# Rio 0.7.1 released

> Source: <https://julin.ai/2026/10/05/rio-0-7-1-released/>
> Published: 2026-10-04 11:00:00+00:00

[Rio 0.7.1](https://pypi.org/project/rio/) is out. This is a big change to Rio’s core.

Thanks to Rulin Shao’s work on context management. There is a new way for managing context. Rio took it one step further: instead of treating context as a file to edit, treat it as a mutable, executable document. Jupyter notebook is picked because it already has a stable specification and a runtime.

@RulinShao Nice work. I fit CLM in for coding agent Rio:
1. LLM context is .ipynb.
2. LLM changes a cell in each turn. - `codemode` natively supported.
3. Instead of CLM's file updates, Rio uses json patch inspired by SKILL.state.

Fewer turns, less tokens
[https://t.co/YYJDYiSmpl](https://t.co/YYJDYiSmpl) [https://t.co/SyxBwPF95N](https://t.co/SyxBwPF95N)