HISTORY.md

Release history

v0.39.0

• Use --sonnet for Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which is the top model on aider's LLM code editing leaderboard.
• All AIDER_xxx environment variables can now be set in .env (by @jpshack-at-palomar).
• Use --llm-history-file to log raw messages sent to the LLM (by @daniel-vainsencher).
• Commit messages are no longer prefixed with "aider:". Instead the git author and committer names have "(aider)" added.

v0.38.0

• Use --vim for vim keybindings in the chat.
• Add LLM metadata via .aider.models.json file (by @caseymcc).
• More detailed error messages on token limit errors.
• Single line commit messages, without the recent chat messages.
• Ensure --commit --dry-run does nothing.
• Have playwright wait for idle network to better scrape js sites.
• Documentation updates, moved into website/ subdir.
• Moved tests/ into aider/tests/.

v0.37.0

• Repo map is now optimized based on text of chat history as well as files added to chat.
• Improved prompts when no files have been added to chat to solicit LLM file suggestions.
• Aider will notice if you paste a URL into the chat, and offer to scrape it.
• Performance improvements the repo map, especially in large repos.
• Aider will not offer to add bare filenames like make or run which may just be words.
• Properly override GIT_EDITOR env for commits if it is already set.
• Detect supported audio sample rates for /voice.
• Other small bug fixes.

v0.36.0

• Aider can now lint your code and fix any errors.
  • Aider automatically lints and fixes after every LLM edit.
  • You can manually lint-and-fix files with /lint in the chat or --lint on the command line.
  • Aider includes built in basic linters for all supported tree-sitter languages.
  • You can also configure aider to use your preferred linter with --lint-cmd.
• Aider has additional support for running tests and fixing problems.
  • Configure your testing command with --test-cmd.
  • Run tests with /test or from the command line with --test.
  • Aider will automatically attempt to fix any test failures.

v0.35.0

• Aider now uses GPT-4o by default.
  • GPT-4o tops the aider LLM code editing leaderboard at 72.9%, versus 68.4% for Opus.
  • GPT-4o takes second on aider's refactoring leaderboard with 62.9%, versus Opus at 72.3%.
• Added --restore-chat-history to restore prior chat history on launch, so you can continue the last conversation.
• Improved reflection feedback to LLMs using the diff edit format.
• Improved retries on httpx errors.

v0.34.0

• Updated prompting to use more natural phrasing about files, the git repo, etc. Removed reliance on read-write/read-only terminology.
• Refactored prompting to unify some phrasing across edit formats.
• Enhanced the canned assistant responses used in prompts.
• Added explicit model settings for openrouter/anthropic/claude-3-opus, gpt-3.5-turbo
• Added --show-prompts debug switch.
• Bugfix: catch and retry on all litellm exceptions.

v0.33.0

• Added native support for Deepseek models using DEEPSEEK_API_KEY and deepseek/deepseek-chat, etc rather than as a generic OpenAI compatible API.

v0.32.0

• Aider LLM code editing leaderboards that rank popular models according to their ability to edit code.
  • Leaderboards include GPT-3.5/4 Turbo, Opus, Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Llama 3, Deepseek Coder & Command-R+.
• Gemini 1.5 Pro now defaults to a new diff-style edit format (diff-fenced), enabling it to work better with larger code bases.
• Support for Deepseek-V2, via more a flexible config of system messages in the diff edit format.
• Improved retry handling on errors from model APIs.
• Benchmark outputs results in YAML, compatible with leaderboard.

v0.31.0

• Aider is now also AI pair programming in your browser! Use the --browser switch to launch an experimental browser based version of aider.
• Switch models during the chat with /model <name> and search the list of available models with /models <query>.

v0.30.1

• Adding missing google-generativeai dependency

v0.30.0

• Added Gemini 1.5 Pro as a recommended free model.
• Allow repo map for "whole" edit format.
• Added --models <MODEL-NAME> to search the available models.
• Added --no-show-model-warnings to silence model warnings.

