Matter 1.6.1: release status, what changed and certified devices
Matter 1.6.1 is the newest version on the specifications page of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), which lists its Core, Application Clusters, Device Type Library and Standard Name Space specifications above Matter 1.6. The CSA has not announced it: as of November 12, 2026, its newsroom has no Matter 1.6.1 item and a search of its website finds "Matter 1.6.1" only on that specifications page. So Matter 1.6.1 has no release date, and the CSA has not said what it changed. The latest release the CSA announced is Matter 1.6, on June 17, 2026. No certification on the CSA ledger states Matter 1.6.1 yet (November 2026). The newest version any certificate states is Matter 1.6 (1 model, first certified on October 16, 2026).
- released
- Not announced
- certified models
- 0
- certificates
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- first certified
- None yet
What the CSA has published about Matter 1.6.1
The CSA's specifications page (re-read November 12, 2026) lists four Matter 1.6.1 documents: “Matter 1.6.1 Core Specification”, “Matter 1.6.1 Application Clusters Specification”, “Matter 1.6.1 Device Type Library Specification” and “Matter 1.6.1 Standard Name Space Specification”. Its newsroom has no Matter 1.6.1 announcement; its newest items are about Zigbee 4.0. A search of the CSA's website for "Matter 1.6.1" finds only the specifications page (search). The CSA has not said what this release changed, so we list nothing it added. We will add its date and changes when the CSA announces it.
Is there a Matter 1.7? Not as of November 12, 2026: the specifications page lists none and a search of the CSA’s website for "Matter 1.7" finds nothing.
Devices certified on Matter 1.6.1: none yet
No certificate on the CSA ledger states Matter 1.6.1 yet (November 2026). The newest version any certificate states is Matter 1.6; those devices are below.
The newest certified version: Matter 1.6, by device type
1 certified product model has a certificate on Matter 1.6 (1 certificate) from 1 company; for 1 of them it is the highest version they are certified on. By network: Ethernet 1. On MatterCatalog: 0.
| Device type | Models |
|---|---|
| Hubs | 1 |
Newest devices certified on Matter 1.6
The one certified model, with the CSA certificate that states Matter 1.6.
| Certified | Product | Models | Company on the ledger | Device type | Network | CSA certificate | On MatterCatalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 16, 2026 | Pandora Edge | 1 | Nanjing Lingkemi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | Aggregator (bridge) | Ethernet | CSA26560MAT56104-00 | – |
Every Matter version and its certified devices
From the same ledger read (November 2026). The latest version and what each release added are on the Matter versions page.
| Release | Released | Certificates | Models certified on it | Models with it as their highest | First certified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matter 1.6.1 | Not announced by the CSA | 0 | 0 | 0 | None yet |
| Matter 1.6 | June 17, 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | October 16, 2026 |
| Matter 1.5.1 | March 31, 2026 | 155 | 155 | 155 | April 30, 2026 |
| Matter 1.5 | November 20, 2025 | 876 | 873 | 873 | January 30, 2026 |
| Matter 1.4.2 | August 11, 2025 | 454 | 453 | 452 | December 3, 2025 |
| Matter 1.4.1 | May 7, 2025 | 474 | 468 | 468 | July 7, 2025 |
| Matter 1.4 | November 7, 2024 | 5,433 | 5,300 | 5,282 | January 16, 2025 |
| Matter 1.3 | May 8, 2024 | 3,047 | 2,774 | 2,618 | June 27, 2024 |
| Matter 1.2 | October 23, 2023 | 1,500 | 1,420 | 942 | November 6, 2023 |
| Matter 1.1 | May 18, 2023 | 1,012 | 994 | 780 | July 11, 2023 |
| Matter 1.0 | October 4, 2022 | 2,706 | 2,621 | 1,558 | October 24, 2022 |
Where these facts come from
Release dates are the Connectivity Standards Alliance's announcement dates (its announcements, read October 20, 2026). Its specifications page, its newsroom, its site search and the Matter 1.6 and 1.4.2 announcements were re-read on November 12, 2026, and each is linked where it is used. Counts: the CSA Distributed Compliance Ledger, which MatterCatalog reads every day; this page is rebuilt from each read. Each certificate's ledger record states the Matter specification version of the firmware it certifies (its specificationVersion field). A model is one vendor ID and product ID; it can hold several certificates on different versions, so it can count under more than one version in "Models certified on it", and counts once, under its highest version, in "Models with it as their highest" (the rule our Matter versions explainer uses). Device types are the ledger's (or the CSA's certified-product listing when the ledger has none). MatterCatalog does not test devices and is not affiliated with the CSA. The numbers are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.