Zed Release Notes

Features

AI

• Edit Prediction: Added support for multiple edit prediction providers, including GitHub Copilot's Next Edit Suggestions, Ollama, Codestral, Sweep, and Mercury Coder. To configure, open the Edit Prediction menu and select Configure Providers.
• Agent: Added support for opening the Agent Panel with an initial prompt via zed://agent?prompt= URL. (#47959)
• Agent: Added the ability to send selections from terminals into the Agent thread. (#47637; thanks rutgercap, #47950)
• Agent: Improved the Copy Selection right-click menu item by disabling it when there are no selections. (#47997; thanks cppcoffee)
• Agent: Added automatic blocking for certain known-bad tool uses, such as the terminal tool attempting to run rm -rf / or rm -rf ~. (#48209)
• Agent: Improved wording of confirmation label text in agent thread. (#48202)
• Agent: Improved Zed agent thread history to update across all open windows. (#47803)
• Agent: Added a settings page in the settings editor that allows customizing tool call permissions for each tool. (#48277)
• ACP: Added support for ACP Session Config options for agents which provide them. (#48350)

Git

• Added support for GitLab merge request links in git blame hover popover. (#47973; thanks littleKitchen)
• Added Azure as a supported Git provider. (#47598; thanks marcocondrache)
• Added support for double-clicking a file in the Git Panel's status list to open it in the editor. (#47989; thanks cppcoffee)
• Added a MultiDiffView, which shows all changed files within a single, scrollable view. (#45131; thanks davidbarsky)
• Changed zed --diff to recurse into directories when given folders instead of files. (#45131; thanks davidbarsky)

Languages

• Go: Added highlighting for directives. (#47621; thanks ozacod)
• Python: Improved the Add Virtual Environment path browser to start at the workspace root. (#47988)
• YAML: Improved highlights to support quoted keys. (#48063; thanks ozacod)

Terminal

• Added current_file_directory option for terminal's working_directory setting. Set "working_directory": "current_file_directory" to open new terminals in the directory of your currently open file. (#47739; thanks RubenFricke)

Remote Development

• Added right-click download option for folders/files stored in remote development server. (#47344; thanks leoliu0605)
• Added detection of devcontainers in subfolders. (#47411; thanks caiopiccirillo)
• Improved error messaging and handling in the event of a dev container launch failure. (#48301; thanks KyleBarton)

REPL

• Added configurable max height and width limits for REPL output, with large outputs scrolling and images scaling to stay within the viewport. (#47114; thanks cvanelteren)
• Added JSON output support. (#47905; thanks rgbkrk)

Other

• Added memory usage display for each language server in the language servers menu. (#48226)
• Added a copy button to error message popups. (#48107; thanks deralaxo)
• Added support for dismissing the toolchain path selector via esc. (#48201)
• Improved autocomplete for the project settings file .zed/settings.json to only include settings that are valid at the project level, excluding user-only settings. (#47939)
• Improved project search performance by reducing excessive CPU context switching when scanning files. (#47824; thanks cppcoffee)
• Changed Zed's built-in file picker to show all hidden files by default. (#46965; thanks austincummings)

