`hermes setup` (and other banner-printing commands) crash with an unhandled
UnicodeEncodeError on Linux hosts whose locale selects a non-UTF-8 codec —
e.g. a fresh Raspberry Pi / minimal Debian with a latin-1 or C/POSIX locale.
The setup wizard prints box-drawing characters (┌│├└─) and the ⚕ glyph before
any stream repair runs, so the command dies before it can start.
The existing _ensure_utf8() shim already knew how to re-wrap the standard
streams as UTF-8, but it returned early on `sys.platform != "win32"`, so the
identical crash class on Linux was never covered.
- Drop the win32 gate: repair any stdout/stderr whose encoding is not UTF-8.
- Prefer TextIOWrapper.reconfigure() so the stream object is fixed in place
(cached sys.stdout references keep working); fall back to reopening the fd
with closefd=False (the CPython-recommended safe variant).
- Use errors="replace" — matching the sibling hermes_cli/stdio.py shim — so a
stray un-encodable byte degrades gracefully instead of crashing.
- Only set the PYTHONUTF8/PYTHONIOENCODING child-process hints when a repair
actually happened, so a healthy UTF-8 host sees zero footprint (no stream
swap, no env mutation).
This is intentionally the earliest, platform-agnostic guard, running at import
time before any banner prints. hermes_cli/stdio.py::configure_windows_stdio()
still runs later from the entry points for the Windows-only extras (console
code-page flip, EDITOR default, PATH augmentation); it early-returns on
non-Windows and its stream reconfigure is an idempotent no-op once we've
already repaired the streams here.
Add regression tests covering latin-1 and ascii/POSIX streams, the reconfigure
fallback, already-UTF-8 no-op (identity preserved + no env mutation), the
repair-sets-env and respects-explicit-env contracts, and hostile/None streams.
On Windows, services and terminals default to cp1252 encoding. The CLI
uses box-drawing characters (┌│├└─) in banners, doctor output, and
status displays. When print() tries to encode these under cp1252, an
unhandled UnicodeEncodeError crashes the gateway on startup.
This fix adds early UTF-8 enforcement in hermes_cli/__init__.py:
- Sets PYTHONUTF8=1 and PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8
- Re-opens stdout/stderr with UTF-8 encoding if not already UTF-8
Runs at import time so it protects all CLI subcommands. No effect on
Unix (gated on sys.platform == "win32"). Backwards-compatible: on
systems already using UTF-8, the function is a no-op.
Fixes#10956
The everywhere release — Hermes goes mobile with Termux/Android, adds
iMessage and WeChat, ships Fast Mode for OpenAI and Anthropic,
introduces background process monitoring, launches a local web
dashboard, and delivers the deepest security hardening pass yet
across 16 supported platforms.
487 commits, 269 merged PRs, 167 resolved issues, 24 contributors.
Add first-class GitHub Copilot and Copilot ACP provider support across
model selection, runtime provider resolution, CLI sessions, delegated
subagents, cron jobs, and the Telegram gateway.
This also normalizes Copilot model catalogs and API modes, introduces a
Copilot ACP OpenAI-compatible shim, and fixes service-mode auth by
resolving Homebrew-installed gh binaries under launchd.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Update __version__ to 0.2.0 (was 0.1.0)
- Update pyproject.toml to match
- Add RELEASE_v0.2.0.md with comprehensive changelog covering:
- All 231 merged PRs
- 120 resolved issues
- 74+ contributors credited
- Organized by feature area with PR links
- Fix version mismatch: __init__.py had 'v1.0.0', pyproject.toml had '0.1.0'
Now both use '0.1.0' (no v prefix — added in display code only)
- Add __release_date__ for CalVer date tracking alongside SemVer version
- Fix double-v bug in cmd_version (was printing 'vv1.0.0')
- Update banner title to show 'Hermes Agent v0.1.0 (2026.3.12)' format
- Update cli.py banner to match new format
- Add scripts/release.py: full release automation tool
- Generates categorized changelogs from git history
- Maps git authors to GitHub @mentions (70+ contributors)
- Supports dry-run preview and --publish mode
- Creates annotated CalVer git tags + GitHub Releases
- Bumps semver in source files automatically
- Usage: python scripts/release.py --bump minor --publish
- Add .release_notes.md to .gitignore
Versioning scheme: CalVer tags (v2026.3.12) + SemVer display (v0.1.0)
- Updated CLI to load configuration from user-specific and project-specific YAML files, prioritizing user settings.
- Introduced a new command `/platforms` to display the status of connected messaging platforms (Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp).
- Implemented a gateway system for handling messaging interactions, including session management and delivery routing for cron job outputs.
- Added support for environment variable configuration and a dedicated gateway configuration file for advanced settings.
- Enhanced documentation in README.md and added a new messaging.md file to guide users on platform integrations and setup.
- Updated toolsets to include platform-specific capabilities for Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp, ensuring secure and tailored interactions.