Luke The Dev(@iamlukethedev):Hermes merged 190 PRs on November 2 The ones worth knowing: - The gateway no longer freezes every minute for memory trims, and gateway and serve stop hoarding free memory across ~160 malloc arenas - Grok Bot and OpenBot users can move to Hermes from setup, and hermes migrate <agent> installs the importer for you - Each Desktop terminal tab now owns its own gateway, and SSH gateways list every profile at launch - Old phone app chats now continue in Desktop instead of opening read only - Desktop renders mermaid diagrams with Pele instead of mermaid.js, so they draw faster - A transient 401 on a valid Nous agent key no longer kills your turn in about 1.5 seconds - The local web server (Webapp, dashboard, serve) now trusts only the bound loopback origin for CORS and WebSockets - MCP servers started for a profile use that profile's home, and recovered MCP servers show up in new sessions without /reload-mcp - Slack gets an opt in thread_followup_silence setting for unaddressed thread replies - A killed update no longer leaves lock files behind that block the next update - Background /bg results and async delegation completions now reliably reach the right chat - Over 100 plugin catalog adds and bumps, including the Fortytwo model provider, Upstash Box terminal backend and bubblewrap sandboxed file tools Here is the full list: DESKTOP IMPROVEMENTS (21 PRs) - perf(desktop): render mermaid fences with Pele instead of mermaid.js - fix(desktop): gateway pins stay with the gateway that owns them - fix(desktop): gateway picks keep the batched sidebar read and the user's draft route - refactor(desktop): name the relay-lease vs pinned-open predicates; count kept-route holders - fix(desktop): the gateway keeper checks the route it keeps, stops re-probing This device, and batches the launch list refreshes - fix(desktop): drop python-docx's unzipped template so MakeAppx can pack the Windows MSIX - test(desktop): remote-topology allows This device's kept gateway; the chat still goes remote - Desktop status bar shows each session's own cache hit and t/s on switch - Capabilities switches now say On/Off instead of the confusing Enable/Disable - Plugin package switch no longer says On while its Desktop half is off - Old phone-app chats continue in Desktop instead of opening read-only - fix(desktop): the approval chip on a remote-only profile reads that gateway, not a local backend - fix(desktop): the launch restore never closes a chat the person opened - fix(desktop): publish the request connection and its profile together - test(desktop): kept-gateway redial test passes under CI load - fix(desktop): SSH gateways list every profile at launch and switch without a per-profile remote backend - fix(desktop): every gateway's sessions stay visible in Gateway & profile and Project grouping - fix(desktop): a launch that fell back never switches gateways on its own; This window shows the window's gateway - fix(desktop): boot every primary on a profile its gateway serves - fix(desktop): start on a profile the selected remote gateway actually has - feat(desktop): each terminal tab owns its gateway VOICE & REAL-TIME (5 PRs) - feat(catalog): add breeze-tts, a Breeze Blue TTS provider - plugin-catalog: fish-audio v1.9.0 - feat(plugin-catalog): bump kokoro-tts to 0.4.0 (Linux, Italian) - fix(plugin-catalog): update wyoming-voice-bridge to bc3588a - feat(plugin-catalog): bump hermes-whatsapp-voice to 0.2.1 DEVELOPER TOOLS & PLUGINS (108 PRs) - catalog: add word-peek - catalog: add agentmemory, tallybuy and idealphase-elevenlabs-audio-tags - plugin-catalog: bubblewrap 1.3.0 (file tools run inside the sandbox) - catalog: bump antigravity-subscription-directsdk pin to v1.0.23 - feat(plugins): list Nexus Recovery Peer in catalog - plugin-catalog: add upstash-box (Upstash Box terminal backend) - feat(plugin-catalog): add toll plugin - fix(plugin-catalog): re-pin hermes-project-stewardship to 1e6792c (v0.5.5) - catalog: bump hermes-lang-pt-br to 1.2.3 (99a24cd) - feat(catalog): add aircraft-doppler-geolocation