2024.10: Introduction

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+Boo! 👻
 
-**Welcome to the beta release notes for Home Assistant 2024.10** 🎉
+Please don’t be scared; it is October, Halloween is coming, and so is the next
+Home Assistant release: 2024.10! 🎃
 
-<br />
+The release we bring you today is a perfect mix of new UI features, advanced
+features, improvements, and lots of bug fixes while not being too overwhelming.
+There is something for everyone in this release.
 
-Please note that these release notes are a work in progress. 👷‍♀️ We will be
+Most notably, we have a brand new heading card. It allows you to add titles or
-completing them over the next couple of days. Not all features might be final
+subtitles to your dashboards, make them clickable, and even add cute little
-yet, and some features _**may not** make it into the final release_.
+entities to them. The new section dashboard gets better and better with every
+release, which is super exciting!
 
-<br />
+We also introduce some small YAML automation syntax changes. If you are still
+a sucker for writing your automations in YAML (like me), I’m sure you’ll love
+these little tweaks that make it all feel more natural.
 
-**Want to help test the beta?** Awesome! ❤️ We have documented how you
+Enjoy the release!
-[can join our beta channel and install the beta here](/common-tasks/os/#running-a-beta-version).
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-<br />
-
-While running the beta, we highly recommend joining our _#beta_ channel on
-the [Home Assistant Discord chat](/join-chat)! 💬 Most developers and beta
-testers are in this channel during the beta period to share experiences, ideas,
-and iterate over new features, fine-tuning them before the final release.
-It's a really fun place to hang out. 😎
-
-<br />
-
-**Reporting issues**: As this is a beta test, you might encounter unexpected
-behavior or issues. 🐞 We use the GitHub issue tracker to track beta issues.
-You can find our issue trackers and the reported issues during beta here:
-
-<br />
-
-- [Report(ed) beta **dashboards/UI/frontend** issues](https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/milestone/124)
-- [Report(ed) beta **integrations/automations/backend/core** issues](https://github.com/home-assistant/core/milestone/695)
-- [Report(ed) beta **documentation** issues](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/milestone/131)
-
-🙏 When reporting issues, **make sure to mention the exact beta version you are
-running** in the issue description. This will help us identify and track the
-issue correctly. Read more about [reporting issues here](/help/reporting_issues/).
-
-<br />
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-Issues introduced in the beta are processed with priority. 🔝
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-Don't forget to [join our release party live stream on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X2-encNyrA)
-2 October 2024, at 20:00 GMT / 12:00 PST / 21:00 CEST!
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-Home Assistant 2024.10! 🎉
-
-Enjoy the (beta) release!
 
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