- Fixed a bug on macOS where Git operations could be blocked depending on the timing of spawning child processes. (#57661)
Releases
Keep up with the weekly Zed releases.
May 2026
1.4.2
May 25, 2026
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- Fixed a crash when clicking a built-in skill mention in the agent panel while connected to a remote project (Preview only). (#57442)
- Add
agent::NewTerminalThreadfor defining custom shortcuts to launch an Agent Panel terminal thread. (#57400) - google: Support thinking levels for Google models. (#57377)
- Added support for Gemini 3.5 Flash in the Google AI model provider. (#57373)
1.4.0
May 20, 2026
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This week's release includes support for skills, a global AGENTS.md file for user-wide agent instructions, the ability to choose a base branch in the branch diff view, and a new editor: toggle all diff hunks action.
Features
AI
- Agent: Added support for skills.
- Agent: Added support for a global
AGENTS.mdfile alongsidesettings.jsonfor user-wide instructions that are included in every project’s system prompt. (#56757) - Agent: Added support for image output from MCP tools. (#57134)
- Agent: Added support for OAuth client pre-registration with a client ID and client secret in the built-in MCP client. (#52900)
- OpenCode: Updated available models and metadata, including reasoning support, image support, and token counts. (#57076; thanks Vlaaaaaaad)
Git
- Added the ability to choose the base branch in the branch diff view. (#56569)
- Added keyboard shortcuts for switching between the Changes and History tabs:
cmd-1/cmd-2on macOS andctrl-1/ctrl-2on Linux/Windows. (#56743) - Added
editor: toggle all diff hunksto expand or collapse all diff hunks at once. (#56421) - Improved the display of user avatars in Git-related surfaces. (#56755)
- Improved diff stats by formatting large line counts with thousand separators. (#56754)
- Added the
git.show_stage_restore_buttonssetting to hide Stage/Restore buttons on diff hunks. (#56740)
Languages
Linux
- Added support for
buffer_font_fallbackson Linux. (#54878; thanks Albab-Hasan) - Improved the first mouse-driven text copy action on Wayland. (#50406; thanks soundslocke)
Other
- Added
markdown_preview_code_font_familyto override the code font in the markdown preview. (#56744; thanks wln) - Improved CSV preview with column pinning to keep identifiers visible while scrolling. (#56619; thanks HalavicH)
- Improved restricted mode by making it more obvious and requiring immediate action when opening an untrusted project. (#57056)
- Improved truncated text labels so they no longer show trailing spaces or punctuation before the ellipsis. (#57106)
Bug Fixes
- Agent: Fixed image output from tools not being reloaded when restoring a thread. (#57143)
- MCP OAuth: Fixed authentication failing when an MCP server returned a broken metadata URL. (#53502)
- MCP OAuth: Fixed OAuth client registration failing with some MCP servers. (#53501)
- Fixed AI completions from OpenAI-compatible providers failing when token usage details were missing. (#55919; thanks marius851000)
- Git Graph: Fixed breakage that occurred when Git’s
log.showSignaturesetting was enabled. (#55708; thanks toddlerer) - Fixed certain ACP registry agents not cleaning up old versions. (#55290; thanks cppcoffee)
- Fixed some Gemini tool calls failing because Zed could send incomplete tool schemas. (#57160)
- Fixed a bug where using Gemini with certain tools, especially via MCP, resulted in "Invalid JSON payload received" errors due to incompatible JSON schema formats. (#49292; thanks dastrobu)
- Fixed
zed --new ssh://host/pathreusing an existing SSH window instead of opening a new one. This also applied to other URL-shaped path arguments. (#54408) - Fixed a bug where non-ASCII characters in diagnostic messages were incorrectly rendered with spurious
\characters. (#55782; thanks alkinun) - Fixed a crash in GPUI when typing into an Input widget inside a cached view (#50456). (#50665; thanks xcb3d)
- Fixed a panic that could occur when streaming in text with the
edit_filetool. (#57100) - Fixed a panic when loading certain Tree-sitter grammars containing supertypes. (#57183)
- Fixed a rare panic that could occur when lines in the editor contained many invisible characters. (#57137)
