Zed v0.217.1

Zed v0.217.1 was released on .

Summary

AI - Agent: Added automatic file context detection when pasting code into the AI agent panel. Pasted code now displays as collapsible badges showing the file path and line numbers (e.g., "app/layou...

Release Context

  • This was the 25th Zed release of 2025 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 5 days after Zed v0.216.1 (December 11, 2025).

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Release Notes

AI - Agent: Added automatic file context detection when pasting code into the AI agent panel. Pasted code now displays as collapsible badges showing the file path and line numbers (e.g., "app/layout.tsx (18-25)"). (42982; thanks ddoemonn) - Agent: Added support for Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning and non-reasoning) models in the xAI provider, with 2M token context windows and full vision capabilities. (43419; thanks mInrOz) - Agent: Extended 2M token context to existing Grok 4 Fast variants (from 128K) for consistency with xAI updates. (43419; thanks mInrOz) - Agent: Enabled image/vision support for all Grok 4 family models. (43419; thanks mInrOz) - Agent: Added support for displaying the human-readable names of extension-provided agents in the agent menu. (44496) - Agent: Added fallback to locally installed Codex version if update fails. (44419) - Agent: UI now shows the checked state of a list item. (43567; thanks RemcoSmitsDev) - Edit Prediction: Improved cursor movement performance when edit predictions are enabled. (44161) - Bedrock: Added opt-in allowglobal which enables global endpoints. (44103; thanks 5herlocked) - Bedrock: Updated cross-region-inference endpoint and model list. (44103; thanks 5herlocked) This week's release includes command palette history, git remotes support, branch names on git conflict buttons, automatic file context detection when pasting code into the agent panel, Grok 4.1 Fast models with 2M token context windows and vision support, and new RotateSelectionsForward/RotateSelectionsBackward actions for rotating content across multiple cursors. Features Git Let's Git Together status - week 7 of 9\ Current Progress: 108 of 182 issues closed, with 54 PRs shipped by the community. And 18 PRs in progress by the community!\ Check out our git board and tackle an issue with the team.\ Also, this Thursday is our final Git demo day of the year. Share what you've shipped and see what others have built. ⭐ = Shipped via Let's Git Together --- - Changed git conflict buttons to use branch names instead of HEAD and ORIGIN. (44421) - Changed project diff to now focus on merge conflicts for files that have them. (44263) - ⭐Added support for git remotes. (42819; thanks bnjjj) - ⭐Improved self-hosted git provider support and Bitbucket integration. (42343; thanks amtoaer) - ⭐Improved commit view to not show breakpoints on hover. (44484; thanks cppcoffee) - ⭐Fixed an issue where the context menu in the Git Blame view would be frequently overlapped by the commit information tooltip. (42764; thanks amustaque97) - ⭐Fixed editor blame hover not working when inline git blame is disabled. (42992; thanks errmayank) - Commit View: Fixed layout shift that occurred while loading commit. (44548) - Fixed font feature application for inline git blame, inline diagnostics, markdown popovers and diagnostics popovers. (44219) - Fixed git ignored directories appearing as empty when their content changes on Windows. (44143) - Fixed commit diff multibuffers to now open real project files whenever possible, restoring navigation and annotations inside those excerpts. (42558; thanks xipeng-jin) - Fixed a bug where not all branches were being shown in the branch selector when the search field was empty. (44742) Languages - Markdown Preview: Changed markdown tables to scale based on their content size. (43555; thanks RemcoSmitsDev) - Python: Improved sorting order of toolchains in monorepos with multiple local virtual environments. (44141) - Improved JSONC trailing comma handling. (44250) - Greatly improved the quality of comment-directed language injections in Go. (43775; thanks jeffbrennan) - Improved Proto support to work better out of the box. (44440) Other - Added history to the command palette (up will now show recently executed commands). This is particularly helpful in vim mode when you may mistype a complicated command and want to re-run a slightly different version thereof. (44517) - Added RotateSelectionsForward and RotateSelectionsBackward actions that rotate content in a circular fashion across multiple cursors. (41236; thanks scorphus) - Added editor::InsertSnippet action. (44428) - Improved Recent Projects picker to now display SSH hostname with remotes. (44349; thanks wln) - Improved visibility of the currently active match when browsing results in buffer or project search. (44098) - Remote Dev: Added 10s connect timeout for server download. (44216) - Remote Dev: Improved resiliency when initialization scripts output text. (44165) - Overhauled preview tabs settings. (43921) - Added setting previewtabs.enablepreviewfromprojectpanel (default true) - Kept setting previewtabs.enablepreviewfromfilefinder (default false) - Added setting previewtabs.enablepreviewfrommultibuffer (default true) - Added setting previewtabs.enablepreviewmultibufferfromcodenavigation (default false) - Added setting previewtabs.enablepreviewfilefromcodenavigation (default true) - Renamed setting previewtabs.enablepreviewfromcodenavigation to previewtabs.enablekeeppreviewoncodenavigation (default false) - Suppressed warning for trailing commas in builtin JSON files (settings.json, keymap.json, etc.). (43854; thanks ian-h-chamberlain) - Improved GPU initialization error reporting to be more reliable. ([44...

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