Zed v1.18.1
Zed v1.18.1 was released on .
Summary
- Fixed AltGr / diacritic input being swallowed by the integrated terminal on Windows. (63763) - Fixed goToDefinition opening out-of-worktree entries (63757) - Fixed dev container environment varia...
Release Context
- This was the 91st Zed release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 2 days after Zed v1.18.0 (September 2, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
- Grok Build v1.0.24 (September 7, 2026)
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- Grok Build v1.0.22 (September 7, 2026)
- Bolt 2026.09.07 (September 7, 2026)
- Claude Code v2.1.263 (September 6, 2026)
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Release Notes
- Fixed AltGr / diacritic input being swallowed by the integrated terminal on Windows. (63763)
- Fixed goToDefinition opening out-of-worktree entries (63757)
- Fixed dev container environment variables being logged in full (63735)
- Fixed OpenCode Go requests that could fail when Zed omitted the session header. (63715)
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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