Zed v1.16.2
Zed v1.16.2 was released on .
Summary
- Fixed a potential filesystem sandbox escape when running extensions. (63147) - Fixed GitHub Copilot Chat authentication and API routing for GitHub Enterprise Cloud (63142) - Fixed project-level l...
Release Context
- This was the 87th Zed release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 5 days after Zed v1.16.1 (August 19, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
- Antigravity CLI v1.1.22 (August 27, 2026)
- OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.150.1 (August 27, 2026)
- Grok Build v1.0.12 (August 27, 2026)
- Cursor: Start from scratch, without a repo (August 27, 2026)
- Amp 2026.08.27 (August 27, 2026)
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- Zed vs Devin Desktop
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- Zed vs Grok Build
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- Zed vs Devin
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- Zed vs Amp
- Zed vs GitHub Copilot in VS Code
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- Zed vs Bolt
- Zed vs v0
Release Notes
- Fixed a potential filesystem sandbox escape when running extensions. (63147)
- Fixed GitHub Copilot Chat authentication and API routing for GitHub Enterprise Cloud (63142)
- Fixed project-level language server settings being ignored by extensions built with extension API versions before and including v0.1.0. (63083)
- Fixed an issue where Flatpak CLI launches would open unrelated/nonexistent files due to a bug in argument construction (62959)
Other Recent Zed Releases
- v1.24.4 (October 20, 2026)
- v1.24.3 (October 19, 2026)
- v1.24.2 (October 14, 2026)
- v1.23.3 (October 12, 2026)
- v1.23.2 (October 7, 2026)
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