Bug Fixes

• Agent: Fixed a crash in the Agent Panel when inserting context mentions with emojis in the message editor. (#48179)
• Edit Prediction: Fixed accepting next word and next line edit prediction keybindings colliding with cursor movement keybindings. (#48184)
• Edit Prediction: Fixed an issue where the codestral URL used for credentials would be different than the one used for requests causing authentication errors. (#48533)
• Edit Prediction: Fixed a panic when parsing predictions made by zeta1. (#48822)
• Copilot: Fixed Copilot instances not being cleared up after their window is closed. (#48191)
• Copilot: Fixed a bug where the Copilot edit prediction provider would still provide suggestions even when the disable_ai setting was enabled. (#48191)
• Collab: Fixed overflowing text in project sharing and call notifications. (#47964)
• Git: Fixed "View on GitHub" button incorrectly appearing when viewing stashes. (#48271; thanks amtoaer)
• Git: Fixed a visual bug in the Git Panel where collapsing a folder in tree view would cause indent guide lines to incorrectly extend to unrelated folders below it. (#48194)
• Git: Fixed an issue where stage/unstage could fail when operating on a very large number of files. (#47800; thanks marcocondrache)
• Git: Fixed git panel not updating after commit or branch switch on Linux with git worktrees. (#47222; thanks feeiyu)
• Git: Fixed GitHub avatar rate limiting in git blame by using CDN endpoint instead of API calls. (#47894; thanks Augani)
• Git: Fixed optimistic placeholder for folders in the tree view. (#48078; thanks RemcoSmitsDev)
• Settings UI: Fixed editable project settings not being updated when a new workspace is created. (#47992)
• Vim: Fixed search not respecting "search" default settings. (#48127; thanks cppcoffee)
• Vim: Fixed method and comment navigation ] m , [ m , ] shift-m , [ shift-m , ] / , [ / ) incorrectly positioning cursor when diff hunks are expanded. (#47976; thanks lex00)
• REPL: Fixed cursor becoming invisible on the last line of REPL cells after re-running. (#48218; thanks MostlyKIGuess)
• REPL: Fixed REPL output wrapping for large content. (#47713; thanks rgbkrk)
• REPL: Fixed markdown wrapping in REPL outputs. (#47713; thanks rgbkrk)
• Fixed a bug where directories could be missing from the Select Toolchain Path picker. (#47983)
• Fixed an issue where "Reopen Closed Item" would fail to reopen tabs that had been converted from preview to non-preview before being closed. (#45286; thanks errmayank)
• Fixed an issue where opening a link to a settings item that involved a sub page would not open the sub page. (#48212)
• Fixed an issue where relative time deltas would sometimes show as n + 1 years instead of the actual n years. (#47687)
• Fixed an issue where the Zed keybinding context would show up as a language in the language selector. (#48354)
• Fixed issue where certain keywords were incorrectly highlighted in TSX files. (#48196)
• Fixed clicking on tables in the markdown preview not selecting the correct content. (#47720; thanks cppcoffee)
• Fixed modal for creating dev container. (#48291; thanks KyleBarton)
• Fixed remote_user and shell inconsistencies from within dev containers. (#48230; thanks KyleBarton)
• Fixed Rust panic breakpoints not working in debugger when using CodeLLDB with non-Cargo debug configurations. (#48236; thanks littleKitchen)
• Fixed subdirectory .editorconfig files being ignored in certain directory structures. (#48203; thanks amtoaer)
• Fixed TypeScript type import highlighting. (#47190; thanks purepear)
• Fixed a bug where the cursor would not return to its original position when dismissing buffer search with Escape in vim mode. (#47732; thanks lex00)
• Fixed "too many file descriptors" error on macOS. (#47952)
• Fixed a bug where the terminal cursor would stretch beyond cell width. (#45545; thanks tacshi)
• Fixed connecting to WSL when fish is set as the default shell. (#48136; thanks apedersen00)

Features

AI

• Edit Prediction: Added support for multiple edit prediction providers, including GitHub Copilot's Next Edit Suggestions, Ollama, Codestral, Sweep, and Mercury Coder. To configure, open the Edit Prediction menu and select Configure Providers.
• Agent: Made the message queue feature available for external agents as well. (#47379)
• Agent: Added a menu for inserting context more easily with the mouse in the agent panel. (#47768)
• Agent: Improved @ file completions in agent panel to be more accurate. (#47466)
• Agent: Improved double-click word selection in Agent Panel to respect punctuation and language-specific word characters. (#47844)
• Agent: Added a setting for controlling the behavior of the stop button in the terminal tool call card (between cancelling the command to run and the thread, or just the command). (#47521)
• Improved memory usage of large ACP thread diff multibuffers. (#47526)

Git

• Improved the project picker in the Git panel by also displaying the Git status icon on them, to clearly indicate which repos have changes. (#47752; thanks tartarughina)

Languages

• C/C++: Added highlights for #elifdef, #elifndef directives and document comments. (#45672; thanks hokein, #47556; thanks ozacod)
• C++: Added first-line language detection for extensionless libc++ headers. (#47443; thanks ozacod)
• C: Updated tree-sitter-c for highlighting attribute specifier. (#47156; thanks ozacod)
• Go: Improved support to run table-test subtests, handling tests without explicitly declaring variables for test scenarios. (#46645; thanks lzakharov)
• Nim: Updated file aliases so icon is shown for .nims/.nimble files. (#47616; thanks ire4ever1190)
• TypeScript: Improved keyword syntax highlighting for declarations (const, let, var, function, class, enum, interface, type) and imports/exports (export, from, import). (#47435; thanks ahcurrier)

