Release Notes

First-time setup can restore from a backup, your configuration is backed up every hour, a recovery key brings secrets back on a new node, and Connect GitHub sets up a backup repository without tokens.

Extensions upgrade in place and keep what you changed, services migrate their data as they restart, retired fields leave the editors, and memory and CPU are reported per tenant.

Every extension with a service is rebuilt for platform v0.2.20 and requires that version, and the bundled apps pick up the platform's new dialog and toolbar layout.

Installing an extension that needs a different platform version is refused with a clear message, and a node that refuses an upgrade keeps running its current configuration without holding up other nodes.

The alarm history, charts, database search, reports and schema editor apps declare that they need platform v0.2.18 or later.

Every extension is updated for the regrouped tree of platform v0.2.18 and requires that version.

The top of the entity tree is regrouped into Devices, Integrations, Engineering, Operations, Cluster, Security and System, so everything that belongs to one thing sits in one place. Start this version on a fresh node; an existing node keeps running its current version.

Fixes hosted nodes that went offline for a few minutes again and again after the cloud moved them to another server.

Fixes hosted nodes that stayed unavailable after the cloud moved them to another server.

Each integration you add now owns its connections, every catalog extension installs on every node, and white labeling is available everywhere.

A new Tuya integration controls Tuya and Smart Life devices on your network with the Tuya cloud as fallback, and every integration now gives each instance its own connection. These versions require platform v0.2.15.

Fixes signing in to hosted nodes that moved to the new replicated storage, and installing extensions on them.

A hosted node's data is now kept in replicated storage rather than on one server's disk, so a node can come back on another server when its server fails, without losing its configuration or history.

Every integration now installs as its own signed container image, and every integration that shares work across services carries this release's ordering fixes.

Alarms and integrations that share their work across services no longer act on a value older than the change in front of them, even while that work is being handed from one service to another.

Alarms whose text or severity shows other values now react to those values the moment they change, without polling.

Alarms re-check themselves only when something they depend on can have changed, which cuts the CPU an idle node spends on alarm monitoring.

Extensions with their own setup, such as Demo Scene, SMTP and the Zigbee and Z-Wave bridges, install, upgrade and reinstall on cloud nodes.

Prepares cloud nodes to run the services that extensions bring, such as Demo Scene and the protocol drivers.

Opening a cloud node from the ControlBird Cloud dashboard signs you in again.

The Community Edition pulls its images from Docker Hub, and a cloud node's setup no longer fails while its database is still starting.

The Community Edition now runs as a Docker Compose stack with one container per service, extensions install from signed container images, and programs are compiled with TinyGo as event handlers.

The tunnel connects each session to the cloud node it was opened for.

A thermostat set to Auto now shows and accepts Auto in Google Home instead of a heat and cool range it cannot hold.

The Google Home extension reports and accepts a thermostat's Auto mode. Update the node to v0.2.4 before updating the extension.

Devices you expose to Google Home now appear in the Google Home app and respond to voice and app commands. HomeKit, Alexa and Google Home install as three separate extensions, so a node runs only the assistant you use.

The Voice Assistant Service is replaced by three extensions, HomeKit, Alexa and Google Home, each shipping only its own service. Google Home now serves real devices. Update the node to v0.2.3 before installing them.

The desktop has a new look with a top bar, a labelled dock and themable glass windows, and every user picks their own density and dock position. On a phone, the apps now behave like native iOS lists. Nodes can be installed from .deb and .rpm packages, including on 64-bit Raspberry Pi.

The tunnel connects to your node's own address over a secure web connection and authenticates with a node API key that has tunnel access.

Every protocol and integration service sends a device write exactly once and never echoes a device's own state back to it. Z-Wave and Zigbee devices provision completely, and the extension apps adopt the new desktop and phone layouts. Update your extensions after updating the node to v0.2.2.

Keys you trust to sign extensions and service binaries are now entries on the node that replicate to every node and travel with backups, and a node never runs a binary that is unsigned or signed by an unknown key. Scripts and rule chains can no longer change permissions, roles or schemas. The node image is smaller.

The VPN extension delivers its own binary and starts it on every node. Service extensions ship binaries built for platform 0.2.0.

The platform core and every built-in service have been reimplemented on a new foundation. Nodes now use HTTPS by default, command-line tools and downloads authenticate with revocable API keys, LDAP users sign in with their directory credentials, and extensions run as their own services. Many settings that used to be free-form text are now separate fields you can edit and inspect one at a time.

Remote access through the tunnel now uses revocable API keys instead of SSH keys. Each key can be limited to specific targets, revoking a key ends its sessions, and every interactive tool gets its own forwarded port.

A maintenance release with no user-visible changes to device discovery.

Most catalog extensions now install from declared content, and integrations such as weather, speech, messaging and smart-home hubs run as dedicated services. Calendar, HTTP, historian and Device Manager settings are edited as individual fields.

