Aider v0.74.0

• Dynamically changes the Ollama context window to hold the current chat.
• Better support for o3-mini, DeepSeek V3 & R1, o1-mini, o1 via secondary API providers.
• Remove <think> tags from R1 responses for commit messages (and other weak model uses).
• Can now specify use_temperature: <float> in model settings, not just true/false.
• The full docker container now includes boto3 for Bedrock.
• Docker containers now set HOME=/app which is the normal project mount-point, to persist
  ~/.aider.
• Bugfix to prevent creating incorrect filenames like python, php, etc.
• Bugfix for --timeout
• Bugfix so that /model now correctly reports that the weak model is not changed.
• Bugfix so that multi-line mode persists through ^C at confirmation prompts.
• Watch files now fully ignores top-level directories named in ignore files, to reduce the
  chance of hitting OS watch limits. Helpful to ignore giant subtrees like node_modules.
• Fast startup with more providers and when model metadata provided in local files.
• Improved .gitignore handling:
  • Honor ignores already in effect regardless of how they've been configured.
  • Check for .env only when the file exists.
• Yes/No prompts now accept All/Skip as alias for Y/N even when not processing a group of
  confirmations.
• Aider wrote 77% of the code in this release.

https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html

Aider v0.73.0

• Full support for o3-mini: aider --model o3-mini
• New --reasoning-effort argument: low, medium, high.
• Improved handling of context window size limits, with better messaging and Ollama-specific guidance.
• Added support for removing model-specific reasoning tags from responses with remove_reasoning: tagname model setting.
• Auto-create parent directories when creating new files, by xqyz.
• Support for R1 free on OpenRouter: --model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1:free
• Enforce user/assistant turn order to avoid R1 errors, by miradnanali.
• Case-insensitive model name matching while preserving original case.
• Harden against user/assistant turn order problems which cause R1 errors.
• Fix model metadata for openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1
• Aider wrote 69% of the code in this release.

https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html

Aider v0.72.0

• Support for DeepSeek R1.
  • Use shortcut: --model r1
  • Also via OpenRouter: --model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1
• Added Kotlin syntax support to repo map, by Paul Walker.
• Added --line-endings for file writing, by Titusz Pan.
• Added examples_as_sys_msg=True for GPT-4o models, improves benchmark scores.
• Bumped all dependencies, to pick up litellm support for o1 system messages.
• Bugfix for turn taking when reflecting lint/test errors.
• Fix permissions issue in Docker images.
• Added read-only file announcements.
• Bugfix: ASCII fallback for unicode errors.
• Bugfix: integer indices for list slicing in repomap calculations.
• Aider wrote 52% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.71.0

• Prompts to help DeepSeek work better when alternating between /ask and /code.
• Streaming pretty LLM responses is smoother and faster for long replies.
• Streaming automatically turns of for model that don't support it
  • Can now switch to/from /model o1 and a streaming model
• Pretty output remains enabled even when editing files with triple-backtick fences
• Bare /ask, /code and /architect commands now switch the chat mode.
• Increased default size of the repomap.
• Increased max chat history tokens limit from 4k to 8k.
• Turn off fancy input and watch files if terminal is dumb.
• Added support for custom voice format and input device settings.
• Disabled Streamlit email prompt, by apaz-cli.
• Fixed lint command handling of nested spaced strings, by Aaron Weisberg.
• Added token count feedback when adding command output to chat.
• Improved error handling for large audio files with automatic format conversion.
• Improved handling of git repo index errors, by Krazer.
• Improved unicode handling in console output with ASCII fallback.
• Added AssertionError to git error handling.
• Fixed file export path in voice format conversion.
• Added AttributeError to git error handling.
• Improved markdown rendering performance with adaptive delay based on render time.
• Fixed typo in model metadata variable name.
• Aider wrote 60% of the code in this release.

https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html

Aider v0.70.0

• Full support for o1 models.
• Watch files now honors --subtree-only, and only watches that subtree.
• Improved prompting for watch files, to work more reliably with more models.
• New install methods via uv, including one-liners.
• Support for openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-chat model.
• Better error handling when interactive commands are attempted via /load or --load.
• Display read-only files with abs path if its shorter than rel path.
• Ask 10% of users to opt-in to analytics.
• Bugfix for auto-suggest.
• Gracefully handle unicode errors in git path names.
• Fix for gemini model names in model metadata.
• Show hints about AI! and AI? when user makes AI comments.
• Support for running without git installed.
• Improved environment variable setup messages on Windows.
• Aider wrote 74% of the code in this release.

