What's Changed

We sped up SWE-agent by 2x (timed with GPT4o). This is mostly due to faster communication with the running processes inside of the Docker container and other container setup & installation related improvements. Here are a few relevant PRs:

• Switch to fast communicate and shallow clone by default by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/530
• Change: Only wait 1s for docker to start by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/541
• Feat: experimental shallow cloning by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/498
• Enh: Start from clone of python conda environment for speedup by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/548
• Enh: Use uv for editable install by default by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/547

Fixed

• Web UI: Remove -n option to wait by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/487
• Web UI: Kill the Flask server on exit. by @kwight in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/479
• Web UI: Avoid proxy errors on MacOS by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/506
• Ensure container_name is reset for non-persistent containers by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/463
• Fix: Do not allow persistent container with cache task imgs by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/551

Improved

• Improve scrolling behavior in web UI by @anishfish2 in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/420
• Web UI: Render Markdown in agent feed messages. by @kwight in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/486
• Enh: Remove redundant 'saved traj to X' messages by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/528
• Allow to disable config dump to log by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/537
• Resolve relative paths to demonstrations and commands by @klieret in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/444

New Contributors

• @panozzaj made their first contribution in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/476
• @kwight made their first contribution in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/482
• @anishfish2 made their first contribution in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/420
• @ofirpress made their first contribution in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/489
• @milaiwi made their first contribution in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/469
• @burnettk made their first contribution in https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/pull/533

Full Changelog: https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent/compare/v0.5.0...v0.6.0