# home assistant 2026.9

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## Home Assistant 2026.9 Adds Security Alerts and Removes the VLC Integration

DevFeed: [Home Assistant 2026.9 Adds Security Alerts and Removes the VLC Integration](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/home-assistant-2026-9-adds-security-alerts-and-removes-the-vlc-integration-10722.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://selfhostlab.io/home-assistant-2026-9-security-alerts-vlc-removed/>)

Author: Christian Rakoot

Published: 2026-09-03T06:30:38Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Self Host Lab](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/self-host-lab.md>)

Topics: [Home Assistant](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/home-assistant.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/accessibility.md>), [VLC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vlc-media-player.md>)

Tags: [accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility.md>), [home-assistant-2026-9](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/home-assistant-2026-9.md>), [home-automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/home-automation.md>), [home-automation-news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/home-automation-news.md>), [integrations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integrations.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [september-2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/september-2026.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>)

### AI overview

Home Assistant 2026.9 is a stable release that adds conditional security alerts, favorites, shared filtering for History and Activity, accessibility improvements for charts, and a shared-bus Modbus foundation. The release also includes breaking changes, including removal of the VLC integration.

### Source excerpt

Home Assistant 2026.9, "There's room on this bus," is now the stable release. The Security dashboard gains an Active alerts section that only appears when something needs attention, History and Activity share a new Sources panel, and Modbus gets a shared-bus rework. Several breaking changes deserve a read first, starting with the removal of the VLC integration.