Aider: What's New in February 2025
A summary of all updates, new features, and bug fixes released for Aider during February 2025.
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New Features in February 2025
- Enabled dynamic adjustment of the Ollama context window to match the current chat size.(v0.74.0)
- Introduced the ability to specify a floating-point value for `use_temperature` in model settings, moving beyond simple true/false.(v0.74.0)
- Added `boto3` to the full Docker container to enable support for Amazon Bedrock.(v0.74.0)
Bug Fixes in February 2025
- Fixed an issue that caused the creation of incorrect filenames (e.g., `python`, `php`) during operations.(v0.74.0)
- Resolved a bug related to the `--timeout` functionality.(v0.74.0)
- Fixed an issue where the `/model` command incorrectly reported that the weak model had not been changed.(v0.74.0)
- Ensured that multi-line mode now correctly persists across interruptions (^C) at confirmation prompts.(v0.74.0)
Improvements in February 2025
- Improved support for secondary API providers including o3-mini, DeepSeek V3 & R1, and o1-mini, o1.(v0.74.0)
- Removed extraneous `<think>` tags from responses generated by weaker models like R1 when creating commit messages.(v0.74.0)
- Set the default `HOME` directory in Docker containers to `/app` to ensure that configuration files like `~/.aider` persist correctly to the project mount-point.(v0.74.0)
- Enhanced file watching to fully ignore top-level directories listed in ignore files, reducing the risk of hitting OS watch limits (especially useful for large directories like `node_modules`.)(v0.74.0)
- Achieved faster startup times when using more providers or when model metadata is supplied via local files.(v0.74.0)
- Improved .gitignore handling by honoring existing ignore settings regardless of configuration method, and checking for `.env` files only when they exist.(v0.74.0)
- Updated Yes/No prompts to accept `All` and `Skip` as aliases for `Y` and `N` even when not processing a group of confirmations.(v0.74.0)