Hermes Agent Changelog¶
Track every Hermes Agent release. New versions are auto-detected and documented within 24 hours of publication.
Releases¶
| Version | Date | Name | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|
| v0.22.5 | October 23, 2026 | Patch Release | Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~81 PRs merged since v0.22.4 into a stable release for the GitHub release (CLI and installers), the Microsoft Store app, Docker and Hermes Cloud. Full curated notes for... |
| v0.22.4 | October 21, 2026 | Patch Release | Patch release. Desktop stops showing suggestion pills above the composer, plus small plugin and dashboard fixes, for the CLI and installer, the Microsoft Store app, Docker and Hermes Cloud. |
| v0.22.3 | October 21, 2026 | Patch Release | Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~620 PRs merged since v0.22.2 into a stable release for the CLI and installer, the Microsoft Store app, Docker and Hermes Cloud. Full curated notes for this window ship... |
| v0.22.2 | October 15, 2026 | Patch Release | v0.22.1 was built from the wrong commit. It shipped unreleased gateway work, and the Microsoft Store app could stick on "Connecting." 0.22.2 is the release 0.22.1 was meant to be. |
| v0.22.1 | October 14, 2026 | Patch Release | This is a patch release, with a handful of fixes for the Windows Store, plugin updates, and more. |
| v0.22.0 | October 14, 2026 | Patch Release | > The Threshold Release. Hermes was the god of thresholds: the doorway, the crossing, the boundary stone. v0.21.0 assembled the pantheon; v0.22.0 is about getting through the door. A fresh desktop install... |
| v0.21.7 | October 12, 2026 | Patch Release | Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~204 PRs merged since v0.21.6 into a stable release for the desktop app (macOS Apple silicon, Windows), the Microsoft Store and MSIX, the installer, Docker and Hermes... |
| v0.21.6 | October 8, 2026 | Patch Release | 2,106 PRs: first release from the new stable pipeline (tested Docker image, receipt tag), plus dashboard auth, git filter, and email gateway sender hardening |
| v0.21.5 | September 24, 2026 | Patch Release | 460 PRs: Desktop plugin SDK wave, Simple/Advanced interface mode, Connectors page replacing the MCP tab, French/German/Spanish catalogs, per-profile lifecycle controls |
| v0.21.4 | September 21, 2026 | Patch Release | 1,812 PRs: host-wide gateway singleton lock, --format stream-json CLI, skills.auto_load, session_search bounds, LTX 2.5 + Kling O3 video catalogs, plugin and author pages |
| v0.21.3 | September 14, 2026 | Patch Release | Remote dashboard refresh-token coalescing and state.db writer-handle dedup for remote Desktop and Cloud users |
| v0.21.2 | September 11, 2026 | The state.db Patch Release | Six-PR reliability campaign: no more second writers, healthy databases no longer reported corrupt, safe doctor --fix |
| v0.21.1 | September 7, 2026 | Patch Release | 632 PRs: codebase modularization, startup performance, provider and model updates, MCP authorization, cron delivery fixes |
| v0.21.0 | August 31, 2026 | The Pantheon Release | Bot Mode agent society, cron memory and continuity, live subagent steering, MCP command center, desktop browser driving, six new providers |
| v0.20.6 | August 27, 2026 | Patch Release | Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~525 PRs merged since v0.20.5 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs). |
| v0.20.5 | August 21, 2026 | Patch Release | Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~323 PRs merged since v0.20.4 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs). |
| v0.20.4 | August 18, 2026 | Patch Release | Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~74 PRs merged since v0.20.3 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs). |
| v0.20.3 | August 17, 2026 | Patch Release | Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~125 PRs merged since v0.20.2 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs). |
| v0.20.2 | August 16, 2026 | Patch Release | Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~397 PRs merged since v0.20.1 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs). |
| v0.20.1 | August 13, 2026 | Patch Release | 1,444 commits, ~656 PRs: stabilization across desktop app, gateway platforms, installers, tool system, provider catalogs |
| v0.20.0 | August 3, 2026 | The Herald Release | Streaming conversational voice, A2A v1.0, grounded citations, desktop artifacts + plugin SDK, CLI power commands, tool self-recovery, smarter compression - 3,650 commits, 647 contributors |
| v0.19.1 | July 30, 2026 | Patch Release | ~3,087 commits: gateway stability, voice fixes, Telegram media, FLUX3 video, Buzz/Nostr, installer patches |
| v0.19.0 | July 20, 2026 | The Quicksilver Release | ~80% first-token speed improvement, terminal billing, Bitwarden/1Password secrets, smart approvals, durable delivery ledger, live subagent transcripts, GPT-5.6/grok-4.5/kimi-k3, 450+ contributors |
| v0.18.2 | July 7, 2026 | WhatsApp Baileys Fix | Unpins WhatsApp Baileys bridge from git commit to published npm 7.0.0-rc13, fixing Docker builds |
| v0.18.1 | July 7, 2026 | Infrastructure Patch | ~660 PR roll-up since v0.18.0: installer self-healing, dashboard/gateway fixes, WhatsApp pairing, MCP/provider fixes, stability hardening |
| v0.18.0 | July 1, 2026 | The Judgment Release | P0/P1 clean sweep (100% resolved), Mixture-of-Agents as first-class model, verification & completion contracts, /learn skill distillation, /journey learning timeline, desktop coding Projects, background fan-out, scale-to-zero gateway, Google Vertex AI, security hardening |
