# Aider v0.66.0: PDF input for Sonnet and Gemini, configurable API timeout

> Adds PDF support when using Sonnet and Gemini models, plus a `--timeout` option for API calls and `--voice-input-device` for selecting the recording device. Support for Dart was removed as broken.

| | |
|---|---|
| **Tool** | Aider |
| **Version** | v0.66.0 |
| **Kind** | release |
| **Published** | 2024-12-01 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-11 |
| **Significance** | 3/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | capability, feature, deprecation, fix |

## What changed


- PDF support for Sonnet and Gemini models
- `--timeout` to configure API call timeouts
- `--voice-input-device` selects the audio input device
- Broken Dart support removed
- Shell commands now run with cwd set to the repo root
- Ctrl-Up/Down navigates per-message history
- `/drop` supports substring matching for non-glob patterns
- Better error handling for .gitignore writes, input-history file permissions, and analytics file access
- Fixes: URL scraping from chat messages, `--alias`, `__version__` import errors
- Spurious VSCode pretty-output warning removed


## Sources

- [github_release](https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/releases/tag/v0.66.0) — retrieved 2026-08-11

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