hermes-agent Releases

This is a patch release (v0.21.3) that stabilizes remote Desktop and Cloud deployments by fixing session expiration bugs related to refresh token rotation and resolving state database handle leaks in long-running processes.

Sep 14, 2026

This patch release (v0.21.2) addresses critical reliability issues in the `state.db` introduced in v0.21.0, specifically fixing concurrent writer conflicts and corrupt database reporting. It introduces new features like a password-blind credential vault and a curated plugin catalog, alongside significant hardening of multi-profile isolation.

Sep 11, 2026

This patch release aggregates significant changes from the main branch since v0.21.0, focusing on codebase modularization, performance optimizations, and reliability improvements. It includes updates to providers and models, along with enhancements to desktop session controls and MCP authorization.

Sep 7, 2026

This release, titled 'The Pantheon Release,' introduces Bot Mode as a default desktop feature, enabling a society of agents with group chats and avatars. It enhances agent capabilities with persistent memory for cron jobs, live subagent steering, and a unified MCP command center, alongside new model providers and significant security hardening.

Aug 31, 2026

This patch release rolls up ~525 PRs featuring consent-gated real-profile Chromium browsing, a desktop Browser with OS window and managed SSH remote-update engine, and a large remote MCP catalog expansion with 50+ live-verified servers. It also includes TTL result caching, OS-keychain encryption for secrets, multi-query tool_search, and new models.

Aug 27, 2026

This patch release rolls up ~323 PRs including Bot Mode group-room threads, foldable conversation summaries, blob-face avatars, PDF/file attachments with drag & drop, and a keyless web tier with 5-vendor free rotation. It also features CLI polish (fuzzy /model picker, Ctrl+P command palette, richer /status), execution-discipline and runtime stall guards, and cron jobs gaining persistent memory.

Aug 21, 2026

This patch release rolls up ~74 PRs featuring desktop glass/translucency surface work, a tabbed SESSIONS|BOTS sidebar with per-bot hide/unhide, and Bot Mode group-chat fixes. It also includes NVIDIA SkillEvaluator Tier 1 advisory scanning, cron media-send hardening, SessionDB event-loop-thread fixes, and kanban native OS notifications.

Aug 18, 2026

This patch release rolls up ~125 PRs including MCP 2.x SDK migration and 2026-07-28 stateless protocol support, a bundled Bot Mode (hermes-bots) plugin, and subprocess Python runtime ownership hardening. It also features Cua Driver 0.20 runtime contracts, kanban worktree/dispatch fixes, cron continuity flags, desktop remote-gateway headers and connection self-healing, and session handoff data-loss fixes.

Aug 17, 2026

This patch release rolls up ~397 PRs featuring desktop multi-gateway Connections registry, profile-scoped refreshes and MCP health checks, and CLI Windows update probes. It also includes Kitty keyboard protocol, chat `-c` hardening, persisted model routes, /loop completion, Telegram DM topics, prompt caching for LiteLLM Claude, cron hardening, and installer robustness on Linux and Windows.

Aug 16, 2026

This patch release rolls up ~656 PRs since v0.20.0, serving as a broad stabilization-and-fixes rollup. It touches the desktop app, gateway platforms, installers, tool system, and provider catalogs to improve stability and performance across the ecosystem.

Aug 13, 2026

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 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

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

A minor bug fix release addressing packaging issues with bundled plugin.yaml manifests in wheel and sdist.

May 29, 2026

A hotfix release fixing a dashboard reload loop and Docker configuration issues.

May 29, 2026