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Pulse · 6–12 November 2026

The pulse of Holochain.

What moved this week: the code, the releases, the people and the developer chat, each with the date it was counted.

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110code bases changed in the last 30 days
of the 185 that changed in the last year

Updated 13 November 2026, 02:00 UTC

Latest article: Holochain Agent Skills ports its agent guidance to Holochain 0.7.1

One mark per code base.

Where the work happened

Most active projects

Ordered by commits in the last 7 days. A project's mark opens its page; the framework's opens GitHub.

All projects
  1. Holochain-TimeConorTttttt417 commits
  2. elohimethosengine329 commits
  3. ad4mcoasys312 commits
  4. Your-Own-AIWeAreFlowsta236 commits
  5. appsocial-production160 commits
  6. HandShakeTrevorWysong135 commits
  7. HoloTrustmeyyit34-cpt117 commits
  8. epistemic-happStateofIntent98 commits
  9. holochain-agent-skillsSoushi88845 commits
  10. holochain-musicConorTttttt41 commits
  11. flowsta-vault-appWeAreFlowsta31 commits
  12. map-holonsevomimic25 commits

This week

Most active contributors

At least 21 people committed to Holochain projects in the last 7 days. Ranked by the days they committed, then commits; each card opens their GitHub profile.Commits to each project's main branch, from GitHub. Automated accounts are left out.

Counted 13 November 2026, 02:36 UTC
  1. Active 7 of 7 days · 329 commitsElohim
  2. Active 7 of 7 days · 267 commitsYour Own AI, Flowsta Vault
  3. Active 7 of 7 days · 135 commitsHandShake
  4. Active 7 of 7 days · 42 commitsSocial Production
  5. Active 6 of 7 days · 173 commitsAD4M
  6. Active 5 of 7 days · 445 commitsHolochain-Time, Holochain Music and 1 more
  7. Active 5 of 7 days · 106 commitsThe Epistemic Resonance Protocol, Epistemic Resonance
  8. Active 5 of 7 days · 53 commitsHolochain Agent Skills, Requests and Offers and 1 more
  9. Active 5 of 7 days · 17 commitsMap Holons
  10. Active 5 of 7 days · 13 commitsMycelix
  11. Active 4 of 7 days · 29 commitsAD4M
  12. Active 4 of 7 days · 9 commitsRequests and Offers

Releases

Shipped in the last 30 days

One card per project, the newest release first. A dashed tag is a pre-release. A card opens its project's page; the framework's opens GitHub.

  1. Epistemic ResonanceStateofIntentv0.3.5v0.3.4+4 more12 November 2026
  2. Your Own AIWeAreFlowstav0.9.1-beta.7 (pre-release)yoai-beta (pre-release)+2 more11 November 2026
  3. recovery-zomesHelloVollav0.1.010 November 2026
  4. wind-tunnelholochainmain-ca2fb31 (pre-release)9 November 2026
  5. holochainholochainrelease-20261109.041421 (pre-release)holochain-0.8.0-dev.14 (pre-release)+2 more9 November 2026
  6. Mosslightningrodlabsv0.16.0-rc.5-test.28 (pre-release)group-happ-v0.16.0+3 more6 November 2026
  7. ProofPollWeAreFlowstaproofpoll-updates (pre-release)proofpoll-v0.6.0-beta.3 (pre-release)+2 more6 November 2026
  8. Flowsta VaultWeAreFlowstavault-v1.8.0-beta5 (pre-release)vault-updates (pre-release)+3 more6 November 2026
  9. Vineslightningrodlabsv1.31.1 (pre-release)v1.31.0 (pre-release)+3 more3 November 2026
  10. Volla MessagesHelloVollav1.0.5 (pre-release)v1.0.4 (pre-release)+1 more3 November 2026
  11. AD4Mcoasysv0.13.1-staging.6 (pre-release)2 November 2026
  12. Holo Joining ServiceHolo-Hostv0.5.0v0.4.0+5 more30 October 2026

Development

What moved in the code

Counted across the code bases that changed in the last year: the projects on the radar and the Holochain framework itself.

