Zed v1.3.5

Zed v1.3.5 was released on .

Summary

AI - Added the ability to create Terminal Threads in the Sidebar and Agent Panel. (56685) - Agent: Added setting subagentmodel to specify which model is used when a subagent is spawned. (56203) - A...

Release Context

  • This was the 61st Zed release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 1 day after Zed v1.2.7 (May 19, 2026).

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Release Notes

AI - Added the ability to create Terminal Threads in the Sidebar and Agent Panel. (56685) - Agent: Added setting subagentmodel to specify which model is used when a subagent is spawned. (56203) - Agent: Added support for rendering inline images. (56427) - Agent: Added support for Mermaid diagrams. (56430) - Agent: Improved UX when agent tries to edit unsaved buffer. (55655) - Agent: Added support for grok-4.3 and grok-4.2. (55931) - Agent: Added Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite. (56248; thanks qtqgyt) - Agent: Updated OpenCode Free models (BigPickle and Ring 2.6 1T Free). (56328; thanks Vlaaaaaaad) - Agent: Added support for gpt-5.4-nano/mini models for OpenAI provider. (56476) - Agent: Improved output quality when using OpenAI models. (56476) - Agent: Added guardrailidentifier and guardrailversion settings for AWS Bedrock, enabling use in environments where IAM policies require a guardrail on all model requests. (50084; thanks 9to6) - Agent: Added support for editing the thread title for external agent threads. (56446) - Agent: Added user confirmation requirement before letting tools modify files inside .agents/skills/ (per-project) or ~/.agents/skills/ (global), so skills installed by any agent are protected from unsolicited edits. (56456) - Anthropic: Added dynamic fetching of available models from Anthropic API. (56397) - Improved sidebar search placeholder text to read "Search threads…" instead of "Search…". (56081) - Edit Prediction: Added the ability to input the "expected patch", i.e. what the model should have predicted in the edit prediction: rate completions modal. (56629) - Improved Anthropic prompt cache utilization, reducing latency and cost for ongoing conversations. (56472) - Improved Bedrock prompt cache utilization by anchoring the system prompt as its own cache prefix. (56474) - Improved Copilot edit predictions to no longer rely on a system node installation, so the system node version no longer affects whether they work in Zed. (56635) This week's release includes the ability to create Terminal Threads from the sidebar and Agent Panel, a Git panel branch history view and support for running custom Git commands from the Git Graph context menu, inline image and Mermaid diagram rendering in the agent, a new subagentmodel setting, optional text icons for completion items ("completionmenuitemkind": "symbol"), and Vim g z jump-to-word navigation. Shipped by the Zed Guild 🛡️ - Added built-in language server support for Bash. (52811; thanks lingyaochu) --- Learn about the Zed Guild. Features Git - Added a history view to the Git panel that allows to quickly see in a list all the commits for a given branch. (56500) - Added support for running global custom Git command tasks from the Git Graph commit context menu. (56354) - Added support for force deleting worktrees that contain modified or untracked files. (56519) - Added a Copy Tag action to the git graph context menu. (56110) - Changed the git::Commit action (cmd-enter or ctrl-enter) to now commit a pending amend. (54472) - Added confirmation prompt when deleting unmerged git branches, with option to force delete. (55927) - Added alt+click on delete button to force delete a branch immediately. (55927) Vim / Helix - Added Vim-mode jump-to-word navigation on g z. (55492; thanks GoldStrikeArch) - Added support for Helix' buffer picker that is opened via space b by default. (55868; thanks jnns) - Added a setting vim.showeditpredictionsinnormalmode to control whether edit predictions are shown in normal mode. (55956) Remote Development - Added support for SCP style SSH urls: zed ssh://user@host:~/code/proj. (56304; thanks notpeter) Other - Added text icons for completion items (disabled by default, use "completionmenuitemkind": "symbol" to enable). (56396) - Improved Markdown preview table cells to vertically center content in tall rows and respect column alignment from the table header. (53465; thanks davidalecrim1) - Improved Mermaid diagrams in rendered markdown to match your theme by default. (56430) - Added a Hide Button entry to the right-click context menu on status bar items and panel buttons. (54971) - Added support for opening a file with a line range selected in the file finder using the path:start-end syntax (e.g. file.rs:10-20). (53958; thanks cppcoffee) - Added file:line:col navigation from ctrl+click hover links in the editor. (55877; thanks jabdinghoff) - Optimized multibuffer creation by conditionally using headers based on RHS state. (56058; thanks chirivelli) - Improved the minimum size of diagnostics pane excerpts. (56172) - Improved default button focus in macOS dialogs. (56513) - Improved auto update error message for NixOS users missing rsync. (56097; thanks karol-broda) - Added theme keys for configuring editor diff hunk colors. (51784; thanks vitallium) - Improved extension updates to be more resilient to network and upstream failures. (54355) Bug Fixes - Agent: Fixed an issue where editing would sometimes fail for specific models (Deepseek v4). ([55894](https:/...

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