- Fixed agent edits sometimes not getting auto-accepted when they were committed. (#56892)
- Fixed file system watching defaulting to the polling backend inside
OrbStackVMs on macOS. (#57184) - Fixed the agent erroring when using Copilot as a provider and switching between OpenAI and Anthropic models. (#56655)
- Fixed bash syntax highlighting for conditional expressions, arithmetic expressions, and related operators. (#56484; thanks terror)
- Fixed the activity indicator in the status bar not opening a menu with items to cancel running actions. (#56865)
- Fixed commit title length checks miscounting multi-byte characters as multiple characters. (#57025; thanks koxya)
- Fixed context server availability updates when a new worktree is added to or removed from a project. (#51244; thanks rioriost)
- Fixed importing the VS Code setting
files.simpleDialog.enablewith the opposite value. (#55678; thanks Earlopain) - Fixed macOS Cmd-E/Cmd-G find behavior so Cmd-E seeds find from the cursor or selection and Cmd-G advances through the newly seeded matches. (#56681)
- Fixed markdown preview content being clipped past the pane edge when the buffer search bar is open. (#55009; thanks tkilaker)
- Fixed Mermaid diagrams not rendering with the default UI typeface. (#56695)
- Fixed npm-backed tool installs to better respect npm release-age filters. (#56957)
- Fixed pressing "New Thread" or
cmd-ndoing nothing when the Agent Panel's Settings view was open. (#56818) - Fixed running Zed on Ubuntu 20.04 installed via the installer by bundling the required
libstdc++.so. (#57132) - Fixed Settings UI search returning unrelated results for multi-word queries. (#56835)
- Fixed the
agent: toggle profile selectorkeybinding being ignored while the agent was generating a response. (#56784; thanks Rfluid) - Fixed the Agent Panel’s @-mention menu not appearing when
@immediately follows(,[, or{. (#55504) - Fixed tool paths preferring files in subdirectories named after the project root. (#56230; thanks procr1337)
- Fixed UI freezes on Linux (Wayland) with certain GPU/driver combinations. (#57077; thanks higorprado)
- Fixed text selection not always matching the mouse position in markdown blocks in the Agent Panel. (#56861; thanks timvermeulen)
- Fixed
zed://links focusing Zed and improved handling ofzed://agentlinks. (#57047) - Fixed
workspace: open filesignoring the Project Panel'ssort_modesetting. (#56720; thanks hron) - Fixed undo behavior after accepting LSP completions, so completions and their additional edits are reverted together. (#53980; thanks HuaGu-Dragon)
- Fixed the Python REPL UI not populating correctly in remote projects. (#54709; thanks MostlyKIGuess)
- Removed code lens blocks from diff views to fix broken background highlights. (#56726)
Breaking Changes and Notices
- Removed the rules library and replaced it with skills support.
- Replaced the
@ruleautocomplete entry with@skillin the agent chat input. (#56902)
1.3.5
May 19, 2026
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- Fixed an issue where git state would be stale in some cases. (#57176)
1.3.4
May 18, 2026
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- Fixed angled brackets being included in rainbow bracket highlights for JavaScript. (#57072)
- Improved
Copy Tagworkflow from Git Graph context menu to deploy a submenu instead of a modal picker. (#57081) - Persist Terminal Threads across reloads (#57045)
- git: Fix git blame processes not getting dropped properly. (#56894)
1.3.3
May 15, 2026
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- Added support for specifying effort level when using OpenAI models via ChatGPT subscription (#56871)
1.3.2
May 15, 2026
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1.3.1
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- Added ChatGPT subscription provider, allowing users to use their ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscription with the Zed agent (#56807)
- Fixed an issue where file system events or language server events that resulted in Zed unwatching many paths would result in high CPU usage (#56805)
- Agent: Fix squashed message editor when
limit_content_width=false(#56688) - Add the ability to create Terminal Threads in the Sidebar and Agent Panel. (#56685)