Zed v1.7.2

Zed v1.7.2 was released on .

Summary

AI - Agent: Added auto-compaction and /compact to Zed Agent. (58931) - Agent: Improved agent skills management by moving it into the settings UI. (58701) - Agent: Improved how we communicate proble...

Release Context

  • This was the 71st Zed release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 7 days after Zed v1.6.3 (June 10, 2026).

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Release Notes

AI - Agent: Added auto-compaction and /compact to Zed Agent. (58931) - Agent: Improved agent skills management by moving it into the settings UI. (58701) - Agent: Improved how we communicate problems relative to skills, in both the agent panel and the settings UI. (58838) - Agent: Improved the UX of the thread import flow. (57791) - Agent: Improved auto scroll location when using read-file tool. (58640; thanks liigo) - Agent: Show context window usage and cost metrics for external agents that support it. (58680) - Agent: Allow deleting sessions from history for external agents that support it. (58680) - Agent: Allow loading skills whose descriptions exceed the 1024-byte limit by showing warnings instead of failing to load them. (58356) - Agent: Removed the misleading "Always allow" button from agent permission prompts for edits to the agent skills directory, since those edits always require confirmation. (58463) - Agent: Updated OpenCode models (added MiniMax M3, Qwen 3.7 Plus, DeepSeek V4 Flash, MiniMax M3 Free, and Nemotron 3 Ultra Free; removed Nemotron 3 Super Free, Qwen 3.5 Plus; updated MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M2.5, Qwen 3.6 Plus). (58743; thanks Vlaaaaaaad) This week's release includes automatic agent context compaction that you can also trigger manually with the new /compact command, cleaner and more legible Markdown preview styling, and support for running custom git commands on git graph branches and tags. Features Git - Added a context menu for ref labels (branches, remote refs, and tags) in the git graph that runs custom git commands against the clicked ref, available as $ZEDGITREF (e.g. git checkout $ZEDGITREF). (58781; thanks aobatact) - Improved commit details changed-file lists with an optional tree view. (58198; thanks chirivelli) - Added Add to .git/info/exclude option under a new Git submenu in the project panel and git panel context menus, alongside the existing Add to .gitignore action. (57044; thanks TomPlanche) - Added a button to the git worktree picker to remove an open worktree from the current window. (58996) - Improved worktree navigation UX when a given project has more than one loaded. (58555) - Warnings about the lengths of commit message titles are now disabled by default. (58960) - Reduced short commit SHAs in blame and commit tooltips from 8 to 7, consistent with the graph and history views. (58741; thanks albertbogusz) - Improved scrolling performance in diff views containing large hunks with many computed word diffs. (58639) - Improved the performance of the project diff, especially in the presence of merge conflicts. (57859) - Added icon for the Chromium code review remote provider. (57713; thanks hferreiro) - Added the SourceHut remote icon. (58668; thanks medzernik) Languages - Improved markdown preview styles, making it more legible and easier to parse. (58465) - LSP: Improved Zed's memory usage when a language server emits messages faster than the foreground thread can handle them. (58867) - Improved editor: go to definition to avoid repeatedly querying the language server while moving the mouse over the same symbol or an unresolved position. (58429) - Added a markdown: toggle block quote action. (58383) - Added support for surrounding selected Markdown text with ~ by typing ~. (58614) - Improved indentation for C/C++ to be more consistent. (58740; thanks Helmutt03) - Added the ability to stylize built-in Python exceptions and warnings using the type.class.builtin syntax capture. (58176; thanks allachance) - Detected .envrc files as Shell Script. (58573; thanks injust) - Dropped fish from modelinealiases, which forced the file to be detected as Shell Script instead of Fish. (58550) Terminal - Made zed:// links clickable in the terminal. (58910; thanks r4victor) Vim / Helix - Disabled the IME in Vim normal and visual modes on Linux Wayland. (58237; thanks feeiyu) Collaboration - Improved call controls design, making it clearer what button shares the project vs. the screen. (58691) Other - Improved the settings window: Sub-pages such as Skills and per-language settings now have a scope picker in the breadcrumb, so you can switch between User and project settings without leaving the page. (58698) - Improved the performance of applying edits to large buffers. (58681) - Added defaultopenbehavior, which controls which action (add to sidebar/open in new window) should be the default when selecting a project from the recent projects menu. (58805) - Improved dev extension installation times for language extensions with multiple grammars or language servers. (55160) - Outline: Improved symbol search with more consistent fuzzy matching and support for multi-term queries. (56477; thanks feitreim) Bug Fixes - Agent: Fix for current agent not being selected when creating a new git worktree. (58636) - Agent: Fixed the scrollbar appearing on wrapped code blocks in the agent chat. (58472; thanks albertbogusz) - Sidebar: Fixed a bug where affordances to collapse the project header would appear when searching. (58696) - Sidebar: Fixed bracketed ellipsis title prefixes (such as [...]) not rendering the ellipsis icon. (58269) - Fixed a bug that caused the project...

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