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Roo Code 3.29.0 Release Notes (2025-10-24)

This release adds intelligent file reading, enables browser-use for all image-capable models, and adds dynamic Roo Code Cloud model loading — plus many fixes and model updates.

Roo Code v3.29.0 Release

Introducing Roo Code's first Cloud Agent, the PR Reviewer​

It runs Roo in the cloud, giving extremely high quality code reviews instantly. We’ve been using it heavily to build Roo and now it's also available to the community.

Learn more: https://roocode.com/reviewer

QOL Improvements​

  • Intelligent file reading with token‑budget management and a 100KB preview for very large files (thanks daniel-lxs, liwilliam2021!) (#8789)
  • Browser‑use enabled for all image‑capable models (thanks app/roomote, hannesrudolph!) (#8121, issue #8116)
  • Reduce ui_messages.json bloat by removing GPT‑5 instructions/reasoning_summary (#8756)
  • Adjustable checkpoint initialization timeout and clearer warnings (thanks NaccOll!) (#8019, issue #7843)
  • Improve auto‑approve button responsiveness (#8798)
  • Retry API requests on stream failures instead of aborting the task (#8794)
  • Improve checkpoint menu translations (#8796)
  • Try a 5s status mutation timeout to reduce flaky status changes (#8734)

Bug Fixes​

  • search_files now respects .gitignore (including nested) by default; override when needed (#8804, issue #7921)
  • apply_diff export preserves trailing newlines (fix stripLineNumbers) (#8227, issue #8020)
  • Export: exclude max tokens for models that don’t support it (thanks elianiva!) (#8464, issue #7944)
  • Checkpoints: always show restore options regardless of change detection (#8758)

Provider Updates​

  • Roo Code Cloud: dynamic model loading in the Model Picker with 5‑minute caching, auth‑state refresh, and graceful fallback to static models on failure (#8728)
  • Chutes: add zai‑org/GLM‑4.6‑turbo (204.8K context; clear pricing) (thanks mohammad154!) (#8502)
  • OpenRouter: add Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 to prompt‑caching models (#8764)
  • Z.ai: expand model coverage with GLM‑4.5‑X, AirX, Flash (#8745)
  • Mistral: update “Medium” model name (thanks ThomsenDrake!) (#8364)

Misc Updates​

  • Reviewer page copy clarifications for clearer expectations (#8753)
  • Dynamic OpenGraph images for clean link previews (#8773)
  • Fix link text to “Roomote Control” in README (thanks laz-001!) (#8742)
  • Remove a very verbose cloud‑agents error (#8795)
  • Update X/Twitter username from roo_code to roocode (#8780)
  • Update “Configuring Profiles” video link across localized READMEs (#8189)