Aider v0.50.0

What's new in Aider v0.50.0, released Aug 13, 2024 (2.2y ago). Newer: v0.86.0 (Aug 9, 2025)

Release notes

Infinite output for DeepSeek Coder, Mistral models in addition to Anthropic's models.
New --deepseek switch to use DeepSeek Coder.
DeepSeek Coder uses 8k token output.
New --chat-mode <mode> switch to launch in ask/help/code modes.
New /code <message> command request a code edit while in ask mode.
Web scraper is more robust if page never idles.
Improved token and cost reporting for infinite output.
Improvements and bug fixes for /read only files.
Switched from setup.py to pyproject.toml, by @branchvincent.
Bug fix to persist files added during /ask.
Bug fix for chat history size in /tokens.
Aider wrote 66% of the code in this release.