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title: "2025.2 Beta: Iterating on backups"
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description: "Beta release notes for Home Assistant 2025.2"
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date: 2024-12-28 00:00:00
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date: 2025-01-29 00:00:00
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date_formatted: "February 5, 2025"
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author: Franck Nijhof
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author_twitter: frenck
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@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ Enjoy the (beta) release!
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- [Backup on updating Home Assistant](#backup-on-updating-home-assistant)
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- [Backup on updating add-ons](#backup-on-updating-add-ons)
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- [Improved filenames for backups](#improved-filenames-for-backups)
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- [Voice](#voice)
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- [Integrations](#integrations)
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- [New integrations](#new-integrations)
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- [Noteworthy improvements to existing integrations](#noteworthy-improvements-to-existing-integrations)
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#### Ability to turn off encryption for specific locations
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While our default, an recommendation remains to encrypt backups, as of this
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While our default recommendation remains to encrypt backups, as of this
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release, you can turn off encryption on a per location basis. This allows you
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to store backups on, for example, you local NAS, in an unencrypted format.
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to store backups on you local NAS, for example, in an unencrypted format.
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There is one exception to this, which is Home Assistant Cloud. Backups stored
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in Home Assistant Cloud will always be encrypted, and cannot be turned off.
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#### Downloading backups unencrypted
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Downloading backups from the Home Assistant interface, will now always download
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the backup in an unencrypted format, that can be extracted using your favorite
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Downloading backups from the Home Assistant interface will now always download
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the backup in an unencrypted format that can be extracted using your favorite
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archive tool.
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This works for all backups, regardless of the encryption setting of the location
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they are stored in. So, if you download an encrypted backup from Home Assistant
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Cloud through the Home Assistant interface, will decrypt the backup on the fly
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Cloud through the Home Assistant interface, it will decrypt the backup on the fly
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while you download it.
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### Customize the time of your backups
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The initial iteration of the backup system, scheduled backups to run at 4:45 AM.
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And this time, wasn't ideal for everyone. Some, for example, turned of their
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The initial iteration of the backup system scheduled backups to run at 4:45 AM.
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And this time, wasn't ideal for everyone. Some, for example, turned off their
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NAS systems during the night, meaning the backup would fail.
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This release, we added the ability to customize the time of your backups to your
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### Taking backups on an advanced schedule
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The above backup time changes not enough for you? Well, you are in luck! This
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The above backup time changes not flexible enough for you? Well, you are in luck! This
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release, we added an action (`backup.automated_backup`) which you can use
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to trigger a backup in an automation.
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#### Backup on updating Home Assistant
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When updating Home Assistant, the toggle is now turned off by defaults and
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When updating Home Assistant, the toggle is now turned off by default and
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shows the last time you made a backup. This gives you a clear indication of
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when you last made a backup, and gives you the ability to decide if you want
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to make a new one before updating.
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If you turn the switch on, a full automated backuped is created and synced to
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If you turn the switch on, a full automated backup is created and synced to
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your configured locations, before the update is started.
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This full sync is done to ensure you have the latest backup available in case
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the update fails, and you need to restore your system. If an Home Assistant
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the update fails, and you need to restore your system. If a Home Assistant
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update would fatally fail, you'd wouldn't have an interface to download or
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restore a backup from; hence this path is put in place.
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backups stored on backup locations, have been very cryptic and hard to
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understand for humans.
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This feedback was fair, as the filename was an hash and originally not designed
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to be human readable. This method was not newly introduced last release, but
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I guess it became more apparent with the new backup system.
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This feedback was fair, as the filename was a hash and originally not designed
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to be human readable. This method was not newly introduced last release, but it was made more apparent to us with the new backup system.
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So, this release, we've improved the filenames of the backups stored on your
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backup locations. The filename now includes the date and time the backup was
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created, making it easier to understand and identify the backup you are looking
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for, even outside of Home Assistant.
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## Voice
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Assist, our [private voice assistant](/voice_control/), is getting a few new features in this release. So let's talk about them!
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### New Broadcast intent
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You can now broadcast messages to every other voice assistant in your home.
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Try it by saying "Broadcast it is time for dinner".
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As always with new intents, support may vary depending on your language, but our language leaders are working hard on making sure it will be supported soon in your language!
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### Setting Temperature on Thermostat
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A few releases ago we introduced an intent to get a climate current temperature.
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As of this release, you can also set the target temperature of your thermostat by voice.
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Try it by saying "Set the temperature to 19 degrees"
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This will smartly target the area you are in (If you have a thermostat per area, such as thermostatic valves on your radiators) or the floor you are in (If you only have a central unit). You can also target specific devices by name if you prefer.
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### LLMs meet calendars
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Without complex custom tooling, LLM-based conversation agents previously could not fetch events from your calendar. This release changes that. Out of the box, LLM-based agents can now retrieve today’s and this week’s events from any of your calendars. Don’t forget to [expose your calendar entities](## LLMs meet calendars
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Without complex custom tooling, LLM-based conversation agents previously could not fetch events from your calendar. This release changes that. Out of the box, LLM-based agents can now retrieve today’s and this week’s events from any of your calendars. Don’t forget to [expose your calendar entities](/voice_control/voice_remote_expose_devices/) to enable this functionality.) to enable this functionality.
