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Hermes Desktop v1.1.0

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@dodo-reach dodo-reach released this 07 Jun 21:45
· 5 commits to main since this release

Hermes Desktop 1.1.0 is the appearance release. Your SSH-first workspace is the
same dependable Hermes, now with more room to make it feel like yours.

You can choose Light, Dark, or System appearance, tune the window opacity, use a
translucent material, and add an optional background image behind the workbench
and terminal. Terminal and Sessions Chat now share font family and size
preferences, so long work sessions can feel clearer, calmer, and more personal.

This release also polishes the Settings experience and split-pane behavior. Host
and profile controls are denser, resizing feels steadier, panels keep practical
minimum widths, and transparent terminal backgrounds stay transparent when a
background image is active.

Fixes:

  • select the first saved host automatically when no active host preference
    exists
  • repair stale active-host preferences on launch
  • make a newly saved first host active immediately
  • select the next available host after deleting the active host

Thanks to @Yunle-Lee for sharing early PRs around background images and terminal
scrolling. The appearance customization landed through a separate
implementation, and PR #56 helped shape the terminal scrolling fix included in
this release.

Download:

  • Use HermesDesktop.app.zip, the single universal macOS archive for Apple
    Silicon and Intel Macs.
  • This build is still ad-hoc signed and not notarized, so macOS may still
    require right-click > Open on first launch.

Validation:

  • Ran ./scripts/run-tests.sh: 118 tests passed.
  • Built from exact tag v1.1.0 with ./scripts/package-github-release.sh.
  • Verified CFBundleShortVersionString is 1.1.0 and CFBundleVersion is
    129.
  • Verified universal architectures: arm64 x86_64.
  • Verified archive, manifest, checksum, bundle metadata, and ad-hoc signature
    with ./scripts/verify-release.sh.

SHA-256:

1b87ec967a80ca9b394a378f741c4566ee41c584293b5840c10af044cae08d69  HermesDesktop.app.zip