developers.home-assistant/blog/2024-09-28-update-version-compare.md

author	authorURL	title
Simone Chemelli	https://github.com/chemelli74	Version compare for Update platform can now be overwritten

With the merge of core PR #124797, which will land in Home Assistant Core 2024.10, there is a new method in the update platform: version_is_newer().

Before this change, the compare logic between firmware installed version, new available version and beta version was hardcoded:

def version_is_newer(self, latest_version: str, installed_version: str) -> bool:
    """Return True if latest_version is newer than installed_version."""
    return AwesomeVersion(latest_version) > installed_version

Now the new method allows developers to customize this comparison, writing their own method. Here's an example (implemented for Shelly gen1 devices):

def version_is_newer(self, latest_version: str, installed_version: str) -> bool:
    """Return True if available version is newer then installed version."""
    return AwesomeVersion(
        latest_version,
        find_first_match=True,
        ensure_strategy=[AwesomeVersionStrategy.SEMVER],
    ) > AwesomeVersion(
        installed_version,
        find_first_match=True,
        ensure_strategy=[AwesomeVersionStrategy.SEMVER],
    )