  1. Commitslast 7 days
    2,037 commitsin 29 code bases
    Counted 13 November 2026, 02:36 UTC
  2. Releaseslast 7 days
    14 releases
    Counted 13 November 2026, 02:36 UTC
  3. Releaseslast 30 days
    114 releases48 of them pre-releases
    Counted 13 November 2026, 02:36 UTC
  4. People committinglast 90 days
    ≥ 48 peopleat leastplus 155 commits by authors without a GitHub account
    Counted 13 November 2026, 02:36 UTC
  5. Code bases activelast 90 days
    127 code bases
    Counted 13 November 2026, 02:00 UTC

Watching

Proposed changes under review

Open pull requests judged important for their project or for Holochain. Each is a proposal until it merges. Those that merged or closed in the last 30 days are listed with their outcome.

  • AD4MIn review#1671 feat(identity): identity slice 2.F — bots act for a person under a grant the person controlsOpened 7 November 2026 by HexaField · last activity 12 November 2026 · 2 reviewsA proposal, not yet accepted.
  • AD4MIn review#1667 feat(identity): identity slice 2.E — rotate the master key, restore from the 12 words, remove it from a deviceOpened 7 November 2026 by HexaField · last activity 12 November 2026A proposal, not yet accepted.
  • AD4MIn review#1666 feat(shapes)!: idempotent registerShapes and shapes(); canonical shape encodingOpened 7 November 2026 by HexaField · 4 reviewsA proposal, not yet accepted.
  • holochainIn review#6019 Spike: must_get_agent_activity scaling costs and fixesOpened 6 October 2026 by zippyA proposal, not yet accepted.

Merged or closed in the last 30 days

  • AD4M#1631 fix(perspectives): queued diffs merge to their net effect, so a link added then removed does not reach peersOpened 3 November 2026 by HexaFieldMerged 12 November 2026.
  • AD4M#1640 fix(link-server): keep the whole diff log; stop pruning roomsOpened 3 November 2026 by HexaFieldMerged 4 November 2026.
  • AD4M#1468 feat(security)!: room keys sealed to members' DID keys; one generic host call to open themOpened 16 October 2026 by HexaFieldMerged 28 October 2026. Read the article
  • holochain#6042 fix: keep the 0.7.0 wire layout for capability grantsOpened 14 October 2026 by zippyClosed without merging, 27 October 2026.
  • Requests and Offers#348 Validate creates and updates on the record op in six integrity zomes (#347)Opened 17 October 2026 by AlchemicalSpiralizerMerged 27 October 2026. Read the article
  • AD4M#1466 fix(executor): joining and creating a shared space no longer wait on slow pathsOpened 16 October 2026 by HexaFieldMerged 22 October 2026. Read the article
  • AD4M#1469 fix(executor): cap each RocksDB store's open filesOpened 16 October 2026 by HexaFieldMerged 22 October 2026. Read the article
  • AD4M#1471 fix(holochain): give a DNA install longer than the op waits for itOpened 16 October 2026 by HexaFieldMerged 20 October 2026. Read the article
  • AD4M#1439 perf(perspectives): background loops wake on events, not fixed pollsOpened 14 October 2026 by HexaFieldMerged 20 October 2026.
  • holochain#6034 fix: remove all per-DNA data when a DNA's last cell is uninstalledOpened 12 October 2026 by veesoMerged 14 October 2026. Read the article

Holochain versions

Which Holochain the projects build on

191 projects declare which Holochain they build on in their own files, read 13 November 2026.

  1. Holochain 0.648
  2. Holochain 0.035
  3. Holochain 0.733
  4. Holochain 0.118
  5. Holochain 0.415
  6. Holochain 0.515
  7. Holochain 0.214
  8. Holochain 0.310
  9. a git reference2
  10. a local path1

Community

The developer chat

4,048members · DEV.HC

171 were online when counted, 13 November 2026, 02:36 UTC

Join the chat

The building blocks

Downloads of the two libraries every app pulls in

Not counted

  • Telegramno public channel to count
  • Nodes answeringno node data is published yet
  • HOT migrated to HoloFuelnot until the migration contract is public

On record

9 weeks on record, 14 September 2026 to 15 November 2026. Projects read 13 November 2026, 02:00 UTC.