Aider v0.70.0: o1 Support & Watch File Fixes

TL;DR

• Full o1 model support — Aider now works with OpenAI's reasoning models
• Watch files now respect --subtree-only flag with improved prompting
• New uv-based install methods including one-liners for faster setup
• Better error handling for interactive commands via /load and --load

New

• o1 model support — Full integration with OpenAI's o1 reasoning models for complex problem-solving tasks
• Watch file improvements — Now honors --subtree-only flag and watches only that subtree with more reliable prompting across models
• uv install methods — New installation paths via uv, including one-liners for faster setup
• DeepSeek model support — Added openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-chat model integration
• Git-free operation — Aider can now run without git installed
• AI hint prompts — Shows hints about AI! and AI? when users make AI comments
• Read-only file display — Shows absolute paths when shorter than relative paths

Fixed

• Interactive command error handling — Better error messages when interactive commands are attempted via /load or --load
• Auto-suggest bugfix — Resolved auto-suggest functionality issues
• Unicode in git paths — Gracefully handles unicode errors in git path names
• Gemini model names — Fixed model metadata for gemini models
• Windows environment setup — Improved environment variable setup messages on Windows

Other

• Analytics opt-in — 10% of users asked to opt-in to analytics
• Aider self-generated 74% of the code in this release

Update via: pip install --upgrade aider-chat

Source: Aider