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.

Aider v0.64.0

• Added /editor command to open system editor for writing prompts, by @thehunmonkgroup.
• Full support for gpt-4o-2024-11-20.
• Stream o1 models by default.
• /run and suggested shell commands are less mysterious and now confirm that they "Added XX lines of output to the chat."
• Ask 1% of users if they want to opt-in to analytics.
• Added support for optional multiline input tags with matching closing tags.
• Improved model settings configuration with support for global extra_params for litellm.completion().
• Architect mode now asks to add files suggested by the LLM.
• Fixed bug in fuzzy model name matching.
• Added Timeout exception to handle API provider timeouts.
• Added --show-release-notes to control release notes display on first run of new version.
• Save empty dict to cache file on model metadata download failure, to delay retry.
• Improved error handling and code formatting.
• Fixed bug in fuzzy model name matching when litellm provider info is missing.
• Modified model metadata file loading to allow override of resource file.
• Allow recursive loading of dirs using --read.
• Updated dependency versions to pick up litellm fix for ollama models.
• Added exponential backoff retry when writing files to handle editor file locks.
• Updated Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B model configuration.
• Fixed bug in git ignored file handling.
• Improved error handling for git operations.
• Aider wrote 74% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.63.0

• Support for Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B.
• /web command just adds the page to the chat, without triggering an LLM response.
• Improved prompting for the user's preferred chat language.
• Improved handling of LiteLLM exceptions.
• Bugfix for double-counting tokens when reporting cache stats.
• Bugfix for the LLM creating new files.
• Other small bug fixes.
• Aider wrote 55% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.62.0

• Full support for Claude 3.5 Haiku
  • Scored 75% on aider's code editing leaderboard.
  • Almost as good as Sonnet at much lower cost.
  • Launch with --haiku to use it.
• Easily apply file edits from ChatGPT, Claude or other web apps
  • Chat with ChatGPT or Claude via their web app.
  • Give it your source files and ask for the changes you want.
  • Use the web app's "copy response" button to copy the entire reply from the LLM.
  • Run aider --apply-clipboard-edits file-to-edit.js.
  • Aider will edit your file with the LLM's changes.
• Bugfix for creating new files.
• Aider wrote 84% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.61.0

• Load and save aider slash-commands to files:
  • /save <fname> command will make a file of /add and /read-only commands that recreate the current file context in the chat.
  • /load <fname> will replay the commands in the file.
  • You can use /load to run any arbitrary set of slash-commands, not just /add and /read-only.
  • Use --load <fname> to run a list of commands on launch, before the interactive chat begins.
• Anonymous, opt-in analytics with no personal data sharing.
• Aider follows litellm's supports_vision attribute to enable image support for models.
• Bugfix for when diff mode flexibly handles the model using the wrong filename.
• Displays filenames in sorted order for /add and /read-only.
• New --no-fancy-input switch disables prompt toolkit input, now still available with --no-pretty.
• Override browser config with --no-browser or --no-gui.
• Offer to open documentation URLs when errors occur.
• Properly support all o1 models, regardless of provider.
• Improved layout of filenames above input prompt.
• Better handle corrupted repomap tags cache.
• Improved handling of API errors, especially when accessing the weak model.
• Aider wrote 68% of the code in this release.

v0.60.0

• Full support for Sonnet 10/22, the new SOTA model on aider's code editing benchmark.
  • Aider uses Sonnet 10/22 by default.
• Improved formatting of added and read-only files above chat prompt, by @jbellis.
• Improved support for o1 models by more flexibly parsing their nonconforming code edit replies.
• Corrected diff edit format prompt that only the first match is replaced.
• Stronger whole edit format prompt asking for clean file names.
• Now offers to add .env to the .gitignore file.
• Ships with a small model metadata json file to handle models not yet updated in litellm.
• Model settings for o1 models on azure.
• Bugfix to properly include URLs in /help RAG results.
• Aider wrote 49% of the code in this release.