ESPHome 2024.3.0: Date entities and IPv6

Mar 20, 2024

Dates

ESPHome now has support for date entities that can be set from the frontend (like Home Assistant) for you to check against and execute automations in the future.

ESPHome Dates require Home Assistant 2024.4 or later.

IPv6

ESPHome is now prepared for the future! The future that is the old IPv6 that is. Dualstack is added and it could now have up to 5 ip addresses of any type, and communication with Home assistant, MQTT and NTP works with IPv6. ESPHome still depends on IPv4, but the crystal ball shows sign of IPv6-only networks.

If you are building an External Components or you use network::get_ip_address(), wifi::global_wifi_component->get_ip_address() or ethernet::global_eth_component->get_ip_address(), these functions have been renamed to ::get_ip_addresses() respectively and now return a list of all IP addresses.

Release 2024.3.1 - March 27

AHT10: Fix bug esphome#6409 by @clydebarrow
microWakeWord: Fix model path joining esphome#6426 by @ebw44
Don’t compile strptime unless its required esphome#6424 by @gabest11
Fix editor live validation esphome#6431 by @bdraco

Release 2024.3.2 - April 4

Fix logger compile error on ESP32-C6 esphome#6323 by @DAVe3283
Add missing ethernet types esphome#6444 by @ssieb
fix: changing the content source when playing is paused blocks the player esphome#6454 by @NewoPL

Thank you for your support

We would like to thank all Home Assistant Cloud subscribers for their support. It allows Nabu Casa to employ two developers to maintain and further develop the ESPHome project.

Full List of Changes

For the complete list of every merged pull request in this release, see the full 2024.3.0 changelog.