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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.

PUBLISHED2026-08-16
OBSERVED2026-08-21
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  • Desktop app: multi-gateway Connections registry, profile-scoped refreshes, MCP health checks and deep links
  • CLI: Windows update probes, Kitty keyboard protocol, chat -c hardening
  • Gateway: persisted model routes, /loop completion, Telegram DM topics
  • Provider: prompt caching for LiteLLM Claude on the OpenAI wire
  • Operations: cron hardening, auth resolution through profile scopes
  • Installers: robustness improvements on Linux and Windows
  • Full curated release notes will ship with v0.21.0 covering everything from v0.20.0 onward
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