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### Shared history between the default conversation agent and its LLM-based fallback
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In [2024.12](/blog/2024/12/04/release-202412/) we introduced a lovely feature that allowed you to use our fast and local default conversation agent for most queries, and yet be able to fall back to a much more powerful LLM-based agent for more complex queries.
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This introduced some interesting behaviors. From a user perspective, it looked like you were talking to the same assistant, whereas, in reality, nothing was shared between the two agents.
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This led to some less-than-optimal scenarios, such as this one:
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<img>
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The first command is processed locally by our default agent, but the follow-up request is processed by the LLM-based agent, since no memory is shared, it does not understand what device you want to turn off.
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Starting with this release, both agents now share the same command history, fixing completely this issue.
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<img>
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### Model Context Protocol
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[Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) is here. Users can now integrate Home Assistant into their AI tools that support MCP, and integrate MCP servers as tools in Home Assistant.
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### Home Assistant will be able to call your analog phone to tell you a message.
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The [VoIP](/integrations/voip/) integration will now be able to call your phone and tell you a message! Using the [`assist_satellite.announce`](/integrations/assist_satellite#action-assist_satelliteannounce) you can play a message when some one picks up the phone.
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## Integrations
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Thanks to our community for keeping pace with the new {% term integrations %}
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Monitor your [LetPot indoor garden].
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- **[Overseerr]**, added by [@joostlek]
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Interact with your [Overseerr media requests] directly from Home Assistant.
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- **[Model Context Protocol Server]**, added by [@allenporter]
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Enables using Home Assistant to provide context for MCP LLM Client Applications. For example, you can expose your Google Tasks To-do list as a tool for Claude Desktop.
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- **[Model Context Protocol]**, added by [@allenporter]
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Enables using [MCP Servers] in Home Assistant for providing additional tools to use with a conversation agent.
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- **[Qbus]**, added by [@Qbus-iot]
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Allows you to integrate your [Qbus Control] into Home Assistant.
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This release also has a new virtual integration. Virtual integrations are stubs that are handled by other (existing) integrations to help with discoverability. These ones are new:
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- **[Decorquip Dream]**, provided by [Motionblinds] added by [@starkillerOG]
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[@joostlek]: https://github.com/joostlek
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[@jpelgrom]: https://github.com/jpelgrom
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[@keithle888]: https://github.com/keithle888
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[@Taraman17]: https://github.com/Taraman17
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[@allenporter]: https://github.com/allenporter
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[@starkillerOG]: https://github.com/starkillerOG
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[@Qbus-iot]: https://github.com/Qbus-iot
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[Homee smart home system]: https://hom.ee/
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[Homee]: /integrations/homee
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[iglooco smart access device(s)]: https://www.igloohome.co/#products
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[LetPot]: /integrations/letpot
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[Overseerr media requests]: https://overseerr.dev/
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[Overseerr]: /integrations/overseerr
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**TODO: These still need to be formatted in the list above**
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- Add the Model Context Protocol Server integration ([@allenporter] - [#134122]) ([mcp_server docs]) (new-integration)
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- Add the Model Context Protocol integration ([@allenporter] - [#135058]) ([mcp docs]) (new-integration)
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- Add Decorquip virtual motion blinds integration ([@starkillerOG] - [#134402]) ([decorquip docs]) (new-integration)
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- Add new integration Qbus ([@Qbus-iot] - [#127280]) ([qbus docs]) (new-integration)
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[Model Context Protocol]: /integrations/mcp
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[Model Context Protocol Server]: /integrations/mcp_server
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[MCP Servers]: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
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[Qbus Control]: https://www.qbus.be/
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[Qbus]: /integrations/qbus/
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[Decorquip Dream]: /integrations/decorquip/
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[Motionblinds]: /integrations/motion_blinds
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### Noteworthy improvements to existing integrations
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integrations are also being constantly improved. Here are some of the noteworthy
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changes to existing integrations:
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- Add support for Shelly BLU TRV ([@chemelli74] - [#128439]) ([shelly docs]) (noteworthy)
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- Add humidifier entity for Vesync devices ([@iprak] - [#134333]) ([vesync docs]) (new-platform) (noteworthy)
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- Add vesync number platform ([@iprak] - [#135564]) ([vesync docs]) (new-platform) (noteworthy)
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- Initial implementation for tplink tapo vacuums ([@rytilahti] - [#131965]) ([tplink docs]) (new-platform) (noteworthy)
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- Support for the [Shelly] BLU TRV was added by [@chemelli74]!
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- There is now support for humidifiers and numbers for [Vesync] devices! Thanks [@iprak]!
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- [@rytilahti] added support for [TP-Link Tapo] Robovacs.
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[@chemelli74]: https://github.com/chemelli74
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[Shelly]: /integrations/shelly
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[@iprak]: https://github.com/iprak
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[Vesync]: /integrations/vesync
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[@rytilahti]: https://github.com/rytilahti
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[TP Link Tapo]: /integrations/tplink
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### Now available to set up from the UI
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## Other noteworthy changes
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There are many more improvements in this release; here are some of the other
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noteworthy changes this release:
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- The [Lorem ipsum] integration now supports slipsum! Thanks [@frenck]!
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[@frenck]: https://github.com/frenck
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[Lorem ipsum]: /integrations/lorem_ipsum
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## Lorem ipsum
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lorem ipsum
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