Zed Release Notes

Features

AI

• Agent: Introduced per-tool permission settings, including regexes for controlling when tools may be auto-allowed, auto-denied, or always require confirmation. (#48553)

• Agent: Added Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.6 Thinking with Cross region inference for US, EU, and Global endpoints. (#48525; thanks 5herlocked)

• Agent: Improved terminal command safety by auto-blocking a wider range of dangerous commands (e.g. rm -rf $HOME in addition to rm -rf ~), detecting commands hidden in I/O redirects, here-documents, and compound command constructs, and detecting path traversal attacks in destructive commands. (#48399, #48635, #48640)

• Agent: Added a Latest indicator to highlight the latest models available through the Zed provider. (#48614)

• Agent: Added alt-l as an alternate keybinding for agent::CycleFavoriteModels on Linux and Windows, since alt-tab conflicts with the OS app switcher. (#48390)

• Agent: Changed the Agent Panel so that the active thread is restored on restart. (#47795)

• Agent: Changed file and directory tool operations to require confirmation before modifying sensitive settings paths. (#48641)

• Agent: Improved image insertion by placing images at the cursor position. (#48779)

• Added support for viewing diffs in split ("side by side") mode. (#48912)

Debugger

• Improved DAP settings so that it is possible to override individual fields, such as binary. (#43647; thanks fredr)

Languages

• C++: Added attribute highlighting. (#47825; thanks ozacod)
• C/C++: Changed preprocessor directive highlighting to use a dedicated @preproc capture group, allowing themes to style them independently from language keywords. (#48109; thanks ozacod)

Vim / Helix

• Improved Vim's subword motions to stop at $ and = characters. (#48276)

Collaboration

• Added a Show Active Channels button to the collab panel to filter down to only channels with participants. (#48826)

Remote Development

• Added support for .devcontainer.json in project root. (#48814; thanks oliverbarnes)

Linux

• Added forwarding of ZED_* environment variables when using the Flatpak. (#48118; thanks refi64)

Other

• Added LSP semantic tokens highlighting support. (#46356)
• Moved the update Zed button to the title bar and allowed it to be dismissed. (#48467)
• Improved resource usage by reducing work when the system is under high thermal stress. (#45638; thanks marcocondrache)
• Added tab_switcher::OpenInActivePane to allow a more vim-like tab switching experience. (#47079; thanks baldwindavid)
• Added project panel: collapse selected entry and children action that collapses the selected directory and all its subdirectories. (#47328; thanks austincummings)
• Added Collapse All option to the Project Panel context menu for all directories, not just project roots. (#47328; thanks austincummings)
• Added autocomplete support for the settings field in LSP configuration, complementing the existing initialization_options autocomplete. (#48332; thanks aviatesk)
• Added textDocument/foldingRange LSP support. Use "lsp_folding_ranges": "on" in language settings to fetch and prefer the LSP folds. (#48611)
• Added global_lsp_settings.request_timeout setting to configure the maximum timeout duration for LSP-related operations. (#44745; thanks Bertie690)
• Improved compatibility with legacy language servers. (#48587; thanks shaz-r)
• REPL: Added error display when parsing a message from a Jupyter kernel fails. (#48837; thanks rgbkrk)

