# ESPHome 2025.7.0: Web server OTA, LoRa, and sub-devices

DevFeed: [ESPHome 2025.7.0: Web server OTA, LoRa, and sub-devices](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/esphome-2025-7-0-web-server-ota-lora-and-sub-devices-16699.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://esphome.io/blog/2025/07/16/esphome-2025-7/>)

Author: Jesse Hills

Published: 2025-07-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/esphome-smart-home-made-simple-blog.md>)

Topics: [esphome](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/esphome.md>), [ESP-IDF](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/esp-idf.md>), [lora](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/lora.md>), [Home Assistant](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/home-assistant.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>)

Tags: [component](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/component.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [esp-idf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/esp-idf.md>), [esphome](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/esphome.md>), [home-assistant](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/home-assistant.md>), [improvements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/improvements.md>), [lora](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lora.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [new-features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/new-features.md>), [ota](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ota.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/releases.md>)

## AI overview

ESPHome 2025.7.0 is a major release that moves web server OTA into a dedicated platform, removes ESP-IDF 4.x support in favor of ESP-IDF 5.3.2 or newer, and adds sub-device support, Jinja2 template expressions, LoRa communication, and new hardware and sensor support.

## Source excerpt

ESPHome 2025.7.0 moves web server OTA to its own platform, removes ESP-IDF 4.x support, adds sub-device support and Jinja2 template expressions, and introduces LoRa hardware support.