Hermes merged 113 PRs on October 17 The ones worth knowing: • Desktop now shows a lost turn with its Discard button when the gateway dies mid-turn, and you can steer or edit a queued prompt right from Desktop • patch and write_file return in milliseconds, and LSP diagnostics no longer hold up the write • Agents stop re-waiting on a quiet background process. Hermes tells them when it exits, and commands ending in a trailing & now run as tracked background jobs instead of being refused • LM Studio, Kimi and MiniMax streamed tool calls no longer shatter into broken calls • X Chat joins the plugin catalog as an official plugin, running as the account you connect • DeepSeek v4.1 Flash lands in the OpenRouter and Nous Portal pickers, and llama.cpp gets Nemotron 3.5 Bolt with DFlash drafts • Ctrl+D mid-turn in the CLI now detaches from the gateway instead of killing the run • Tighter secrets: frozen config secrets bind to their resolved endpoints, built-in keys stay off look-alike custom entries, and memory providers only serve their own profile • A big messaging sweep fixes WhatsApp, Telegram, Feishu, Discord voice and Bot Chat edge cases • Background one-shot calls stop paying for prompt-cache writes nobody reads • Slow session viewers no longer get dropped mid-reply on busy hosts • The plugin catalog grew a lot: Unraid, Nextcloud Talk, Grok Voice via hermes-xai, Jina, pay, personae and more Here is the full list: DESKTOP IMPROVEMENTS (8 PRs) • fix(desktop): show a lost turn and its Discard after the gateway dies mid-turn • fix: pre-upgrade sessions follow a moved custom endpoint; no setup card over a configured Desktop boot • feat(gateway): steer and edit a canonical queued prompt from Desktop • fix(gateway): send Ink and Desktop the turn's reasoning again • fix(desktop): list a chat the backend filed in Home even when it carries a cwd • fix(desktop): pinned removals, legacy-remote snapshot reads, insecure-origin dashboard writes • plugin-catalog: add quote-ask (Desktop: quote a selection into the prompt) • feat(plugin-catalog): add machine-spirit (community, desktop) VOICE & REAL-TIME (4 PRs) • feat(plugin-catalog): add hermes-xai (Grok Voice for Desktop + read-only xAI Collections search) • feat(plugin-catalog): add voice-ledger • LM Studio / Kimi / MiniMax streamed tool calls no longer shatter into broken calls • Slow session viewers no longer get dropped mid-reply on loaded hosts DEVELOPER TOOLS & PLUGINS (62 PRs) • patch/write_file return in milliseconds; LSP diagnostics no longer block the write • Agents stop re-waiting on a quiet background process; Hermes notifies them on exit instead • Foreground commands ending in a lone trailing & run as tracked background processes instead of being refused • fix(cli): Ctrl+D mid-turn detaches from the gateway instead of interrupting • fix(cli): Vertex /config label, /status id pin, and the classic CLI E2E comparisons • hermes update shows git's real fetch error, not only the From line • docs(api-server): what an Idempotency-Key covers after a session delete • Catalog installs of the Claude subscription and REA plugins get today's fixes • catalog: Claude subscription provider keeps its prompt cache across user turns after tool calls • catalog: aside-browser, duty-board, fish-audio 1.6.0, git-autosave, plan-mode 0.6.8, boardstate 1.5.2, limbic 0.6.4 • catalog: make-parts-now 1.0.1, blackbox • fix(catalog): update hermes-tailscale to 0.0.7 • fix(catalog): update hermes-resetwatch to 0.2.23 • chore(catalog): add a banner image to shodan • chore(catalog): add a banner image to openalex • chore(catalog): add a banner image to hermes-toolsmith • chore(catalog): add a banner image to hermes-terminal • chore(catalog): add a banner image to hermes-ssh • chore(catalog): add a banner image to hermes-session-diff • chore(catalog): add a banner image to hermes-rss • chore(catalog): add a banner image to hermes-office • chore(catalog): add a banner image to hermes-nous-prices • chore(catalog): add a banner image to hermes-ledgerline • chore(catalog): add a banner image to devin • chore(catalog): add a banner image to cloudflare-web-search • chore(catalog): add a banner image to clinepass • feat(plugin-catalog): add hermes-jina plugin • feat(plugin-catalog): add DeadBolt reviewed artifact writes • chore(plugin-catalog): update letsfg to 1.1.1 • Add catalog entry: deepseek-search-fetch • plugin-catalog: bump vector-platform to v0.5.3 • feat(plugin-catalog): add field-academy plugin • feat(catalog): add Unraid plugin • plugin-catalog: effortless-hermes v0.3.0 • Add usage-guard to the plugin catalog • feat(plugin-catalog): add stop-ledger • feat(plugin-catalog): add hermes-wslc-sandbox (WSL