# NousResearch/hermes-agent · CLI update-check caching stale or incorrect results

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where a \`failed\` or incomplete git fetch causes the CLI's update-check mechanism to cache and serve incorrect 'up to date' results, potentially hiding available releases for an extended period.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #95492. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #95492 (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-95492`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #82166: Update-check endpoint reports "up to date" for multiple consecutive days while a real release is available (inverse of the known stale-cache issue in #11007 / #1620)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#95492: fix(cli): a failed git fetch can no longer cache a false 'up to date' for 6 hours (#82166, salvage #83367)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/banner.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_check.py`
- **#83367: fix(cli): don't serve stale update-check results after fetch failure**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `98e87ac886a0b53e2ff80ac767df5283bf7d17ed`, `#95492`, `#92578`, `#82166`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #95492 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-26`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`