This week's release includes the ability to create Terminal Threads from the sidebar and Agent Panel, a Git panel branch history view and support for running custom Git commands from the Git Graph context menu, inline image and Mermaid diagram rendering in the agent, a new subagent_model setting, optional text icons for completion items ("completion_menu_item_kind": "symbol"), and Vim g z jump-to-word navigation.
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- Added built-in language server support for Bash. (#52811; thanks lingyaochu)
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Features
AI
- Added the ability to create Terminal Threads in the Sidebar and Agent Panel. (#56685)
- Agent: Added setting
subagent_modelto specify which model is used when a subagent is spawned. (#56203) - Agent: Added support for rendering inline images. (#56427)
- Agent: Added support for Mermaid diagrams. (#56430)
- Agent: Improved UX when agent tries to edit unsaved buffer. (#55655)
- Agent: Added support for grok-4.3 and grok-4.2. (#55931)
- Agent: Added Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite. (#56248; thanks qtqgyt)
- Agent: Updated OpenCode Free models (BigPickle and Ring 2.6 1T Free). (#56328; thanks Vlaaaaaaad)
- Agent: Added support for gpt-5.4-nano/mini models for OpenAI provider. (#56476)
- Agent: Improved output quality when using OpenAI models. (#56476)
- Agent: Added
guardrail_identifierandguardrail_versionsettings for AWS Bedrock, enabling use in environments where IAM policies require a guardrail on all model requests. (#50084; thanks 9to6) - Agent: Added support for editing the thread title for external agent threads. (#56446)
- Agent: Added user confirmation requirement before letting tools modify files inside
.agents/skills/(per-project) or~/.agents/skills/(global), so skills installed by any agent are protected from unsolicited edits. (#56456) - Anthropic: Added dynamic fetching of available models from Anthropic API. (#56397)
- Improved sidebar search placeholder text to read "Search threads…" instead of "Search…". (#56081)
- Edit Prediction: Added the ability to input the "expected patch", i.e. what the model should have predicted in the
edit prediction: rate completionsmodal. (#56629) - Improved Anthropic prompt cache utilization, reducing latency and cost for ongoing conversations. (#56472)
- Improved Bedrock prompt cache utilization by anchoring the system prompt as its own cache prefix. (#56474)
- Improved Copilot edit predictions to no longer rely on a system node installation, so the system node version no longer affects whether they work in Zed. (#56635)
Git
- Added a history view to the Git panel that allows to quickly see in a list all the commits for a given branch. (#56500)
- Added support for running global custom Git command tasks from the Git Graph commit context menu. (#56354)
- Added support for force deleting worktrees that contain modified or untracked files. (#56519)
- Added a
Copy Tagaction to the git graph context menu. (#56110) - Changed the
git::Commitaction (cmd-enterorctrl-enter) to now commit a pending amend. (#54472) - Added confirmation prompt when deleting unmerged git branches, with option to force delete. (#55927)
- Added
alt+clickon delete button to force delete a branch immediately. (#55927)
Vim / Helix
- Added Vim-mode jump-to-word navigation on
g z. (#55492; thanks GoldStrikeArch) - Added support for Helix' buffer picker that is opened via
space bby default. (#55868; thanks jnns) - Added a setting vim.show_edit_predictions_in_normal_mode to control whether edit predictions are shown in normal mode. (#55956)
Remote Development
Other
- Added text icons for completion items (disabled by default, use
"completion_menu_item_kind": "symbol"to enable). (#56396) - Improved Markdown preview table cells to vertically center content in tall rows and respect column alignment from the table header. (#53465; thanks davidalecrim1)
- Improved Mermaid diagrams in rendered markdown to match your theme by default. (#56430)
- Added a
Hide Buttonentry to the right-click context menu on status bar items and panel buttons. (#54971) - Added support for opening a file with a line range selected in the file finder using the
path:start-endsyntax (e.g.file.rs:10-20). (#53958; thanks cppcoffee) - Added file:line:col navigation from
ctrl+clickhover links in the editor. (#55877; thanks jabdinghoff) - Optimized multibuffer creation by conditionally using headers based on RHS state. (#56058; thanks chirivelli)
