Hermes update safety and venv mutation guards
Cluster 83529 · hermes cli. Data as of
Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #99542 on 31 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #99542. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
resolved, deciding PR #99542. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- Nothing open on GitHub.
These issues and fixes relate to protecting against destructive behavior during updates, specifically warning or refusing to proceed when a dependency reinstall could break the Hermes launcher or when a virtual environment contains files not owned by the package manager.
Open issues0
Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#99542 fix(update): refuse to mutate a venv containing foreign-owned files (#83529)
files:
hermes_cli/update_cmd.py,tests/hermes_cli/test_update_venv_ownership_preflight.py
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: done elsewhere 1
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#83564 fix(update): warn when a failed dependency reinstall breaks the hermes launcher · done elsewhere →
#83529
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#83529[Bug]: hermes update - destroys hermes
How this cluster was grouped
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Link evidence (
structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference. -
Pairwise link density
0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36.1.00means every pair is linked.
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Open the LabAt a glance
- Subsystem
- hermes cli
- Merged PRs
- #99542
- Closed issues
- 1
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 31 Aug 2026