Zed v1.4.2

Zed v1.4.2 was released on .

Summary

AI - Agent: Added support for skills. - Agent: Added support for a global AGENTS.md file alongside settings.json for user-wide instructions that are included in every project’s system prompt. (5675...

Release Context

  • This was the 64th Zed release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 2 days after Zed v1.3.7 (May 25, 2026).

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Release Notes

AI - Agent: Added support for skills. - Agent: Added support for a global AGENTS.md file alongside settings.json for user-wide instructions that are included in every project’s system prompt. (56757) - Agent: Added commands to open global and project-specific AGENTS.md rules. (57847) - Agent: Added agent: new terminal thread for defining custom shortcuts to launch an Agent Panel terminal thread. (57400) - Agent: Added support for image output from MCP tools. (57134) - Agent: Added support for OAuth client pre-registration with a client ID and client secret in the built-in MCP client. (52900) - Agent: Improved file and skill mention disambiguation in the Agent Panel. (50097; thanks jmg-duarte, 56926) - OpenCode: Updated available models and metadata, including reasoning support, image support, and token counts. (57076; thanks Vlaaaaaaad) This week's release includes support for agent skills, a global AGENTS.md file for user-wide agent instructions, the ability to choose a base branch in the branch diff view, and a new editor: toggle all diff hunks action. Features Git - Added the ability to choose the base branch in the branch diff view. (56569) - Added keyboard shortcuts for switching between the Changes and History tabs: cmd-1/cmd-2 on macOS and ctrl-1/ctrl-2 on Linux/Windows. (56743) - Added editor: toggle all diff hunks to expand or collapse all diff hunks at once. (56421) - Improved the display of user avatars in Git-related surfaces. (56755) - Improved diff stats by formatting large line counts with thousand separators. (56754) - Added the git.showstagerestorebuttons setting to hide Stage/Restore buttons on diff hunks. (56740) Languages - Added runnables for C++. (57161; thanks Helmutt03) Linux - Added support for bufferfontfallbacks on Linux. (54878; thanks Albab-Hasan) - Improved the first mouse-driven text copy action on Wayland. (50406; thanks soundslocke) Other - Added markdownpreviewcodefontfamily to override the code font in the markdown preview. (56744; thanks wln) - Improved CSV preview with column pinning to keep identifiers visible while scrolling. (56619; thanks HalavicH) - Improved restricted mode by making it more obvious and requiring immediate action when opening an untrusted project. (57056) - Improved truncated text labels so they no longer show trailing spaces or punctuation before the ellipsis. (57106) Bug Fixes - Agent: Fixed image output from tools not being reloaded when restoring a thread. (57143) - MCP OAuth: Fixed authentication failing when an MCP server returned a broken metadata URL. (53502) - MCP OAuth: Fixed OAuth client registration failing with some MCP servers. (53501) - Fixed AI completions from OpenAI-compatible providers failing when token usage details were missing. (55919; thanks marius851000) - Git Graph: Fixed breakage that occurred when Git’s log.showSignature setting was enabled. (55708; thanks toddlerer) - OpenAI: Fixed an issue where error messages would not appear properly. (57750) - Fixed certain ACP registry agents not cleaning up old versions. (55290; thanks cppcoffee) - Fixed some Gemini tool calls failing because Zed could send incomplete tool schemas. (57160) - Fixed a bug where using Gemini with certain tools, especially via MCP, resulted in "Invalid JSON payload received" errors due to incompatible JSON schema formats. (49292; thanks dastrobu) - Fixed zed --new ssh://host/path reusing an existing SSH window instead of opening a new one. This also applied to other URL-shaped path arguments. (54408) - Fixed a bug where non-ASCII characters in diagnostic messages were incorrectly rendered with spurious \ characters. (55782; thanks alkinun) - Fixed a crash in GPUI when typing into an Input widget inside a cached view (50456). (50665; thanks xcb3d) - Fixed a panic that could occur when streaming in text with the editfile tool. (57100) - Fixed a panic when loading certain Tree-sitter grammars containing supertypes. (57183) - Fixed a rare panic that could occur when lines in the editor contained many invisible characters. (57137) - Fixed agent edits sometimes not getting auto-accepted when they were committed. (56892) - Fixed the agent erroring when using Copilot as a provider and switching between OpenAI and Anthropic models. (56655) - Fixed bash syntax highlighting for conditional expressions, arithmetic expressions, and related operators. (56484; thanks terror) - Fixed the activity indicator in the status bar not opening a menu with items to cancel running actions. (56865) - Fixed commit title length checks miscounting multi-byte characters as multiple characters. (57025; thanks koxya) - Fixed context server availability updates when a new worktree is added to or removed from a project. (51244; thanks rioriost) - Fixed importing the VS Code setting files.simpleDialog.enable with the opposite value. (55678; thanks Earlopain) - Fixed macOS Cmd-E/Cmd-G find behavior so Cmd-E seeds find from the cursor or selection and Cmd-G advances through the newly se...

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