Terminal

• Added ability to rename terminal tabs via right-click context menu and double-click. (#45800; thanks tacshi)

Vim / Helix

• Added relative line jump support to go-to-line action via +/-/f/b/F/B. (#46932; thanks KalaayPT)
• Added a vim.gdefault setting to make /g (replace all matches in a line) the default for substitutions, along with :set gdefault and :set nogdefault commands (short forms: gd, nogd). (#47664; thanks bluetech)

Remote Development

• Added configurable remote server cache retention (default 5). (#47202; thanks cppcoffee)
• Improved error handling in the dev container crate to prevent panics. (#47513; thanks KyleBarton)
• Improved parsing of devcontainer CLI output when using earlier versions. (#47403; thanks KyleBarton)
• Improved error messaging to guide user away from opening a dev container from within a remote project. (#47816; thanks KyleBarton)

Windows

• Added support for Windows as a target platform for SSH remoting. (#47460)
• Added "Reveal in File Manager" to the project panel context menu on WSL. (#47288)

Linux

• Relaxed the checks on xdg_wm_base to ensure compatibility with Weston 9. (#47185; thanks linghengqian)

macOS

• Zed now uses significantly fewer resources when watching filesystem changes. (#47322; thanks marcocondrache)

Other

• Added zooming and panning support in the image viewer with zoom in/out, reset, fit-to-view, zoom-to-actual actions, scroll-wheel zoom with modifier, click-and-drag panning, zoom percentage overlay, and toolbar controls. (#43944; thanks MostlyKIGuess)
• Added a menu item in the buffer and tab right-click menu for opening Markdown and SVG files in the preview tab. (#47821)
• Added commands for extending selections to syntax node boundaries, i.e., editor: select to start of larger syntax node and editor: select to end of larger syntax node. (#47571; thanks alexispurslane)
• Added support for specifying multiple snippets paths in extensions. (#45829)
• Added project_panel.bold_folder_labels to show folder names with bold text in the project panel (defaults to false). (#47631; thanks zertosh)
• Added a menu item to close the current project, going back to a clean window state. (#47365)
• Added support for installing a specific Zed version via the ZED_VERSION environment variable in the install script (defaults to latest when unspecified). (#45522; thanks mikelneonedwin)
• Added "Reopen with Encoding" feature (currently supported for local files). (#46553; thanks tomopumipumi)
• Improved empty workspaces with unsaved files to now restore on startup (hot-exit). (#46557; thanks shfc)
• Improved performance when a large number of files were open by making background diagnostics more efficient. (#47510)
• Improved project search loading UI. (#47620; thanks zertosh)
• Improved memory usage of large git diff multibuffers. (#47524)
• Changed bold UI text to render using Plex SemiBold instead of Bold. (#47725)
• Changed the auto signature popover — "auto_signature_help": true — to respect hover_popover_delay. (#46745; thanks TheSalarKhan)
• Added server notifications auto-dismiss with "global_lsp_settings": { "notifications": { "dismiss_timeout_ms": 5000 } } setting. (#46708; thanks tomatitito)
• Added support for importing VS Code Insiders and VSCodium Insiders user settings (settings.json). (#47247; thanks maj113)
• Block cursor no longer reveals characters within redacted ranges. (#45549; thanks tacshi)