Bug Fixes

• Agent: Fixed Bedrock model catalog URL in Agent Panel settings. (#48382)
• Agent: Fixed bug where streaming edits could apply edits incorrectly if the model requested overlapping edit regions. (#48547)
• Agent: Fixed disabled MCP servers disappearing from UI after restart. (#47758; thanks oliverbarnes)
• Agent: Fixed a bug where cancelling a thread mid-thought would cause further Anthropic requests to fail. (#48548)
• Agent: Fixed a bug where the model configured on a thread would not be persisted alongside that thread. (#48548)
• Agent: Fixed mention links not rendering in pasted text. (#45426; thanks tacshi)
• Agent: Fixed agent thread storage paths to follow the XDG specification on macOS and Linux, with backwards compatibility. (#45771; thanks maekilae)
• Edit Prediction: Fixed a panic when parsing predictions made by zeta1. (#48822)
• Edit Prediction: Fixed focus skipping provider dropdown and GitHub Copilot button in edit prediction settings. (#48530; thanks austincummings)
• Git: Fixed the git panel commit editor not respecting soft wrap settings. (#46422; thanks mchisolm0)
• Git: Fixed an issue where the git: diff action would not respect the active worktree. (#48535)
• Git: Fixed an issue where Zed would try to open all edited files in ~ if your git config had a globalexcludes in ~ that did not exist. (#48408)
• Git: Fixed issue where viewing a stash entry would not dismiss the modal. (#48491)
• Vim: Fixed $ not sticking to end-of-line on vertical motions j / k when the cursor was already at the end of the line via l or arrow keys. (#48867)
• Vim: Fixed increment (ctrl-a) and decrement (ctrl-x) not working on Markdown ordered list markers like 1., 2., etc. (#47978; thanks lex00)
• Helix: Fixed HelixSelectLine with an empty first line and a pre-existing selection. (#48026; thanks jrobsonchase)
• REPL: Fixed shutdown of kernels on app exit. (#48760; thanks rgbkrk)
• REPL: Fixed startup for R kernels and Python kernels on Windows. (#48817; thanks rgbkrk)
• Go: Fixed a bug where the TestMain function would incorrectly appear as a runnable test. (#46575; thanks lzakharov)
• Go: Fixed wrong syntax highlighting with chained indexing (e.g. a[b][c]). (#48870; thanks MohibShaikh)
• Fixed a bug where blurring the filename editor in the Project Panel could lose the previous selection while creating a file or folder. (#48578)
• Fixed an issue where installing theme extensions could block the main thread. (#48685; thanks marcocondrache)
• Fixed an issue where selecting Collapse All on the root directory or triggering the project panel: collapse all entries action would sometimes collapse the entire root instead of keeping it expanded when there's a single worktree. (#48443)
• Fixed clicking Collapse All from the context menu on a project root collapsing all project roots instead of just the selected one. (#47328; thanks austincummings)
• Fixed the welcome screen would show up in the terminal panel if the terminal was slow to load. (#48930)
• Fixed terminal tasks hanging on macOS when a spawned process is killed by a signal. (#48877)
• Fixed C/C++ outline for function definitions and declarations with mixed storage and type qualifiers. (#47500; thanks ozacod)
• Fixed indentation of block comments in C and C++. (#47810; thanks ozacod)
• Fixed issue where certain keywords were incorrectly highlighted in JS files. (#48460)
• Fixed DAP (Debug Adapter Protocol) methods failing for extensions targeting the v0.8.0 extension API. (#48777; thanks Brad-Fullwood)
• Fixed devcontainer operation on Windows for when the devcontainer CLI is not installed globally. (#48387; thanks KyleBarton)
• Fixed project search returning no results in devcontainers with a single visible CPU. (#48798; thanks oliverbarnes)
• Fixed Doom WAD files being erroneously treated as text. (#48349; thanks elf-alchemist)
• Fixed settings migrations to correctly handle settings nested under platform, channel, or profile keys. (#48550)
• Fixed the editor rewrapping like crazy when agent edits were present. (#48423)
• Fixed a bug where tabs could be closed by simply pressing the middle mouse button down, without completing a full middle click. (#44916; thanks Zachiah)
• Fixed and improved font ligature support. (#48504; thanks adb-sh)
• Fixed the Zed CLI opening a new window instead of reusing existing windows for remote workspaces. (#48891)
• Fixed the new file/folder input appearing in the wrong location in the Project Panel when creating inside a collapsed directory path. (#46750; thanks andre-eriksson)
• Fixed Esc key not canceling inline assist when using the JetBrains keymap. (#45306; thanks tacshi)
• Fixed misalignment of lines in the split diff when using inlay hints. (#49124)
• Fixed semantic highlights not being cleared when disabled in settings. (#49066)
• Fixed an issue where Zed would randomly crash on macOS Intel. (#49248)
• Fixed json-language-server document folds not being parsed correctly. (#49152)
• Fixed non-functional folding creases being displayed in the gutter. (#49212; thanks ozacod)

Breaking Changes and Notices

• ACP: Changed Claude Code to be referred to as Claude Agent, per Anthropic branding guidelines. (#49348)
• Replaced the always_allow_tool_actions setting with tool_permissions.default. (#48553)

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)