v0.73.0

• Full support for o3-mini: aider --model o3-mini

• New --reasoning-effort argument: low, medium, high.

• Improved handling of context window size limits, with better messaging and Ollama-specific guidance.

• Added support for removing model-specific reasoning tags from responses with remove_reasoning: tagname model setting.

• Auto-create parent directories when creating new files, by xqyz.

• Support for R1 free on OpenRouter: --model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1:free

• Enforce user/assistant turn order to avoid R1 errors, by miradnanali.

• Case-insensitive model name matching while preserving original case.

• Harden against user/assistant turn order problems which cause R1 errors.

• Fix model metadata for openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1

• Aider wrote 69% of the code in this release.

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