Hello everyone 
Gladys Assistant 5.1.2 is available! A version focused on a recurring topic: database size. You can now see at a glance which devices are filling up the history, and how much space each feature takes up 
« Devices » Page: Identify Chatty Devices
Some devices send their status every few seconds (e.g., a plug that continuously reports its power). If history is enabled, they can alone represent most of your database, without you needing it.
The Devices page now highlights them:
- A banner indicates how many devices are « very chatty » and what share of the last 24 hoursâ history they represent.
- A button allows you to show only these devices, which have a « Very Chatty » badge. Hovering over the badge shows the number of recorded states and the features involved.
- A device is flagged when one of its features records at least 1,440 states in 24 hours, i.e., on average at least one state per minute.
- A new sort option « Sort by Most Chatty » ranks all your devices by the number of states recorded in the last 24 hours.
The Size of Each Featureâs History
On a deviceâs page, next to the « Keep state history? » switch, Gladys now displays the number of states stored for each feature and an estimate of the space occupied.
You can immediately see which feature is worth being historized and which takes up a lot of space for little benefit. When you disable the history of a feature, its states are deleted from the database, and the number is updated.
This is available on the device pages of integrations (Zigbee2mqtt, MQTT, external integrationsâŠ).
Gladys Updates: Clearer Errors
When Gladys update failed to download the new Docker image, the error message remained vague. Gladys now displays the real cause:
- Out of disk space: The message clearly states this and explains how to free up space (e.g., with
docker image prune -a, which removes images not used by any container). - Download too slow: It is stopped after 15 minutes, without making any changes to your installation.
- Other error: The error returned by Docker is displayed as is, to allow diagnosis (and to share it with us on the forum if needed
).
Security
- The location history of a user, and the API that reports them as present in a house, are now restricted to the user themselves or an administrator.
Project Side
- The repository now has a
MAINTAINERS.mdfile and aCODEOWNERS, and the release workflows are separated. - Third-party GitHub actions used by the CI are pinned to a specific version, and the permissions of the jobs are reduced to the bare minimum.
Update
The update is done as usual from Settings â System, or automatically if you have enabled automatic updates.
Full details of the changes: Release v5.1.2 · GladysAssistant/Gladys · GitHub
Feel free to tell us what you find on your installation: which devices are the chattiest for you? 
And thank you all for continuing to report what you encounter 
