OpenHands' Latest release is three minor versions below a release from three weeks earlier, on the same line
OpenHands seeded the archived agent-canvas project's release history into OpenHands/OpenHands and continued cutting releases on that number series. The agent line last tagged 1.11.0 on 2026-07-09; v1.8.0, published 2026-07-30, is now marked Latest. Ancestry shows one line and no fork: compare/1.11.0...v1.8.0 returns ahead_by 903, behind_by 0. Each migrated release body states its own provenance, including that the migration was performed by an AI agent on behalf of the user, and PR #16133 disabled tag publish triggers during it. The consolidation is deliberate, documented work; the side effect is that the version number stopped being monotonic.
What this changes for operators
- Anything that orders versions rather than dates -- a package constraint, a Renovate or Dependabot rule, a pinned container tag, an internal currency check -- reads 1.11.0 as greater than 1.8.0 and will treat the newer release as a downgrade. Pin OpenHands by tag or digest and resolve currency by publish date until the series passes 1.11.0.
Run: 2026-08-03-weekly-digest-2026-07-27_2026-08-03-frontier-v0
Schema: bitter.frontier_signals.v0 / ID: 2026-08-03-openhands-latest-sorts-below-an-older-release
Research evidence and publication history are open in the repository.