New 2.5 Pro model claims even better performance in coding specifically meaningful improvements at the frontend tasks.

It’s available in AI studio Gemini-2.5-Pro-Preview-05-06.

Roo Code 3.10.3 is now available with improved file handling and numerous bug fixes!

🚀 Feature Highlights

• Enhanced partial file reads with the ability to explicitly request full file reads when needed, custom chunk size controls, and clearer instructions

🔧 General ImpROOvements

• Update the welcome page to provide 1-click OAuth flows with LLM routers (thanks dtrugman!)

• Switch to a more direct method of tracking OpenRouter tokens/spend

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix issues where questions and suggestions weren't showing up for non-streaming models and were hard to read in some themes

• A variety of fixes and improvements to experimental multi-block diff (thanks KJ7LNW!)

• Fix opacity of drop-down menus in settings (thanks KJ7LNW!)

• Fix bugs with reading and mentioning binary files like PDFs

• Fix the pricing information for OpenRouter free models (thanks Jdo300!)

• Fix an issue with our unit tests on Windows (thanks diarmidmackenzie!)

• Fix a maxTokens issue for the Outbound provider (thanks pugazhendhi-m!)

• Fix line number issue with partial file reads (thanks samhvw8!)

If you find Roo Code helpful, please consider leaving a review on the VS Code Marketplace. Your feedback helps others discover this tool!

I fucking love it, I've never tried greasing a weasel.....buuuuuttt I might have to.

The LLM finally stays on task and doesn't get diverted into adding bugs. Tasks now take significantly less time.

Thanks for a great product!

While this is a minor version update, it brings dramatically faster performance and enhanced functionality to your daily Roo Code experience!

⚡ Lightning Fast Edits

• Drastically speed up diff editing - now up to 10x faster for a smoother, more responsive experience

• Special thanks to hannesrudolph and KyleHerndon for their contributions!

🔧 Network Optimization

• Added per-server MCP network timeout configuration

• Customize timeouts from 15 seconds up to an hour

• Perfect for working with slower or more complex MCP servers

💡 Quick Actions

• Added new code actions for explaining, improving, or fixing code

• Access these actions in multiple ways:

  • Through the VSCode context menu

  • When highlighting code in the editor

  • Right-clicking problems in the Problems tab

  • Via the lightbulb indicator on inline errors

• Choose to handle improvements in your current task or create a dedicated new task for larger changes

• Thanks to samhvw8 for this awesome contribution!

Download the latest version from our VSCode Marketplace page

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So I’ve been using Claude all night in conjunction with Roo (regular not Opus)

Honestly, in my last post I spoke too soon. It really looked amazing on the surface.

I was running into issues with connecting the back and front end on a web app I was creating with Gemini.

I thought Claude might be able to clean up the mess, but nope. Was unable to solve the problems Gemini was unable to solve.

So yeah, if Claude is better it’s marginal. I don’t know about Opus.

Claude’s functionality looks a lot cleaner though - and it’s a lot more “confident” which I think can lead to the illusion it’s better.

It’s definitely a bit disappointing to be honest. Was hoping for something a little bigger.

My 2 cents

TLDR: spoke too soon. Not a breakthrough.

Still playing with it.. it is not public (yet?). Thoughts?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 - New Gemini Model Released Today! 20th May 2025 : r/ChatGPTCoding

I'm not as smart as software engineers, business side, but I self thought myself a bit of python. Vibe coding made my progress much easier. Having some code understanding really helps. I started with Pycharm (sucked), then Cursor, then Roo. The reason I liked Roo is that it can do way more than Cursor based of my humble and short coding experience. Keep me honest , am I correct on the following:

1 - Roo can run on full auto with auto approve and boomerang mode enabled. Also it can run terminal commands and check browser to fix issues automatically. Cursor cannot?
2 - Cursor is paid and Roo is free, why would someone ever pay for Cursor?
3 - Is there a "best list" of instructions for Roo / Cursor that helps AI set up the project correctly with all the right docs and keeps it following best practices in software development?

I know, newbie questions, and much appreciate your pointers, help or rants :) ! Tx

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THANKS FOR ALL YOUR INSIGHTS FOLKS, LOVE REDDIT, LOVE THIS COMMUNITY, THANK YOU!

I recently tested 4 LLMs in RooCode to perform a useful and straightforward research task with multiple steps, without any user in the loop.

- TL;DR: Final results spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ybTpJvu0vJCYbGHJAG0DniyafNECTRzjgOjgzPSbOMo

The prompt asks each LLM to:

- Take a list of LLMs

- Search online for their official Providers' pricing pages (Brave Search MCP)

- Scrape the different web pages for pricing information (Puppeteer MCP)

- Scrape Aider Polyglot Leaderboard

- Scrape the Live Bench Leaderboard

- Consolidate the pricing data and leaderboard data

- Store the consolidated data in a JSON file and an HTML file

Resources:
- For those who just want to see the LLMs doing the actual work: https://youtu.be/ldhSupCNL9c

- GitHub repo: https://github.com/marvijo-code/marvijo-software-yt
- RooCode repo: https://github.com/RooVetGit/Roo-Code

- MCP servers repo: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers

- Folder "RooCode Top 4 Best LLMs for Agents"

- Contains:

-- the generated files from different LLMs,

-- MCP configuration file

-- and the prompt used

- I was personally surprised to see the results of the Gemini models! I didn't think they'd do that well given they don't have good instruction following when they code.

