Today’s beta day took a hard left when I realized Home Assistant is labeling this release as Beta 1.0. Is it actually “1.0” at the end of the year? I don’t know—I’m hoping we’ll get clarity at the Home Assistant Conference—but it’s definitely exciting seeing that 1.0 tag show up. In this video I keep it focused on a handful of smaller frontend changes, because I’m saving the bigger stuff for the conference on December 13th. On the Lovelace side, I walk through a really nice Grid Card improvement: you can set columns in YAML and still use the visual editor. In 0.118, if you supplied columns you were basically forced into YAML-only edits, so this is a big quality-of-life win. I also show how the card preview background in the editor now matches your view background, which makes designing dashboards way more accurate, and the “Add Card” FAB color switching to your primary theme color (blue out of the box instead of the old accent/orange). Then I jump into Configuration to cover two organizational/admin updates: assigning Areas directly on Entities (not just Devices), and disabling a Device without ripping out the entire integration. Finally, there’s a small but super helpful advanced change—User configuration now shows usernames, which makes user management and password changes less of a guessing game.