Zed v0.219.4

Zed v0.219.4 was released on .

Summary

AI - Agent: Added the ability to mark language models as favorites and pin them to the top of the list. This feature is available in the native Zed agent (including text threads and the inline assi...

Release Context

  • This was the 5th Zed release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 2 days after Zed v0.218.7 (January 12, 2026).

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Release Notes

AI - Agent: Added the ability to mark language models as favorites and pin them to the top of the list. This feature is available in the native Zed agent (including text threads and the inline assistant), and in external agents. (44297, 45528; thanks aqrln) - Agent: Added the ability to cycle through favorited models using the alt-tab keybinding. (45032) - Agent: Added the ability to queue messages in the agent panel. (46019) - Agent: Added a right-click context menu for the thread view. (45440; thanks zchira) - Agent: Added the ability to regenerate the auto-summarized title of threads via the "Regenerate Thread Title" button, available in the ellipsis menu of the agent panel. (43859; thanks aeroxy) - Agent: Added the ability to configure timeouts for context server tool calls. The new global contextservertimeout setting controls the default timeout (default is 60s, max: 10min). Additionally, per-server timeouts can be configured using the timeout field within servers defined in the "contextservers" setting. (45378) - Agent: Added MCP prompt support to agent threads. Prompts from MCP servers now appear in the slash command menu when typing / in agent threads. (43523; thanks mdliss) - Agent: Show tool call parameters when the agent asks for confirmation to run a tool. (45931) - Agent: Made tool calls' raw input visible in the agent UI. (45097; thanks tsoernes) - Agent: Use up-to-date token counts from LLM responses when reporting tokens used per thread. (44943) - Agent: Added OpenAI gpt-5-codex model to the assistant. (39989; thanks mstallone) - Agent: Added support for OpenAI's /responses endpoint for models that don't support the /chat/completions API. (39989; thanks mstallone) - Agent: Improved Agent Panel performance when terminals are scrolled offscreen. (45537) - Agent: Updated context lengths for several Mistral models to match Mistral’s recommended values. (45194; thanks guiopen) - Agent: Added support for authenticating Amazon Bedrock with API keys (bearer tokens), including via environment variable or the UI. (41393; thanks 5herlocked) - Agent: Improved: MCP tools are now automatically reloaded when a context server sends a tools/listchanged notification, eliminating the need to restart the server to discover new tools. (42453; thanks tsoernes) - Copilot now supports Next Edit Suggestions. (44486) This week's release includes most of December's quality week items and is packed! Highlights include subpixel (ClearType-style) text rendering on Windows and Linux to improve text clarity on standard DPI displays, the ability to favorite/pin Agent models, cycle them via alt-tab, and queue messages in the agent panel, a git: create pull request command, UI controls to restart/stop individual language servers, a which-key-like modal (enable with {"whichkey": {"enabled": true}}), improved Markdown list editing via extendlistonnewline and indentlistontab, many performance boosts — and much much more! Features Git - Added git: create pull request command to open a pull request for the current branch. (42959; thanks tommyming) - Added the ability to copy a commit's SHA in the commit view. (45478; thanks cppcoffee) - Added support for collapsing/expanding entries with your keyboard while in the git panel (tree view). (45002; thanks RemcoSmitsDev) - Added a Restore File action in the project panel context menu to discard uncommitted file changes. (42490; thanks korbindeman) - Added git clone open listeners using zed://git/clone?repo=<git-url>. (41669; thanks AlvaroParker) - Added support for zed://git/commit/<sha>?repo=<path> URI scheme to access the git commit view. (43341; thanks schpet) - Added optimistic staged hunk updating. (43434; thanks van-sprundel) - Added support for Git repository excludes file .git/info/exclude. (42082; thanks errmayank) - Display all branches and remotes by default in the branch picker. (45041) - Git panel now truncates long file paths from the left, showing "…path/filename" when space is limited, keeping filenames always visible. (43462; thanks ddoemonn) - Added global Git settings to enable/disable git status and git diff. (43326; thanks leoliu0605) Debugger - Conditionally display the debugger panel icon based on the debugger.button setting to avoid too many error logs. (45544; thanks tacshi) Languages - C++: Include namespace symbol in the outline view. (45794; thanks hokein) - C/C++: Added highlighting for escape sequences. (46116; thanks ozacod) - C/C++: Added union declarations to the list of text objects. (45308; thanks hokein) - Python: Added support for uv run in the shebang line to be interpreted as a Python script. (45881; thanks flou) - Python: Allow using locally installed ty for Python. (45193; thanks henryhchchc) - Markdown: Lists now continue automatically when you press Enter (unordered, ordered, and task lists). This can be configured with extendlistonnewline (default: true). (42800, 45561; thanks 0xRaduan) - Markdown: You can no...

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