v0.1.1 - chore(catalog): update genealogy recipes to v1.7.0 - catalog: git-autosave 0.3.3 - plugin-catalog: add kanban-empowered - docs(catalog): add tokenjuice terminal output plugin - chore(plugin-catalog): bump deja-memory sha to v0.23.4 - feat(plugin-catalog): add switch402 (approval-gated x402 web data tools) - chore(catalog): bump hermes-guide pin to v0.9.0 - catalog(nexus): point nexus at 0.22.45 - chore(plugin-catalog): bump hermes-lang-el to c232c96 (+408 v0.22.5 strings) - feat(plugin-catalog): add proxy - Plugin catalog: hermes-band, local music composition and rendering (4 tools, skill) - Plugin catalog: ethics-filter, six-module ethics evaluation engine (tool, skill) - Plugin catalog: soul-finder, SOUL.md builder/refiner (tools, hook, skill) - feat(plugin-catalog): add neuralmind plugin - Plugin-catalog: deepseek-search-fetch 1.0.10 - catalog: add mqtt entry - catalog: re-pin limbic 0.9.4 to release commit 4b9c2e6 - plugin-catalog: bump mnemoverse to 1.0.3 - chore(plugin-catalog): bump Hermes Fleet Connector to 0.3.1 - chore(plugin-catalog): bump better-session-appearance to 1.2.4 - chore(plugin-catalog): re-pin ctx_checkpoint to 0.6.2 - Add StateJar memory provider to plugin catalog - chore(plugin-catalog): bump provider-status to 1.6.8 - feat(plugin-catalog): add LFG Alarm - chore(plugin-catalog): bump machine-library to 0.1.1 - catalog: add Cadence local usage page - catalog: bump agent-hint to 0.7.1 (sha f9ee87b) - plugin-catalog: re-pin hermes-finance to v0.2.6 (apelabs-dev repo, new screenshot) - Catalog: bunny_space-platform v1.0.7 (pin + version) - feat(plugin-catalog): add priors plugin - feat(plugin-catalog): add iwork-studio - chore(catalog): update CLI Session Tabs to 1.1.0 - feat(plugin-catalog): add recued portable plugin - catalog: update hermes-auto-titler to v0.3.1 - chore(plugin-catalog): bump yantrikdb to v0.27.1 - fix(plugin-catalog): bump web-search-plus to 5.1.7 - feat(catalog): add model-presets plugin - plugin-catalog: bump hermes-cron to 1.5.4 (doctor reads a WAL executions.db without write access) - chore(plugin-catalog): update Magi to v1.8.4 - fix(catalog): update hermes-ledgerline to 0.1.9 - fix(catalog): update hermes-resetwatch to 0.2.27 - feat(plugin-catalog): update DSers to v0.1.2 with bundled skills - feat(plugin-catalog): add stablelens 0.1.0 - plugin-catalog: huddo 0.10.2 - feat(plugin-catalog): update fxmacrodata to 0.3.0 - feat(plugin-catalog): update redline to 0.3.0 - plugin-catalog: add FilmEase movie discovery and tracking - feat(plugin-catalog): add olympus - feat(plugin-catalog): add limits-monitor - feat(plugin-catalog): add hermes-tabs - Add Nous Girl to the plugin catalog - plugin-catalog: shipframe 1.1.0 - feat(plugin-catalog): add Decisions predicate API plugin - plugin-catalog: bump honcho to 1.1.0 (pin 7dd3702) - feat(plugin-catalog): add handydandy - feat(catalog): add Pulldown public page reader - feat(catalog): add Cartograph repository analysis tools - plugin-catalog: add model-usage (Claude/Codex triple-ring usage gauge + limit alerts) - fix(plugin-catalog): bump levea-video-editor to 1.0.1 - docs(catalog): update Epistemic Harness to 1.4.4 - plugin-catalog: bump modular to 0.1.1 - plugin-catalog: bump zoth to 1.1.4 - chore(plugin-catalog): bump cognee entry sha to v1.4.1 - feat(plugin-catalog): bump agent-station to 3.1.0 - feat(plugin-catalog): add hermes-windows-devices (which device is unhappy, what it needs, and what drives it) - chore(catalog): update vk-platform to 0.2.8 - feat(plugin-catalog): add chmod-ref - plugin-catalog: update hermes-kame-api-rotation + hermes-kame-provider to 1.8.3.1 - feat(plugin-catalog): add scar - plugin-catalog: bump hermes-lang-cs to 989cd3a (sync with main 40b56650) - plugin-catalog: holographic 0.26.2 - catalog: update hermes-dreaming to 3.8.3 - fix(plugin-catalog): update switchbot-control to f0ecbf2 - feat(plugin-catalog): bump astro-agents to 1.8.3 - chore(catalog): update deferred-questions to 0.3.0 - fix(plugin-catalog): update talaria-webui to 1.5.2 - feat(catalog): add