## home-assistant/core — 2026.9.2…2026.9.3

_27 commits._

### Features
- **Validate username during onboarding before creating a new user (#182320)** (571c756)

### Fixes
- **Fix duplicate devices in Airthings BLE on incomplete read (#182417)** (a237cd3)
- **Fix IMAP custom data event template option not reset when cleared (#182377)** (55528d1)
- **Fix missing f-string prefix in wiz error message (#182363)** (4220346)
- **Fix Spotify reauth crash when config entry data lacks "id" (#182290)** (100c365)
- **Fix Alexa doorbell raises error in state report becase the return status is NO_CONTENT (#182209)** (9e82a44)
- **Fix Google Tasks error handling on DNS failure (#182195)** (437b142)
- **Fix Matter cover entity not created when tilt attribute is null for Shelly devices (#182042)** (55d63eb)
- **Fix function name in external statistics mean_type message (#182031)** (b190a5b)
- **Fix EnergyZero market price regression (#181230)** (220d255)

### Backend
- **2026.9.3 (#182582)** (6de5eb1)
- **Bump version to 2026.9.3** (a5b4e2c)
- **Bump reolink_aio to 0.21.17 (#182472)** (c0f2e34)
- **Bump aioamazondevices to 16.3.0 (#182438)** (a58cb2e)
- **bump aioamazondevices to 15.2.0 (#182204)** (d6f35bd)
- **Log exception when api fails in WAQI (#182419)** (08c967c)
- **Redact the AirVisual API key in debug logging (#182280)** (258fb3e)
- **Bump waterfurnace to 1.9.7 (#182263)** (41cfabd)
- **Bump waterfurnace to 1.9.2 (#182019)** (1e3e12a)
- **Encrypt and decrypt supervisor.tar in backup rewrites (#182220)** (15042a8)
- **Bump hassil to 3.12.1 (#182213)** (7d87c2b)
- **Increase Hot Spring polling interval to 60 seconds (#182150)** (3b972d4)
- **Make Nest climate turn_on idempotent (#182086)** (aa43dbd)
- **Bump pylutron to 0.4.4 (#182049)** (adacc0e)
- **Bump holidays to 0.104 (#182044)** (bc36c5f)
- **Keep the known Bond host when zeroconf still announces it (#181975)** (863a46d)
- **Require the IRK in the Private BLE Device config flow (#181969)** (e77bfce)

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