hermes-agent Releases

This major release (The Herald Release) introduces streaming conversational voice with barge-in and wake words, outbound webhooks with signed events, and grounded citations with fact-checking. The desktop app becomes a platform with artifacts and a plugin SDK, and the CLI gains powerful commands like `!`, `/init`, `/diff`, and `/focus`. It also features A2A v1.0 protocol, self-recovering tools, advanced compression, and new platforms like Buzz/Nostr.

Aug 3, 2026

This patch release rolls up ~1,000+ PRs since v0.19.0, dominated by bug-fix and salvage waves across the gateway, voice subsystem, desktop app, and installer. It includes platform work for Buzz/Nostr channel, FLUX3 video generation and delivery, and Telegram media reliability improvements.

Jul 30, 2026

This release includes bug fixes for PowerPoint notes slides and command-line input decoding, alongside a new feature to preserve Excel drawing elements.

Jul 28, 2026

This major release (The Quicksilver Release) dramatically improves speed with an 80% cut to first-turn time-to-token and live reasoning streams. It introduces terminal billing (`/subscription`, `/topup`), smart approvals as the default, Bitwarden and 1Password secret sources, live subagent transcripts with durable background delegation, and a delivery-obligation ledger. It also adds new providers (Fireworks, DeepInfra) and models (GPT-5.6, grok-4.5, kimi-k3).

Jul 20, 2026

This patch release addresses a dependency issue with the WhatsApp bridge by unpining the Baileys library from a specific git commit to a published npm version, ensuring reliable installs and Docker builds.

Jul 8, 2026

This patch release aggregates approximately 660 PRs merged since v0.18.0, focusing on bug fixes, hardening, and stability work to provide a stable tagged release for downstream consumers.

Jul 8, 2026

This release resolves 100% of P0 and P1 issues. Major additions include Mixture-of-Agents as a first-class model, verification contracts for `/goal`, and self-improvement tools like `/learn` and `/journey`. The gateway gained scale-to-zero capabilities, and the desktop app received first-class coding projects.

Jul 1, 2026

Expands Hermes' reach with new platforms like iMessage (via Photon) and Raft. The desktop app matured significantly, and the dashboard gained a full profile builder. Subagents can now run in the background, and image generation supports editing.

Jun 19, 2026

This release focuses on dependency updates and addresses a specific bug preventing DOCX file uploads during the guest signing process.

Jun 17, 2026

A major update introducing new attachment widgets and API parameters, alongside significant improvements to validation, error handling, and user authorization.

Jun 17, 2026

This release updates PocketBase, removing a strict validator for OAuth2 redirect URLs and enabling sorting by implicit relation fields, along with general UI and dependency updates.

Jun 14, 2026

Maintenance release focusing on Android application stability, the introduction of FreeBSD prebuilts, and general bug fixes.

Jun 10, 2026

Updated the SDK to make the 'sharp' library an optional peer dependency, reducing installation footprint for browser and ImageData users while maintaining functionality for CLI users.

Jun 8, 2026

Published the '@pilio/gemini-watermark-remover' package to npm, allowing downstream applications to consume the latest Gemini watermark detection improvements without vendoring the core implementation.

Jun 8, 2026

Bug fix release addressing UI control issues including file settings validation, keyboard shortcuts, and number input validation errors.

Jun 8, 2026

Core update to the Gemini watermark removal algorithm involving a rework of position and alpha candidate selection, inclusion of artifact scoring, and official Chrome extension package updates.

Jun 8, 2026

Enhanced watermark removal capabilities to support a newly observed 48px watermark variant, prioritizing a weak-alpha chain while maintaining legacy support for older watermark formats.

Jun 7, 2026

Bug fix release focusing on records list sorting, date input behavior, file watching optimization, and a database version update.

Jun 7, 2026

Introduces the native Hermes Desktop app and transforms the web dashboard into a full admin panel. Features include a Simplified Chinese translation, leaner default skills, and a fuzzy model picker across all interfaces.

Jun 6, 2026

Improved Chrome extension UX by adding version identification to the popup and optimizing image session state management to prevent unnecessary re-processing of refreshed images.

Jun 4, 2026