openHAB 2.5.x Patch Releases

rkrisi · June 22, 2020, 3:00pm

Thank you very much for this quick fix!

apica · June 22, 2020, 3:19pm

I have the same issue here, something related to [homekit] fix corrupt storage by yfre · Pull Request #7940 · openhab/openhab-addons · GitHub? @yfre

openhab> smarthome:homekit clearPairings
Command not found: smarthome:homekit

And seems properly installed:

openhab-misc-homekit x 2.5.6 x x x Started x openhab-addons-2.5.6 x HomeKit Integration

yfre · June 22, 2020, 4:58pm

what you get if you just type “homekit” without smarthome?

apica · June 22, 2020, 5:35pm

openhab> homekit
Command not found: homekit

yfre · June 22, 2020, 6:07pm

@apica @MrKlepper let us move here

rlkoshak · June 22, 2020, 6:44pm

Is it for just me or are the release notes broken?

Wolfgang_S · June 22, 2020, 6:46pm

same for me

crazypenguin · June 22, 2020, 7:33pm

same for me here

mstormi · June 22, 2020, 7:35pm

I think there’s a more generalized problem with GitHub right now.
(I was able to see the notes before)

EDIT: seems to be fixed now

Kai · June 22, 2020, 9:35pm

Yes, openHAB 2.5.6 release notes are back again at https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/releases/tag/2.5.6.

Btw, a good point was raised in Announcements being used for discussions / questions etc and as a consequence I am closing this topic here.
Any questions and discussions should best happen in a dedicated topic (and referencing this one here, so that the links are visible here as a list) or - if it is clearly a bug - directly be reported on Github.

Kai · July 23, 2020, 9:02pm

Following the monthly release cycle, we have again released a new patch release today (due to the holiday season, it wasn’t done on a Sunday as all the previous releases, but we’ll get back to that in August): openHAB 2.5.7 has been published!
You can find the release notes as usual on Github at https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/releases/tag/2.5.7.
We again have 8 new bindings coming with it and a lot of enhancements and fixes on existing ones. I am very happy about this great progress, which would not have been possible without @fwolter, who joined our add-on maintainer team just a month ago - he really did an awesome job for the community in the past weeks already!

Since you cannot comment on this topic directly, feel free to address any comments, questions and other remarks here.

Kai · August 23, 2020, 6:12pm

Exactly one month after my last post, we reached openHAB 2.5.8!
The release notes are available on Github at https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/releases/tag/2.5.8.

I’d like to use the opportunity to share some details on our plans for the coming months:
openHAB 2.5.9 is tentatively scheduled for September 20 and it will be the last “big” 2.5.x patch release. Immediately after this release, we will make the master branch (i.e. 3.x) of the add-ons repo the default branch to work on - only major and critical fixes will be backported to the 2.5.x branch and become part of a 2.5.10 release. Early October we should have a first milestone build of openHAB 3.0 and we are still aiming for the release by the end of the year.

Please use this topic for any follow-ups, questions and discussions.

Kai · September 20, 2020, 9:11pm

As promised in my last post in August, we have delivered openHAB 2.5.9 today on time! I mentioned it being the last “big” patch release and yeah - this one is REALLY big! Check out the release notes at https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/releases/tag/2.5.9: it includes no less than 26 new bindings!

This has been a massive review effort the past weeks and I want to thank everyone involved in this, both contributors and maintainers - you rock!

To be honest, 2.5.9 clearly does not deserve being called a “patch release”, so I am happy that we are at the end of that phase. As previously mentioned, we will continue to ship 2.5.10, etc., but those will really only be about bug fixes. All feature development will from now on move to 3.x - I’ll soon share more details, so make sure to check the announcements category from time to time!

If you have specific questions on the 2.5.9 release, please use this topic for any further discussion.
All contributors that want to know how to proceed with PRs now should please read here.

Kai · October 25, 2020, 9:41pm

The next patch release is available: openHAB 2.5.10, please find the release notes at https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/releases/tag/2.5.10.

With this (and the future 2.5.x releases) we are now really back to small patch releases - 2.5 is now really our “stable” release and you don’t have to (and should not) expect any bigger changes in it anymore. We will continue the regular patch releases, so that anything critical that comes up can be quickly addressed and be fixed, while keeping potential negative impacts of changes to existing setups to a minimum.

Enjoy and please use this topic for any further discussion. Thanks!

Kai · November 22, 2020, 6:03pm

Just as a heads-up:

With the stronger focus on openHAB 3.0, we will reduce the release frequency for 2.5.x and won’t follow the monthly scheme any further.
We will nonetheless continue to provide patch releases also well into next year, but only do those releases whenever a couple of fixes piled up.
You can expect 2.5.11 early December, a 2.5.12 would then follow next year only.

Kai · December 13, 2020, 6:15pm

All, we have just released openHAB 2.5.11 - it contains a couple of fixes for existing add-ons.
See https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/releases/tag/2.5.11 for its release notes.

Please use this topic for any further discussion - thanks!

Kai · January 27, 2021, 10:15pm

All, together with the patch release 3.0.1, we have also shipped openHAB 2.5.12, which addresses the same security vulnerability and which contains a few other small fixes - see Release openHAB 2.5.12 · openhab/openhab-distro · GitHub for details.

If you are on a 2.5.x release, we recommend you to update to 2.5.12.

Please use this topic for any questions and discussions - thanks!