v0.29.2

• Improved model warnings for unknown or unfamiliar models

v0.29.1

• Added better support for groq/llama3-70b-8192

v0.29.0

• Added support for directly connecting to Anthropic, Cohere, Gemini and many other LLM providers.
• Added --weak-model <model-name> which allows you to specify which model to use for commit messages and chat history summarization.
• New command line switches for working with popular models:
  • --4-turbo-vision
  • --opus
  • --sonnet
  • --anthropic-api-key
• Improved "whole" and "diff" backends to better support Cohere's free to use Command-R+ model.
• Allow /add of images from anywhere in the filesystem.
• Fixed crash when operating in a repo in a detached HEAD state.
• Fix: Use the same default model in CLI and python scripting.

v0.28.0

• Added support for new gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 and gpt-4-turbo models.
  • Benchmarked at 61.7% on Exercism benchmark, comparable to gpt-4-0613 and worse than the gpt-4-preview-XXXX models. See recent Exercism benchmark results.
  • Benchmarked at 34.1% on the refactoring/laziness benchmark, significantly worse than the gpt-4-preview-XXXX models. See recent refactor bencmark results.
  • Aider continues to default to gpt-4-1106-preview as it performs best on both benchmarks, and significantly better on the refactoring/laziness benchmark.

v0.27.0

• Improved repomap support for typescript, by @ryanfreckleton.
• Bugfix: Only /undo the files which were part of the last commit, don't stomp other dirty files
• Bugfix: Show clear error message when OpenAI API key is not set.
• Bugfix: Catch error for obscure languages without tags.scm file.

v0.26.1

• Fixed bug affecting parsing of git config in some environments.

v0.26.0

• Use GPT-4 Turbo by default.
• Added -3 and -4 switches to use GPT 3.5 or GPT-4 (non-Turbo).
• Bug fix to avoid reflecting local git errors back to GPT.
• Improved logic for opening git repo on launch.

v0.25.0

• Issue a warning if user adds too much code to the chat.
  • https://aider.chat/docs/faq.html#how-can-i-add-all-the-files-to-the-chat
• Vocally refuse to add files to the chat that match .aiderignore
  • Prevents bug where subsequent git commit of those files will fail.
• Added --openai-organization-id argument.
• Show the user a FAQ link if edits fail to apply.
• Made past articles part of https://aider.chat/blog/

v0.24.1

• Fixed bug with cost computations when --no-steam in effect

v0.24.0

• New /web <url> command which scrapes the url, turns it into fairly clean markdown and adds it to the chat.
• Updated all OpenAI model names, pricing info
• Default GPT 3.5 model is now gpt-3.5-turbo-0125.
• Bugfix to the ! alias for /run.

v0.23.0

• Added support for --model gpt-4-0125-preview and OpenAI's alias --model gpt-4-turbo-preview. The --4turbo switch remains an alias for --model gpt-4-1106-preview at this time.
• New /test command that runs a command and adds the output to the chat on non-zero exit status.
• Improved streaming of markdown to the terminal.
• Added /quit as alias for /exit.
• Added --skip-check-update to skip checking for the update on launch.
• Added --openrouter as a shortcut for --openai-api-base https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
• Fixed bug preventing use of env vars OPENAI_API_BASE, OPENAI_API_TYPE, OPENAI_API_VERSION, OPENAI_API_DEPLOYMENT_ID.

v0.22.0

• Improvements for unified diff editing format.
• Added ! as an alias for /run.
• Autocomplete for /add and /drop now properly quotes filenames with spaces.
• The /undo command asks GPT not to just retry reverted edit.

v0.21.1

• Bugfix for unified diff editing format.
• Added --4turbo and --4 aliases for --4-turbo.

v0.21.0

• Support for python 3.12.
• Improvements to unified diff editing format.
• New --check-update arg to check if updates are available and exit with status code.

v0.20.0

• Add images to the chat to automatically use GPT-4 Vision, by @joshuavial

• Bugfixes:

  • Improved unicode encoding for /run command output, by @ctoth
  • Prevent false auto-commits on Windows, by @ctoth

v0.19.1

• Removed stray debug output.

