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RELEASES28
BREAKING5
LATESTv2026.8.18
SHIPPED8d
TRACKED SINCE2026-03-12
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RELEASE CADENCE · LAST 12 MONTHS

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Releases per month, last twelve months
MonthReleasesShare
2025-09 0 0%
2025-10 0 0%
2025-11 0 0%
2025-12 0 0%
2026-01 0 0%
2026-02 0 0%
2026-03 5 18%
2026-04 6 21%
2026-05 5 18%
2026-06 2 7%
2026-07 5 18%
2026-08 5 18%
12-MONTH TOTAL 28—

BREAKING CHANGES

v2026.5.29 Hermes Agent v0.15.1: dashboard reload-loop hotfix, Docker --insecure now explicit 2mo v2026.5.28 Hermes Agent v0.15.0: agent-loop refactor, Kanban orchestration, rebuilt session_search 2mo v2026.5.7 Hermes Agent v0.13.0: durable multi-agent Kanban, session auto-resume, 8 P0 security fixes 3mo

RECENT

Density
8d
07:26
hermes-agent Hermes Agent 0.20.4: glass UI, tabbed sidebar, Bot Mode fixes, NVIDIA SkillEvaluator v2026.8.18 · SIG 2/5
8d
18:43
aidev hermes-agent

Hermes Agent v0.20.3: patch rollup of ~125 PRs including MCP 2.x, bot mode, cron self-heal

Patch release bundling ~125 merged PRs since v0.20.2 into a stable tag. Notable changes include the MCP 2.x SDK migration, stateless protocol support, a bundled Bot Mode plugin with teammate protocol, the CommandCode provider plugin, Python subprocess isolation, Cua Driver 0.20, cron scheduler self-healing (EMFILE, stale-claim, wedged-job recovery), and session handoff data-loss fixes. Full curated release notes deferred to v0.21.0.

featurefixcapability
9d
17:33
aidev hermes-agent

Hermes Agent 0.20.2: stable patch rollup with ~397 PRs, full notes deferred to v0.21.0

A stable tagged patch release rolling up the ~967 commits (~397 PRs) since v0.20.1. Areas touched include the desktop Connections registry, CLI Windows/Kitty protocol hardening, gateway model routes and /loop completion, Telegram DM topics, LiteLLM Claude prompt caching, cron hardening, auth profile scoping, and installer robustness. This release is a tagged checkpoint for downstream consumers; detailed per-PR notes are deferred to the v0.21.0 changelog.

fix
22d
16:57
aidev hermes-agent

Hermes Agent v0.20.0: streaming voice with barge-in, outbound webhooks, desktop plugin SDK

Large release centred on real-time conversational voice: Hermes now speaks clause-by-clause as it generates, can be interrupted mid-sentence, and responds to on-device wake words across CLI, desktop, and messaging gateways. It also gains signed outbound webhooks for pushing lifecycle events to external HTTP endpoints, a grounded-citations research skill, and a desktop plugin SDK with sandboxed artifact previews.

featurecapabilityapi-change
26d
23:45
1mo
18:35
aidev hermes-agent

Hermes Agent v0.19.0: ~80% faster first token, smart approvals on by default, password-manager secrets

Large Hermes release cutting cold-start time to first token from ~4.3s to ~0.9s across CLI, gateway, TUI, desktop and cron, with reasoning now streamed live by default. It also flips flagged-command approvals to LLM-reviewed by default, adds Bitwarden/1Password as secret sources, live subagent transcripts, and a durable ledger so a finished response survives a gateway crash. Anyone running Hermes unattended or with approval gates should read the approval-behaviour change before upgrading.

featurecapabilitysecurity
1mo
03:11
hermes-agent Hermes Agent v0.18.2: WhatsApp Baileys dependency unpinned v2026.7.7.2 · SIG 2/5
1mo
01:15
hermes-agent Hermes Agent v0.18.1: untriaged rollup tag of ~667 commits v2026.7.7 · SIG 2/5
1mo
20:08
aidev hermes-agent

Hermes Agent 0.18.0: Mixture-of-Agents as a selectable model, evidence-based completion

Major release. Mixture-of-Agents stops being a mode and becomes a selectable model under a moa provider in every picker, with each reference model's output shown as its own block and the aggregator's answer streamed live. The agent now records verification evidence for coding work and judges completion against /goal completion contracts rather than self-assertion, with a pre_verify hook and a one-time defaults migration. Also adds /learn to distil reusable skills and /journey plus a desktop memory graph to inspect and prune what the agent has learned.

featurecapabilitymodel-support
2mo
19:39
aidev hermes-agent

Hermes Agent v0.17.0: iMessage and Raft channels, background subagents, image editing

Large release adding two new places Hermes can run — iMessage via Photon's managed line pool (no Mac relay or BlueBubbles bridge) and the Raft agent network via a wake-channel bridge — plus background subagent delegation, image-to-image editing in image_generate, and grok-composer-2.5-fast reachable through an xAI Grok OAuth subscription. The desktop app and dashboard both gained substantial surface. Matters if you run Hermes for yourself or a team on any of these channels.

featurecapabilitymodel-supportsecurity
2mo
00:55
aidev hermes-agent

Hermes Agent v0.16.0: native desktop app and browser admin panel

Hermes ships an Electron desktop application for macOS, Linux and Windows with in-app self-update, and the web dashboard becomes a full administration surface for MCP, channels, credentials and auth. The desktop client can also drive a remote Hermes gateway over WebSocket with OAuth or username/password, so the GUI and the agent runtime no longer have to live on the same machine. The bundled skill set was trimmed, with several skills removed outright and others demoted to optional installs.

featurecapabilitysecuritydeprecation
2mo
13:37
hermes-agent Hermes Agent v0.15.2: bundled plugin manifests included in packages v2026.5.29.2 · SIG 2/5
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