Bug Fixes

• Agent: Fixed old AI text thread sessions failing to open from History when they contain icons that were removed in previous updates. (#47624; thanks lex00)
• Agent: Fixed a bug where the inline assistant feedback buttons were being displayed despite the setting "Enable Feedback" was turned off. (#47382)
• Agent: Fixed cut-off mention creases in the inline assistant. (#47772)
• Agent: Fixed message editor stealing focus from other panels. (#47321; thanks fabianszabo)
• Settings UI: Fixed a bug with the number field rendering of the font weight setting. (#47384)
• Vim/Helix: Fixed bug causing normal-mode vim/helix selections to get expanded during vim::Scroll commands. (#47024; thanks jrobsonchase)
• Rust: Fixed enum variants with no lower-case being highlighted as constants instead of types. (#45546; thanks tacshi)
• Fixed typing emoji using the macOS system palette cmd-ctrl-space. (#47835)
• Fixed issue where user .ssh/config file would not parse if global ssh config file was not present. (#47310; thanks Gaff)
• Fixed a bug where workspace::SendKeystrokes would not allow remapping keys in different keyboard layouts. (#47061; thanks everdrone)
• Fixed a small issue where highlights of the syntax tree view would persist after the view was closed. (#47638)
• Fixed a visual glitch with sticky scroll headers in markdown. (#47314; thanks KyleBarton)
• Fixed alignment of folded directory names in project panel. (#47648)
• Fixed an issue where deleted rules from the rules library were getting restored after a restart. (#47323)
• Fixed an issue where the terminal would sometimes fail to write shell history. (#47408)
• Fixed bracket color not updating when system theme changes. (#47505; thanks smitchaudhary)
• Fixed clearing hovered link when no target found. (#47134; thanks cppcoffee)
• Fixed Conda showing up in terminal on Windows. (#47261)
• Fixed extension uninstall button not working when an upgrade is available. (#47745; thanks eureka928)
• Fixed language servers unnecessarily restarting when changing lsp..settings configuration. Dynamic settings are now properly updated via workspace/didChangeConfiguration without requiring a server restart. (#47376; thanks aviatesk)
• Fixed project-less workspaces not persisting their dock state. (#45966; thanks ppfmagno)
• Fixed remote server binaries accumulating on WSL over time. (#47839)
• Fixed "Reveal in File Manager" not working for WSL remote connections on Windows. (#47288)
• Fixed some instances of authentication errors with the Zed API that could be resolved automatically by refreshing the token. (#47512)
• Fixed struct union enum outline issues for C. (#46125; thanks ozacod)
• Fixed terminal hanging when a child process is killed by a signal (e.g., SIGSEGV from null pointer dereference). (#47420)
• Fixed user-defined tasks with unresolved ZED_* variables being silently omitted. (#45621; thanks playdohface)
• Fixed vim mode incorrectly switching to Visual mode on first project search. (#44284; thanks MostlyKIGuess)
• Fixed vim mode paragraph motions } and { to correctly ignore whitespace-only lines. (#47734; thanks lex00)
• Fixed a crash in LoadingLabel's loading animation when displaying CJK or emoji text. (#45632; thanks MomentDerek)
• Fixed uninitialized var declaration not being shown in outline. (#46499; thanks hokein)
• Fixed LSP integrations to send language server shutdown requests with correct parameters. (#46027; thanks Spirrwell)

Features

AI

• Agent: Added the ability to install new Agents via the ACP Registry. (#47470)
• Agent: Added the ability to edit queued messages. (#47234)
• Agent: Added a menu item in the agent panel right-click menu for copying a given agent's response. (#46529; thanks DepsCian)
• Agent: Added @diagnostics to "New Thread" conversations so you can feed current language-server diagnostics directly into the Agent Panel context. This keeps parity with text threads while staying within the cursor-aware assistant workflow. (#42270; thanks GoldStrikeArch)
• Agent: Made it easier to interrupt the agent while having messages in the queue. (#46954)
• Agent: Made queuing prompts the default behavior when sending them while there's an on-going generation. (#46797)
• Agent: Added reasoning content support for the OpenAI provider. (#43662; thanks aeroxy)
• Agent: Changed the display of tokens for OpenAI models to reflect the input/output limits. (#46829)
• Agent: Changed the behavior of queued messages to gracefully wait for the current activity to complete. (#46980)
• Agent: Improved streaming tool call performance by batching UI updates. (#46802)
• Agent: Added support for running MCP servers on the remote server when using remote development. This can be enabled by setting the "remote": true property in the settings entry for the MCP server. (#46756)
• Agent: Added the ability to set per-tool permissions when confirming/denying tool use. (#46284)

Languages

• Markdown: Improved bracket colorization. (#47026)
• Python/Ty: Added support for using venv-installed ty binary. (#47029)

Vim / Helix

• Added Vim-style tag stack navigation. "Go to Definition" jumps are now tracked in a dedicated stack, so you can navigate back through them without wading through your full navigation history. Use the new pane: go to older tag and pane: go to newer tag commands. (#46002; thanks zenazn)