Automations and integrations written as scripts can now copy a stored file, such as a synthesized speech clip, from one place to another without re-uploading it, and a reference to a missing or invalid file is reported with a clear error instead of being silently accepted.

HTTP Service, MQTT Service, SMTP Service and Voice Assistant Service now carry the credential fix from the previous release, ControlBird AI saves your provider API key correctly, and Google TTS keeps synthesized phrases in its cache again so AlAdhan's spoken reminders play.

Credentials entered in the Add Integration wizard are saved correctly again instead of silently being dropped, and a save that is rejected is now reported in the log instead of looking like success.

HTTP Service, MQTT Service, SMTP Service and Voice Assistant Service can now store the credentials you enter in Add Integration, and Device Manager Service and Bluetooth LE ship the latest platform binaries.

AlAdhan and SMTP are visible in Add Integration again, Device Discovery and Device Manager Service pick up Bluetooth presence monitoring, ControlBird AI stores your provider key as a secret, and HTTP Service starts requiring a bearer token.

Internal code cleanup with no user-visible changes.

Internal code cleanup with no user-visible changes.

Paired Bluetooth devices can be monitored for presence with an automatic Device Offline alarm, several Device Manager rough edges are fixed, and HTTP Service inbound endpoints start requiring a bearer token.

Alarms can reach your phone as push notifications even with the app closed, the Extensions app updates installed extensions in one click, and background bookkeeping costs much less CPU when nothing is changing.

A new Push Notifications extension delivers alarm and automation notifications to phones, AlAdhan keeps its prayer calendar current, and the Shell AI assistants install on demand.

AlAdhan can announce upcoming prayers out loud, Google TTS and PulseAudio add their own nodes to the Rule Chain editor, and the AI assistant can build chains with them.

Protocol coverage no longer depends on your plan, extensions can contribute their own action nodes to the Rule Chain editor, and calendar events can fire hooks ahead of time.

Fixes AlAdhan playback silently doing nothing after an update, and ships the speaker service with playback queueing.

Audio played to a speaker now queues instead of overlapping, an urgent sound can interrupt, and a long recording no longer ties up the speaker connection.

Updating AlAdhan now adds the setting that chooses which speaker plays the call to prayer, so an existing prayer-time location can be configured.

Updating AlAdhan now sets up the call to prayer on prayer-time locations you already added, instead of only on new ones.

ControlBird AI turns an uploaded floor plan into a schematic, room names can be corrected without redrawing, and stored files keep their real name and type.

The AlAdhan integration now plays the call to prayer at each prayer time, chosen at random from nine included recordings.

ControlBird AI carries the assistant fixes from ControlBird 0.1.56, and every service integration is rebuilt to match.

Assistant replies are no longer cut short while they are still arriving, provider settings apply to conversations already open, and the response limit can be left to the model server.

ControlBird AI really does show the cached-token figure announced earlier, and the MQTT service carries the shared-broker fix.

Integration types that had lost their shared fields now repair themselves, integrations that produce a file save its contents, and two systems can share one MQTT broker.

Secure Remote Access can be turned on again, and ControlBird AI knows how to set up an integration instead of failing at it.

ControlBird AI can now find every integration in the marketplace instead of only the first thirty, prompt caching works on every model provider rather than just one, and each reply shows how much of it came from cache.

Updates the ControlBird AI integration with the new assistant build and the cached-token reporting it needs.

Files kept on a node are now read and written through the same permission-checked path as every other kind of data, audio clips no longer sit in node memory or inflate backups, and changing a role's permissions reaches people who are already signed in.

Rebuilds the programs behind every service integration for the 0.1.52 platform, and stops those builds from installing on an older node.

ControlBird AI installs as a single extension, and a newly added geofence works.

Community Edition nodes no longer identify themselves as cloud nodes, Bluetooth controllers start on default settings, and publishing a configuration to Git works and reports the real error when it does not.

Refreshes the programs behind the service integrations for the 0.1.51 platform. No behavior changes.

Fixes 0.1.49, where the app failed to open at all, and adds presence tracking - circular zones and tracked devices, with a background location feed from a phone.

Adds the presence integration, and fixes downloads of the programs an integration installs.

A Schema Editor for defining your own entity types, integrations that deliver their own services work again after 0.1.47 and 0.1.48, and fixes for data that could be lost or split up across a restart.

The Schema Editor is available as an installable app.

Local backup and restore for your configuration, exports that keep uploaded files intact, much lower idle CPU on nodes with many device mappings, and a clearer answer when a mapping or a sign-in fails.

A new SQL query service, a keep-alive for Bluetooth speakers, self-contained report exports, and older extension versions selectable again.

Bluetooth pairing changes made on the device itself are picked up as they happen.

