Roo Code 3.28.0 Release Notes (2025-09-10)
This release introduces Roomote Control - check on long-running tasks from your phone and keep them going without being stuck at your desk. Plus enhanced chat editing and multiple bug fixes.
Roomote Control
We've launched Roomote Control, a supplementary cloud service that lets you monitor and continue long-running tasks from your phone - no more waiting at your desk! Control tasks running in your local VS Code instance from any browser (#7799, #7805, #7850):
Important: Roo Code remains completely free and open source. Roomote Control is an optional supplementary service that connects your local VS Code to any web browser.
Free Features (All Users):
- Monitor from Anywhere: Check on long-running tasks from your phone while away from your desk
- Real-time Updates: Live streaming of your local task messages and progress
- Stay Productive: No more waiting at your desk for tasks to complete
Pro Features (14-Day Free Trial, then $20/month):
- Continue Tasks Remotely: Keep tasks going from your phone - respond to prompts, fix errors, approve actions
- Full Chat Control: Interact with the chatbox as though you were in your IDE
- Task Management: Start new tasks, stop running ones, or switch between multiple tasks
The feature creates a bidirectional connection between your local VS Code extension and Roo Code Cloud, allowing you to monitor and control your local development environment from anywhere - whether you're on another computer, tablet, or smartphone.
📚 Documentation: See Roomote Control Guide for detailed setup and usage instructions, and Billing & Subscriptions for pricing details.
QOL Improvements
- Click-to-Edit Chat Messages: Click directly on any message text to edit it, with ESC to cancel and improved padding consistency (#7790)
- Enhanced Reasoning Display: The AI's thinking process now shows a persistent timer and displays reasoning content in clean italic text (#7752)
- Manual Auth URL Input: Users in containerized environments can now paste authentication redirect URLs manually when automatic redirection fails (#7805)
Bug Fixes
- Groq Context Window: Fixed incorrect display of cached tokens in context window (#7839)
- Chat Message Operations: Resolved duplication issues when editing messages and "Couldn't find timestamp" errors when deleting (#7793)
- Merge Resolver Mode: Added GIT_EDITOR environment variable to prevent hanging during non-interactive rebase operations (#7819)
- UI Overlap: Fixed CodeBlock button z-index to prevent overlap with popovers and configuration panels (thanks A0nameless0man!) (#7783)
- Temperature Parameter: Restored temperature parameter to fix crashes in TabbyApi and ExLlamaV2 backends (thanks drknyt!) (#7594)
- Ollama Model Info: Fixed max context window display for Ollama models (thanks ItsOnlyBinary!) (#7679)
Provider Updates
- Vertex AI Models: Added support for 6 new models including DeepSeek-V3, GPT-OSS, and Qwen models, plus the us-south1 region (thanks ssweens!) (#7727)
- DeepSeek Pricing: Updated to new unified rates effective September 5, 2025 - $0.56/M input tokens, $1.68/M output tokens (thanks NaccOll!) (#7687)