v0.19.0

• Significantly reduced "lazy" coding from GPT-4 Turbo due to new unified diff edit format
  • Score improves from 20% to 61% on new "laziness benchmark".
  • Aider now uses unified diffs by default for gpt-4-1106-preview.
• New --4-turbo command line switch as a shortcut for --model gpt-4-1106-preview.

v0.18.1

• Upgraded to new openai python client v1.3.7.

v0.18.0

• Improved prompting for both GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo.
  • Far fewer edit errors from GPT-4 Turbo (gpt-4-1106-preview).
  • Significantly better benchmark results from the June GPT-4 (gpt-4-0613). Performance leaps from 47%/64% up to 51%/71%.
• Fixed bug where in-chat files were marked as both read-only and ready-write, sometimes confusing GPT.
• Fixed bug to properly handle repos with submodules.

v0.17.0

• Support for OpenAI's new 11/06 models:
  • gpt-4-1106-preview with 128k context window
  • gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 with 16k context window
• Benchmarks for OpenAI's new 11/06 models
• Streamlined API for scripting aider, added docs
• Ask for more concise SEARCH/REPLACE blocks. Benchmarked at 63.9%, no regression.
• Improved repo-map support for elisp.
• Fixed crash bug when /add used on file matching .gitignore
• Fixed misc bugs to catch and handle unicode decoding errors.

v0.16.3

• Fixed repo-map support for C#.

v0.16.2

• Fixed docker image.

v0.16.1

• Updated tree-sitter dependencies to streamline the pip install process

v0.16.0

• Improved repository map using tree-sitter
• Switched from "edit block" to "search/replace block", which reduced malformed edit blocks. Benchmarked at 66.2%, no regression.
• Improved handling of malformed edit blocks targeting multiple edits to the same file. Benchmarked at 65.4%, no regression.
• Bugfix to properly handle malformed /add wildcards.

v0.15.0

• Added support for .aiderignore file, which instructs aider to ignore parts of the git repo.
• New --commit cmd line arg, which just commits all pending changes with a sensible commit message generated by gpt-3.5.
• Added universal ctags and multiple architectures to the aider docker image
• /run and /git now accept full shell commands, like: /run (cd subdir; ls)
• Restored missing --encoding cmd line switch.

v0.14.2

• Easily run aider from a docker image
• Fixed bug with chat history summarization.
• Fixed bug if soundfile package not available.

v0.14.1

• /add and /drop handle absolute filenames and quoted filenames
• /add checks to be sure files are within the git repo (or root)
• If needed, warn users that in-chat file paths are all relative to the git repo
• Fixed /add bug in when aider launched in repo subdir
• Show models supported by api/key if requested model isn't available

v0.14.0

• Support for Claude2 and other LLMs via OpenRouter by @joshuavial
• Documentation for running the aider benchmarking suite
• Aider now requires Python >= 3.9

v0.13.0

• Only git commit dirty files that GPT tries to edit
• Send chat history as prompt/context for Whisper voice transcription
• Added --voice-language switch to constrain /voice to transcribe to a specific language
• Late-bind importing sounddevice, as it was slowing down aider startup
• Improved --foo/--no-foo switch handling for command line and yml config settings

v0.12.0

• Voice-to-code support, which allows you to code with your voice.
• Fixed bug where /diff was causing crash.
• Improved prompting for gpt-4, refactor of editblock coder.
• Benchmarked at 63.2% for gpt-4/diff, no regression.

v0.11.1

• Added a progress bar when initially creating a repo map.
• Fixed bad commit message when adding new file to empty repo.
• Fixed corner case of pending chat history summarization when dirty committing.
• Fixed corner case of undefined text when using --no-pretty.
• Fixed /commit bug from repo refactor, added test coverage.
• Benchmarked at 53.4% for gpt-3.5/whole (no regression).

v0.11.0

• Automatically summarize chat history to avoid exhausting context window.
• More detail on dollar costs when running with --no-stream
• Stronger GPT-3.5 prompt against skipping/eliding code in replies (51.9% benchmark, no regression)
• Defend against GPT-3.5 or non-OpenAI models suggesting filenames surrounded by asterisks.
• Refactored GitRepo code out of the Coder class.

