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 # Release history
 
+### v0.40.0
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+- Improved prompting to discourage Sonnet from wasting tokens emitting unchanging code (#705).
+- Improved error info for token limit errors.
+- Options to suppress adding "(aider)" to the [git author and committer names](https://aider.chat/docs/git.html#commit-attribution).
+- Use `--model-settings-file` to customize per-model settings, like use of repo-map (by @caseymcc).
+- Improved invocation of flake8 linter for python code.
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 ### v0.39.0
 
 - Use `--sonnet` for Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which is the top model on [aider's LLM code editing leaderboard](https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/#claude-35-sonnet-takes-the-top-spot).