Hermes releases & changes

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Last successful collection: Oct 30, 2026. Dates shown in Pacific time.

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Oct 30, 2026

feat(cron): stop a running job (Desktop Stop, cancel, or delete it mid-run) and let each job pick its missed-run policy (salvage #133169) (opens in a new tab)

#144801 · type/feature · comp/agent · comp/cli · comp/cron · P2 · comp/dashboard · ci-reviewed

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Oct 30, 2026

Webapp images stay in the browser cache across remounts; SSH videos over 100 MiB play (opens in a new tab)

#146860 · type/feature · comp/cli · P3 · comp/dashboard · ci-reviewed

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Oct 30, 2026

fix(groups): surface directly addressed members that pass (opens in a new tab)

#146289 · type/bug · comp/gateway · P2

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Oct 30, 2026

Desktop stops dropping healthy gateway connections on focus/wake and after renderer stalls (salvage #142738 fix) (opens in a new tab)

#146843 · type/bug · P2 · comp/desktop · ci-reviewed · desktop/settings · comp/tui-gateway

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Oct 30, 2026

Webapp keeps the status bar through a reconnect, reuses clip URLs on remount, and plays videos over 100 MiB (opens in a new tab)

#146850 · type/bug · comp/cli · P2 · comp/desktop · comp/dashboard · ci-reviewed · area/sessions

Oct 30, 2026

fix(plugins): doctor no longer copies a plugin into its own temp folder (salvage #146617) (opens in a new tab)

#146836 · type/bug · comp/cli · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed · area/install-update

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Oct 30, 2026

fix(desktop): Continue keeps the user's draft; credit card opens the right billing; reset and truncation edge cases (opens in a new tab)

#146828 · type/bug · P3 · comp/desktop · area/billing · area/i18n · desktop/chat

Oct 30, 2026

fix(docker): keep unmounted Desktop sessions on the profile sandbox (salvage #146206) (opens in a new tab)

#146806 · type/bug · comp/gateway · comp/tools · tool/terminal · tool/file · backend/docker · P3 · area/profiles · comp/tui-gateway

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Oct 30, 2026

fix(config): recognize supported MoA preset settings (opens in a new tab)

#146264 · type/bug · comp/cli · area/config · P3

Oct 30, 2026

fix(desktop): error card review follow-ups — Continue sends, billing card always shown, one action policy (opens in a new tab)

#146803 · type/bug · P2 · comp/desktop · area/billing · area/i18n · desktop/chat · desktop/sessions

Oct 29, 2026

feat(desktop): error card v2 — severity, one action, DS buttons, details copy block (opens in a new tab)

#146776 · type/feature · P3 · comp/desktop · area/i18n · desktop/chat · desktop/sessions

Oct 28, 2026

fix(kanban): a lost managed worker's card is booked instead of staying running (salvage #143250) (opens in a new tab)

#145952 · type/bug · comp/cli · comp/gateway · comp/cron · P2

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Oct 28, 2026

fix(kanban): a worker whose gateway socket drops resumes the same attempt (salvage #145081, #145092) (opens in a new tab)

#145954 · type/bug · comp/cli · comp/cron · P2

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Oct 28, 2026

fix(desktop): stop bare-domain linkification of tool error headlines (opens in a new tab)

#143251 · type/bug · P3 · comp/desktop

Oct 28, 2026

fix(discord): honor longer approval timeouts and retire settled approval cards (salvage #145722) (opens in a new tab)

#145948 · type/bug · comp/gateway · comp/tools · comp/plugins · tool/terminal · platform/discord · area/config · P2 · area/i18n

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Oct 27, 2026

Desktop deep rewinds keep working on older backends, and a refreshed edit retry asks again (#133748 follow-ups, salvage kvnloo#459) (opens in a new tab)

#136572 · type/bug · P2 · sweeper:risk-session-state · comp/desktop · area/sessions · desktop/sessions

Oct 27, 2026

fix(dashboard): a profile's channel status follows its gateway and enabled secret sources (salvage #106929) (opens in a new tab)

#145754 · type/bug · comp/cli · comp/gateway · platform/whatsapp · platform/webhook · area/auth · area/config · P2 · comp/dashboard · area/profiles

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Oct 25, 2026

Vault key can live in the OS keychain (opt-in, verified migration); manager unlock tokens leave module globals (opens in a new tab)

#144246 · type/feature · comp/agent · comp/cli · area/auth · area/config · P3 · ci-reviewed · os/windows · os/macos

Oct 25, 2026

feat(tools): password-manager plugins for browser_vault, isolated to their own logins (opens in a new tab)

#143964 · type/feature · comp/agent · comp/cli · comp/plugins · tool/browser · area/auth · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 25, 2026

fix(plugins): hosted providers keep their declared types across the plugin-host wire (opens in a new tab)

#144430 · type/bug · comp/agent · comp/plugins · P2 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 25, 2026

fix(vault): one-time-code fills check the saved login's site like every other fill (opens in a new tab)

#144450 · type/security · comp/tools · tool/browser · area/auth · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 25, 2026

Tests no longer mint real guest identities on the live Nous Portal (opens in a new tab)

#144429 · type/test · provider/nous · area/auth · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 25, 2026

chore(deps): bump npm dependencies to latest minor/patch releases (opens in a new tab)

#143719 · comp/plugins · P3 · comp/desktop · comp/dashboard

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Oct 25, 2026

Connector RPC tests stop failing when the Nous Portal is slow (no live guest mint in tests) (opens in a new tab)

#144418 · ci-reviewed

Oct 25, 2026

feat(webapp): serve the Desktop workspace from the gateway (opens in a new tab)

