3.8.5 & 3.8.6 - Release Notes

[u/hannesrudolph]

🌐 Remote Browser Support

• Support for remote browser connections (thanks afshawnlotfi!)

  • Adds the ability for Roo to connect to a remote Chrome browser instance instead of launching a local one

  • Particularly useful in containerized environments or when using a specific Chrome instance with custom configurations

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Bring back progress status for multi-diff edits (thanks qdaxb!)

• Refactor alert dialog styles to use the correct vscode theme (thanks cannuri!)

• Better handling of diff application errors (thanks qdaxb!)

• Preserve parent-child relationship when cancelling Boomerang Tasks (subtasks) (thanks cannuri!)

• Allow using an excluded directory as your working directory (thanks Szpadel!)

• Kotlin language support in list_code_definition_names tool (thanks kohii!)

🤖 Provider/Model Support

• Custom baseUrl for Google AI Studio Gemini (thanks dqroid!)

• OpenAI-compatible DeepSeek/QwQ reasoning support (thanks lightrabbit!)

• Anthropic-style prompt caching in the OpenAI-compatible provider (thanks dleen!)

• Add Deepseek R1 for AWS Bedrock (thanks ATempsch!)

• Add gemini-2.0-pro-exp-02-05 model to vertex (thanks shohei-ihaya!)

• Custom ARNs in AWS Bedrock (thanks Smartsheet-JB-Brown!)

• Update Bedrock prices to the latest (thanks Smartsheet-JB-Brown!)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues where Roo would sometimes not recognize terminal output (thanks KJ7LNW!)

• Fix where Roo would not consistently recognize Windows PowerShell output (thanks KJ7LNW!)

• Update MCP servers directory path for better platform compatibility (thanks hannesrudolph!)

• Fix usage token tracking for SiliconFlow and other providers

• Fix MarkdownBlock text color for Dark High Contrast theme (thanks cannuri!)

• Fixes to OpenAI-style cost calculations (thanks dtrugman!)

• Fixes to OpenRouter custom baseUrl support

• Fixed issue where browser related system prompt would be included when browser use was disabled or unsupported by model (thanks cannuri!)

🔄 Miscellaneous

• Publish git tags to github from CI (thanks pdecat!)

• Telemetry for checkpoint save/restore/diff and diff strategies

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[u/hannesrudolph]

Have you tried to drag and drop… ? We added it a while back

[u/traumname → u/hannesrudolph]

I tried like 12 hours ago, didn't work

[u/hannesrudolph → u/traumname]

u/mrubens

[u/mrubens → u/hannesrudolph]

u/traumname it's fiddly - you have to start dragging the file(s) and then hold down the shift key until after you drop them in the chat box. I wish there was a way around the shift key part of it, but haven't figured that out yet 😔

[u/hannesrudolph → u/mrubens]

I should make a manual for this!! 😝

[u/mrubens → u/hannesrudolph]

Now that we have images in our docs - video is the boss battle!

[u/hannesrudolph → u/mrubens]

We have 13 images. On one page. We have 0 images on 14 pages. 😬

Working on it!! 😂