Containers terminal backend) • catalog: bump hydradb to 1.0.1 • feat(plugin-catalog): add comment-scraper • chore(catalog): pin scamgate to v0.3.0 • chore(catalog): holographic 0.17.3: which names are entities; delete, rename and split entities • fix(catalog): update Senler.io to 0.5.6 • Add tokstat to the plugin catalog • fix(plugin-catalog): update Model Router to v0.4.4 direct-Main policy • feat(plugin-catalog): add jp-reinfolib • plugin-catalog: bump hermes-lang-pt-br to f7b4357 (catalogs complete against main) • feat(plugin-catalog): add hermes-gensyn-ree • feat(plugin-catalog): add hermes-gensyn-delphi • catalog: bump iowap to 0.3.2 • feat(plugin-catalog): add bot-cabinet plugin • chore(plugin-catalog): repin kanban-gantt to 51d9e6a and pin 1.6.1 • catalog: add hermes-federated-search • plugin-catalog: add wallpaper-theme • feat(plugin-catalog): add Hermes Fleet Connector v0.1.5 • feat(plugin-catalog): add pay and pay-cli • feat(plugin-catalog): add personae • plugin-catalog: hermes-cloud-file-manager v0.4.0 • plugin-catalog: bump hermes-teammates to 0.1.3 • feat(plugin-catalog): add ample plugin • plugins: add hermes-artifacts private artifact library • feat(catalog): add hermes-muse companion assembly • plugin-catalog: bump hermes-lcm-x to 0.27.0 SECURITY & SECRETS (5 PRs) • fix(gateway): bind frozen config secrets to their resolved endpoints, not the whole policy • fix(providers): keep a built-in's key off a custom entry that shares its name • fix(memory): serve a memory provider only to the profile it was initialized for • fix(gateway): admit a user_id-routed sender on its routed profile • fix(gateway): don't send messaging users to /login for a host-side resolution failure INTEGRATIONS & CHAT (14 PRs) • X Chat joins the plugin catalog as an official plugin • X Chat catalog card: Hermes runs as the account you connect • feat: add Nextcloud Talk plugin catalog entry • deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 available in OpenRouter and Nous Portal pickers • feat(local-runtime): Nemotron 3.5 Bolt and DFlash drafts on llama.cpp b11671 • Platform plugins get public core helpers for authz, HTTP, setup and clarify (QQ Bot handoff) • refactor(platforms): core reads per-platform settings from each plugin instead of hand-kept tables • fix(gateway): a Bot Chat DM refused while another writer holds the chat is a definite no-send • fix(gateway): keep booting after a deleted Bot Chat's tombstones expire • fix(gateway): one set of local bots for groups and the roster, canonical group tab • fix(gateway): multiplexed WhatsApp TIME-WAIT, Feishu comment scope, Discord voice, webhook cron profile • fix(gateway): wake anchors never reach Telegram reply_to, heartbeats into GUI sessions, /retry admits before rewriting • fix(acp): named replies for unserved commands, provider-prefixed picks, overlay homes • fix(acp): map thought, plan, tool-state and image events on the gateway path STABILITY & FIXES (20 PRs) • test(windows): live Windows proof, plus a Windows packaging fix • fix(windows): user-usable dirs after an elevated run, named elevation/other-session refusals, lock-dir recovery • fix(state): concurrent startups on a zeroed state.db no longer report it read-only • TUI switcher-close tests stop failing at random on loaded CI runners • fix(sessions): catch a lagging state.db up once on browse instead of 503 • fix(gateway): live skill commands in Ink, clarify batches for local viewers, owner clarify.lock • fix(state): store a settled turn's reply once in its admission result • fix(gateway): session.usage also carries the nested usage view; deprecate the flat counters • fix(scratch): keep an idle entry a live Hermes-owned process works in; reap only orphans • fix(gateway): commands and one-shot output behave on the gateway as they did on main • fix(gateway): restore older local receipts and keep stored routes canonical • fix(api): keep API idempotency and image cleanup working across session delete • fix(gateway): log the cause of silent owner, storage and control-path failures • v0.22.2 installs fast-forward to main (record v0.22.2 as an ancestor) • fix(gateway): session writes from serve/dashboard reach the owner and fail by name • fix(gateway): adopt pre-update API session keys, keep pending clarify cards on re-entry • fix(gateway): reopen persisted sessions the gateway hasn't loaded, compressed-child resume, TUI switcher close • test(uninstall): control-socket uninstall test no longer races its own event-loop close • Browser tools no longer crash on deeply nested page data • Background one-shot calls no longer pay a prompt-cache write nobody reads 113 new features and fixes xitter.cf/iamlukethedev/status/2…