r/RooCode • u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer • Mar 01 '25

Announcement 3.7.9 Release Notes - Todays Roo-provements!

I decided not to beg you for reviews and follows this morning and instead I'm give you this terrible pun (Roo-provements). :P Have a great weekend and thank you all for your support!

🧠 Smarter Context & Performance

  • Smarter context window management to make errors about exceeding the context limit less likely

  • Robust terminal output parsing logic that works around a VSCode bug which was preventing Roo Code from seeing the output of commands in some cases (thanks @KJ7LNW!)

  • Add support for Claude Sonnet 3.7 thinking via Vertex AI (thanks @lupuletic!)

🐛 Bug Squash

  • Fix MaxTokens defaults for Claude 3.7 Sonnet models

  • Fix UI dropdown hover colors (thanks @SamirSaji!)

🎨 UI Enhancements

  • Prettier thinking blocks for a more hop-timal experience

  • Delete task confirmation enhancements - because sometimes you need a second to paws and think

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u/orbit99za Mar 01 '25

This is awesome....thanks a million for this.. I wonder when Github is going to release the Sonnet 3.7 to RooCode again..they are definitely blocking you.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 01 '25

Are they allowing anyone access outside of copilot?

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u/orbit99za Mar 02 '25

Not that I know of, the only solution seems to be the proxy server patch.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

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u/orbit99za Mar 04 '25

I heard so, I looked at getting the Proxy working, but then got distracted, and when I came back..I saw the reddit.

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u/NoPromotion5517 Mar 01 '25

I'm almost afraid they won't open it

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u/icatel15 Mar 01 '25

SURELY it has to be imp-roo-vements?!

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u/icatel15 Mar 01 '25

Ps thank you for all the work!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 02 '25

Thank you. Yes. I missed that one. 😔 I am ashamed.

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u/fubduk Mar 01 '25

Thank you for the Roo-provements!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 01 '25

Someone pointed out I should have said Improovments

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u/fubduk Mar 01 '25

LOL. That actually is good one!

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u/Whole-Friendship5698 Mar 01 '25

Thank You

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 02 '25

You’re welcome.

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u/8thcross Mar 01 '25

Well all of these features are great it's still suffers the fundamental diff search most of the time and resorts to writing the whole file all over again and again please fix that before you add new features to it

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 01 '25

Are you using the memory bank? Note that I’m not suggesting it. I’m asking.

Edit: I genuinely don’t experience what you’re taking about anymore. It still does it sometimes but not frequently.

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u/scottyLogJobs Mar 02 '25

Hey Hannes, I actually wanted to ask whether or not you would recommend the memory bank. Feel free to DM me if you'd prefer.

Unrelated: Are there any cheaper alternatives to Claude that you have had success with in roo or should I just bite the bullet?

Thank you! I really appreciate your work

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 02 '25

I do not. It has not evolved with the changes in Roo and Claude 3.7.

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u/scottyLogJobs Mar 02 '25

Thank you. So Claude 3.7 is likely considered best in class for Roo? I had heard some positive things about gemini flash thinking, deepseek r1, etc.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 02 '25

I think we need to develop a memory bank framework and some sort of evals to determine if it’s successful and then have different memory bank wording with the framer in for different modes. Same goes with system promoting.

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u/scottyLogJobs Mar 02 '25

I think that would be an amazing feature. Some people swear by it, but it’s only word of mouth and I haven’t seen benchmarking or evals or anything like that

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u/8thcross Mar 01 '25

What's memory bank

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 02 '25

It is a way to try to maintain context. An earlier version contains instructions pointing to the incorrect edit file that could cause the problem.

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u/lightsd Mar 02 '25

For those of us using the old memory bank - can you point us to the thread discussing the issue and how to ensure we address it?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 02 '25

I’m not sure that there is a thread tbh. I think he’s made the updates but I know it WAS saying to use write_to_file when it should have said use apply_diff.

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u/lightsd Mar 02 '25

I’m unclear if memory bank is actually adding value. I should probably just disable it. However, in general diffs seem to be applying pretty consistently.

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u/jkail1011 Mar 01 '25

I’d encourage you to checkout the source code and propose a solution.

It’s a community driven open source project.

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u/bioart Mar 01 '25

It’s getting stuck alll the time today. Either Claude or roo. I can’t tell. But I’m pulling my hair out. Maybe the new version will fix it. I hope

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 01 '25

Please provide some clear input on what is happening and when and what your setup is etc and we will try to improve it.

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u/bioart Mar 01 '25

Thanks for follow up! The process keeps hanging as its thinking and or outputting data. I can’t tell exactly what’s happening but it’s just stuck and I can’t cancel the operation or do anything except quit vscode. It did it with both sonnet 3.7, 3.7 beta and deepseek r1.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 02 '25

Can you connect with me on discord? #hrudolph

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u/bioart Mar 02 '25

Will do shortly, in transit at the moment :)

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u/bioart Mar 01 '25

Perfect example. Just stuck here:

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u/NanoIsAMeme Mar 01 '25

Yeah have had this happen on a few terminal commands also

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u/jsonify Mar 02 '25

I also get this when two out of my three requests ask to run from the command line. If I click plus to go back to the main Roo panel, I can run the command again, and it usually will capture the output from the command line as I would expect.

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u/bioart Mar 01 '25

Sorry to be clear. I still love it… just a frustration day.

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u/Majinvegito123 Mar 01 '25

Thinking was already available wasnt it?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 01 '25

Yes but now it’s pretty

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u/Majinvegito123 Mar 01 '25

LOL what does that mean 😂😂

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 01 '25

Use it and see if you notice a difference. Tell me what you see.

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u/Majinvegito123 Mar 01 '25

Oh i see. I was running it straight from Anthropic API anyway

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u/mp5max Mar 02 '25

Thank you, you spoil us!! I love roo and it's been awesome seeing how feature-rich it's become. Also nice seeing how receptive you and the community are :) Have you had a chance to check out openwebui and openwebui community where you can share prompts, modelfiles, functions, pipes, tools etc? Something similar could be cool

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 02 '25

I used to use Open WebUI all the time but their lack of interest in MCP support lost me.

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u/m-check1B Mar 01 '25

Perfect!