Aider v0.52.0 Release Notes — What's New

Aider now offers to run shell commands:
- Launch a browser to view updated html/css/js.
- Install new dependencies.
- Run DB migrations.
- Run the program to exercise changes.
- Run new test cases.
/read and /drop now expand ~ to the home dir.
Show the active chat mode at aider prompt.
New /reset command to /drop files and /clear chat history.
New --map-multiplier-no-files to control repo map size multiplier when no files are in the chat.
- Reduced default multiplier to 2.
Bugfixes and improvements to auto commit sequencing.
Improved formatting of token reports and confirmation dialogs.
Default OpenAI model is now gpt-4o-2024-08-06.
Bumped dependencies to pickup litellm bugfixes.
Aider wrote 68% of the code in this release.