Cron stale-code ticker and gateway restart bugs

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 117275

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #117501. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and fixes concern a cron ticker incorrectly treating stale-code yields as dispatch outages, and related problems with gateway restart detection and fleet-restart warning persistence. Multiple adjacent but distinct bugs share a common root area around stale gateway handling and cron scheduling behavior.

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  • #117501 fix(update): stale-code cron yield reads as an outage and hermes update restarts proven-stale gateways (#117275)

    merged to main

    files: cron/scheduler.py, hermes_cli/cron.py, hermes_cli/update_cmd_fleet.py, hermes_cli/update_cmd_stale_survivors.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_gateway_yield.py, website/docs/developer-guide/cron-internals.md

  • #117679 fix(cron): stale-code ticker keeps dispatching when the lock holder is not a fresh gateway (#117275, salvage #117287)

    merged to main

    files: cron/scheduler.py, gateway/code_skew.py, tests/cron/test_cron_tick_stale_yield.py, website/docs/developer-guide/cron-internals.md

  • #117748 Fleet-restart warning no longer sticks forever on a serve backend, and macOS reports a gateway restarted only when its PID changed (#117275)

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/gateway.py, hermes_cli/update_abort_recovery.py, hermes_cli/update_cmd_fleet.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fleet_restart_pending.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_update_launchd_restart_verification.py

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  • #117287 fix(cron): keep schedules dispatching when the gateway holder is stale · merged via another change → 95b1f4c, #117679, #117275, #117501, #117748
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#117275[Bug]: hermes update never restarts the running gateway — cron ticker yields every tick as 'stale code' for hours, `cron status` stays green during a total dispatch outage
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#117501, #117679, #117748
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21 Sep 2026

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