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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| v0.20.1 | August 13, 2026 | Patch Release | 1,444 commits, ~656 PRs: stabilization across desktop app, gateway platforms, installers, tool system, provider catalogs — full notes with v0.21.0 |
| 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 |
How Updates Are Detected¶
Three crons monitor Hermes Agent releases:
| Cron | Schedule | Action |
|------|----------|--------|
| hermes-release-monitor | 02:00, 10:00, 18:00 UTC | Check GitHub releases for new versions |
When a new release is detected, a changelog page is drafted, committed to CorpusIQ/corpusiq-docs, and reported via Telegram.¶
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