Hermes-iOS-sim community plugin - feat(plugin-catalog): add withhuman - catalog: add mariadb-dev, mariadb-sql and mariadb-guard - feat(plugin-catalog): add search-sources (Desktop reply source capsule & cited-first side panel) - Add muse-harness plugin catalog entry - catalog: add REVamp alpha.6 - chore(plugin-catalog): crew 0.10.6, re-pin to d81551a - Add ram-first-context to the plugin catalog - plugin-catalog: add writing-guard (style check for answers: dashes, AI phrases, du/Sie) - Add surplus-intelligence-seller to plugin catalog - catalog: add webmint (community) - feat(catalog): add mediarag entry - plugin-catalog: add squad-hub (Hermes Agent Squads Hub) - feat(plugin-catalog): add nyx memory provider - Add disciplined-vibe-coding to plugin catalog - catalog: update iowap to v0.4.0 - Add lithermes to the plugin catalog - feat(plugin-catalog): add `artil` plugin - feat(plugin-catalog): add hermes-plexus (vault graph, file tree and editor for Desktop) - catalog: add gameforge 1.1.0 - plugin-catalog: add tirith (community) - feat(plugin-catalog): add courier-by-autolane SECURITY & SECRETS (5 PRs) - fix(web-server): trust only the bound loopback origin for CORS and WebSockets (Webapp, dashboard, serve) - plugin-catalog: airlock 0.2.3 to 0.3.0 (Windows security fix, context files) - fix(nous): an older shared login never replaces a newer profile login - fix(providers): a named profile missing its provider key says so instead of a misleading 401 - fix(nous): a transient 401 on a valid agent key no longer kills the turn in ~1.5 s INTEGRATIONS & CHAT (18 PRs) - feat(slack): add opt-in thread_followup_silence for unaddressed thread replies - fix(relay): keep a turn's Slack status on its own message when DM turns overlap - fix(relay): recover from one transient connector failure instead of staying broken - chore(relay): upgrade to 0.11.0 - fix(gateway): restored chats answer through the right bot, not an old saved guess - fix(gateway): completions of sessions routed through another profile's bot reach that bot - fix(gateway): heal a secondary profile's platform whose plugin failed to load at boot - Grok Bot and OpenBot users can move to Hermes from setup and hermes migrate; hermes migrate <agent> installs the importer - Plugin catalog: agent-importers 1.2.1 brings Grok Bot import from real exports - Plugin catalog: agent-importers 1.2.0 brings the Grok Bot and OpenBot importers - feat: Daybreak switch for catalog-listed ChatGPT subscription models - fix(image_gen): OpenRouter's Grok image row is x-ai/grok-imagine-image-2.0 - feat(catalog): add Fortytwo model provider - feat(plugin-catalog): add hashference-provider - Add Iris Chat to the community plugin catalog - catalog: add Postroom portable social publishing connector - feat(plugin-catalog): bump signal-notify to v1.1.0 - catalog: hermes-chat-share 1.1.8 STABILITY & FIXES (33 PRs) - MCP servers started for a profile now use that profile's home, not the default - fix(cli): reasoning footers show elapsed time without repeating text - Main CI no longer goes red when OpenRouter renames an image model (OpenRouter image backend test) - test(install-e2e): classify v2026.7.30 macOS DMG app-update refusal as a known failure - fix(update): reclaim the shallow.lock a killed update's shallow fetch left behind - fix(update): reclaim the ref locks a killed update's fetch left behind - test(install-e2e): judge only the live desktop app, not rollback copies beside it - test(install-e2e): chat smoke waits out the boot overlay without scrolling the app - docs(skills): add the projects-and-folders reference to the hermes-agent skill - test(e2e/pm): the managed-env update check never reaches the GitHub API - fix(cron): a one-shot due while a gateway drain holds dispatch fires once afterwards - test(cron): the virtual-clock soak models run-now as an extra fire and admits 'missed' rows - test(e2e): the PTY leftover check exempts the attached gateway's own supervisor - Install/update E2E: bundle-inputs job runs on the locked Node 26 - Install/update E2E: HEAD to NEXT