https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html

Aider v0.69.0

• Watch files improvements:
  • Use # ... AI? comments to trigger aider and ask questions about your code.
  • Now watches all files, not just certain source files.
  • Use # AI comments, // AI comments, or -- AI comments to give aider instructions in any text file.
• Full support for Gemini Flash 2.0 Exp:
  • aider --model flash or aider --model gemini/gemini-2.0-flash-exp
• New --multiline flag and /multiline-mode command makes ENTER a soft newline and META-ENTER send the message, by @miradnanali.
• /copy-context <instructions> now takes optional "instructions" when copying code context to the clipboard.
• Improved clipboard error handling with helpful requirements install info.
• Ask 5% of users if they want to opt-in to analytics.
• /voice now lets you edit the transcribed text before sending.
• Disabled auto-complete in Y/N prompts.
• Aider wrote 68% of the code in this release.

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Aider v0.68.0

• Aider works with LLM web chat UIs.
  • New --copy-paste mode.
  • New /copy-context command.
• Set API keys and other environment variables for all providers from command line or yaml conf file.
  • New --api-key provider=key setting.
  • New --set-env VAR=value setting.
• Added bash and zsh support to --watch-files.
• Better error messages when missing dependencies for Gemini and Bedrock models.
• Control-D now properly exits the program.
• Don't count token costs when API provider returns a hard error.
• Bugfix so watch files works with files that don't have tree-sitter support.
• Bugfix so o1 models can be used as weak model.
• Updated shell command prompt.
• Added docstrings for all Coders.
• Reorganized command line arguments with improved help messages and grouping.
• Use the exact sys.python for self-upgrades.
• Added experimental Gemini models.
• Aider wrote 71% of the code in this release.

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Aider v0.67.0

• Use aider in your IDE or editor.
  • Run aider --watch-files and it will watch for instructions you add to your source files.
  • One-liner # ... or // ... comments that start or end with "AI" are instructions to aider.
  • When aider sees "AI!" it reads and follows all the instructions in AI comments.
• Support for new Amazon Bedrock Nova models.
• When /run or /test have non-zero exit codes, pre-fill "Fix that" into the next message prompt.
• /diff now invokes git diff to use your preferred diff tool.
• Added Ctrl-Z support for process suspension.
• Spinner now falls back to ASCII art if fancy symbols throw unicode errors.
• --read now expands ~ home dirs.
• Enabled exception capture in analytics.
• Aider wrote 61% of the code in this release.

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Aider v0.66.0

• PDF support for Sonnet and Gemini models.
• Added --voice-input-device to select audio input device for voice recording, by @preynal.
• Added --timeout option to configure API call timeouts.
• Set cwd to repo root when running shell commands.
• Added Ctrl-Up/Down keyboard shortcuts for per-message history navigation.
• Improved error handling for failed .gitignore file operations.
• Improved error handling for input history file permissions.
• Improved error handling for analytics file access.
• Removed spurious warning about disabling pretty in VSCode.
• Removed broken support for Dart.
• Bugfix when scraping URLs found in chat messages.
• Better handling of version import errors.
• Improved /drop command to support substring matching for non-glob patterns.
• Bugfix to --alias.
• Aider wrote 82% of the code in this release.

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Aider v0.65.0

• Added --alias config to define custom model aliases.
• Added --[no-]detect-urls flag to disable detecting and offering to scrape URLs found in the chat.
• Ollama models now default to an 8k context window.
• Added RepoMap support for Dart language by @malkoG.
• Ask 2.5% of users if they want to opt-in to analytics.
• Skip suggesting files that share names with files already in chat.
• /editor returns and prefill the file content into the prompt, so you can use /editor to compose messages that start with /commands, etc.
• Enhanced error handling for analytics.
• Improved handling of UnknownEditFormat exceptions with helpful documentation links.
• Bumped dependencies to pick up grep-ast 0.4.0 for Dart language support.
• Aider wrote 81% of the code in this release.