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-These are the beta release notes for Home Assistant Core 2023.1 (and is thus a
-work in progress).
+Happy New Year! 🍾
-If you encounter any issues with the beta release, please report them on GitHub:
+We wish you, and all the loved ones around you, all the best for 2023! 🥂
-- Issues with integrations, automations and such (Core related):
-
-- Issues with the frontend/Lovelace:
-
-- Issues with the Supervisor:
-
-- Issues with the documentation:
-
+2023: What an exciting year this will be; [The year of the voice](/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/)!
+And not just that, many exciting things are expected this year. More spoilers
+can be found in the [State of the Open Home 2022](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D936T1Ze8-4)
+recording on YouTube.
-Please be sure to include the beta version you are running in the issue
-version field (not title), so we can classify your issue correctly.
+Starting this amazing year with: Home Assistant Core 2023.1! 🎊
-Issues introduced in the beta are processed with priority.
+A fairly small release, as we all enjoyed our Holidays. Yet, the first traces
+of the voice project is already visible: support for entity aliases!
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-
+Still, this release contains over 500 changes, most of which are
+quality improvements, bug and stability fixes, and other minor improvements.
+The perfect release to start the year with, an easy upgrade worth doing.
-Home Assistant Core 2023.1! 🥂 🍾
-
-I have nothing to tell yet... this is still all beta!
-
-This is a fairly small release, as we all enjoy our Holidays a bit as well.
-Still, some nice little additions and tons of QA/bugfixes this release.
-
-Thanks for helping out testing the beta! ❤️
-
-Enjoy the (beta) release!
+Enjoy the release!
../Frenck
+PS: Did you know [Home Assistant is now on Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@homeassistant) too?
+
- [The year of the voice!](#the-year-of-the-voice)