v1.6.0

[jcwillox]

Due to a lot of changes in 2025.1.0 I now need to pin the minimum supported version to 2025.1.0. If you are on an older version Auto Backup it will continue to work fine, but it is needed to support HA Core 2025.1.0 (not supervised/HAOS). Auto Backup is working fine on HAOS and Supervised, there was only an issue for HA core installations, which this release fixes. I've also included a few additional fixes for some warnings/deprecations.

Home Assistant 2025.1.0 introduced an overhaul to the backup system, and finally added support for automatic backups. I wish we got a shout-out in the release notes for providing this functionality to ~18k users for the last 5 years (Nov 2019, wow didn't realise it was that long ago), but then again none of the other backup addons were mentioned either. That said the update doesn't obsolete Auto Backup just yet as we still provide a host of extended features, in particular support for generation backups, see the new FAQ for a list of differences.

It's great to see Home Assistant giving backups some love and setting great defaults for users so everyone can have automatic backup not just those that take the time to set up Auto Backup or some of the backup addons. Also, internally they've added some new features that I can leverage to simplify and improve Auto Backup and its reliability for large backups (they finally added a jobs API for backups). I have some plans for a V2 perhaps dubbed "Advanced Backups" to make it more clear what it does differently to Home Assistant's automatic backups.

Oh also someone made a how-to video a few months back that I stumbled across, and I've added it to the overview#videos in the docs, it's a great video, though perhaps not super useful if your reading the release notes as you probably already know all this.

✨ Features

• Add support for new backup logic in HA Core 2025.1.0 (#182) (7699305), closes #178

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Deprecation of manual config entry assignment in 2024.12.1 (#170) (f7c7f41), closes #171
• Improve error message and handling when unable to purge a backup (770554b)
• Warning for blocking event loop when downloading backups (#169) (be30743), closes #145 #145

📚 Documentation

• Add faq section (1f04841)
• Add video link to overview (b68ced4)
• Remove no longer necessary warnings about ha-core limitations (a22eafb)
• Update features section and add blueprints list (09d9756)

📦 Build

• deps: Lock file maintenance (#176) (5f0d9d5)
• deps: Update all non-major dependencies to v3.13 (#174) (20eb1e9)
• deps: Update astral-sh/setup-uv action to v4 (#166) (413dfe6)
• deps: Update astral-sh/setup-uv action to v5 (#175) (34ce4d4)

Full Changelog: v1.5.3...v1.6.0

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This discussion was created from the release v1.6.0.

[patienttruth]

You get a big shout out in my book!

Although I had downloaded auto backups early on, I finally implemented it a month ago. It's straightforward and does what it should. Thank you for the awesome work!

I too am happy to see the core functionality improved, but this still offers the functionality I need.

I'm excited to see what v2.0 brings, in time, no rush, this is perfectly functional as it is.