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.

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>.