release aidev SIG 3/5

Aider v0.82.0: GPT-4.1 and Grok 3 support, new patch and editor-* edit formats

Aider added support for the GPT-4.1 family (including mini and nano) and the xAI Grok 3 models via both xAI and OpenRouter. It introduces a patch edit format for GPT-4.1 plus three editor-* edit formats, and fixes automatic edit-format selection in architect mode.

PUBLISHED2025-04-14
OBSERVED2026-08-11
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  • GPT 4.1, mini and nano supported.
  • Grok 3 models added: xai/grok-3-beta, xai/grok-3-mini-beta, grok-3-fast-beta, grok-3-mini-fast-beta, plus OpenRouter equivalents and openrouter/openrouter/optimus-alpha.
  • Aliases: grok3 for xai/grok-3-beta, optimus for openrouter/openrouter/optimus-alpha.
  • Fireworks AI deepseek-v3-0324 supported.
  • New patch edit format for GPT-4.1.
  • New editor-diff, editor-whole, and editor-diff-fenced edit formats.
  • Fix: automatic selection of the best edit format in architect mode.
  • Improved architect mode with Gemini 2.5 Pro.
  • Fix: URL extraction from error messages.
  • Files can be added by full path even when a file with the same basename is already in the chat.
  • Fix: quoting of values containing # in the sample aider.conf.yml.
model-supportfeaturefix

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