- Improved the minimum size of diagnostics pane excerpts. (#56172)
- Improved default button focus in macOS dialogs. (#56513)
- Improved auto update error message for NixOS users missing rsync. (#56097; thanks karol-broda)
- Added theme keys for configuring editor diff hunk colors. (#51784; thanks vitallium)
- Improved extension updates to be more resilient to network and upstream failures. (#54355)
Bug Fixes
- Agent: Fixed an issue where editing would sometimes fail for specific models (Deepseek v4). (#55894)
- Agent: Fixed squashed message editor when
limit_content_width=false. (#56688) - Ollama: Fixed issue where specifying
auto_discover: falsewould still auto discover models. (#55999; thanks ogtega) - Fixed git blame processes not getting dropped properly. (#56894)
- Fixed an issue where git state would be stale in some cases. (#57176)
- Fixed a bug where restoring diff hunks in remote projects would leave stale no-op hunks in the UI. (#54823)
- Fixed a bug where selection mentions would resolve to the literal
selectionrather than the URI in draft threads. (#55203) - Fixed a bug where Zed incorrectly kept a removed pane as the active pane. (#56229)
- Fixed a crash in follow mode when opening multibuffers. (#55948)
- Fixed a crash in markdown preview when a mermaid flowchart contained a partially-typed parallelogram node like
A[/]orA[\]. (#56199) - Fixed agent "finished" notification appearing right before the queued message is sent. (#56157)
- Fixed agent panel staying in a generating state when the underlying prompt task was cancelled before completing. (#55562; thanks brunorodmoreira)
- Fixed an issue where local settings files would not correctly open on remote workspaces. (#56373)
- Fixed an issue where re-running the
git: branch diffafter changing the active project would not refresh the branch diff to show the branch diff of the active project. (#56552) - Fixed an out-of-bounds panic when the AI produced multiple inline rewrites in a single completion. (#52458; thanks mre)
- Fixed eagerly truncated labels in the Debug modal. (#56510; thanks afgomez)
- Fixed file names containing markdown special characters (e.g.
__somefile__) being rendered as formatted text in the git discard confirmation dialog. (#56197; thanks alkinun) - Fixed installing extensions when Zed's cache and data directories are on different filesystems. (#56437; thanks PiasekDev)
- Fixed resolved lens causing flickers. (#56047)
- Fixed some rare cases where API requests would fail with Unauthorized. (#56559)
- Fixed the ACP Registry getting stuck on loading when registry or icon requests hang. (#56108; thanks grgwuk990)
- Fixed the agent panel to show "Restore checkpoint" as soon as the agent starts editing instead of waiting until the turn ends. (#56611)
- Fixed unsaved untitled buffers being silently lost when opening a file or project from an empty window. (#55889)
- Fixed vim
change surroundsfor MiniQuotes, MiniBrackets, and AnyQuotes. (#51067; thanks ian-h-chamberlain) - Fixed Windows installer task arguments syntax. (#50464)
- Fixed scrollbar position jumping or inverting when content height changes during a scrollbar drag (e.g. in the agent panel while streaming). (#53378; thanks KlausUllrich)
- Fixed DashScope (Aliyun) tool calls not preserving id and name across streaming delta chunks.
- Fixed file names containing markdown special characters (e.g.
__somefile__) being rendered as formatted text in the file deletion confirmation dialog. (#55697; thanks alkinun) - Fixed Vim
%(jump to matching) to match C preprocessor directives (e.g.#if/#endif) and comment delimiters, like Neovim. (#55515; thanks tanaxer01) - Fixed Vim
%incorrectly expanding into the rest of the file when used on a blank line inside a bracket range. (#55515; thanks tanaxer01) - Fixed angled brackets being included in rainbow bracket highlights for JavaScript. (#57072)
- Fixed an issue where file system watching would default to the polling backend inside of
OrbStackVMs on macOS. (#57184)
Breaking Changes and Notices
- Removed open tool from built-in Agent tools. (#56295)
- Removed deprecated xAI models. (#55931)
- Removed deprecated OpenCode models (MiMo V2, Hy3, and Claude 3.5 Haiku). (#56278; thanks Vlaaaaaaad)
- Removed Ling 2.6 Flash Free model from the OpenCode provider. (#55984; thanks Sikriet)
- Removed deprecated OpenAI models. (#56476)