Bluetooth scanning now covers Classic (BR/EDR) devices as well as low-energy, with a selectable transport and an automatic mode.

Integrations now install completely from the marketplace - service software included, signed and verified end to end; a leaner base platform; offline bundle installs for air-gapped sites; and existing systems upgrade in place with nothing to reconfigure.

Signed extensions with downloadable service software per platform, five apps newly installable from the marketplace, and hardware compatibility shown before you install.

Reports you can write, generate and export; email integrations that receive mail and connect Gmail or Microsoft 365 accounts; device discovery built into the device tree; history for any field without configuring a historian table; and broad credential hardening.

The tunnel can be pointed at an exact host, so custom node names, renames and node promotions no longer break the connection.

Email 1.0.6 connects Gmail or Microsoft 365 with a sign-in and alarms when a mail connection's authorization breaks; nine integrations fix saving a credential entered during setup.

Screens sharing one auto-login key can now start together, a node repairs itself instead of sitting with no leader and refusing sign-ins, and custom themes save properly.

Fixes a restart fault that could stop an unrelated program running on the node, and lets services shut down cleanly instead of being forced.

Corrects the default list of sites allowed to embed a node, introduced in 0.1.42.

A node can now be embedded in a page you run, such as an intranet portal or a wallboard, once you say which sites are allowed to do it.

The guided Email setup now produces an integration that sends, without editing anything afterwards.

Bluetooth Low Energy arrives as a supported protocol: pair a nearby peripheral, browse what it exposes, and map it to data points, including devices in range of a remote site. Also fixes saved connection credentials being ignored, corrects Historian time ranges for anyone outside UTC, and makes installing and uninstalling integrations safe to get wrong.

The discovery adapter can now scan for Bluetooth Low Energy devices in its own vicinity and relay full access to them back to your node, so peripherals at a remote site are usable as if they were plugged in locally.

A visual polish pass on the Demo Scene extension, and a clearer set of headline figures on its overview.

The Demo Scene extension becomes a full SCADA showcase of a mixed-use building: two operable floor plans, a plant room drawn as the equipment it contains, and one coupled live simulation behind every reading. A BLE service extension is added, and the internal Capture Site demo extension is removed.

Google Home voice now keeps you signed in instead of silently losing the connection, Google Text-to-Speech explains why a synthesis failed rather than appearing to hang, and a new demo extension provisions a sample site with live readings.

Fixes HTTP server connections being wrongly disabled on every paid plan, brings the Home plan up to at least what Community Edition offers, makes dashboard chart cards actually draw their data, and stops long-running nodes from failing to start after an update.

The built-in Shell assistant can now browse and install integrations for you, guide you through connecting a device from start to finish, and explain every part of your model. Adds VPN connections in every deployment, and fixes rule-chain editing, drag-and-drop typing, and interface polish.

Multi-node clustering arrives: connect nodes into a cluster, discover nearby nodes automatically over your local network, VPN, and tunnels, and watch live cluster status in Device Manager. Adds AI-assisted device diagnosis, fixes rule-chain Switch behavior, and hardens reliability across storage and connections.

The tunnel now supports peer mode, forwarding traffic in both directions over a single session.

Alarm emails now send reliably and alarm actions are no longer disabled for everyone, sign-in can no longer hang, Device Manager shows live values for every integration, and restart recovery is hardened.

Makes alarm email notifications easy to set up, applies alarm deadband and hysteresis settings during evaluation, and fixes connection status and several alarm reliability issues after restarts and dropped connections.

A follow-up to 0.1.34 that removes redundant background re-evaluation for active alarms, cutting unnecessary processing and log volume.

Fixes an alarm that could repeatedly re-trigger and never stay acknowledged, makes OAuth integrations easy to connect after setup, and resolves dashboard binding and data-access issues so cards bound to a device value display correctly.

A platform-wide consistency and accessibility pass moving every built-in app onto a shared set of controls, searchable entity and field pickers, backward paging through log history, several MQTT subscription fixes, and a device tree that streams in as it loads.

Service Faceplates: the CPU and memory usage alarms now clear when usage returns to normal and identify the service they belong to.

Route protocol connections through a built-in VPN, full IPv6 support across discovery and networking, step-up re-authentication for role changes, a redesigned Rule Chain Editor canvas, and dialogs that now open as movable windows instead of popups.

A new Device Discovery extension for automatic network scanning, plus dashboard and MQTT extension fixes.

The SSH tunnel now supports IPv6 ingress.

A major stability pass for the rule chain editor (around 45 fixes), tap/press feedback and busy indicators across the app, mobile improvements to the rule chain editor, and much faster NFC tag scans.

All seven bundled color themes now define tuned tap/press feedback for buttons and controls.

Fixes a stale status label in the Entity Viewer, alarm sounds failing to play in some browsers, apps losing their config context when launching other apps, and Config Manager git authentication.

