Merge pull request #5840 from esphome/bump-2025.12.4

2025.12.4

Author: swoboda1337

content/changelog/2025.12.0.md

@@ -297,6 +297,17 @@ For detailed migration guides and API documentation, see the [ESPHome Developers
 
 <!-- markdownlint-disable MD013 -->
 
+## Release 2025.12.4 - December 31
+
+<details>
+<summary></summary>
+
+- [hub75] Add clipping check [esphome#12762](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/12762) by [@stuartparmenter](https://github.com/stuartparmenter)
+- [wifi] Fix ESP-IDF reporting connected before DHCP completes on reconnect [esphome#12755](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/12755) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
+- [docker] Add build-essential to fix ruamel.yaml 0.19.0 compilation [esphome#12769](https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/12769) by [@bdraco](https://github.com/bdraco)
+
+</details>
+
 ## Release 2025.12.3 - December 30
 
 <details>

content/guides/supporters.md

@@ -2309,4 +2309,4 @@ ESPHome was originally founded by [Otto Winter (@OttoWinter)](https://github.com
 - [Christian Zufferey (@zuzu59)](https://github.com/zuzu59)
 - [Zynth-dev (@Zynth-dev)](https://github.com/Zynth-dev)
 
-*This page was last updated December 30, 2025.*
+*This page was last updated December 31, 2025.*

data/version.yaml

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-release: 2025.12.3
+release: 2025.12.4
 version: '2025.12'