off than with Winter mode? ❄️ Enable it and
watch snowflakes drift across your dashboard. It's completely
unnecessary, utterly delightful, and exactly the kind of thing we
love to build. ❄️

But that's just the beginning. We've been working on making
automations more intuitive over the past releases, and this release
finally delivers purpose-specific triggers and conditions. Instead
of thinking in (numeric) states, you can now simply say 'When a
light turns on' or 'If the climate is heating'. It's automation
building the way our mind works, as it should be.