| v0.17.0 | June 19, 2026 | The Reach Release | iMessage via Photon, Raft agent network, background subagents, image editing, Automation Blueprints, desktop overhaul, Skills Hub rehaul, WhatsApp, Telegram rich text |
| v0.16.0 | June 5, 2026 | The Surface Release | Desktop app, remote gateway, web admin panel, fuzzy model picker, /undo, 简体中文, leaner skills, NVIDIA/skills tap |
| v0.15.2 | May 29, 2026 | Patch Release | Ships bundled plugin.yaml manifests in wheel and sdist (827f7f07) |
| v0.15.1 | May 29, 2026 | Patch Release | > The Patch Release. A same-day hotfix for v0.15.0. Headline fix: the dashboard infinite-reload loop that hit anyone running v0.15.0 in loopback mode (Docker, hosted Hermes, fresh installs). A handful of... |
| v0.15.0 | May 28, 2026 | Patch Release | > The Velocity Release. Hermes gets dramatically faster - to start, to run, to ship work, and to grow. The 16,083-line run_agent.py collapses to 3,821 (-76%) across 14 cohesive agent/* modules. Kanban... |
| v0.14.0 | May 16, 2026 | Patch Release | > The Foundation Release - Hermes installs and runs anywhere, ships with the things you actually want to use, and stops shipping the things you don't. xAI Grok lands as a SuperGrok OAuth provider with grok-4.3... |
| v0.13.0 | May 7, 2026 | Patch Release | > The Tenacity Release - Hermes Agent now finishes what it starts. Kanban ships as a durable multi-agent board (heartbeat, reclaim, zombie detection, auto-block on incomplete exit, per-task retries... |
| v0.12.0 | April 30, 2026 | Patch Release | > The Curator release - Hermes Agent now maintains itself. An autonomous background Curator grades, prunes, and consolidates your skill library on its own schedule. The self-improvement loop that reviews what... |
| v0.11.0 | April 23, 2026 | Patch Release | > The Interface release - a full React/Ink rewrite of the interactive CLI, a pluggable transport architecture underneath every provider, native AWS Bedrock support, five new inference paths, a 17th messaging... |
| v0.10.0 | April 16, 2026 | Patch Release | > The Tool Gateway release - paid Nous Portal subscribers can now use web search, image generation, text-to-speech, and browser automation through their existing subscription with zero additional API keys. |
| v0.9.0 | April 13, 2026 | Patch Release | > The everywhere release - Hermes goes mobile with Termux/Android, adds iMessage and WeChat, ships Fast Mode for OpenAI and Anthropic, introduces background process monitoring, launches a local web dashboard... |
| v0.8.0 | April 8, 2026 | Patch Release | > The intelligence release - background task auto-notifications, free MiMo v2 Pro on Nous Portal, live model switching across all platforms, self-optimized GPT/Codex guidance, native Google AI Studio, smart... |
| v0.7.0 | April 3, 2026 | Patch Release | > The resilience release - pluggable memory providers, credential pool rotation, Camofox anti-detection browser, inline diff previews, gateway hardening across race conditions and approval routing, and deep... |
| v0.6.0 | March 30, 2026 | Patch Release | > The multi-instance release - Profiles for running isolated agent instances, MCP server mode, Docker container, fallback provider chains, two new messaging platforms (Feishu/Lark and WeCom), Telegram webhook... |
| v0.5.0 | March 28, 2026 | Patch Release | > The hardening release - Hugging Face provider, /model command overhaul, Telegram Private Chat Topics, native Modal SDK, plugin lifecycle hooks, tool-use enforcement for GPT models, Nix flake, 50+ security... |
| v0.4.0 | March 24, 2026 | Patch Release | > The platform expansion release - OpenAI-compatible API server, 6 new messaging adapters, 4 new inference providers, MCP server management with OAuth 2.1, @ context references, gateway prompt caching... |
| v0.3.0 | March 17, 2026 | Patch Release | > The streaming, plugins, and provider release - unified real-time token delivery, first-class plugin architecture, rebuilt provider system with Vercel AI Gateway, native Anthropic provider, smart approvals... |
| v0.2.0 | March 12, 2026 | Patch Release | > First tagged release since v0.1.0 (the initial pre-public foundation). In just over two weeks, Hermes Agent went from a small internal project to a full-featured AI agent platform - thanks to an explosion of... |
How Updates Are Detected¶
Three release checks a day compare the newest Hermes Agent GitHub release against the version documented here:
| Check | Schedule | Action |
|---|---|---|
hermes-release-monitor |
02:00, 10:00, 18:00 UTC | Poll GitHub releases; draft and publish the changelog page for any new tag |
When a new release is detected, a changelog page is generated, committed to CorpusIQ/corpusiq-docs, deployed, and reported by email.¶
FAQ¶
What is the latest Hermes Agent version?¶
v0.22.5, published October 23, 2026. See the release notes for the full changes.
How often is the Hermes changelog updated?¶
New versions are detected automatically by release monitors that poll the Hermes Agent GitHub repository three times a day, and a changelog page for each release is published within 24 hours of the tag going live.
How do I update Hermes Agent?¶
Run hermes update from the terminal, or install fresh with the official installer script at hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh. Managed and hosted deployments update through their deployment tooling using the latest release tag.
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