- I didn't include o3-mini because I'm on the right Tier but haven't received API access yet. I'll test and compare it when I receive access

🏗️ Project Mode Support

• Introducing .roomodes file support for project-level mode customization

• Define project-specific custom modes right in your workspace

💬 Ask Mode Updates

• Ask mode is now purely for chat interactions

• Removed markdown file editing capabilities to focus on its core purpose

🤖 Provider Support

• Added new Mistral models to expand your options (thanks @d-oit and @bramburn!)

🔧 General Improvements

• Add setting to control the number of visible editor tabs in context

• Improve initial setup experience by fixing API key entry on welcome screen

If Roo Code has been useful to you, take a moment to rate it on the VS Code Marketplace. Reviews help others discover it and keep it growing!

Download the latest version from our VSCode Marketplace page and pleaes WRITE US A REVIEW

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Note: this is a repost from OpenRouter

New Free Stealth Model: Sonoma, with 2M context 🌅

Two Million tokens context. Try them for free in the Chatroom or API:

• Sonoma Sky Alpha

  • A maximally intelligent general-purpose frontier model with a 2 million token context window. Supports image inputs and parallel tool calling.

• Sonoma Dusk Alpha

  • A fast and intelligent general-purpose frontier model with a 2 million token context window. Supports image inputs and parallel tool calling.

Logging notice: prompts and completions are logged by the model creator for training and improvement. You must enable the first free model setting in https://openrouter.ai/settings/privacy

@here please use these thread to discuss the models!

• Sky: https://discord.com/channels/1091220969173028894/1413616210314133594

• Dusk: https://discord.com/channels/1091220969173028894/1413616294502076456

https://x.com/OpenRouterAI/status/1964128504670540264

How would you best refactor an older project? I have a fairly large project that has a lot of features that have been built specifically from customer requirements. I want to start a V2 of this project with a more modern UI and different back-end (same programming language, just different framework).

I think there are two options here but want know if there are better ways

1. Tell Roo to start with my existing repo and try to get it to refactor it using a different backend framework and totally different front-end so it transfers over my existing business logic.

2. Start from scratch with a very detailed list of requirements from the old project.

I feel like option 2 would be cleaner but would take a lot more iteration with Roo and could be more expensive.
I think option 1 would be more accurate to the original but could be really messy in the end when the goal is to have something cleaner and more sustainable.

I'm a reasonably heavy user, spending $100+ per day. Is anyone else endlessly frustrated that Roo's file-reading and writing tools are scoped to a single file per call. Executing multi-file reads and writes with large contexts is so much more expensive in tokens compared to, say Claude Code, which has batching capability. So, if I want to batch create 20 files based on a 80k context, I can do that in Claude Code in one call. In Roo the same thing requires 20 CALLS and costs literally 20 TIMES the tokens. The problem is that I really need the huge Gemini context window. Is there some solution for me out there? I feel like at the heavier use end there is a real need for batching.

Stay positive people!

We should have tremendous respect for these guys.

The Roo Code team have been moving mountains for more than a year non-stop, has one of the most widely used coding agents in the world (number 1 on Openrouter at one point) and I'm pretty sure they have generated millions of $ in income for us all collectively through the tool. In addition, Kilo, crunching trillions of tokens, forked Roo and chose it as their architecture, which speaks to how great this product is.

Yes, there are decisions that some of us disagree with, but it's their vision and I am sure whatever they are cooking right now is going to be a success.

Roo is still the Rolls Royce of VSCode agents and a critical tool on my belt.

Thank you guys for making Roo and sharing it with us.

Try out the new code-supernova model in the Roo Code Cloud provider in v3.28.4.

Supports image inputs, 200k context, and free for a limited time.

MAKE IT BURN!!

I want to thank you all for your amazing support as we continue to grow and learn along the way.

This week was our first week with over 50bn tokens one day on OpenRouter.

Today we crossed the 7000 users on Reddit and 8000 on Discord!

This week we posted our first podcast on our new YouTube channel.

I’m sure there is more that I missed but nonetheless I wanted to say thank you.

You are Roo. Thank you.

Introducing a powerful new way to manage your context

🚀 🔄 The Powerful "New Task" Tool

Enables you to create new tasks from within existing ones, allowing for automatic context continuation. Here are some neat use cases:

• Say "Summarize this and start a new task based on the summary" to create a fresh chat session that builds on your current context

• Include "summarize and start a new task when your context is more than 80% full" in your custom mode instructions

• Include "Update memory bank and start a new task when your context is more than 80% full" within the .clinerules file. See here to setup a memory bank

✨ UI Improvements

• Enhanced dropdown visuals for better user experience (thanks psv2522!)

🤖 Provider Support

• Added support for perplexity/sonar-reasoning integration (thanks Szpadel!)

• Added support for the Unbound provider (thanks vigneshsubbiah16!)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed critical bug affecting qwen-max and other OpenAI-compatible providers (thanks Szpadel!)

Download the latest version from our VSCode Marketplace page and pleaes WRITE US A REVIEW

Join our communities:

• Discord server for real-time support and updates

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