Zed v1.9.0

Zed v1.9.0 was released on .

Summary

AI - Added in-thread search to the Agent Panel (Ctrl/Cmd+F). (57231; thanks dandv) - Added an entry to the Agent Panel options menu to quickly add a remote MCP server. (59359) - Improved saved thre...

Release Context

  • This was the 73rd Zed release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 7 days after Zed v1.8.2 (June 24, 2026).

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Release Notes

AI - Added in-thread search to the Agent Panel (Ctrl/Cmd+F). (57231; thanks dandv) - Added an entry to the Agent Panel options menu to quickly add a remote MCP server. (59359) - Improved saved thread model selection for cloud-based providers. (59417) - Improved Agent Panel file search results from the agent's grep tool so they open files at the matched line when clicked. (59230) - Included the thread title in Agent Panel notifications when Zed is not focused. (59377; thanks e-compton) - Added GLM 5.2 and Kimi K2.7 Code to OpenCode Go, and made DeepSeek V4 Pro available for OpenCode Zen. (59236) - Improved OpenAI-compatible provider setup for reasoning models. (59213; thanks razmser) - Added ACP support for embedded resources in tool calls. (59821) This week's release adds Telescope-style resizable pickers with file and text finder previews (resolving a request with 860 👍s), including a new search modal that previews results live as you type, opened via the text finder: toggle action in the command palette, plus search in the Agent Panel. Features Git - Improved the Git Panel changes header with a split button that keeps Stage All / Unstage All as the primary action and groups related change actions in a dropdown menu. (59608; thanks chirivelli) - Added a Git blame toggle to the gutter's context menu. (59460; thanks NsdHSO) - Added a Git Panel View Options menu for switching between list/tree view, sorting by path or name, and grouping by status. Project Diff now follows the same file ordering as the Git Panel. (59043; thanks chirivelli) - Added a gitpanel.entryprimaryclickaction setting to control default click behavior for Git Panel files. (59649; thanks nathan-fiscaletti) - Improved Git Graph search to find commits by abbreviated or full hash. (59132; thanks nguyenphutrong) - Improved performance of Git Panel access checks. (59514; thanks lgeiger) Languages - Improved Python completion item highlighting for methods and functions. (59758; thanks lingyaochu) Terminal - Added paragraph navigation in terminal Vim mode with shift-{ and shift-}. (56038; thanks hron) Vim / Helix - Added Helix-mode debugger keybindings under space shift-g for starting, restarting, continuing, pausing, stepping, stopping, toggling breakpoints, and editing log breakpoints. (57756; thanks jgarte) Other - Added draggable resizing to picker modals. (59604; thanks ozacod) - Added previews to the file finder, shown to the right or below the results depending on available space. (59604; thanks ozacod) - Added a text finder picker with preview as an alternative project search UI, with searches shared between both views. (59604; thanks ozacod) - Added markdownpreview.limitcontentwidth and markdownpreview.maxwidth settings for constraining and centering Markdown preview content. (59512) - Added shell completion generation for the zed CLI via zed --completions <SHELL>. (57440; thanks silvanshade) - Improved the macOS CLI installation failure notification with a link to manual setup instructions. (59575) - Improved startup performance. (58881) - Improved the text finder to pre-fill its query from the active project search, focused buffer search, or active editor. (59766, 59779; thanks ozacod) - Improved the first-time project trust prompt to allow trusting any parent directory, not just the immediate parent. (59562) Bug Fixes - Fixed the Agent Panel message editor's picker keybinding not opening the profile configuration modal. (59768) - Fixed in-thread search not closing with escape when focused in the Agent Panel message editor. (59705) - Fixed Anthropic prompt caching when using OpenRouter. (57498; thanks jamesst20) - Fixed requests to OpenAI-compatible providers sometimes including an unsupported servicetier parameter. (59496) - Fixed selecting custom language models whose model IDs contain slashes. (59523) - Fixed stdio MCP servers configured with only a command (no args) failing to load. (59623; thanks IbrahimKhan12) - Fixed the Skill tool’s “Configure” button in the Agent’s Tool Permissions settings opening the Terminal tool’s configuration instead of the Skill tool’s own permission rules. (59728) - Fixed gg and ge motions to jump to the first character on the line and match Helix exactly. (59449; thanks polars-bear) - Fixed the Remote Projects modal not being keyboard navigable. (59336) - (Preview only) Fixed adding a model as a favorite being limited to the currently selected model. (59803) - Fixed deleted changes appearing in Markdown previews. (59485) - Fixed Debug Test for Go subtests failing to match the selected subtest. (53680) - Fixed detection of SSH Git remotes whose username contains characters such as . (e.g. first.last@host:owner/repo.git), which previously broke permalinks, Git blame links, and "open in browser". (59457; thanks IbrahimKhan12) - Fixed external formatters and language servers failing to launch on macOS when specified as a bare binary name or relative path and only available in the project's PATH (e.g. Nix, direnv). ([55672](https://github.com/zed-indu...

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