Stable release

Enhancements

General

• Reduced memory usage for files by up to 50%.
• Added action to open markdown preview in the same pane.
• Added support for displaying channel notes in markdown preview.
• Added support for displaying the current active editor when opening markdown preview.
• Added support for scrolling the editor to the corresponding block when double clicking an element in markdown preview.
• Added tooltips when hovering over links inside the markdown preview.
• Added support for detecting and highlighting links in markdown preview.
• Added a status indicator for LSP actions (#4380).
• Added selection and line counts to the status bar (#4204). The format of the line indicator can be made more compact via the following setting:

"line_indicator_format": "short"

• Added a setting to hide/show the navigation history buttons:

"tab_bar": {
   "show_nav_history_buttons": true
 }

• Improved error reporting on startup (#9036).
• Increased search result context from 3 lines to 4 lines.

Tasks

• Added more icons to task modal.
• Added task status indicator to the status bar.

Languages

• Added yield keyword highlight for Rust.
• Added highlighting for parameters in blocks in Ruby.

Vim

• Added search motions (/,?,n,N,*,#) in visual modes and as targets for operators like d,c,y (#4346).
• Added support for vim-surround (#4965). Note that HTML tags are not yet supported.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the "New messages" indicator in the channel chat would be shown even if the message was deleted.
• Fixed highlighting of messages when clicking on the reply message text in the chat and there were no other messages from other users (#10024).
• Fixed clear chat state when switching edit/reply message state (#10042).
• Fixed an issue where the status of failed LSP actions was left in the status bar.
• Fixed status bar focus issues when spawning a terminal via workspace: new terminal action.
• Fixed language server notifications being too large (#10090, #10190, #10217).
• Fixed "quickfix" code actions that were based on diagnostics not showing up in Go files (#10177).
• Fixed a bug where some hover popovers would render \n instead of a new line.
• Fixed Zed not picking up shell environments correctly when running on macOS 12 (#9786).
• Fixed project shared notification staying open, when the user that shared the project left the room.
• Fixed highlighting of constants in Ruby (#9995).
• Fixed a bug where newline characters in file names would introduce UI artifacts in the project panel (#8603).
• Fixed several bugs in the project panel related to directories whose names contain numbers (#9729, #10193).
• Fixed crashes with huge buffer_font_size values (#10149).
• Fixed a (rare) panic while collaborating.
• Fixed a crash when joining two consecutive lines (#9692).
• Vim: Fixed a bug with cgn backwards movement.
• Vim: Fixed a bug where the block cursor would not render italic text under it (#8799).
• Vim: Fixed undo grouping in Replace mode (#10031).
• Vim: Fixed : when no files are open.

Breaking changes

• Removed built-in support for HTML and Dart, in favor of making them available as extensions. The respective extensions for these languages will be suggested for download when opening their associated file types: .html, .htm, or .shtml for HTML, and .dart for Dart.
• Disabled format_on_save by default in C and C++.
• Updated gn and gN to select the next search result as in Vim. Adding multi-cursors to the next/prev copy of the word under the cursor is now bound to gl/gL.
• Switched to the system UI font for user interface elements on macOS. The previous default font can be restored via the following snippet in your settings.json file:

"ui_font_family": "Zed Sans"