Aider v0.49.0 Release Notes — What's New

Add read-only files to the chat context with /read and --read, including from outside the git repo.
/diff now shows diffs of all changes resulting from your request, including lint and test fixes.
New /clipboard command to paste images or text from the clipboard, replaces /add-clipboard-image.
Now shows the markdown scraped when you add a url with /web.
When scripting aider messages can now contain in-chat / commands.
Aider in docker image now suggests the correct command to update to latest version.
Improved retries on API errors (was easy to test during Sonnet outage).
Added --mini for gpt-4o-mini.
Bugfix to keep session cost accurate when using /ask and /help.
Performance improvements for repo map calculation.
/tokens now shows the active model.
Enhanced commit message attribution options:
- New --attribute-commit-message-author to prefix commit messages with 'aider: ' if aider authored the changes, replaces --attribute-commit-message.
- New --attribute-commit-message-committer to prefix all commit messages with 'aider: '.
Added openai/gpt-4o-2024-08-06.
Worked around litellm bug that removes OpenRouter app headers when using extra_headers.
Improved progress indication during repo map processing.
Removed obsolete 16k token limit on commit diffs, use per-model limits.
Aider wrote 61% of the code in this release.