openHAB 4.3 release blog post

[florian-h05]

Deploy preview: https://deploy-preview-499--openhab.netlify.app/blog/2024-12-15-openhab-4-3-release.html

[florian-h05]

Pinging @openhab/maintainers: Please feel free to create pull requests to my branch or provide the markdown to add to the release blog post.

[lsiepel]

Pinging @openhab/maintainers: Please feel free to create pull requests to my branch or provide the markdown to add to the release blog post.

Also ping to @ccutrer as 4.3 signals a great boost to MQTT/HA integration and hope he can add to the blog.

[florian-h05]

I would like to have something written about the following PRs - please note that this list is only near-complete for Main UI.

Core

• Persistence exclude items and groups openhab-core#4468 with Persistence edit: Support excluding items or groups openhab-webui#2896: @mherwege

Main UI

• Addons store: Use swiper for addon cards on mobile & Reduce size of addon card on desktop openhab-webui#2216
• Allow model cards and model tabs outside of homepage openhab-webui#2584: @wuschi Would you like to write something about your PR?
• Make tabbed pages routable openhab-webui#2647
• Add a dirty indicator on the title bar openhab-webui#2687: @jimtng Can you please write a few sentences and provide a screenshot? You can use the one from https://next.openhab.org/docs/mainui/settings/#dirty-handling and also link to those docs: https://next.openhab.org/docs/mainui/settings/#dirty-handling
• Widget actions: Support optional confirmation dialog/sheet openhab-webui#2715
• Refactor card widgets to use a shared base component (oh-card) openhab-webui#2781
• Canvas layout: Add interactive SVG support openhab-webui#2787: @stefan-hoehn Please write a section about the new possibilities provided by your PR.
• Thing page: Support invoking Thing actions & Viewing their output openhab-webui#2818
• Add Log Viewer to MainUI openhab-webui#2884: @cdjackson Please write a section about this great addition.

Blockly

Ping @stefan-hoehn.
Some ideas:

• [blockly] Remove Nashorn support & Check for required automation add-on in script edit openhab-webui#2743.

openHABian

• Changes

[wuschi]

Hello Florian, I’m sorry but I’m not very good at documentation ;-) However, I would describe the PR with the following: The semantic model is now loaded during page initialization and put into the vuex store for reuse by components, which enables reuse of the model by the respective widgets. One benefit is that oh-location-tab, oh-equipment-tab and oh-property-tab can now be used easily within tabbed pages. Likewise, oh-location-card, oh-equipment-card and oh-property-card can now be used as standard widgets outside of these model tabs. If you need any screenshots or some yaml code for a tabbed page example please refer to openhab/openhab-webui#2583 Kind regards, Thomas

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Am 11.12.2024 um 17:08 schrieb Florian Hotze ***@***.***>: I would like to have something written about the following PRs - please note that this list is only near-complete for Main UI. Core openhab/openhab-core#4468 <openhab/openhab-core#4468> with openhab/openhab-webui#2896 <openhab/openhab-webui#2896> Main UI openhab/openhab-webui#2216 <openhab/openhab-webui#2216> openhab/openhab-webui#2584 <openhab/openhab-webui#2584>: @wuschi <https://github.com/wuschi> Would you like to write something about your PR? openhab/openhab-webui#2647 <openhab/openhab-webui#2647> openhab/openhab-webui#2687 <openhab/openhab-webui#2687>: @jimtng <https://github.com/jimtng> Can you please write a few sentences and provide a screenshot? You can use the one from https://next.openhab.org/docs/mainui/settings/#dirty-handling and also link to those docs: https://next.openhab.org/docs/mainui/settings/#dirty-handling openhab/openhab-webui#2715 <openhab/openhab-webui#2715> openhab/openhab-webui#2781 <openhab/openhab-webui#2781> openhab/openhab-webui#2787 <openhab/openhab-webui#2787> openhab/openhab-webui#2818 <openhab/openhab-webui#2818> openhab/openhab-webui#2855 <openhab/openhab-webui#2855> openhab/openhab-webui#2884 <openhab/openhab-webui#2884>: @cdjackson <https://github.com/cdjackson> Please write a section about this great addition. Blockly Ping @stefan-hoehn <https://github.com/stefan-hoehn>. Some ideas: openhab/openhab-webui#2743 <openhab/openhab-webui#2743>. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#499 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABA2QMU6EYKWVRZ5BG2VPQ32FBPP3AVCNFSM6AAAAABTLYYRXOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDKMZSHA2DAMRQGA>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.

[lolodomo]

I would like to provide few images but I don't find the folder /uploads/2024-12-15-openhab-4-3-release that you have all used!

[florian-h05]

You can find it in .vuepress/public/uploads

[lolodomo]

You can find it in .vuepress/public/uploads

Ok I will add them once you merged my initial proposal.

[florian-h05]

@lolodomo I have just merged your PR.

[lolodomo]

For add-ons, it is not easy to summarize, I am counting 557 merged PRs!

Maybe a sentence to say that we check and fix the color temperature channel amongst all bindings by defining a proper unit and proper min/max values.

[lolodomo]

@lsiepel @jlaur : do you have an idea of what were the changes in add-ons we could mention in particular ?

[florian-h05]

@lolodomo Maybe write a short sentence for each new add-on, usually which devices it adds.

See https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/wiki/openHAB-4.3-Release-Notes#newaddons.

[lolodomo]

Looking at the release notes prepared by @kaikreuzer , we can identify the bindings having the most changes/fixes:

• aWattar
• freeboxos (already mentioned)
• homekit
• hue
• ipcamera
• mercedesme
• mqtt.homeassistant (already mentioned)
• netatmo
• shelly
• zigbee

[lolodomo]

You could add something like: there was also a noticeable activity to stabilize and/or enhance the following bindings: aWattar, homekit, ...

[florian-h05]

You could add something like: there was also a noticeable activity to stabilize and/or enhance the following bindings: aWattar, homekit, ...

Would be great if someone else could to that, I am quite busy at the moment.