Zed v0.215.3

Zed v0.215.3 was released on .

Summary

AI - Added support for OpenAI's GPT-5.1 model to BYOK. (43492) - Agent: Added the ability to set a model as the default for a given built-in external agent (Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Gemini CLI)....

Release Context

  • This was the 22nd Zed release of 2025 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 4 days after Zed v0.214.7 (November 29, 2025).

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Release Notes

AI - Added support for OpenAI's GPT-5.1 model to BYOK. (43492) - Agent: Added the ability to set a model as the default for a given built-in external agent (Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Gemini CLI). (43122) - Agent: Added support for specifying settings for ACP extensions (defaultmode, defaultmodel). (43177) - Agent: Improved the "reject"/"keep" behavior when regenerating older prompts by auto-keeping pending edits that don't originate from the prompt to-be-regenerated. (43347) - Agent: Made the thread markdown editable. (43377) This week's release brings rainbow brackets 🌈 (addressing a feature request with 1100 👍s), automatic detection of uv workspaces in the toolchain selector, the ability to set a default model for built-in external agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI), and support for OpenAI's GPT-5.1 model for BYOK users. Features Git Let's Git Together status - we are entering week 5 of 9\ Current Progress: 91 of 182 issues closed, with 33 PRs shipped by the community. And 15 PRs in progress by the community!\ Goal: Close out 182 git issues by December 31, 2025.\ The git PRs are rolling in. We're shipping the features you've been asking for, side-by-side with our open source contributors.\ It's not too late to join! Check out our git board and tackle an issue with the team. ⭐ = Shipped via Let's Git Together --- - ⭐Improved readability of files in the git changes panel. (41857; thanks alphathekiwi) - ⭐Compressed large diffs for commit message generation. (42835; thanks 11happy) - ⭐Fixed git not preserving file mode when committing. Executable files now retain their permissions when committed with Zed. (41900; thanks 11happy) - ⭐Fixed highlighting for addition and deletion for diff language. (38384; thanks tidefield) - Fixed displaying auto-commit suggestions for single staged entries. (43470) --- 🎉 Big shoutout to our most active Git contributors: @amtoaer, @errmayank, @11happy, @ddoemonn, and @xipeng-jin Debugger - Added $ZEDPICKPID variable for debug configurations, allowing users to select which process to attach the debugger to at runtime. (42913) Languages - Python: Added support for detecting uv workspaces as toolchains. (43496) - C++: Added support for treating .h++ files as C++. (42802; thanks bnjmnjrk) - Markdown: Added LaTeX highlighting for inline and display equations. (41110; thanks lnay) - Added support for identifying .clangd and .clang-format files as YAML by default. (43557; 43469; thanks notpeter) - Improved the sorting of semver completions in package.json so the latest versions appear at the top. (43473) Terminal - Added terminal.pathhyperlinkregexes and terminal.pathhyperlinktimeoutms settings to customize path hyperlink detection in the terminal. (40305; thanks davewa) - Improved terminal hyperlink performance, especially for terminals with a lot of content visible. (40305; thanks davewa) Collaboration - Improved rendering of avatars that failed to load by rendering a fallback icon. (43183) Other - Added bracket colorization (rainbow brackets) support. Use colorizebrackets language setting to enable. (43172) - Onboarding: Added ability to zoom in/out on onboarding pages with the same keybindings you'd use to zoom in/out a regular buffer. (43244) - Added the possibility to open a non-existing path using zed CLI. (43250; thanks BuonOmo) - Added various missing keybindings and fixed several incorrectly mapped keybindings for the JetBrains keymap. (43042; thanks carstonhernke) - Added projectpanel::CollapseAllEntries keybinding (cmd-left on macOS, ctrl-left on Linux/Windows) to collapse all entries in the project panel. (43112) - Improved language server updates for slow connections. Zed now launches the existing server if the update is taking too long. (43164) - Improved project search performance with "Also search files ignored by configuration" combined with file inclusion/exclusion queries. (42968) - Improved performance of multibuffers by spawning git blame processes on the background threads. (43918) - Enabled environment passthrough for npm subcommands. (43102; thanks yjoer) - Ensured Zed reuses GITHUBTOKEN env variable when querying GitHub. (42623; thanks Binlogo) Bug Fixes - macOS: Fixed a bug where Zed would fail to start on some Apple Silicon machines when Metal device enumeration returned no devices. Zed now falls back to the system default device in this case. (38164; thanks cacaosteve) - Windows: Fixed askpass execution sometimes failing. (43542) - Windows: Fixed Zed only finding pwsh, but not powershell. (43526) - Windows: Fixed bash detection when Git is installed via package managers like Scoop. (43455; thanks qystishere) - Windows: Fixed console windows sometimes appearing when opening Python files. (43496) - Windows: Fixed maximized window size when DPI scale changes. (40053; thanks cppcoffee) - Linux: Fixed window control buttons not showing in GNOME Wayland when SSD requested. (39313; thanks Be-ing) - Linux: Fixed ./script/install-Linux for installing a development version of Zed on Linux. (43205) - Agent: Fixed a...

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