# openHAB 5.1 Release

DevFeed: [openHAB 5.1 Release](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/openhab-5-1-release-16736.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://openhab.org/blog/2025-12-22-openhab-5-1-release.html>)

Published: 2025-12-22T19:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [openHAB](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/openhab.md>)

Topics: [Release notes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/release-notes.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>), [Homekit](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/homekit.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>)

Tags: [apple](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apple.md>), [bug-fixes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug-fixes.md>), [features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/features.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [release-notes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release-notes.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>)

## AI overview

openHAB 5.1 is a release featuring a modernized Main UI, a HomeKit Binding for importing Apple-ecosystem devices, and updates to JavaScript and Python Scripting. It also includes enhancements, bug fixes, breaking changes, and an upgrade script. The supplied text reports 124 contributors and 1,967 commits during the release period.

## Source excerpt

But that's not all! Following the release of openHAB 5.0 this summer, this release includes many enhancements and bug fixes. Several changes of the openHAB 5.1 release are "under the hood", but often those are the important changes that make our codebase ready for the future, so openHAB can continue to develop steadily.