Release v0.34.0

[wladimiiir]

Highlights

✨ Fine-Grained Model Control with Provider Overrides

Take unprecedented control over your AI models! We've introduced provider overrides at the model level, allowing you to set specific parameters that your chosen provider offers. This means you can now, for example, configure an OpenRouter model to prioritize specific underlying providers or order them by price. For Gemini models, you could set a specific thinking budget for individual models, giving you precise control over their behavior and cost efficiency.

⚡ Performance Boosts

We've made several key improvements to enhance AiderDesk's performance:

• Faster Model Library: The Model Library now uses a virtualized table, dramatically improving performance when managing a large number of available models.
• Experimental Message Virtualization: For users experiencing lag with many messages and diff viewers, we've added experimental support for virtualized rendering of messages. This feature, disabled by default, can be enabled in Settings -> General -> Message Display. While there are some known issues we're actively working on, we encourage you to try it out and
  provide feedback! You'll also notice the Markdown rendering option has moved to this global setting for easier access.

• Optimized File Operations: The glob and grep tools have received a performance upgrade by more efficiently handling ignored files using git check-ignore.

📊 Markdown Tables Rendering

Enhance the readability of your AI's outputs! AiderDesk now supports rendering Markdown tables within messages, making structured data and summaries much clearer and easier to digest.

🚀 Direct Support for Z.AI Coding Plan Provider

We've added direct support for the Z.AI Coding Plan provider. If you're looking for a powerful and cost-efficient model for your coding plans, you can now configure and utilize Z.AI directly within AiderDesk without any workarounds.

Other Changes

• Environment variables from Settings > Aider are now correctly used when loading provider models.
• The AIDER_DESK_DATA_DIR environment variable is now properly respected for custom data directories.
• Added support for an ARGUMENTS placeholder in custom commands for more dynamic workflows.
• Reloading a project now preserves and keeps your current session active.
• Updated to the latest Electron version to ensure compatibility and resolve issues with the newest macOS releases.
• Improved the subagent run task tool to use name-based IDs instead of UUIDs, preventing the wrong subagent from being executed.
• Thinking messages are no longer added after interrupting a tool call, providing a cleaner experience.

💡 We’d love to hear your thoughts! Your feedback helps us improve AiderDesk - feel free to share any suggestions or issues. Happy coding! 🚀

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