What's Changed
- Desktop runtime startup is more resilient with download source selection, safer archive extraction, corrected runtime cache paths, Windows CLI launch fixes, and localized progress/error screens.
- Auxiliary compression model settings let each Profile choose a dedicated provider/model for chat context compression instead of always using the active chat model.
- Provider model catalogs can now be refreshed from the UI.
- Users can upload profile avatars, and group chat members now sync and display account avatars consistently.
- Workspace file browsing now supports richer text previews and context-menu coverage for source and document files.
- Agent Bridge is more reliable with refreshed tool approval allowlists and Windows tasklist/taskkill output decoding that avoids UnicodeDecodeError crashes.
- Website copy now consistently presents the product as Hermes Studio while keeping npm package, CLI, repository, and environment variable identifiers unchanged.
- OpenAPI docs now include avatar, auxiliary model config, provider model cache refresh, and Hermes session import endpoints.
- Memory notes can now be saved with empty content, making it possible to clear personal notes without a failed save.
- Repository harness docs now track chat-chain changes so bridge and chat-runtime updates are documented before CI passes.