Roo Code 3.8.5 Release Notes (2025-03-12)

This release introduces significant refactoring, remote browser support, MCP over SSE, and various provider/model updates.

Feature Highlights

Terminal Architecture Refactor: Addressed critical issues with the terminal architecture for improved stability and performance. (thanks KJ7LNW!)
MCP over SSE: Added support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) communication over Server-Sent Events (SSE). (thanks aheizi!)
Remote Browser Support: Added the ability to connect to a remote Chrome browser instance. (thanks afshawnlotfi!)

Added custom baseUrl support for Google AI Studio Gemini. (thanks dqroid!)
Added OpenAI-compatible DeepSeek/QwQ reasoning support. (thanks lightrabbit!)
Added Anthropic-style prompt caching in the OpenAI-compatible provider. (thanks dleen!)
Added Deepseek R1 model for AWS Bedrock. (thanks ATempsch!)
Added gemini-2.0-pro-exp-02-05 model to Vertex AI provider. (thanks shohei-ihaya!)
Added support for custom ARNs in AWS Bedrock. (thanks Smartsheet-JB-Brown!)
Updated Bedrock prices to the latest. (thanks Smartsheet-JB-Brown!)

Preserved parent-child relationship when cancelling Boomerang Tasks (subtasks). (thanks cannuri!)
Added PowerShell-specific command handling. (thanks KJ7LNW!)
Fixed MarkdownBlock text color for Dark High Contrast theme. (thanks cannuri!)
Brought back progress status indicator for multi-diff edits. (thanks qdaxb!)
Refactored alert dialog styles to use the correct VSCode theme. (thanks cannuri!)
Updated MCP servers directory path for platform compatibility. (thanks hannesrudolph!)
Fixed browser system prompt inclusion rules. (thanks cannuri!)
Fixed OpenAI-style cost calculations. (thanks dtrugman!)
Fixed issue allowing use of an excluded directory as the working directory. (thanks Szpadel!)
Added Kotlin language support in list_code_definition_names tool. (thanks kohii!)
Improved handling of diff application errors. (thanks qdaxb!)
Fixed OpenRouter custom baseUrl support.
Fixed usage tracking for SiliconFlow and other providers that include usage on every chunk.
Added telemetry for checkpoint save/restore/diff and diff strategies.
Published git tags to GitHub from CI. (thanks pdecat!)