#141864 · type/feature · comp/agent · comp/cli · tool/browser · area/auth · area/config · P3 · comp/desktop · comp/dashboard · ci-reviewed · area/profiles · desktop/chat · os/windows · desktop/connection · desktop/files

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Oct 25, 2026

Cron timeout fork-race test no longer fails while a killed child is still exiting (opens in a new tab)

#144417 · type/test · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 25, 2026

A lazily installed SDK the CLI's backend can't load no longer breaks the next attempt for 10 minutes (opens in a new tab)

#144401 · type/bug · comp/gateway · P2 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 25, 2026

A plugin in both plugins.enabled and plugins.disabled is reported by the loader and hermes doctor (#131980, salvage #131985) (opens in a new tab)

#144394 · type/bug · comp/cli · comp/plugins · area/config · P3 · ci-reviewed · area/install-update

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Oct 25, 2026

CLI/TUI/Desktop show the real error when a turn crashes, not "Something went wrong" (opens in a new tab)

#144392 · type/bug · comp/gateway · P2 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 22, 2026

refactor(terminal): the Singularity backend leaves core for the singularity plugin (opens in a new tab)

#142561 · type/refactor · comp/agent · comp/cli · area/config · P3 · comp/dashboard · ci-reviewed · backend/other

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Oct 22, 2026

fix(dashboard): toolset and channel edits validate in the target profile (opens in a new tab)

#142949 · type/bug · comp/cli · P2 · comp/dashboard · ci-reviewed · area/profiles

Oct 22, 2026

fix(gateway): keep the error description on failed session-authority turns (opens in a new tab)

#142964 · type/bug · comp/gateway · P2 · area/billing

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Oct 22, 2026

fix(onboarding): review follow-ups — the trial runs cron and Kanban, reconnects keep their chat (opens in a new tab)

#142989 · type/bug · comp/cli · comp/gateway · comp/cron · area/config · P2 · area/sessions

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Oct 20, 2026

feat(plugin-catalog): add day-panel plugin (opens in a new tab)

#141639 · type/feature · comp/plugins · tool/mcp · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

fix(mcp): plugins can forward optional env vars — an unset ${VAR} is no longer passed to the stdio server literally (opens in a new tab)

#141379 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

Delegation manifests record the inherited model instead of model: null (opens in a new tab)

#141367 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

Catalog: REA crash triage works on stripped binaries (opens in a new tab)

#141372 · ci-reviewed

Oct 18, 2026

Async subagent completions show the inherited model instead of 'Model: ?' (opens in a new tab)

#141358 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

chore(catalog): bump usage-guard to v0.3.6 (opens in a new tab)

#140712 · type/docs · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

plugin-catalog: hermes-cloud-file-manager v0.5.0 (opens in a new tab)

#140601 · type/feature · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

catalog: add bilinc (opens in a new tab)

#141268 · type/feature · comp/plugins · tool/memory · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

chore(plugin-catalog): update duty-board to v0.4.0 (opens in a new tab)

#140822 · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

plugin-catalog: bump heartbeat2 to 0.2.0 (opens in a new tab)

#140772 · type/feature · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

feat(plugin-catalog): add agent-station plugin (opens in a new tab)

#140760 · type/feature · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

plugin-catalog: bump plan-mode to 1.0.0 (opens in a new tab)

#140600 · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

feat(catalog): add git-tasks plugin entry (opens in a new tab)

#140531 · type/feature · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

feat(plugin-catalog): add runbox (offline per-chat Python run/check/test box) (opens in a new tab)

#139677 · type/feature · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed · Plugin Catalog · backend/other

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Oct 18, 2026

Catalog: add tabella — agent document lifecycle (create/convert/read/edit) (opens in a new tab)

#138305 · type/feature · comp/plugins · tool/mcp · area/auth · P3 · ci-reviewed · Plugin Catalog

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Oct 18, 2026

plugin-catalog: move hermes-session-reset-policy pin to 0f2ea5a (opens in a new tab)

#141327 · type/bug · comp/plugins · P2 · ci-reviewed · area/sessions

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Oct 18, 2026

plugin-catalog: bump field-academy to 0.8.5 (opens in a new tab)

#141291 · type/security · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

plugin-catalog: bump bot-cabinet-v2 to 0.3.11 (opens in a new tab)

#141288 · type/security · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed · area/profiles

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Oct 18, 2026

catalog: hermes-jetstream 1.2.0 (opens in a new tab)

#141282 · type/feature · comp/plugins · tool/mcp · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

plugin-catalog: update hermes-minimizer to 0.1.1 (opens in a new tab)

#141256 · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

feat(plugin-catalog): add post-cortex memory provider (opens in a new tab)

#141251 · type/feature · comp/plugins · tool/memory · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

feat(plugin-catalog): add rply-platform plugin (opens in a new tab)

#141246 · type/feature · comp/plugins · area/auth · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

chore(plugin-catalog): update released Ace model and media onboarding (opens in a new tab)

#141244 · comp/plugins · P3 · ci-reviewed

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Oct 18, 2026

feat(plugin-catalog): add kokoro-tts plugin (opens in a new tab)

#141106 · type/feature · comp/plugins · tool/tts · P3 · ci-reviewed · area/local-models · os/macos

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Oct 10, 2026

Desktop regenerate no longer silently archives later turns; deeper rewinds need an explicit confirm (#133716) (opens in a new tab)

#133748 · type/bug · comp/tui · P0 · sweeper:risk-session-state · sweeper:risk-compatibility · comp/desktop · area/sessions

Sep 9, 2026

fix(dashboard): identical /api/profiles and kanban board reads coalesce before worker admission (#105179, salvage #105182) (opens in a new tab)

#106610 · type/perf · comp/plugins · P2 · comp/desktop · comp/dashboard

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