{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "openHAB", "home_page_url": "https://openhab.org", "feed_url": "https://openhab.org/feed.json", "description": "openHAB - a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home", "items": [ { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2025-12-22-openhab-5-1-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2025-12-22-openhab-5-1-release.html", "title": "openHAB 5.1 Release", "summary": "A new release of openHAB is here!\nopenHAB 5.1 arrives with many improvements, most notably a complete modernisation of Main UI, the introduction of a HomeKit Binding for importing Apple-ecosystem devices, and significant updates to JavaScript and Python Scripting.", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2025-12-22-openhab-5-1-release/header.webp", "date_modified": "2025-12-22T19:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Florian Hotze and others" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2025-07-27-openhab-garmin-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2025-07-27-openhab-garmin-release.html", "title": "openHAB Garmin App", "summary": "The openHAB Garmin app has reached its first official release and is now officially available on the Garmin Connect IQ Store — ready to bring smart home control to your wrist or bike computer!", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2025-07-27-openhab-garmin-release/header.jpg", "date_modified": "2025-07-27T09:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Robert Pollai" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2025-07-21-openhab-5-0-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2025-07-21-openhab-5-0-release.html", "title": "openHAB 5.0 Release", "summary": "That being said, it also reduces maintenance overhead by allowing us to focus on 64-bit systems, which are nowadays standard for most applications.", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2025-07-21-openhab-5-0-release/header.webp", "date_modified": "2025-07-21T19:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Florian Hotze and others" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2025-02-05-fosdem.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2025-02-05-fosdem.html", "title": "FOSDEM 2025 Recap", "summary": "By leveraging open-source, users can:", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2025-02-05-fosdem/booth.webp", "date_modified": "2025-02-05T15:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Florian Hotze and Felix Hertweck" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2024-12-15-openhab-4-3-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2024-12-15-openhab-4-3-release.html", "title": "openHAB 4.3 Release", "summary": "As you'd expect from any new openHAB release, we have had a high activity across all our GitHub repositories.\nWe therefore want to share a few statistics about our three main repositories: Core, add-ons and UIs.", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2024-12-15-openhab-4-3-release/header.webp", "date_modified": "2024-12-15T17:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Florian Hotze and others" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2024-10-12-linux-magazine.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2024-10-12-linux-magazine.html", "title": "openHAB @ Linux Magazine", "summary": "The English version of the article can be purchased from the website of the American Linux Magazine or read in the November issue #288/2024 of the Linux Magazine.", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2024-10-12-linux-magazine/header.webp", "date_modified": "2024-10-12T16:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Florian Hotze" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2024-07-07-openhab-4-2-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2024-07-07-openhab-4-2-release.html", "title": "openHAB 4.2 Release", "summary": "Many of our top committers are also maintainers, which means besides contributing code, they also review pull requests and participate in discussions on GitHub issues, which helps maintain our high level of quality across bindings, UIs and Core.\nAt present, we have 36 maintainers across all our repositories.\nHuge thanks to all of them for keeping a high development pace for openHAB 4.2!", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2024-07-07-openhab-4-2-release/header.png", "date_modified": "2024-07-07T16:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Florian Hotze and others" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2023-12-22-openhab-4-1-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2023-12-22-openhab-4-1-release.html", "title": "openHAB 4.1 Release", "summary": "As you might have already noticed in the activity statistics, openHAB has evolved much, but listing all enhancements would be too much.\nPlease refer to the release notes to check out what's new and noteworthy (e.g. breaking changes).", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2023-12-22-openhab-4-1-release/header.jpg", "date_modified": "2023-12-22T16:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Florian Hotze and others" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2023-07-23-openhab-4-0-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2023-07-23-openhab-4-0-release.html", "title": "openHAB 4.0 Release", "summary": "All of them are also maintainers, which means besides of contributing code, they review pull requests and participate in discussions on GitHub issues.\nAt present, there are 37 maintainers across all our repositories.\nI extend a huge thank you to all my colleagues for their exceptional contributions in advancing openHAB!", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2023-07-23-openhab-4-0-release/header.jpg", "date_modified": "2023-07-23T16:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Florian Hotze and others" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2023-02-08-fosdem.