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Roo Code 3.25.16 Release Notes (2025-08-17)

This release improves provider integrations with native Ollama API support and GPT-5 chat model, enhances task history handling, and fixes several UI and stability issues.

Provider Updates

  • Native Ollama API: Fixed Ollama models to use native API instead of OpenAI compatibility layer for improved performance and reliability (#7137)
  • OpenAI GPT-5 Chat: Added support for gpt-5-chat-latest model optimized for conversational AI and non-reasoning tasks (#7058)

QOL Improvements

  • Enhanced Task History: Made "enhance with task history" default to true for better context retention in conversations (thanks liwilliam2021!) (#7140)
  • Improved Scrollbar: Fixed scrollbar jumping in long conversations by removing the 500-message limit (#7064)

Bug Fixes

  • Settings UI: Fixed allowedMaxRequests and allowedMaxCost values not displaying properly (thanks chrarnoldus!) (#6925)
  • Provider Settings: Fixed save button not enabling for provider dropdown and checkbox changes (#7113)
  • XML Entity Handling: Fixed XML entity decoding issues in diff tools that caused content mismatches (#7108)
  • Condensing State: Fixed condensing state not resetting when switching between tasks (thanks f14XuanLv!) (#6922)
  • Workspace Paths: Fixed workspace path resolution in codebase search tool (thanks NaccOll!) (#6902)
  • Multi-folder Workspaces: Fixed checkpoint handling for multi-folder workspace configurations (thanks NaccOll!) (#6903)
  • Diff Processing: Added type checking to prevent errors when processing diff content (#6906)

Misc Improvements

  • Task System: Added API for resuming tasks, improved event handling, and enhanced metadata support (#7122, #7128, #7117, #7092)
  • Web Infrastructure: Improved sitemap generation and SEO metadata (thanks elianiva, abumalick!) (#7102, #7096, #6206)
  • Task Execution: Refactored task execution system for better call stack management (thanks catrielmuller!) (#7035)