Agent Breaking Changes_

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Aider Aider v0.73.0

2025-01-31 · official notes

Summary

• Full support for o3-mini: aider --model o3-mini
• New --reasoning-effort argument: low, medium, high.
• Improved handling of context window size limits, with better messaging and Ollama-specific guidance.

Full notes

- Full support for o3-mini: `aider --model o3-mini`
- New `--reasoning-effort` argument: low, medium, high.
- Improved handling of context window size limits, with better messaging and Ollama-specific guidance.
- Added support for removing model-specific reasoning tags from responses with `remove_reasoning: tagname` model setting.
- Auto-create parent directories when creating new files, by xqyz.
- Support for R1 free on OpenRouter: `--model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1:free`
- Enforce user/assistant turn order to avoid R1 errors, by miradnanali.
- Case-insensitive model name matching while preserving original case.
- Harden against user/assistant turn order problems which cause R1 errors.
- Fix model metadata for `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1`
- Aider wrote 69% of the code in this release.

https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html

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