Aider: What's New in May 2025

Improvements in May 2025

• Improved automatic commit messages by providing more context during their generation.(v0.84.0)
• Improved OpenRouter model metadata handling by introducing a local cache, increasing reliability and performance.(v0.84.0)
• Added shell tab completion for file path arguments and for --edit-format/--editor-edit-format options.(v0.84.0)
• The /settings command now displays detailed metadata for active main, editor, and weak models.(v0.84.0)
• Improved user language detection by correctly normalizing hyphenated language codes (e.g., en-US to en) and enhancing the validation of locale results.(v0.84.0)
• Prevented aider from instructing the LLM to reply in 'C' or 'POSIX' when these are detected as the system locale.(v0.84.0)
• Displayed a spinner with the model name when generating commit messages.(v0.84.0)
• Added a spinner animation while waiting for the LLM to start streaming its response.(v0.83.0)
• Updated the spinner animation to a Knight Rider style.(v0.83.0)
• Updated Gemini model aliases (e.g., `gemini`, `gemini-2.5-pro`) to point to the `05-06` preview versions.(v0.83.0)
• Marked Gemini 2.5 Pro preview models as `overeager` by default.(v0.83.0)
• Commit message prompt specifies the user's language.(v0.83.0)
• Updated the default weak model for Gemini 2.5 Pro models to `gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17`.(v0.83.0)
• Corrected `gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25` model settings to reflect its lack of support for `thinking_budget`.(v0.83.0)
• Ensured model-specific system prompt prefixes are placed on a new line before the main system prompt.(v0.83.0)
• Improved cost calculation using `litellm.completion_cost` where available.(v0.83.0)
• Improved cross-platform display of shell commands by using `oslex` for robust argument quoting.(v0.83.0)
• Improved `/ask` mode to instruct the LLM to elide unchanging code in its responses.(v0.83.0)
• Ensured web scraping in the GUI also respects Playwright availability and the `--disable-playwright` flag.(v0.83.0)
• Improved display of filenames in the prompt header using rich Text formatting.(v0.83.0)
• The `aider-args` utility (or `python -m aider.args`) now defaults to printing a sample YAML configuration if no arguments are provided.(v0.83.0)
• Displayed token count progress and the name of the file or identifier being processed during repo map updates.(v0.83.0)
• Extended the waiting spinner to also show for non-streaming responses and further enhanced its animation with console width clipping, cursor hiding, and a more continuous appearance.(v0.83.0)
• Dropped support for Python 3.9.(v0.83.0)