Hermes ships a big desktop and routing update
Teknium · x · 2026-07-20
Hermes shipped a large batch of updates across desktop, model routing, and developer tooling. - **Desktop:** live subagent transcripts, smoother streaming with per-token re-rendering removed, better custom endpoint setup in the GUI, more reliable terminal cursor detection, persistent session selection, and fixes for non-git/ZIP Windows installs. - **Models / routing:** the default X Search model changed from `grok-4.20-reasoning` to `grok-4.5` for faster responses, and Hermes now auto-detects Kimi’s advanced `K3` model. - **Developer tools:** the CLI `/model` picker is much faster by skipping redundant provider probing. - **Stability:** several UI and workflow bugs were fixed, including model selection, profile switching, Git-status hangs, and routing persistence. The post also says Hermes merged **50+ PRs in the last 24 hours**, suggesting an aggressive release cadence.
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