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Aider v0.70.0

What's new in Aider v0.70.0, released Dec 26, 2024 (). Newer: v0.86.0 (Aug 9, 2025)

Release notes

Aider v0.70.0

  • Full support for o1 models.
  • Watch files now honors --subtree-only, and only watches that subtree.
  • Improved prompting for watch files, to work more reliably with more models.
  • New install methods via uv, including one-liners.
  • Support for openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-chat model.
  • Better error handling when interactive commands are attempted via /load or --load.
  • Display read-only files with abs path if its shorter than rel path.
  • Ask 10% of users to opt-in to analytics.
  • Bugfix for auto-suggest.
  • Gracefully handle unicode errors in git path names.
  • Fix for gemini model names in model metadata.
  • Show hints about AI! and AI? when user makes AI comments.
  • Support for running without git installed.
  • Improved environment variable setup messages on Windows.
  • Aider wrote 74% of the code in this release.

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