- Use 4o-mini as the weak model wherever 3.5-turbo was used.
- GPT-4o mini scores similar to the original GPT 3.5, 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.
- 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).
- Added scipy back to main requirements.txt.
- Added build-essentials back to main Dockerfile.
- Moved HuggingFace embeddings deps into [hf-embed] extra.
- Added [dev] extra.
- Replace the torch requirement with the CPU only version, because the GPU versions are huge.
- 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 wrote 9% of the 424 lines edited in this release.
- Performance release:
- 5X faster launch!
- Faster auto-complete in large git repos (users report ~100X speedup)!
- 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 ifANTHROPIC_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.
- Fixed
/undo
so it works regardless of--attribute
settings.
- Bump versions to pickup latest litellm to fix streaming issue with Gemini
- Improved context awareness of repomap.
- Restored proper
--help
functionality.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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/.
- 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
orrun
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.
- 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.
- Configure your testing command with
- 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.
- 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.
- Added native support for Deepseek models using
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
anddeepseek/deepseek-chat
, etc rather than as a generic OpenAI compatible API.
- 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.
- 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>
.
- Adding missing
google-generativeai
dependency
- Added Gemini 1.5 Pro as a recommended free 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
- Added better support for groq/llama3-70b-8192
- 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.
- Added support for new
gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09
andgpt-4-turbo
models.- Benchmarked at 61.7% on Exercism benchmark, comparable to
gpt-4-0613
and worse than thegpt-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.
- Benchmarked at 61.7% on Exercism benchmark, comparable to
- 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.
- Fixed bug affecting parsing of git config in some environments.
- 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.
- Issue a warning if user adds too much code to the chat.
- Vocally refuse to add files to the chat that match
.aiderignore
- Prevents bug where subsequent git commit of those files will fail.
- Added
--openai-organization-id
argument. - Show the user a FAQ link if edits fail to apply.
- Made past articles part of https://aider.chat/blog/
- Fixed bug with cost computations when --no-steam in effect
- New
/web <url>
command which scrapes the url, turns it into fairly clean markdown and adds it to the chat. - Updated all OpenAI model names, pricing info
- Default GPT 3.5 model is now
gpt-3.5-turbo-0125
. - Bugfix to the
!
alias for/run
.
- Added support for
--model gpt-4-0125-preview
and OpenAI's alias--model gpt-4-turbo-preview
. The--4turbo
switch remains an alias for--model gpt-4-1106-preview
at this time. - New
/test
command that runs a command and adds the output to the chat on non-zero exit status. - Improved streaming of markdown to the terminal.
- Added
/quit
as alias for/exit
. - Added
--skip-check-update
to skip checking for the update on launch. - Added
--openrouter
as a shortcut for--openai-api-base https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
- Fixed bug preventing use of env vars
OPENAI_API_BASE, OPENAI_API_TYPE, OPENAI_API_VERSION, OPENAI_API_DEPLOYMENT_ID
.
- Improvements for unified diff editing format.
- Added ! as an alias for /run.
- Autocomplete for /add and /drop now properly quotes filenames with spaces.
- The /undo command asks GPT not to just retry reverted edit.
- Bugfix for unified diff editing format.
- Added --4turbo and --4 aliases for --4-turbo.
- Support for python 3.12.
- Improvements to unified diff editing format.
- New
--check-update
arg to check if updates are available and exit with status code.
-
Add images to the chat to automatically use GPT-4 Vision, by @joshuavial
-
Bugfixes:
- Improved unicode encoding for
/run
command output, by @ctoth - Prevent false auto-commits on Windows, by @ctoth
- Improved unicode encoding for
- Removed stray debug output.
- Significantly reduced "lazy" coding from GPT-4 Turbo due to new unified diff edit format
- Score improves from 20% to 61% on new "laziness benchmark".
- Aider now uses unified diffs by default for
gpt-4-1106-preview
.
- New
--4-turbo
command line switch as a shortcut for--model gpt-4-1106-preview
.
- Upgraded to new openai python client v1.3.7.
- Improved prompting for both GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo.
- Far fewer edit errors from GPT-4 Turbo (
gpt-4-1106-preview
). - Significantly better benchmark results from the June GPT-4 (
gpt-4-0613
). Performance leaps from 47%/64% up to 51%/71%.
- Far fewer edit errors from GPT-4 Turbo (
- Fixed bug where in-chat files were marked as both read-only and ready-write, sometimes confusing GPT.
- Fixed bug to properly handle repos with submodules.
- Support for OpenAI's new 11/06 models:
- gpt-4-1106-preview with 128k context window
- gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 with 16k context window
- Benchmarks for OpenAI's new 11/06 models
- Streamlined API for scripting aider, added docs
- Ask for more concise SEARCH/REPLACE blocks. Benchmarked at 63.9%, no regression.
- Improved repo-map support for elisp.
- Fixed crash bug when
/add
used on file matching.gitignore
- Fixed misc bugs to catch and handle unicode decoding errors.
- Fixed repo-map support for C#.
- Fixed docker image.
- Updated tree-sitter dependencies to streamline the pip install process
- Improved repository map using tree-sitter
- Switched from "edit block" to "search/replace block", which reduced malformed edit blocks. Benchmarked at 66.2%, no regression.
- Improved handling of malformed edit blocks targeting multiple edits to the same file. Benchmarked at 65.4%, no regression.
- Bugfix to properly handle malformed
/add
wildcards.
- Added support for
.aiderignore
file, which instructs aider to ignore parts of the git repo. - New
--commit
cmd line arg, which just commits all pending changes with a sensible commit message generated by gpt-3.5. - Added universal ctags and multiple architectures to the aider docker image
/run
and/git
now accept full shell commands, like:/run (cd subdir; ls)
- Restored missing
--encoding
cmd line switch.