Remote Development

• Changed opening bundled files, keymap, local release notes and the log file view to open in remote windows instead of opening a new local Zed window. (#46910)
• Changed opening the settings files, keymap files, task files and debug files to open within WSL windows instead of opening a new local Zed window. (#46910)

Other

• Improved Dev Container support (#47021; thanks KyleBarton):
  • Added modal to initialize a dev container definition in the project with projects: initialize dev container.
  • Added Podman support for dev container actions with use_podman setting.
  • Improved devcontainer error handling.
• Workspace: Added the list of recent projects to the multi-project title bar menu. (#46828)
• Added the language server's path to a tooltip that is shown when hovering on its status in the language server menu. (#47037)
• Added support for .editorconfig files outside the project directory. Zed now traverses parent directories to find and apply EditorConfig settings. Use root = true in any .editorconfig to stop inheriting settings from parent directories. (#46332)
• Settings UI: Added support for viewing and updating project settings files in remote projects. (#45292)
• Improved pane::CloseActiveItem to close center pane items even when focus is on a dock panel like the project panel or outline panel. (#46421; thanks FloppyDisco)

Bug Fixes

• ACP: Fixed env vars not being properly applied to built-in ACP agents. (#46946)
• Agent: Fixed a bug with the message queue in the agent panel where @-mentions weren't being displayed in the message preview within the queue entries list. (#46964)
• Agent: Fixed terminal command truncation in the agent panel to better expose long commands (e.g., potentially dangerous multi-line commands are now fully visible before execution). (#40570; thanks miguelcsx)
• Agent: Fixed Anthropic models not appearing in the Copilot Chat model picker. (#47591)
• Debugger: Fixed a crash that occurred when splitting a pane by dragging a pane item that originated from that pane. (#46806; thanks xcb3d)
• Terminal: Fixed vi mode cursor not visually updating when navigating with vi motion keys. (#46762; thanks xcb3d)
• Fixed "Add Folder to Project" and "Remove from Project" menu items being incorrectly hidden on remote projects. (#47283)
• Fixed editor::AddSelectionAbove and editor::AddSelectionBelow when skipping over soft-wrapped lines to preserve the original cursor column when adding selections through lines shorter than the starting position. (#46911)
• Fixed a bug with very wide tables not being fully visible in markdown previews. (#46834)
• Fixed agent model selector cutting off models at the end of the list. (#47263)
• Fixed an issue where a few file descriptors would be leaked each time a project was closed. (#47246)
• Fixed an issue where rebuilding a dev extension would compile the extension in release and not debug mode. (#47165)
• Fixed context menus dismissing/canceling when the window loses focus. (#46866; thanks notnotjake)
• Fixed incorrect rendering of characters at large font sizes on macOS. (#45957; thanks JonyLab)
• Fixed issue where markdown tables rendered within lists would overlap items above/below it. (#46783)
• Fixed json-language-server not considering file_types from project settings. (#46991)
• Fixed onboarding page saving the selected theme based on the system appearance and not the currently selected one. (#47245; thanks HackAttack)
• Fixed poetry environment not discovered on Linux. (#47100; thanks lingyaochu)
• Fixed project search include/exclude filters not working correctly in remote project with multiple folders. (#47280)
• Fixed remote connections getting stuck in limbo when the server side dies unexpectedly. (#47200)
• Fixed screen sharing performance on Windows and Linux. (#46986)
• Fixed terminal cyan color displaying as green in One Light theme. (#45691; thanks MateoKruk)
• Fixed trackpad scrolling being too fast in terminal applications with mouse mode enabled (tmux, Neovim, opencode, etc.). (#45600; thanks emamulandalib)
• Fixed "Format Selection" not working when editing files over SSH remote connections. (#47194)
• Fixed AI commit message button in Git panel being hidden instead of disabled when no AI provider is configured. The button now remains visible with a tooltip explaining how to enable the feature. (#46525; thanks ivan-magda)
• Fixed language injections sticking after language comment removed. (#47790)
• Fixed mistyping the SSH password in the askpass prompt on Windows locking you out of retyping the correct one. (#47760)
• Fixed excessive disk space usage from the hang_traces directory. (#47693)
• Fixed a bug where terminal tasks failed to start on Windows when using cmd.exe. (#47627)