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2023-02-08-fosdem.html", "title": "FOSDEM 2023 is over. It was a blast.", "summary": "If you are interested in collaborating on this topic, contact me in the openHAB forum or, if you feel more comfortable in a \"neutral place\", send me an email.", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2023-02_blog_fosdem23-header.jpg", "date_modified": "2023-02-08T22:44:57.000Z", "author": { "name": "Stephan Luckow" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2022-12-19-openhab-3-4-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2022-12-19-openhab-3-4-release.html", "title": "openHAB 3.4 Release", "summary": "Once a KS service has detected a wake word, it is time for speech-to-text (SST) services of which openHAB by now offers three different options:", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/winter22.jpg", "date_modified": "2022-12-19T13:38:57.000Z", "author": { "name": "Kai Kreuzer" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2022-06-26-openhab-3-3-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2022-06-26-openhab-3-3-release.html", "title": "openHAB 3.3 Release", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/summer.jpg", "date_modified": "2022-06-27T07:30:48.000Z", "author": { "name": "Dan Cunningham" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2021-12-19-openhab-3-2-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2021-12-19-openhab-3-2-release.html", "title": "openHAB 3.2 Release", "summary": "Our winter release of openHAB 3.2 is out! This latest version contains many new add-ons, enhanced voice features, automation improvements and more!", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2021-winter-snow.jpg", "date_modified": "2021-12-20T20:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Kai Kreuzer and others" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2021-06-28-openhab-3-1-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2021-06-28-openhab-3-1-release.html", "title": "openHAB 3.1 Release", "summary": "Our summer release openHAB 3.1 is out! It improves many details over 3.0 and again comes with a huge list of new add-ons.", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2021-06_summer.jpg", "date_modified": "2021-06-28T10:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Kai Kreuzer" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2020-12-21-openhab-3-0-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2020-12-21-openhab-3-0-release.html", "title": "openHAB 3.0 Release", "summary": "The next major release has arrived with openHAB 3! This is exciting news for our community, as it makes openHAB more modern, simpler and yet more powerful.", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/wintertrees.jpg", "date_modified": "2020-12-21T10:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Kai Kreuzer and Yannick Schaus" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2019-12-14-openhab-2-5-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2019-12-14-openhab-2-5-release.html", "title": "openHAB 2.5 Release", "summary": "A full year has passed since openHAB 2.4 and a lot has happened meanwhile. A new release is overdue and we are happy to announce the new 2.5 release to all of you today!", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/lights.jpg", "date_modified": "2019-12-15T11:26:55.000Z", "author": { "name": "Kai Kreuzer" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2019-07-18-smart-home-day-darmstadt-2019.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2019-07-18-smart-home-day-darmstadt-2019.html", "title": "Smart Home Day @ Hochschule Darmstadt 2019", "summary": "Already on May 25, the openHAB Foundation hosted another Smart Home Day colocated with its yearly general assembly.\nThe event took place at Hochschule Darmstadt and was packed with some interesting talks before the Foundations general assembly was held.", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2019-05-smart-home-day-2019.jpg", "date_modified": "2019-07-18T10:14:45.000Z", "author": { "name": "Jerome Luckenbach" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2019-06-06-why-should-we-be-present-at-events.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2019-06-06-why-should-we-be-present-at-events.html", "title": "Why should we – as the openHAB community – be present at events?", "summary": "My call to action for our community: Keep in mind (at every occasion) that we have marketing goals. Let's turn interested people into amateurs and turn amateurs into community members. Let's grow the community!", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/190606_why_be_present.jpg", "date_modified": "2019-06-06T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "Stephan Luckow" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2018-12-17-openhab-2-4-release.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2018-12-17-openhab-2-4-release.html", "title": "openHAB 2.4 Release", "summary": "As for the past few years, the openHAB maintainers have decided to do a new release just in time for the holiday season, which is the busiest time of the year in our community. So what could be more welcome than a brand new stable release?", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/2018-12_xmas.jpg", "date_modified": "2018-12-16T23:57:45.000Z", "author": { "name": "Kai Kreuzer" } }, { "id": "https://openhab.org/blog/2018-12-16-mqtt-arrives-in-the-modern-openhab-2-x-architecture.html", "url": "https://openhab.org/blog/2018-12-16-mqtt-arrives-in-the-modern-openhab-2-x-architecture.html", "title": "MQTT Arrives in the Modern openHAB 2.x Architecture", "summary": "openHAB 2.4 brings a few noticeable features, one of them is a new way of integrating your MQTT devices. What is MQTT actually? And how does the new implementation differ from what was already available?", "image": "https://www.openhab.org/uploads/mqttblog.jpg", "date_modified": "2018-12-16T12:35:12.000Z", "author": { "name": "David Graeff" } } ] }