What's new in the v0.7 line: hal0's first beta

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT

v0.7.3-beta.1 is hal0’s first beta. The headline is the dashboard: it graduates from a status panel into a full operations console. Everything below traces to the changelog — no roadmap promises, just what landed.

The dashboard is now an ops console

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The inference, NPU, and ComfyUI cards are unified into one profile-card style. Profiles moved into the Slots tab under an engine-style header, the memory + throughput band was lifted above the tabs, and a live-journal footer now carries runtime and service-health groups. Slot cards came out of the accordion so they read at a glance.

ComfyUI image generation, first-class

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A full ComfyUI generation engine is wired into the platform — model store, capability picker, installer, and a V2 Image-Gen pane. Generation flips the GPU into exclusive image mode via the iGPU switchover, and an Inference-tab dot tracks live state so you always know what the accelerator is doing.

NPU occupancy and the Operator Board

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The XDNA NPU gets a living occupancy grid with per-slot accents — it breathes with real activity instead of hiding behind a static picker. Alongside it, the Operator Board is a hal0-skinned kanban wired to the bundled Hermes agent (/api/board/*), with a live agent-chat drawer and working task creation.

Honesty under the hood

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The less flashy changes matter most for an operator’s tool:

Slot health is honest. A slot is marked ready only once its real /health passes — not on a systemd snapshot that lies about readiness.
Per-slot context is derived, never silently inheriting llama-server’s 4096-token default; the edit-drawer default is 16k.
Hardware reports the live GTT total, not a stale cached probe value — so the unified-memory pool you see is the pool you have.
Disabled-but-running slots are surfaced instead of vanishing.

Try it

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Terminal window

curl -fsSL https://hal0.dev/install.sh | bash

Already running an older line? hal0 update --channel stable (or nightly), and hal0 update --rollback reverts atomically. Full notes on the releases page.