Agent Breaking Changes_

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Aider Aider v0.76.0

2025-03-10 · official notes

Summary

• Improved support for thinking/reasoning models:
• Added --thinking-tokens CLI option to control token budget for models that support thinking.
• Display thinking/reasoning content from LLMs which return it.

Full notes

- Improved support for [thinking/reasoning models](https://aider.chat/docs/config/reasoning.html):
  - Added `--thinking-tokens` CLI option to control token budget for models that support thinking.
  - Display thinking/reasoning content from LLMs which return it.
  - Enhanced handling of reasoning tags to better clean up model responses.
  - Added deprecation warning for `remove_reasoning` setting, now replaced by `reasoning_tag`.

- Aider will notify you when it's completed the last request and needs your input:
  - Added [notifications when LLM responses are ready](https://aider.chat/docs/usage/notifications.html) with `--notifications` flag.
  - Specify desktop notification command with `--notifications-command`.

- Added/improved support for many models/providers:
  - Added support for QWQ 32B.
  - Support for DeepSeek V3 free on OpenRouter: `--model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-chat:free`.
  - Added support for Claude 3.7 Sonnet models on OpenRouter, Bedrock and Vertex AI.
  - Updated default model to Claude 3.7 Sonnet on OpenRouter.
  - Added support for GPT-4.5-preview model.
  - Added support for Claude 3.7 Sonnet:beta on OpenRouter.
  - Added support for `openrouter/anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet`
  - Fixed weak_model_name patterns to match main model name patterns for some models.

- Switch to `tree-sitter-language-pack` for tree sitter support.
- Improved error handling for EOF (Ctrl+D) in user input prompts.
- Added helper function to ensure hex color values have a # prefix.
- Fixed handling of Git errors when reading staged files.
- Improved SSL verification control for model information requests.
- Improved empty LLM response handling with clearer warning messages.
- Fixed Git identity retrieval to respect global configuration, by Akira Komamura.
- Offer to install dependencies for Bedrock and Vertex AI models.
- Deprecated model shortcut args (like --4o, --opus) in favor of the --model flag.

- Aider wrote 85% of the code in this release.

https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html

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