Changelog
Hermes Agent v0.16.0
The "Surface" release — a real native desktop app for macOS, Linux and Windows, built across 100 PRs in a single week. Not a terminal wrapper.
Added
- Hermes Desktop — a real native app, not a terminal wrapper
- Run the desktop app against a remote Hermes — sign in with OAuth or username/password
- The web dashboard is now a full admin panel — configure everything from the browser
- Hermes Desktop speaks Simplified Chinese — full 简体中文 in the chat GUI
- Leaner default skill set — Hermes ships only what you actually need
- NVIDIA/skills is now a built-in trusted skills tap
- Quick Setup via Nous Portal — from install to first message in seconds
- Fuzzy model picker, everywhere — type a few letters, find your model
- /undo [N] — take back the last N turns
- Choose your default interface — cli or tui
- Simplified Chinese (简体中文) translation
Fixed
- CVE-2026-48710 (Starlette BadHost)
Before you upgrade
Snapshot the server first — Hermes ships often and not every release is quiet. Then:
hermes update
Re-run hermes doctor afterwards. If the upgrade leaves you with a
broken install, the fixes section covers the failures
that come up most.
Official release notes on GitHub →