# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Dashboard restart behavior and status during updates

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where updating Hermes on Windows leaves the dashboard web UI unresponsive after restart, and related CLI fixes to improve dashboard status detection and cleanup consistency across update paths.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #72217. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #72217 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-72217`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #58578: hermes update (Windows) stops the dashboard server but only restarts the gateway — web UI chat left dead until manual relaunch

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#72192: fix(update): restart supervised and manually-started backends after update**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/main.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_dashboard.py`
- **#72217: fix(cli): live-probe dashboard status and share update cleanup across paths**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/main.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_lifecycle_flags.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_dashboard.py`
- **#58689: fix(cli): clarify dashboard update restart and status**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `486c5ffc8d`, `#72217`, `#72192`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #72217 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-26`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`