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.

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.