Hive changelog: what's new each month
Every stable Hive release summarised by month: the highlights, new features, improvements, fixes and anything you need to act on. 3 months covered; the current month updates daily.
October 2026 · so far
12 releases: 1.0.0 → 1.0.11
October brought Hive 1.0, a major milestone introducing a two-phase colony model with shared tracking, playbooks for coordinated work, and scheduled execution. The release also included significant packaging improvements and a suite of developer and user-facing features.
Action needed
- Packages renamed: aden-hive (was framework) and aden-tools (was tools); old names deprecated.
- Four-phase model replaced with two phases (independent/colony); colony creation now via suggestcolony.
- Credentials tool methods changed: browse, inspect and remove deprecated in favor of collect, attach, detach.
Highlights
- Queens now work independently or run colonies with shared SQLite trackers and coordinated worker playbooks.
- Thirteen persona queens available, with six active by default and the ability to create custom ones.
- Scheduled colonies with cron, interval and webhook triggers, catching up on missed runs.
- MCP servers integrated as tools for agents, with flexible configuration and multiple running modes.
- Each queen can now have its own model instead of sharing the main LLM.
New
- Colony mode with shared SQLite tracker design and worker coordination via playbooks.
- Skills recording: queens record working pilot protocols as reusable skills for spawned workers.
- Scheduled colonies with cron, interval and webhook triggers.
- Branch conversations at any message with automatic naming after first reply.
- Channels: chat-app integrations registered by external packages.
- Judge slot for protocol validation and stall detection.
- Turn context registration via entry-point for packages.
- MCP server integration with tools and CLI modes.
Improved
- Playbooks dispatch workers per tracker row with retries, backoff, rate-limited lanes and circuit breaker.
- Reasoning streamed back for Qwen, DeepSeek and GLM models.
- Conversation search now reads Chinese characters.
- Memory reflection optimized to every few replies instead of after every model call.
- Dashboard version now displays correctly and matches installed Hive version.
- Lighter package imports with lazy loading of framework and framework.host classes.
- Stall check uses the judge for consistent model validation behavior.
- Failed model calls excluded from chat app propagation.
Fixed
- Dashboard version now reflects actual installed Hive version instead of showing v0.1.0.
- Creating a queen from dashboard no longer returns an error.
- Messages reaching a queen during startup no longer cause issues.
- API key prompting on every refresh when saved as llm.apikey.
- hive serve now stops within seconds instead of triggering final memory reflection.
- MCP servers support on different Python versions with uv virtualenvs on Windows.
May 2026
1 release: 0.11.0
May brought major improvements to task management and charting capabilities. Tasks now persist on disk with full lifecycle support, while new charting tools and renderers enable richer data visualization in conversations.
Highlights
- Tasks now persist to disk and survive between agent runs, enabling inspection, replay, and sharing.
- Queen can create multiple tasks in a single call and work through them systematically instead of one at a time.
- Live task list appears in the UI showing plan status and progress in real time.
- New charting server with ECharts and Mermaid support renders visualizations directly in chat.
- Colony task templates let recurring workflows start with the same plan every time.
New
- File-backed task store with full CRUD operations, scoping, hooks, and reminders.
- Multi-task creation allowing Queen to stage an entire plan up front.
- Colony task templates for consistent recurring workflow setup.
- TaskListPanel UI component showing live task list and status updates.
- ChartTools MCP server with ECharts and Mermaid renderers.
- Inline chart rendering with EChartsBlock and MermaidBlock components.
- Chart-creation-foundations skill teaching Queen when to use charts versus tables.
- OpenHive theme for chart styling.
Improved
- Task reminders and hooks integrated into Queen's main loop to keep plans visible.
- Structural blockers preventing tool calls on tasks are now resolved.
- Chart spec normalization ensures consistent Y-axis scaling, series colors, and theme tokens across visualizations.
- Tool results display with ChartToolDetail for more contentful chart presentation.
April 2026
8 releases: 0.8.0 → 0.10.5
April brought major architectural overhauls across browser automation, agent memory, and skill management. The month featured a complete shift from Playwright to Chrome extension control, introduction of queen-based personas with episodic memory, and a new skill library system.
Action needed
- Built-in skills moved from defaultskills/ to presetskills/; existing skills carry over but folder names changed.
- Browser automation now requires Chrome extension setup (Open chrome://extensions/, enable Developer mode, load tools/browser-extension/ unpacked) instead of using Playwright.
- {{placeholder}} substitution in SKILL.md now applies overrides from defaultskills agent config at runtime (previously parsed but discarded).
Highlights
- Browser automation now uses Chrome extensions via WebSocket instead of spawning separate Playwright instances.
- New queen system with profiles, direct messaging, and intelligent routing to match tasks with the best agent.
- Skill Library page lets you browse, enable, and upload skills scoped to queens or colonies.
- Episodic memory system replaced monolithic cross-session memory with targeted recall of relevant memories.
- Fraction-based browser coordinates (0..1 range) make tools model-invariant and more reliable.
New
- hive skill install, remove, list, info, validate, and doctor commands for managing skills from git URLs and starter packs.
- Queen profiles with traits, psychology, behavior triggers, and skill sets, each backed by YAML configuration.
- Queen DMs with dedicated session flow, message timestamps, day dividers, and a session switcher.
- Independent / PM mode for queens to run planning-phase work with visible internal monologue.
- Skill Library page to browse, toggle, and upload skills by scope with inline SKILL.md viewing.
- Per-queen and per-colony tool allowlists to control which MCP tools each queen or colony can access.
- Prometheus tool for querying metrics from agents.
- Remote browser debugger (scripts/browserremote.py) with live screenshots and coordinate inspector.
Improved
- Browser tools now use fraction-based coordinates (0..1 range) for model-invariant control across different viewport sizes.
- Episodic memory v2 with reflection agent, cooldown-gated reflections, and recall-selector for targeted retrieval.
- CEOstyle queen selection routes requests to the best-matching queen based on task with structured routing diagnostics.
- Queens survive profile and queen switches without tearing down active runtime.
- Tab-group isolation prevents stale state from bleeding across profiles when Chrome reuses tab IDs.
- Context health tracking fixed to prevent long sessions from drifting into eviction loops.
- Cache-control now propagates through OpenRouter for compatible upstream providers.
- Cost tracking unified across providers and persisted across sessions in USD with native cost reporting.
Fixed
- Message timestamps and day dividers in DMs no longer reshuffle as they arrive from streaming.
- Cancelled executions now fully terminate before a session can restart.
- Codex store=False is now honored correctly.
- UI handles broken Aden API keys gracefully.
- Frame-resize jank fixed in VSCode extension.
- Browser CDP bridge is more robust across click, snapshot, and inspection paths.
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