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>.

v0.30.0

• Added Gemini 1.5 Pro as a recommended free model.
• Added better support for Groq's free Llama3 70B 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.
• Improved model warnings for unknown or unfamiliar models

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.

v0.26.0

• 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.