# 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.

| | |
|---|---|
| **Tool** | Hermes Agent |
| **Version** | v2026.8.16 |
| **Kind** | release |
| **Published** | 2026-08-16 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-21 |
| **Significance** | 3/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | fix |

## What changed


- **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


## Sources

- [github_release](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.8.16) — retrieved 2026-08-21


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