Aider v0.49.0

• Add read-only files to the chat context with /read and --read, including from outside the git repo.
• /diff now shows diffs of all changes resulting from your request, including lint and test fixes.
• New /clipboard command to paste images or text from the clipboard, replaces /add-clipboard-image.
• Now shows the markdown scraped when you add a url with /web.
• When scripting aider messages can now contain in-chat / commands.
• Aider in docker image now suggests the correct command to update to latest version.
• Improved retries on API errors (was easy to test during Sonnet outage).
• Added --mini for gpt-4o-mini.
• Bugfix to keep session cost accurate when using /ask and /help.
• Performance improvements for repo map calculation.
• /tokens now shows the active model.
• Enhanced commit message attribution options:
  • New --attribute-commit-message-author to prefix commit messages with 'aider: ' if aider authored the changes, replaces --attribute-commit-message.
  • New --attribute-commit-message-committer to prefix all commit messages with 'aider: '.
• Added openai/gpt-4o-2024-08-06.
• Worked around litellm bug that removes OpenRouter app headers when using extra_headers.
• Improved progress indication during repo map processing.
• Removed obsolete 16k token limit on commit diffs, use per-model limits.
• Aider wrote 61% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.48.0

• Performance improvements for large/mono repos.
• Added --subtree-only to limit aider to current directory subtree.
  • Should help with large/mono repo performance.
• New /add-clipboard-image to add images to the chat from your clipboard.
• Use --map-tokens 1024 to use repo map with any model.
• Support for Sonnet's 8k output window.
  • Aider already supported infinite output from Sonnet.
• Workaround litellm bug for retrying API server errors.
• Upgraded dependencies, to pick up litellm bug fixes.
• Aider wrote 44% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.47.0

• Commit message improvements:
  • Added Conventional Commits guidelines to commit message prompt.
  • Added --commit-prompt to customize the commit message prompt.
  • Added strong model as a fallback for commit messages (and chat summaries).
• Linting improvements:
  • Ask before fixing lint errors.
  • Improved performance of --lint on all dirty files in repo.
  • Improved lint flow, now doing code edit auto-commit before linting.
  • Bugfix to properly handle subprocess encodings (also for /run).
• Improved docker support:
  • Resolved permission issues when using docker run --user xxx.
  • New paulgauthier/aider-full docker image, which includes all extras.
• Switching to code and ask mode no longer summarizes the chat history.
• Added graph of aider's contribution to each release.
• Generic auto-completions are provided for /commands without a completion override.
• Fixed broken OCaml tags file.
• Bugfix in /run add to chat approval logic.
• Aider wrote 58% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.46.0

• New /ask <question> command to ask about your code, without making any edits.
• New /chat-mode <mode> command to switch chat modes:
  • ask: Ask questions about your code without making any changes.
  • code: Ask for changes to your code (using the best edit format).
  • help: Get help about using aider (usage, config, troubleshoot).
• Add file: CONVENTIONS.md to .aider.conf.yml to always load a specific file.
  • Or file: [file1, file2, file3] to always load multiple files.
• Enhanced token usage and cost reporting. Now works when streaming too.
• Filename auto-complete for /add and /drop is now case-insensitive.
• Commit message improvements:
  • Updated commit message prompt to use imperative tense.
  • Fall back to main model if weak model is unable to generate a commit message.
• Stop aider from asking to add the same url to the chat multiple times.
• Updates and fixes to --no-verify-ssl:
  • Fixed regression that broke it in v0.42.0.
  • Disables SSL certificate verification when /web scrapes websites.
• Improved error handling and reporting in /web scraping functionality
• Fixed syntax error in Elm's tree-sitter scm file (by @cjoach).
• Handle UnicodeEncodeError when streaming text to the terminal.
• Updated dependencies to latest versions.
• Aider wrote 45% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.45.0

• GPT 4o mini scores like the original GPT 3.5 on aider's code editing benchmark, using whole edit format.
• Aider is better at offering to add files to the chat on Windows.
• Bugfix corner cases for /undo with new files or new repos.
• Now shows last 4 characters of API keys in --verbose output.
• Bugfix to precedence of multiple .env files.
• Bugfix to gracefully handle HTTP errors when installing pandoc.
• Aider wrote 42% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.44.0

• Default pip install size reduced by 3-12x.
• Added 3 package extras, which aider will offer to install when needed:
  • aider-chat[help]
  • aider-chat[browser]
  • aider-chat[playwright]
• Improved regex for detecting URLs in user chat messages.
• Bugfix to globbing logic when absolute paths are included in /add.
• Simplified output of --models.
• The --check-update switch was renamed to --just-check-updated.
• The --skip-check-update switch was renamed to --[no-]check-update.
• Aider wrote 29% of the code in this release (157/547 lines).

Aider v0.43.0

• Use /help <question> to ask for help about using aider, customizing settings,
  troubleshooting, using LLMs, etc.
• Allow multiple use of /undo.
• All config/env/yml/json files now load from home, git root, cwd and named command line switch.
• New $HOME/.aider/caches dir for app-wide expendable caches.
• Default --model-settings-file is now .aider.model.settings.yml.
• Default --model-metadata-file is now .aider.model.metadata.json.
• Bugfix affecting launch with --no-git.

Aider v0.42.0

• Performance release:
  • 5X faster launch!
  • Faster auto-complete in large git repos (users report ~100X speedup)!

Aider v0.41.0

• Allow Claude 3.5 Sonnet to stream back >4k tokens!
  • It is the first model capable of writing such large coherent, useful code edits.
  • Do large refactors or generate multiple files of new code in one go.
• Aider now uses claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 by default if ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is set in the environment.
• Enabled image support for 3.5 Sonnet and for GPT-4o & 3.5 Sonnet via OpenRouter (by @yamitzky).
• Added --attribute-commit-message to prefix aider's commit messages with "aider:".
• Fixed regression in quality of one-line commit messages.
• Automatically retry on Anthropic overloaded_error.
• Bumped dependency versions.

Aider v0.40.0

• Improved prompting to discourage Sonnet from wasting tokens emitting unchanging code (#705).
• Improved error info for token limit errors.
• Options to suppress adding "(aider)" to the git author and committer names.
• Use --model-settings-file to customize per-model settings, like use of repo-map (by @caseymcc).
• Improved invocation of flake8 linter for python code.