What's New in v0.7

The v0.7.0-beta.1 release turns Herald’s source-aware mail and calendar foundation into a more memory-aware writing and review workspace. The headline work is local Herald Memories, the Gollem-backed chat agent path, Compose Radar, macOS preview printing, and denser everyday Timeline polish.

Release Delta

These are the changes most visible to people upgrading from the v0.6 beta line. The theme of the release is source-backed context: Herald can use local relationship memory, typed chat intents, and safer review surfaces without giving AI permission to mutate mail or calendar state directly.

• Herald Memories stores local, source-backed relationship context for people, companies, threads, open loops, Obsidian-friendly Markdown sync, and daily briefing diffs.
• Compose Radar shows bounded memory nudges in reply drafts when there is high-confidence evidence, while leaving drafts unchanged until the user chooses an action.
• The chat panel now uses the Gollem-backed UI chat agent path with read-only email and memory tools plus typed Timeline, summary, people, and Compose review intents.
• Chat can project typed Timeline results, so search-like answers can narrow the Timeline without relying on prose filters or legacy control markup.
• macOS email-preview printing opens the standard print dialog for Original Visual or Rendered Markdown modes while preserving remote-image privacy.
• Timeline reading gained range selection, faster chat reply handling, chat drawer scrolling/focus fixes, and clearer responsive layout coverage.
• AI setup and Settings gained role-based chat and embedding provider choices, external embedding provider support, managed AI scheduling, and repair states for unavailable local models.
• Docs and demo-first onboarding now emphasize the v0.7 product state, including Memories, Gollem chat, AI role assignments, and the safer first five minutes loop.

Screenshots

These screenshots use committed demo-mode media from the docs site so the page can render without touching a real inbox, calendar, AI provider, or private memory store. The dedicated Memories guide also tracks a Compose Radar screenshot capture for the next media refresh.

Beta Notes

The first v0.7 beta is a capability release rather than a small patch. This breakdown helps testers decide what to re-check after upgrading from v0.6.

• v0.7.0-beta.1 adds Herald Memories, Compose Radar, Gollem chat intents and tools, macOS preview printing, AI role assignment polish, and Timeline/chat hardening.
• beta-latest points at v0.7.0-beta.1, and Homebrew installs the same release-built macOS binaries.
• The release artifacts include herald, herald-mcp-server, and herald-ssh-server for both Apple Silicon and Intel macOS.

How To Try It

Demo mode remains the safest path for exploring the visible workflows. Memories and chat features are local and optional; AI-backed chat, Compose suggestions, semantic search, and memory extraction require configured AI before they can produce live assistant output.

brew tap herald-email/herald
brew install herald
herald --demo

From demo mode, press g to open chat, S to inspect AI and Memories settings, V then j/k to try Timeline range selection, and R from a Timeline row to open a reply draft where Compose Radar can appear when source-backed memory is available.

Previous Release

The v0.6 release line graduated Gmail OAuth onto the Gmail API mail source, made Calendar provider-backed, and hardened multi-account source identity. See What’s New in v0.6 for that historical release checklist.