Zed v1.20.1

Zed v1.20.1 was released on .

Summary

AI - Added Gemini 3.8 Flash to the Google AI models. (63643; thanks macayu17) - Improved recovery when OpenAI temporarily returns HTTP 404 errors. (63705) This week's release includes an optional c...

Release Context

  • This was the 93rd Zed release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 7 days after Zed v1.19.2 (September 9, 2026).

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Release Notes

AI - Added Gemini 3.8 Flash to the Google AI models. (63643; thanks macayu17) - Improved recovery when OpenAI temporarily returns HTTP 404 errors. (63705) This week's release includes an optional cursor movement animation, a setting to open Markdown files directly in the rendered preview, Emmet wrap with abbreviation support, and configurable window title formatting. Shipped by the Zed Guild 🛡️ - Added the onnewwindow setting to choose whether new windows show the Launchpad (launchpad, the default) or an empty untitled buffer (emptytab). (63522; thanks albertbogusz) - Fixed ctrl-tab jumping to random documents when the mouse moved during a quick tab switch. (52671; thanks OmChillure) - Fixed a crash in editor: rotate selections forward and editor: rotate selections backward when using cursors on nonconsecutive lines. (63937; thanks timvermeulen) - Fixed language servers from other projects appearing in the LSP Logs view and their statuses showing in unrelated windows' status bars. (61221; thanks aviatesk) - Fixed layout issues in the Settings UI for recently created GitHub accounts. (63630; thanks tidely) - Fixed "View File History" when run from a diff view. (63539; thanks albertbogusz) --- Learn about the Zed Guild. Features Git - Improved repository cloning by showing live progress in the activity indicator. (63239; thanks itsfuad) - Improved Git Graph commit details to show the same full commit timestamp as the Date column. (62679; thanks dem1tris) Languages - Added Emmet's wrap with abbreviation support (editor: wrap with abbreviation). (63383) - Added syntax highlighting for the C23 constexpr keyword. (63833; thanks Jesse-Cooper) - Improved language server request routing to respect dynamically registered document selectors. (59243; thanks aviatesk) - Improved Go syntax highlighting by distinguishing control-flow keywords from other keywords. (63769; thanks Gami13) macOS - Improved detection of worktree root path changes to use fewer file descriptors. (63863) Other - Added configurable window title formatting with the windowtitleformat and windowtitleseparator settings. (54379; thanks jknlsn) - Currently supported variables are ${projectName}, ${fileName}, ${filePath}, ${relativePath}, ${branch}, ${remoteName}, ${remoteHost}, ${appName}, and ${separator}. - These settings will be populated when importing from VS Code's settings, if window.title and window.titleSeparator are set. - Added the markdownpreview.openmarkdownfilesinpreview setting to open Markdown files directly in the rendered preview. (63462; thanks joshkent94) - Added an optional cursor movement animation, enabled by setting cursoranimation.enabled to true. (63195; thanks tiny-paris) - Added a status bar countdown for pending multi-stroke key bindings. (63343) - Added a tooltip showing the file path when hovering over files and folders in the Project Panel. (63299; thanks skmanoj322) - The tooltip can be disabled, or its delay configured, by changing the projectpanel.titletooltipdelay setting. - Added dev: Debug Filesystem Watching to inspect local watcher events, watch roots, and scan exclusions, and export diagnostic captures as JSON. (64186) - Added the commandpalette.usecommandhistory setting to disable history-based command palette ranking without erasing history. (64181) - Improved multi-cursor editing performance. (60605; thanks Rani367) - Improved installed size on macOS and Linux by stripping debug symbols from release binaries, making them roughly 25% smaller. (63429) - Improved recent commands in the command palette with history indicators, a wider layout, and controls to remove individual commands from history using shift-backspace or the remove button. (64181) - Improved worktree scan performance by removing redundant executable checks. (63190; thanks hamishc) - Raised the default open file descriptor soft limit at startup on Unix/macOS to prevent EMFILE (Too many open files) errors in large workspaces. (64188) Bug Fixes - Fixed private files being shared with collaborators through project search. (63860; thanks 39ali) - Fixed a settings key containing a quote or a backslash corrupting settings.json. (62949; thanks interkelstar) - Fixed the Git Panel's History tab, commit search, branch diff, and opening a commit by ref failing when a branch name matched a path in the working tree. (63666; thanks itsfuad) - Fixed Git Panel keybindings matching the Changes tab while the History tab was active. (63689; thanks shindgew) - Fixed diagnostics from the previous language server staying on a file after changing its language. (63460; thanks kjanat) - Fixed syntax highlighting for injected languages in strings containing interpolations. (49265; thanks jeffbrennan) - Fixed a BasedPyright memory leak caused by incorrect workspace diagnostics polling. (63336) - Fixed projects leaking via the Agent Panel. (63765) - Fixed IME staying enabled in the Project Panel on Wayland when no text input was focused. (63776; thanks Sha1rholder) - Fixed the debugger's "Copy Value" copying the truncated preview instead of the full value. ([63902](https:/...

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