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Aider v0.56.0

What's new in Aider v0.56.0, released Sep 9, 2024 (). Newer: v0.86.0 (Aug 9, 2025)

Release notes

Aider v0.56.0

  • Enables prompt caching for Sonnet via OpenRouter by @fry69
  • Enables 8k output tokens for Sonnet via VertexAI and DeepSeek V2.5.
  • New /report command to open your browser with a pre-populated GitHub Issue.
  • New --chat-language switch to set the spoken language.
  • Now --[no-]suggest-shell-commands controls both prompting for and offering to execute shell commands.
  • Check key imports on launch, provide helpful error message if dependencies aren't available.
  • Renamed --models to --list-models by @fry69.
  • Numerous bug fixes for corner case crashes.
  • Aider wrote 56% of the code in this release.