Heretic 2.0 ships as the open-source decensoring tool's biggest update
11/01/2026 — 11/01, 22:17·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- Open-source project Heretic has released version 2.0, which its author calls the largest update after nearly five months of work, aimed at s…
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On 2026-11-01 at 21:16 UTC, a post appeared on the r/LocalLLaMA subreddit announcing the release of Heretic 2.0, the latest version of the open-source project Heretic. The author described it as the biggest Heretic release ever, published after nearly five months of development, and linked to the project repository at github.com/p-e-w/heretic. According to the same post, Heretic is software for removing censorship from language models, and it now has 37k GitHub stars, more than 8,500 related models on Hugging Face, and 88 million total model downloads. The author added that, with Heretic 2.0, the project is entering a new era and expanding beyond a single-purpose tool. This release is documented only by this one source, so the date, project name, version number, and all figures rest on the author's own claims; there are no other reports to corroborate them, and no information about what happened after the release.
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The open-source Heretic project has shipped version 2.0, which its author calls the biggest release yet after nearly five months of work, aimed at removing censorship from language models. The author cites 37k GitHub stars, more than 8,500 models on Hugging Face, and 88 million cumulative downloads, and says the tool is expanding beyond its original single purpose.
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