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2025-08-09 · 11 changes · release
- Added support for all GPT-5 models.
- Added support for Grok-4 via xai/grok-4 and openrouter/x-ai/grok-4 model names.
- Added support for gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17 model, by Tamir Zahavi-Brunner.
2025-06-27 · 26 changes · release
- Added support for new Gemini models including gemini-2.5-pro, gemini-2.5-flash, and gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 with thinking tokens support.
- Updated model aliases: flash now points to gemini-2.5-flash and gemini now points to gemini-2.5-pro.
- Support for Responses API models like o1-pro, o3-pro.
2025-05-30 · 14 changes · release
- Model support & provider updates
- Added support for new Claude models including the Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 series (e.g., claude-sonnet-4-20250514,
- claude-opus-4-20250514) across various providers. The default sonnet and opus aliases were updated to these newer
2025-05-09 · 33 changes · release
- Added support for gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06 models.
- Added support for qwen3-235b models.
- Added repo-map support for OCaml and OCaml interface files, by Andrey Popp.
2025-04-14 · 14 changes · release
- Support for GPT 4.1, mini and nano.
- Improved support for using architect mode with Gemini 2.5 Pro.
- Add support for xai/grok-3-beta, xai/grok-3-mini-beta, openrouter/x-ai/grok-3-beta,
2025-04-04 · 14 changes · release
- Added support for the openrouter/openrouter/quasar-alpha model.
- Currently free on OpenRouter.
- Quasar scored 55% on the polyglot coding benchmark
2025-03-31 · 20 changes · release
- OpenRouter OAuth integration:
- Offer to OAuth against OpenRouter if no model and keys are provided.
- Select OpenRouter default model based on free/paid tier status if OPENROUTERAPIKEY is set and no model is specified.
2025-03-25 · 6 changes · release
- Added support for SOTA Gemini 2.5 Pro.
- Added support for DeepSeek V3 0324.
- Added a new /context command that automatically identifies which files need to be edited for a given request.
2025-03-21 · 16 changes · release
- Added support for thinking tokens for OpenRouter Sonnet 3.7.
- Added commands to switch between model types: /editor-model for Editor Model, and /weak-model for Weak Model, by csala.
- Added model setting validation to ignore --reasoning-effort and --thinking-tokens if the model doesn't support them.
2025-03-13 · 17 changes · release
- Big upgrade in programming languages supported by adopting tree-sitter-language-pack.
- new languages with linter support.
- new languages with repo-map support.
2025-03-10 · 27 changes · release
- Improved support for thinking/reasoning models:
- Added --thinking-tokens CLI option to control token budget for models that support thinking.
- Display thinking/reasoning content from LLMs which return it.
2025-03-04 · 14 changes · release
- Basic support for Claude 3.7 Sonnet
- Use --model sonnet to use the new 3.7
- Thinking support coming soon.
2025-02-06 · 17 changes · release
- Dynamically changes the Ollama context window to hold the current chat.
- Better support for o3-mini, DeepSeek V3 & R1, o1-mini, o1 via secondary API providers.
- Remove <think> tags from R1 responses for commit messages (and other weak model uses).
2025-01-31 · 11 changes · release
- Full support for o3-mini: aider --model o3-mini
- New --reasoning-effort argument: low, medium, high.
- Improved handling of context window size limits, with better messaging and Ollama-specific guidance.
2025-01-20 · 13 changes · release
- Support for DeepSeek R1.
- Use shortcut: --model r1
- Also via OpenRouter: --model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1
2025-01-10 · 22 changes · release
- Prompts to help DeepSeek work better when alternating between /ask and /code.
- Streaming pretty LLM responses is smoother and faster for long replies.
- Streaming automatically turns of for model that don't support it
2024-12-26 · 15 changes · release
- Full support for o1 models.
- Watch files now honors --subtree-only, and only watches that subtree.
- Improved prompting for watch files, to work more reliably with more models.
2024-12-13 · 13 changes · release
- Watch files improvements:
- Use # ... AI? comments to trigger aider and ask questions about your code.
- Now watches all files, not just certain source files.
2024-12-10 · 18 changes · release
- Aider works with LLM web chat UIs.
- New --copy-paste mode.
- New /copy-context command.
2024-12-06 · 12 changes · release
- Use aider in your IDE or editor.
- Run aider --watch-files and it will watch for instructions you add to your source files.
- One-liner # ... or // ... comments that start or end with "AI" are instructions to aider.
2024-12-01 · 15 changes · release
- PDF support for Sonnet and Gemini models.
- Added --voice-input-device to select audio input device for voice recording, by @preynal.
- Added --timeout option to configure API call timeouts.
2024-11-26 · 11 changes · release
- Added --alias config to define custom model aliases.
- Added --[no-]detect-urls flag to disable detecting and offering to scrape URLs found in the chat.
- Ollama models now default to an 8k context window.
2024-11-21 · 22 changes · release
- Added /editor command to open system editor for writing prompts, by @thehunmonkgroup.
- Full support for gpt-4o-2024-11-20.
- Stream o1 models by default.
2024-11-13 · 8 changes · release
- Support for Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B.
- /web command just adds the page to the chat, without triggering an LLM response.
- Improved prompting for the user's preferred chat language.
2024-11-04 · 12 changes · release
- Full support for Claude 3.5 Haiku
- Scored 75% on aider's code editing leaderboard.
- Almost as good as Sonnet at much lower cost.
2024-11-01 · 17 changes · release
- Load and save aider slash-commands to files:
- /save <fname> command will make a file of /add and /read-only commands that recreate the current file context in the chat.
- /load <fname> will replay the commands in the file.
2024-10-22 · 11 changes · release
- Full support for Sonnet 10/22, the new SOTA model on aider's code editing benchmark.
- Aider uses Sonnet 10/22 by default.
- Improved formatting of added and read-only files above chat prompt, by @jbellis.
2024-10-04 · 16 changes · release
- Improvements to /read-only:
- Now supports shell-style auto-complete of the full file system.
- Still auto-completes the full paths of the repo files like /add.
2024-09-29 · 17 changes · release
- Use a pair of Architect/Editor models for improved coding
- Use a strong reasoning model like o1-preview as your Architect.
- Use a cheaper, faster model like gpt-4o as your Editor.
2024-09-21 · 15 changes · release
- Support for OpenAI o1 models:
- o1-preview now works well with diff edit format.
- o1-preview with diff now matches SOTA leaderboard result with whole edit format.