Aider v0.56.0

• Enables prompt caching for Sonnet via OpenRouter by @fry69
• Enables 8k output tokens for Sonnet via VertexAI and DeepSeek V2.5.
• New /report command to open your browser with a pre-populated GitHub Issue.
• New --chat-language switch to set the spoken language.
• Now --[no-]suggest-shell-commands controls both prompting for and offering to execute shell commands.
• Check key imports on launch, provide helpful error message if dependencies aren't available.
• Renamed --models to --list-models by @fry69.
• Numerous bug fixes for corner case crashes.
• Aider wrote 56% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.55.0

• Offer to submit a GitHub issue pre-filled with uncaught exception info.
• Numerous corner case bug fixes submitted via new pre-filled crash report feature.
• New /settings command to show active settings.
• Startup QOL improvements:
  • Sanity check the git repo and exit gracefully on problems.
  • Pause for confirmation after model sanity check to allow user to review warnings.
• Include important devops files in the repo map.
• Don't ask again in current session about a file the user has said not to add to the chat.
• Only print the pip command when self updating on Windows, without running it.
• Converted many error messages to warning messages.
• Added --tool-warning-color setting.
• Disabled built in linter for typescript.
• Catch /voice transcription exceptions, show the WAV file so the user can recover it.
• Adopted setuptools_scm to provide vX.Y.Z.dev version naming with git hashes.
• Share active test and lint commands with the LLM.
• Added --verbose debug output for shell commands.
• Do not fuzzy match filenames when LLM is creating a new file, by @ozapinq
• Only show cache warming status update if --verbose.
• Bugfix for shell commands on Windows.
• Refuse to make git repo in $HOME, warn user.
• Added --update as an alias for --upgrade.
• Bugfix to completions for /model command.
• Aider wrote 53% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.54.0

• Added model settings for gemini/gemini-1.5-pro-exp-0827 and
  gemini/gemini-1.5-flash-exp-0827.
• Shell and /run commands can now be interactive in environments where a pty is available.
• Optionally share output of suggested shell commands back to the LLM.
• New --[no-]suggest-shell-commands switch to configure shell commands.
• Performance improvements for autocomplete in large/mono repos.
• New --upgrade switch to install latest version of aider from pypi.
• Bugfix to --show-prompt.
• Disabled automatic reply to the LLM on /undo for all models.
• Removed pager from /web output.
• Aider wrote 64% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.53.0

• Keep your prompt cache from expiring with --cache-keepalive-pings.
  • Pings the API every 5min to keep the cache warm.
• You can now bulk accept/reject a series of add url and run shell confirmations.
• Improved matching of filenames from S/R blocks with files in chat.
• Stronger prompting for Sonnet to make edits in code chat mode.
• Stronger prompting for the LLM to specify full file paths.
• Improved shell command prompting.
• Weak model now uses extra_headers, to support Anthropic beta features.
• New --install-main-branch to update to the latest dev version of aider.
• Improved error messages on attempt to add not-git subdir to chat.
• Show model metadata info on --verbose.
• Improved warnings when LLMs env variables aren't set.
• Bugfix to windows filenames which contain \_.
• Aider wrote 59% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.52.0

• Aider now offers to run shell commands:
  • Launch a browser to view updated html/css/js.
  • Install new dependencies.
  • Run DB migrations.
  • Run the program to exercise changes.
  • Run new test cases.
• /read and /drop now expand ~ to the home dir.
• Show the active chat mode at aider prompt.
• New /reset command to /drop files and /clear chat history.
• New --map-multiplier-no-files to control repo map size multiplier when no files are in the chat.
  • Reduced default multiplier to 2.
• Bugfixes and improvements to auto commit sequencing.
• Improved formatting of token reports and confirmation dialogs.
• Default OpenAI model is now gpt-4o-2024-08-06.
• Bumped dependencies to pickup litellm bugfixes.
• Aider wrote 68% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.51.0

• Prompt caching for Anthropic models with --cache-prompts.
  • Caches the system prompt, repo map and /read-only files.
• Repo map recomputes less often in large/mono repos or when caching enabled.
  • Use --map-refresh <always|files|manual|auto> to configure.
• Improved cost estimate logic for caching.
• Improved editing performance on Jupyter Notebook .ipynb files.
• Show which config yaml file is loaded with --verbose.
• Bumped dependency versions.
• Bugfix: properly load .aider.models.metadata.json data.
• Bugfix: Using --msg /ask ... caused an exception.
• Bugfix: litellm tokenizer bug for images.
• Aider wrote 56% of the code in this release.

Aider v0.50.0

• Infinite output for DeepSeek Coder, Mistral models in addition to Anthropic's models.
• New --deepseek switch to use DeepSeek Coder.
• DeepSeek Coder uses 8k token output.
• New --chat-mode <mode> switch to launch in ask/help/code modes.
• New /code <message> command request a code edit while in ask mode.
• Web scraper is more robust if page never idles.
• Improved token and cost reporting for infinite output.
• Improvements and bug fixes for /read only files.
• Switched from setup.py to pyproject.toml, by @branchvincent.
• Bug fix to persist files added during /ask.
• Bug fix for chat history size in /tokens.
• Aider wrote 66% of the code in this release.

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.