I recently noticed, that the Home Assistant app on F-Droid has been stuck on 2025.11.4 since, well, November 2025.
I tried some searches, but couldn’t find any info on why this is, does anyone here know?
The official releases include the minimal APK for all recent versions.
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2025.11.4 is the previous stable release, all the others since that are marked as pre-release. 2025.11.4 was released on gh on 11-23, the fdroid build was finished on 11-27, 4 days later.
The new release was tagged on 01-25, the new build should be done in the following days.
Ok yup, I completely missed that all releases in between were pre releases, I thought it was just a few. Thanks for the hint.
I do wonder now, why 2025.12 was never stable…
2016.11.4
You mean 2025.11.4, right? I panicked a bit and looked at my calendar :D
Edit:
01-25
Here it is 01-26 I hope?
You need to start counting from 0…
My perception of time is flawed. 1 year error is acceptable for me. But fixed it for you.
I’m on my phone so github only writes “a week ago”, I guessed the date from the commits’ date. But on planet earth there are always at least 2 days at the same time, and sometimes 3, since Kiribati changed its time zone
On Obtanium I have 2026.1.6 🙂
Obtainium just downloads it from gh. Fdroid rebuilds the apks from source
What this article has to do with this topic?
Obtainium is a different platform with a different goal, I have both installed, but I get homeassistant from aurora, as I need the full version, location reporting works there well with microg/unifiednlp, I don’t have play services
What phone and os havw you?
Official Lineage os on Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. That’s an old phone, but still works perfectly fine.
As far as I can see, the most recent version that isn’t tagged as “pre-release” is 2026.1.6 dating from last week. In my experience, it does sometimes take two weeks until someone from the F-Droid team builds and upoloads the recent version.
Fdroid update builds are automatic. A bot adds a commit about new releases to this repo: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata
E.g. this was the previous release: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/14b7e1f5733778ef3a78aba4347191f795ec9e63
Then you can watch the build status here: https://fdroidstatus.org/builds/build
Sometimes the build pipeline is a little bit behind and a new release may take 1 to 14 days until it is available in fdroid. At least that’s my experience from recent years with fdroid
Fantastic, I’ve always wondered where I can get more insights into the F-Droid build process. Thanks!
Just FYI, there is some issue in the fdroid build process: https://github.com/home-assistant/android/issues/6366
I just checked it and in the play store if android the same thing happens last update 22/Nov/25.
That’s odd, on Aurora store that’s also what I see. On the official Play Store page, it shows last updated January 29th though.
The aurora ui sometimes lags, but you can just download manually the new version by typing the new number. Aurora doesn’t have a separate repo, it’s just a frontend to play store
