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.

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)
• 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)