Google TTS gets OAuth support and secure API-key storage; fixed a bug that made AlAdhan's and Telegram Bot's automations fail continuously after setup.

NFC tags can now trigger rule chains directly, endpoints show a live Connected/Disconnected status, and several protocols stop reporting a dead connection as healthy.

Fixed integrations creating their endpoint on the wrong node in multi-node deployments, and endpoint installs overwriting other nodes' failover candidates.

Config Manager can now edit git remote settings directly, and the titlebar Runtime/Effort switcher is a working dropdown again.

Cloning a node now automatically connects it to every other node in the cluster, and fixes restore the rule chain editor's context menu and theme-aware context menus everywhere.

Fixed an issue where the extension catalog could stay unavailable for a while after an update, and sped up how quickly it comes back online.

New Schematic 3D Builder with a Model Library panel, Shell image sharing, the official ControlBird MCP server for AI tools, and fixes for extension device deletion, login after a restart, and CLI historian queries.

A new free 3D model pack extension, faster and safer large-extension downloads, and layout fixes for dashboards and faceplates that ship with extensions.

Model and faceplate library rows show live thumbnails, alarms ship with default annunciation sounds, and fixes for password changes and audio device visibility.

Audio playback gains volume control and live status, plus Device Manager fixes for point counts, removing stalled integrations, and touchscreen menus.

The guided PulseAudio setup now creates a single ready-to-use audio device that appears under its own integration.

Failing HTTP integrations now surface as unreachable, sessions survive device sleep, and fixes for mobile menus and configuration Efforts on busy nodes.

A guided setup for playing audio through a node's speaker, and integration devices now appear in the standard Controllers location.

A unified editing engine across all builders, an Efforts workflow that pushes only what you changed, automatic schema migration on node upgrades, and fixes across scheduling, the calendar, and device management.

Simpler single-entity setup for the weather and prayer-time integrations, a Z-Wave reliability fix, and a permissions fix so extensions that define their own data types work right after install.

A new Efforts workflow for drafting and safely pushing configuration changes, plus fixes for faceplates, mobile, and device management.

Install a previous version of an extension, plus fixes for System Dashboards alarms and the Service Monitor faceplate.

Fixes device discovery for the Z-Wave and Zigbee integrations.

NFC tag triggers, much faster loading and provisioning for devices with many points, and a more forgiving connection test.

Faster, more reliable Z-Wave JS UI imports for large devices.

Faster provisioning of large integrations, clearer device-operation errors, and Calendar dark-theme fixes.

More reliable Z-Wave JS UI device imports on slower systems.

Restores historian tables and other data hidden by the new permission rules, protects certificate keys, and improves the Calendar app.

Restores sign-in after the move to protected secret storage.

Protected secret values, a Home Assistant-style dashboard sidebar, live integration status, and faster loading across the app.

Live device availability for HTTP integrations, plus faceplate and dashboard fixes.

Tunnels now recover from dropped connections on their own.

Touch support for the device tree context menus.

Quicker way to add an integration plus a start menu positioning fix.

Maintenance and stability improvements.

Scheduling for scripts and rule chains, selectable extension versions, themes as installable extensions, and a more capable assistant.

Themes catalog, prayer times in the calendar, service monitor faceplates, and version-pick on install.

Cluster node join, a more reliable assistant, and a round of builder and layout editor polish.

Fixes for AlAdhan setup and integration device discovery.

A redesigned device manager built around a live hierarchical tree, plus community-authored apps and data-driven dashboards.

New installable apps including Database Search, logs, alarm history, and data-driven dashboards.

Maintenance release.

Maintenance release.

Z-Wave integration aligned with the Z-Wave JS UI message format.

Full touch and mobile editing across the visual builders, plus cross-app device workflows.

Assistant chat fixes and steadier MQTT message handling.

MQTT integrations handle incomplete messages more gracefully.

Assistant safety approvals, automatic first-boot setup, and faster startup.

Correct version reporting and reliable first-start configuration versioning.

Documentation updates. No functional changes.

Faster device loading, clearer integration grouping, and multi-window assistant sessions.

Documentation updates. No functional changes.

Support for larger data transfers between the UI and the server.

Z-Wave setup fix.

More reliable Z-Wave setup and device discovery.

Connection handling reliability fix.

Fixes intermittent sign-out errors during long sessions.

Version bump for the Z-Wave discovery fix. No functional changes.

Z-Wave device discovery fix.

First release of the Extension Catalog with one-click integrations for smart home devices, voice assistants, messaging, and business modules.

First release of the ControlBird tunnel: connect local devices to a cloud node without opening inbound firewall ports.

First release of device discovery: automatically find devices on your local network.

First public release of the ControlBird platform: a real-time entity database with a web desktop, device management across industrial and home protocols, dashboards, automation, alarms, history, and an AI assistant.