- Easily run aider from a docker image
- Fixed bug with chat history summarization.
- Fixed bug if
soundfile
package not available.
- /add and /drop handle absolute filenames and quoted filenames
- /add checks to be sure files are within the git repo (or root)
- If needed, warn users that in-chat file paths are all relative to the git repo
- Fixed /add bug in when aider launched in repo subdir
- Show models supported by api/key if requested model isn't available
- Support for Claude2 and other LLMs via OpenRouter by @joshuavial
- Documentation for running the aider benchmarking suite
- Aider now requires Python >= 3.9
- Only git commit dirty files that GPT tries to edit
- Send chat history as prompt/context for Whisper voice transcription
- Added
--voice-language
switch to constrain/voice
to transcribe to a specific language - Late-bind importing
sounddevice
, as it was slowing down aider startup - Improved --foo/--no-foo switch handling for command line and yml config settings
- Voice-to-code support, which allows you to code with your voice.
- Fixed bug where /diff was causing crash.
- Improved prompting for gpt-4, refactor of editblock coder.
- Benchmarked at 63.2% for gpt-4/diff, no regression.
- Added a progress bar when initially creating a repo map.
- Fixed bad commit message when adding new file to empty repo.
- Fixed corner case of pending chat history summarization when dirty committing.
- Fixed corner case of undefined
text
when using--no-pretty
. - Fixed /commit bug from repo refactor, added test coverage.
- Benchmarked at 53.4% for gpt-3.5/whole (no regression).
- Automatically summarize chat history to avoid exhausting context window.
- More detail on dollar costs when running with
--no-stream
- Stronger GPT-3.5 prompt against skipping/eliding code in replies (51.9% benchmark, no regression)
- Defend against GPT-3.5 or non-OpenAI models suggesting filenames surrounded by asterisks.
- Refactored GitRepo code out of the Coder class.
- /add and /drop always use paths relative to the git root
- Encourage GPT to use language like "add files to the chat" to ask users for permission to edit them.
- Added
/git
command to run git from inside aider chats. - Use Meta-ENTER (Esc+ENTER in some environments) to enter multiline chat messages.
- Create a
.gitignore
with.aider*
to prevent users from accidentaly adding aider files to git. - Check pypi for newer versions and notify user.
- Updated keyboard interrupt logic so that 2 ^C in 2 seconds always forces aider to exit.
- Provide GPT with detailed error if it makes a bad edit block, ask for a retry.
- Force
--no-pretty
if aider detects it is running inside a VSCode terminal. - Benchmarked at 64.7% for gpt-4/diff (no regression)
- Support for the OpenAI models in Azure
- Added
--show-repo-map
- Improved output when retrying connections to the OpenAI API
- Redacted api key from
--verbose
output - Bugfix: recognize and add files in subdirectories mentioned by user or GPT
- Benchmarked at 53.8% for gpt-3.5-turbo/whole (no regression)
- Added
--dark-mode
and--light-mode
to select colors optimized for terminal background - Install docs link to NeoVim plugin by @joshuavial
- Reorganized the
--help
output - Bugfix/improvement to whole edit format, may improve coding editing for GPT-3.5
- Bugfix and tests around git filenames with unicode characters
- Bugfix so that aider throws an exception when OpenAI returns InvalidRequest
- Bugfix/improvement to /add and /drop to recurse selected directories
- Bugfix for live diff output when using "whole" edit format
- Disabled general availability of gpt-4 (it's rolling out, not 100% available yet)
- Ask to create a git repo if none found, to better track GPT's code changes
- Glob wildcards are now supported in
/add
and/drop
commands - Pass
--encoding
into ctags, require it to returnutf-8
- More robust handling of filepaths, to avoid 8.3 windows filenames
- Added FAQ
- Marked GPT-4 as generally available
- Bugfix for live diffs of whole coder with missing filenames
- Bugfix for chats with multiple files
- Bugfix in editblock coder prompt
- Benchmark comparing code editing in GPT-3.5 and GPT-4
- Improved Windows support:
- Fixed bugs related to path separators in Windows
- Added a CI step to run all tests on Windows
- Improved handling of Unicode encoding/decoding
- Explicitly read/write text files with utf-8 encoding by default (mainly benefits Windows)
- Added
--encoding
switch to specify another encoding - Gracefully handle decoding errors
- Added
--code-theme
switch to control the pygments styling of code blocks (by @kwmiebach) - Better status messages explaining the reason when ctags is disabled
- Fixed a bug to allow aider to edit files that contain triple backtick fences.
- Fixed a bug in the display of streaming diffs in GPT-3.5 chats
- Graceful handling of context window exhaustion, including helpful tips.
- Added
--message
to give GPT that one instruction and then exit after it replies and any edits are performed. - Added
--no-stream
to disable streaming GPT responses.- Non-streaming responses include token usage info.
- Enables display of cost info based on OpenAI advertised pricing.
- Coding competence benchmarking tool against suite of programming tasks based on Execism's python repo.
- Major refactor in preparation for supporting new function calls api.
- Initial implementation of a function based code editing backend for 3.5.
- Initial experiments show that using functions makes 3.5 less competent at coding.
- Limit automatic retries when GPT returns a malformed edit response.
- Support for
gpt-3.5-turbo-16k
, and all OpenAI chat models - Improved ability to correct when gpt-4 omits leading whitespace in code edits
- Added
--openai-api-base
to support API proxies, etc.
- Added support for
gpt-3.5-turbo
andgpt-4-32k
. - Added
--map-tokens
to set a token budget for the repo map, along with a PageRank based algorithm for prioritizing which files and identifiers to include in the map. - Added in-chat command
/tokens
to report on context window token usage. - Added in-chat command
/clear
to clear the conversation history.