Hermes updates are about 4x faster

Teknium is back from vacation and says `hermes update` should now be about 4x faster for everyone. Nous Research replied in-thread. Community reaction was immediate (people running the update, HermesWatcher amplifying the desktop build speedup).

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Why it matters

Update latency is daily friction for anyone living on Hermes main. A 4x cut is the kind of change people feel the next time they patch, and it is the post the timeline actually clustered around today.

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More Releases

ReleasesNov 7

Hermes Agent v0.23.0 Ships Desktop-in-Browser, Unified Gateway, and More

Major release (Nov 5). Key highlights: full Desktop workspace served by the gateway in any browser tab (webapp.enabled); one gateway owns every conversation across CLI/TUI/Desktop/messaging/cron (fixes double-writes and missing messages); terminal image rendering; /Rewind; Group Chats with automatic routing; spend limits for paid tools; lighter/faster core (shared cache keys, faster LSP edits). Rolls up prior patch releases. ~10k commits, 666 contributors since v0.22.

Credit@NousResearch

ReleasesNov 5

Hermes Agent v0.23.0: The Hearth Release

Official release of Hermes Agent v0.23.0. Full Desktop workspace now runs in any browser tab (including phone). One gateway owns every conversation across CLI, TUI, Desktop, bots, and cron. Adds /Rewind, automatic Group Chat routing, price tags + spend limits on paid tools (even in YOLO mode), self-updating plugins, and major performance/memory improvements for long-lived gateways. Plugin catalog grew from ~600 to 1,050+. ~1,950 PRs from 666 contributors.

Credit@NousResearch

ReleasesNov 3

Hermes Merged 190 PRs on November 2 — Memory, Migration, Desktop, Security

Luke The Dev posted a detailed breakdown of the November 2 merge window (190 PRs). Highlights: gateway no longer freezes for memory trims; `hermes migrate <agent>` installs importers for Grok Bot and OpenBot; each Desktop terminal tab owns its own gateway; old phone-app chats continue in Desktop; local web server now trusts only loopback origins for CORS/WebSockets; MCP servers use the correct profile home; transient 401s no longer kill turns; 100+ plugin catalog additions and bumps.

Credit@iamlukethedev

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