Roo Code 3.12 Release Notes (2025-04-17)

This release cycle introduces the xAI provider, Grok reasoning options, diff editing enhancements, faster checkpoints, UI improvements like search bars in dropdowns, and various bug fixes.

Provider Updates

• Added xAI provider and exposed reasoning effort options for Grok on OpenRouter (thanks Cline!).
• Added OpenAI o3 & 4o-mini (thanks PeterDaveHello!).

QOL Improvements

• Made diff editing config per-profile and improved pre-diff string normalization.
• Made checkpoints faster and more reliable.
• Added a search bar to mode and profile select dropdowns (thanks samhvw8!).
• Suppressed zero cost values in the task header (thanks do-it!).
• Allowed users to bind a keyboard shortcut for accepting suggestions or input in the chat view (thanks axkirillov!).
• Improved file/folder context mention UI (thanks elianiva!).
• Added support for dragging and dropping tabs into the chat box (thanks NyxJae!).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with Edit button visibility in the select dropdowns.
• Fixed character escaping issues in Gemini diff edits.
• Ensured slash commands only fire at the beginning of the chat box (thanks logosstone!).

Misc Improvements

• Added telemetry for code action usage, prompt enhancement usage, and consecutive mistake errors.
• Made JSON parsing safer to avoid crashing the webview on bad input.
• Improved diff error telemetry.