From 4f95ffaa1f1628a8f433fd795672316058a61bc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:49:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [network] Remove deprecated IPAddress::str() from the host
 build (#19528)

---
 esphome/components/network/ip_address.h | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/esphome/components/network/ip_address.h b/esphome/components/network/ip_address.h
index 28f83cc4fa..3b0621d1f3 100644
--- a/esphome/components/network/ip_address.h
+++ b/esphome/components/network/ip_address.h
@@ -147,15 +147,6 @@ struct IPAddress {
     }
     return (ntohl(this->ip_addr_.u_addr.ip4.s_addr) & 0xF0000000UL) == 0xE0000000UL;
   }
-  // Remove before 2026.8.0
-  ESPDEPRECATED(
-      "str() is deprecated: use 'char buf[IP_ADDRESS_BUFFER_SIZE]; ip.str_to(buf);' instead. Removed in 2026.8.0",
-      "2026.2.0")
-  std::string str() const {
-    char buf[IP_ADDRESS_BUFFER_SIZE];
-    this->str_to(buf);
-    return buf;
-  }
   char *str_to(char *buf) const {
     if (this->ip_addr_.type == IPADDR_TYPE_V6) {
       inet_ntop(AF_INET6, &this->ip_addr_.u_addr.ip6, buf, IP_ADDRESS_BUFFER_SIZE);