legs accept the reused desktop app - perf(gateway): retire closed local and idle API sessions from the authority's memory - perf(agent): the token-count cache keeps no more idle entries than it always had - Gateway no longer freezes every minute for memory trims - fix(gateway): run local and API turns' post-delivery callbacks; closed local sessions leave memory - perf(gateway): free an ended session's replay ring and counters - perf: token-estimate memo is an LRU with a 64 MiB idle budget; active conversations never evicted - fix(delegation): finished async delegations stop pinning the parent session's agent - Gateway and serve no longer hoard free memory across ~160 malloc arenas - perf(memory): read the models. dev catalog only when asked and let long-lived caches forget dead entries - test(docker): join teardown workers of dropped envs before the fakes unwind (CI SIGABRT in test_docker_ownership_handback) - fix(gateway): keep every queued turn at the interrupt recursion cap - fix(tui): park a closed or reaped session's notifications until it resumes - fix(delegation): re-offer a live owner's lost completion from the ledger - fix(gateway): deliver background results to routes whose entry lost its origin - fix(gateway): /bg joins its background delegations so the result reaches the chat - test(telemetry): settle the export worker before engagement assertions read the store - fix(pm): a corrupt cached package no longer blocks every install - fix(tools): recovered MCP servers reach tool_search and new sessions without /reload-mcp; live tools[] stays frozen 190 new features and fixes

2026.11.03 00:58

Hermes merged 190 PRs on November 2 The ones worth knowing: - The gateway no longer freezes every minute for memory trims, and gateway and serve stop hoarding free memory across ~160 malloc arenas - Grok Bot and OpenBot users can move to Hermes from setup, and hermes migrate installs the importer for you - Each Desktop terminal tab now owns its own gateway, and SSH gateways list every profile at launch - Old phone app chats now continue in Desktop instead of opening read only - Desktop renders mermaid diagrams with Pele instead of mermaid.js, so they draw faster - A transient 401 on a valid Nous agent key no longer kills your turn in about 1.5 seconds - The local web server (Webapp, dashboard, serve) now trusts only the bound loopback origin for CORS and WebSockets - MCP servers started for a profile use that profile's home, and recovered MCP servers show up in new sessions without /reload-mcp - Slack gets an opt in thread_followup_silence setting for unaddressed thread replies - A killed update no longer leaves lock files behind that block the next update - Background /bg results and async delegation completions now reliably reach the right chat - Over 100 plugin catalog adds and bumps, including the Fortytwo model provider, Upstash Box terminal backend and bubblewrap sandboxed file tools Here is the full list: DESKTOP IMPROVEMENTS (21 PRs) - perf(desktop): render mermaid fences with Pele instead of mermaid.js - fix(desktop): gateway pins stay with the gateway that owns them - fix(desktop): gateway picks keep the batched sidebar read and the user's draft route - refactor(desktop): name the relay-lease vs pinned-open predicates; count kept-route holders - fix(desktop): the gateway keeper checks the route it keeps, stops re-probing This device, and batches the launch list refreshes - fix(desktop): drop python-docx's unzipped template so MakeAppx can pack the Windows MSIX - test(desktop): remote-topology allows This device's kept gateway; the chat still goes remote - Desktop status bar shows each session's own cache hit and t/s on switch - Capabilities switches now say On/Off instead of the confusing Enable/Disable - Plugin package switch no longer says On while its Desktop half is off - Old phone-app chats continue in Desktop instead of opening read-only - fix(desktop): the approval chip on a remote-only profile reads that gateway, not a local backend - fix(desktop): the launch restore never