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Aider Aider v0.78.0

model

2025-03-21 · official notes

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- 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.
- Added `--check-model-accepts-settings` flag (default: true) to force unsupported model settings.
- Annotated which models support reasoning_effort and thinking_tokens settings in the model settings data.
- Improved code block rendering in markdown output with better padding using NoInsetMarkdown.
- Added `--git-commit-verify` flag (default: False) to control whether git commit hooks are bypassed.
- Fixed autocompletion for `/ask`, `/code`, and `/architect` commands, by shladnik.
- Added vi-like behavior when pressing enter in multiline-mode while in vi normal/navigation-mode, by Marco Mayer.
- Added AWS_PROFILE support for Bedrock models, allowing use of AWS profiles instead of explicit credentials, by lentil32.
- Enhanced `--aiderignore` argument to resolve both absolute and relative paths, by mopemope.
- Improved platform information handling to gracefully handle retrieval errors.
- Bumped dependencies to pickup litellm fix for Ollama.
- Added support for `openrouter/google/gemma-3-27b-it` model.
- Updated exclude patterns for help documentation.

- Aider wrote 92% of the code in this release.

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