Aider v0.72.0

What's new in Aider v0.72.0, released Jan 20, 2025 (1.8y ago). Newer: v0.86.0 (Aug 9, 2025)

Release notes

Support for DeepSeek R1.
- Use shortcut: --model r1
- Also via OpenRouter: --model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1
Added Kotlin syntax support to repo map, by Paul Walker.
Added --line-endings for file writing, by Titusz Pan.
Added examples_as_sys_msg=True for GPT-4o models, improves benchmark scores.
Bumped all dependencies, to pick up litellm support for o1 system messages.
Bugfix for turn taking when reflecting lint/test errors.
Fix permissions issue in Docker images.
Added read-only file announcements.
Bugfix: ASCII fallback for unicode errors.
Bugfix: integer indices for list slicing in repomap calculations.
Aider wrote 52% of the code in this release.