closes a chat the person opened - fix(desktop): publish the request connection and its profile together - test(desktop): kept-gateway redial test passes under CI load - fix(desktop): SSH gateways list every profile at launch and switch without a per-profile remote backend - fix(desktop): every gateway's sessions stay visible in Gateway & profile and Project grouping - fix(desktop): a launch that fell back never switches gateways on its own; This window shows the window's gateway - fix(desktop): boot every primary on a profile its gateway serves - fix(desktop): start on a profile the selected remote gateway actually has - feat(desktop): each terminal tab owns its gateway VOICE & REAL-TIME (5 PRs) - feat(catalog): add breeze-tts, a Breeze Blue TTS provider - plugin-catalog: fish-audio v1.9.0 - feat(plugin-catalog): bump kokoro-tts to 0.4.0 (Linux, Italian) - fix(plugin-catalog): update wyoming-voice-bridge to bc3588a - feat(plugin-catalog): bump hermes-whatsapp-voice to 0.2.1 DEVELOPER TOOLS & PLUGINS (108 PRs) - catalog: add word-peek - catalog: add agentmemory, tallybuy and idealphase-elevenlabs-audio-tags - plugin-catalog: bubblewrap 1.3.0 (file tools run inside the sandbox) - catalog: bump antigravity-subscription-directsdk pin to v1.0.23 - feat(plugins): list Nexus Recovery Peer in catalog - plugin-catalog: add upstash-box (Upstash Box terminal backend) - feat(plugin-catalog): add toll plugin - fix(plugin-catalog): re-pin hermes-project-stewardship to 1e6792c (v0.5.5) - catalog: bump hermes-lang-pt-br to 1.2.3 (99a24cd) - feat(catalog): add aircraft-doppler-geolocation v0.1.1 - chore(catalog): update genealogy recipes to v1.7.0 - catalog: git-autosave 0.3.3 - plugin-catalog: add kanban-empowered - docs(catalog): add tokenjuice terminal output plugin - chore(plugin-catalog): bump deja-memory sha to v0.23.4 - feat(plugin-catalog): add switch402 (approval-gated x402 web data tools) - chore(catalog): bump hermes-guide pin to v0.9.0 - catalog(nexus): point nexus at 0.22.45 - chore(plugin-catalog): bump hermes-lang-el to c232c96 (+408 v0.22.5 strings) - feat(plugin-catalog): add proxy - Plugin catalog: hermes-band, local music composition and rendering (4 tools, skill) - Plugin catalog: ethics-filter, six-module ethics evaluation engine (tool, skill) - Plugin catalog: soul-finder, SOUL.md builder/refiner (tools, hook, skill) - feat(plugin-catalog): add neuralmind plugin - Plugin-catalog: deepseek-search-fetch 1.0.10 - catalog: add mqtt entry - catalog: re-pin limbic 0.9.4 to release commit 4b9c2e6 - plugin-catalog: bump mnemoverse to 1.0.3 - chore(plugin-catalog): bump Hermes Fleet Connector to 0.3.1 - chore(plugin-catalog): bump better-session-appearance to 1.2.4 - chore(plugin-catalog): re-pin ctx_checkpoint to 0.6.2 - Add StateJar memory provider to plugin catalog - chore(plugin-catalog): bump provider-status to 1.6.8 - feat(plugin-catalog): add LFG Alarm - chore(plugin-catalog): bump machine-library to 0.1.1 - catalog: add Cadence local usage page - catalog: bump agent-hint to 0.7.1 (sha f9ee87b) - plugin-catalog: re-pin hermes-finance to v0.2.6 (apelabs-dev repo, new screenshot) - Catalog: bunny_space-platform v1.0.7 (pin + version) - feat(plugin-catalog): add priors plugin - feat(plugin-catalog): add iwork-studio - chore(catalog): update CLI Session Tabs to 1.1.0 - feat(plugin-catalog): add recued portable plugin - catalog: update hermes-auto-titler to v0.3.1 - chore(plugin-catalog): bump yantrikdb to v0.27.1 - fix(plugin-catalog): bump web-search-plus to 5.1.7 - feat(catalog): add model-presets plugin - plugin-catalog: bump hermes-cron to 1.5.4 (doctor reads a WAL executions.db without write access) - chore(plugin-catalog): update Magi to v1.8.4 - fix(catalog): update hermes-ledgerline to 0.1.9 - fix(catalog): update hermes-resetwatch to 0.2.27 - feat(plugin-catalog): update DSers to v0.1.2 with bundled skills - feat(plugin-catalog): add stablelens 0.1.0 - plugin-catalog: huddo 0.10.2 - feat(plugin-catalog): update fxmacrodata to 0.3.0 - feat(plugin-catalog): update redline to 0.3.0 - plugin-catalog: add FilmEase movie discovery and tracking - feat(plugin-catalog): add olympus - feat(plugin-catalog): add limits-monitor - feat(plugin-catalog): add hermes-tabs - Add Nous Girl to the plugin catalog - plugin-catalog: shipframe 1.1.0 - feat(plugin-catalog): add Decisions predicate API plugin - plugin-catalog: bump honcho to 1.1.0 (pin 7dd3702) - feat(plugin-catalog): add handydandy - feat(catalog): add Pulldown public page reader - feat(catalog): add Cartograph repository analysis tools - plugin-catalog: add model-usage (Claude/Codex triple-ring usage gauge + limit alerts) - fix(plugin-catalog): bump levea-video-editor to 1.0.1 - docs(catalog): update Epistemic Harness to 1.4.4 - plugin-catalog: bump modular to 0.1.1 - plugin-catalog: bump zoth to 1.1.4 - chore(plugin-catalog): bump cognee entry sha to v1.4.1 - feat(plugin-catalog): bump agent-station to 3.1.0 - feat(plugin-catalog): add hermes-windows-devices (which device is unhappy, what it needs, and what drives it) - chore(catalog): update vk-platform to 0.2.8 - feat(plugin-catalog): add chmod-ref - plugin-catalog: update hermes-kame-api-rotation + hermes-kame-provider to 1.8.3.1 - feat(plugin-catalog): add scar - plugin-catalog: bump hermes-lang-cs to 989cd3a (sync with main 40b56650) - plugin-catalog: holographic 0.26.2 - catalog: update hermes-dreaming to 3.8.3 - fix(plugin-catalog): update switchbot-control to f0ecbf2 - feat(plugin-catalog): bump astro-agents to 1.8.3 - chore(catalog): update deferred-questions to 0.3.0 - fix(plugin-catalog): update talaria-webui to 1.5.2 - feat(catalog): add Hermes-iOS-sim community plugin - feat(plugin-catalog): add withhuman - catalog: add mariadb-dev, mariadb-sql and mariadb-guard - feat(plugin-catalog): add search-sources (Desktop reply source capsule & cited-first side panel) - Add muse-harness plugin catalog entry - catalog: add REVamp alpha.6 - chore(plugin-catalog): crew 0.10.6, re-pin to d81551a - Add ram-first-context to the plugin catalog - plugin-catalog: add writing-guard (style check for answers: dashes, AI phrases, du/Sie) - Add surplus-intelligence-seller to plugin catalog - catalog: add webmint (community) - feat(catalog): add mediarag entry - plugin-catalog: add squad-hub (Hermes Agent Squads Hub) - feat(plugin-catalog): add nyx memory provider - Add disciplined-vibe-coding to plugin catalog - catalog: update iowap to v0.4.0 - Add lithermes to the plugin catalog - feat(plugin-catalog): add `artil` plugin - feat(plugin-catalog): add hermes-plexus (vault graph, file tree and editor for Desktop) - catalog: add gameforge 1.1.0 - plugin-catalog: add tirith (community) - feat(plugin-catalog): add courier-by-autolane SECURITY & SECRETS (5 PRs) - fix(web-server): trust only the bound loopback origin for CORS and WebSockets (Webapp, dashboard, serve) - plugin-catalog: airlock 0.2.3 to 0.3.0 (Windows security fix, context files) - fix(nous): an older shared login never replaces a newer profile login - fix(providers): a named profile missing its provider key says so instead of a misleading 401 - fix(nous): a transient 401 on a valid agent key no longer kills the turn in ~1.5 s INTEGRATIONS & CHAT (18 PRs) - feat(slack): add opt-in thread_followup_silence for unaddressed thread replies - fix(relay): keep a turn's Slack status on its own message when DM turns overlap - fix(relay): recover from one transient connector failure instead of staying broken - chore(relay): upgrade to 0.11.0 - fix(gateway): restored chats answer through the right bot, not an old saved guess - fix(gateway): completions of sessions routed through another profile's bot reach that bot - fix(gateway): heal a secondary profile's platform whose plugin failed to load at boot - Grok Bot and OpenBot users can move to Hermes from setup and hermes migrate; hermes migrate installs the importer - Plugin catalog: agent-importers 1.2.1 brings Grok Bot import from real exports - Plugin catalog: agent-importers 1.2.0 brings the Grok Bot and OpenBot importers - feat: Daybreak switch for catalog-listed ChatGPT subscription