Software update: OpenHAB 3.3.0

OpenHAB is home automation software with which components can be read and controlled. You can think of light switches, various sensors, LED lamps, security equipment and many other home automation hardware. It can be done through so-called binding talk via Z-Wave, Nest and Zigbee, or control products from Ikea Trådfri, Xiaomi Smart Home and Philips Hue. For more information, please refer to this page and for user experiences you can also visit our Forum, in the The Great OpenHAB topic. The developers have released OpenHAB 3.3 and the release notes for that version look like this:

openHAB 3.3 Release

Summer is here, and with it comes the next version of our smart home platform, openHAB 3.3. The last six months have shown an impressive amount of activity across our different components including openHAB Core, Add-ons, UI, Android, iOS and Javascript library to name just a few. You can find the full list of new add-ons, enhancements and fixes in our official release notes† With that being said, we wanted to share some statistics that highlight the awesome progress our developers have made with this release.

Activity

since our winter release we have introduced 25 new add-ons, including multiple text to speech (TTS) engines, multiple weather integrations as well as additional integrations into cars, lighting and environmental systems, music systems and many more. our Github addon repository† saw 722 pull requests as well as 234 enhancements and 195 bug fixes to existing add-ons. Cumulatively these improvements added an additional 122,308 new lines of code to our project. That’s a lot of activity!

the openHAB core, which provides the foundational services for the openHAB platform, was also very active with 263 pull requests, 65 enhancements, 72 bug fixes and 10,767 new lines of code added. finally our user interface had a flurry of activity with 9,687 new lines of code and 88 pull requests, including 41 enhancements and 15 bug fixes to the new Main UI.

our community has been growing as well over the last 6 months with an additional 1400 new users signed up, with over 800 of these users posting for the first time. Additionally our forums saw over 135,000 user visits and over 26,000 user posts. Impressive numbers indeed.