v0.10.1

• /add and /drop always use paths relative to the git root
• Encourage GPT to use language like "add files to the chat" to ask users for permission to edit them.

v0.10.0

• Added /git command to run git from inside aider chats.
• Use Meta-ENTER (Esc+ENTER in some environments) to enter multiline chat messages.
• Create a .gitignore with .aider* to prevent users from accidentaly adding aider files to git.
• Check pypi for newer versions and notify user.
• Updated keyboard interrupt logic so that 2 ^C in 2 seconds always forces aider to exit.
• Provide GPT with detailed error if it makes a bad edit block, ask for a retry.
• Force --no-pretty if aider detects it is running inside a VSCode terminal.
• Benchmarked at 64.7% for gpt-4/diff (no regression)

v0.9.0

• Support for the OpenAI models in Azure
• Added --show-repo-map
• Improved output when retrying connections to the OpenAI API
• Redacted api key from --verbose output
• Bugfix: recognize and add files in subdirectories mentioned by user or GPT
• Benchmarked at 53.8% for gpt-3.5-turbo/whole (no regression)

v0.8.3

• Added --dark-mode and --light-mode to select colors optimized for terminal background
• Install docs link to NeoVim plugin by @joshuavial
• Reorganized the --help output
• Bugfix/improvement to whole edit format, may improve coding editing for GPT-3.5
• Bugfix and tests around git filenames with unicode characters
• Bugfix so that aider throws an exception when OpenAI returns InvalidRequest
• Bugfix/improvement to /add and /drop to recurse selected directories
• Bugfix for live diff output when using "whole" edit format

v0.8.2

• Disabled general availability of gpt-4 (it's rolling out, not 100% available yet)

v0.8.1

• Ask to create a git repo if none found, to better track GPT's code changes
• Glob wildcards are now supported in /add and /drop commands
• Pass --encoding into ctags, require it to return utf-8
• More robust handling of filepaths, to avoid 8.3 windows filenames
• Added FAQ
• Marked GPT-4 as generally available
• Bugfix for live diffs of whole coder with missing filenames
• Bugfix for chats with multiple files
• Bugfix in editblock coder prompt

v0.8.0

• Benchmark comparing code editing in GPT-3.5 and GPT-4
• Improved Windows support:
  • Fixed bugs related to path separators in Windows
  • Added a CI step to run all tests on Windows
• Improved handling of Unicode encoding/decoding
  • Explicitly read/write text files with utf-8 encoding by default (mainly benefits Windows)
  • Added --encoding switch to specify another encoding
  • Gracefully handle decoding errors
• Added --code-theme switch to control the pygments styling of code blocks (by @kwmiebach)
• Better status messages explaining the reason when ctags is disabled

v0.7.2:

• Fixed a bug to allow aider to edit files that contain triple backtick fences.

v0.7.1:

• Fixed a bug in the display of streaming diffs in GPT-3.5 chats

v0.7.0:

• Graceful handling of context window exhaustion, including helpful tips.
• Added --message to give GPT that one instruction and then exit after it replies and any edits are performed.
• Added --no-stream to disable streaming GPT responses.
  • Non-streaming responses include token usage info.
  • Enables display of cost info based on OpenAI advertised pricing.
• Coding competence benchmarking tool against suite of programming tasks based on Execism's python repo.
  • https://github.com/exercism/python
• Major refactor in preparation for supporting new function calls api.
• Initial implementation of a function based code editing backend for 3.5.
  • Initial experiments show that using functions makes 3.5 less competent at coding.
• Limit automatic retries when GPT returns a malformed edit response.

v0.6.2

• Support for gpt-3.5-turbo-16k, and all OpenAI chat models
• Improved ability to correct when gpt-4 omits leading whitespace in code edits
• Added --openai-api-base to support API proxies, etc.

v0.5.0

• Added support for gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4-32k.
• Added --map-tokens to set a token budget for the repo map, along with a PageRank based algorithm for prioritizing which files and identifiers to include in the map.
• Added in-chat command /tokens to report on context window token usage.
• Added in-chat command /clear to clear the conversation history.