models - fix(image_gen): OpenRouter's Grok image row is x-ai/grok-imagine-image-2.0 - feat(catalog): add Fortytwo model provider - feat(plugin-catalog): add hashference-provider - Add Iris Chat to the community plugin catalog - catalog: add Postroom portable social publishing connector - feat(plugin-catalog): bump signal-notify to v1.1.0 - catalog: hermes-chat-share 1.1.8 STABILITY & FIXES (33 PRs) - MCP servers started for a profile now use that profile's home, not the default - fix(cli): reasoning footers show elapsed time without repeating text - Main CI no longer goes red when OpenRouter renames an image model (OpenRouter image backend test) - test(install-e2e): classify v2026.7.30 macOS DMG app-update refusal as a known failure - fix(update): reclaim the shallow.lock a killed update's shallow fetch left behind - fix(update): reclaim the ref locks a killed update's fetch left behind - test(install-e2e): judge only the live desktop app, not rollback copies beside it - test(install-e2e): chat smoke waits out the boot overlay without scrolling the app - docs(skills): add the projects-and-folders reference to the hermes-agent skill - test(e2e/pm): the managed-env update check never reaches the GitHub API - fix(cron): a one-shot due while a gateway drain holds dispatch fires once afterwards - test(cron): the virtual-clock soak models run-now as an extra fire and admits 'missed' rows - test(e2e): the PTY leftover check exempts the attached gateway's own supervisor - Install/update E2E: bundle-inputs job runs on the locked Node 26 - Install/update E2E: HEAD to NEXT legs accept the reused desktop app - perf(gateway): retire closed local and idle API sessions from the authority's memory - perf(agent): the token-count cache keeps no more idle entries than it always had - Gateway no longer freezes every minute for memory trims - fix(gateway): run local and API turns' post-delivery callbacks; closed local sessions leave memory - perf(gateway): free an ended session's replay ring and counters - perf: token-estimate memo is an LRU with a 64 MiB idle budget; active conversations never evicted - fix(delegation): finished async delegations stop pinning the parent session's agent - Gateway and serve no longer hoard free memory across ~160 malloc arenas - perf(memory): read the models. dev catalog only when asked and let long-lived caches forget dead entries - test(docker): join teardown workers of dropped envs before the fakes unwind (CI SIGABRT in test_docker_ownership_handback) - fix(gateway): keep every queued turn at the interrupt recursion cap - fix(tui): park a closed or reaped session's notifications until it resumes - fix(delegation): re-offer a live owner's lost completion from the ledger - fix(gateway): deliver background results to routes whose entry lost its origin - fix(gateway): /bg joins its background delegations so the result reaches the chat - test(telemetry): settle the export worker before engagement assertions read the store - fix(pm): a corrupt cached package no longer blocks every install - fix(tools): recovered MCP servers reach tool_search and new sessions without /reload-mcp; live tools[] stays frozen 190 new features and fixes

Luke The Dev@iamlukethedev

2026.11.02 05:49

Hermes merged 40 PRs on November 1 The ones worth knowing: - Lock a skill so the agent can't rewrite it, through skill_manage, write_file, patch or terminal - Plugins and shell hooks can now block a turn before it ever reaches the model - Approval prompts reveal hidden Unicode, control bytes and padding instead of hiding them - /model reset puts a pinned session back on your configured default across CLI, TUI, Desktop and gateway - Cron jobs now know when they fired: the run time is in every scheduled prompt - Desktop keeps every gateway connected, and picking one no longer blanks your session list - Desktop sessions waiting on subagents or background work stay highlighted and stop spinning when done - Claude subscription catalog installs use about 1.7x less of the 5-hour window - Telegram video notes now reach the agent instead of being dropped - Slack thread context shows emoji reactions, so reacted-to messages read as answered - New opt-in cap on how long a streaming response can live (agent. stream_max_lifetime) - hermes update stops stashing untracked folders it never touches, and asks before stashing Here is the full list: DESKTOP IMPROVEMENTS (14 PRs) - fix(desktop): every gateway stays connected, and picking one no longer asks to switch or blanks the session list - fix(desktop): a session stops spinning when its background work finishes off screen - Desktop status bar names the profile when another profile's messaging is down - fix(desktop): sidebar rows off screen and after reload/reconnect show running subagents and background work - fix(desktop): Pinned names the filter that hides every pin - fix(desktop): Korean and other pack languages: load installed packs on a cold gateway, sync them at boot, and only offer languages with Desktop strings - fix(desktop): sessions waiting on subagents or background processes stay highlighted in the sidebar - Desktop sidebar no longer shows the confusing "automatic continuation" notice on compressed sessions - fix(desktop-plugins): host reconcile treats Windows junctions as links; Desktop tested on a real case-insensitive volume - fix(desktop): restore session-tab close button spacing - perf(desktop): avoid theme updates for sidebar geometry changes - perf(desktop): skip unchanged terminal snapshots and hidden row paints - perf(desktop): keep streamed tokens out of navigation context - fix(desktop): a native plugin install never replaces a folder outside desktop-plugins VOICE & REAL-TIME (2 PRs) - feat(streaming): opt-in cap on a streaming response total lifetime (agent. stream_max_lifetime) - fix(gateway): background jobs that finish during a busy turn come back as one turn, not one each DEVELOPER TOOLS & PLUGINS (10 PRs) - feat(plugin-catalog): add simular-sai (Sai by Simular) - Plugins and shell hooks can block a turn before it reaches the model (pre_llm_call block directive) - fix(middleware): tool_request middleware sees the model's pre-Relay call as original_args - feat: /model reset returns a pinned session to the configured default (CLI, TUI, Desktop, gateway) - Cron jobs know what time they fired: run time in every scheduled prompt - feat(telemetry): see when people wait on a busy agent (busy arrivals + daily peak of busy chats) - fix(telemetry): Spotify and old browser_vault tool names from older releases export as recorded again - refactor(aux): the auxiliary client keeps the main runtime only per context - fix(kanban): kanban_task_blocked fires after commit for dependency waits - fix(background-review): memory review saves only grounded facts, not guesses SECURITY & SECRETS (3 PRs) - feat(skills): lock a skill so the agent can't change it (skill_manage, write_file, patch, terminal) - Approval prompts show hidden Unicode, control bytes and padding instead of hiding them (CLI, gateway, TUI/Desktop) - fix(profiles): hermes update never copies the default .env into a profile INTEGRATIONS & CHAT (6 PRs) - Telegram video notes reach the agent instead of being dropped - fix(mattermost): setup stops pointing at a profile dialog with no user ID - fix(photon): setup only reports success once your number can receive iMessages (opt-in wait) - Approval cards keep the command and reason after a decision or timeout on Telegram, Feishu and Teams - feat(slack): show emoji reactions in thread context so reacted-to messages read as answered - Claude subscription provider: catalog installs use ~1.7x less of the 5-hour window STABILITY & FIXES (5 PRs) - hermes update no longer stashes untracked folders it never touches, and asks before stashing - fix: two CI races, PTY drain test sleep and a process reaped mid-/proc-probe - test(cron): profile-timezone test no longer fails the day before a DST change - fix(update): update-lock tidy-ups from review feedback - fix(agent): name the phase and the setting in transport-timeout error summaries 40 new features and fixes