Zed Changelog & Release Notes
As of October 20, 2026, the latest Zed release is v1.24.4. Havoptic tracks all 128 Zed releases with dated, AI-summarized changelog notes, updated daily.
Track Zed editor releases and its AI features (Agent Panel, edit predictions). The high-performance, multiplayer code editor from Zed Industries.
What's new in Zed: this month's changes, summarized
Releases
- v1.24.4 (October 20, 2026) - - Fixed OpenCode models failing to load with a missing field npm error. (65875)
- v1.24.3 (October 19, 2026) - - Added Gemini 4 Argon to the Google AI models (65725)
- v1.24.2 (October 14, 2026) - AI - Improved Agent Panel terminal support by allowing Terminal tabs to be dragged into it. (60582; thanks cppcoffee) - Improved custom Amazon Bedrock
- v1.23.3 (October 12, 2026) - - Fixed an issue where no fonts would show for the markdown preview configurations in the settings UI. (65447) - Fixed edit predictions retaining sing
- v1.23.2 (October 7, 2026) - AI - Added the agent.maxidleretainedthreads setting to control how many idle agent threads remain loaded. (64547; thanks hazicy) - Improved Google AI
- v1.22.0 (September 30, 2026) - AI - Added an optional model parameter to spawnagent to choose a model for that spawn instead of using the configured subagent model or inheriting the
- v1.21.0 (September 23, 2026) - AI - Added SuperGrok sign-in so SuperGrok subscribers can use Grok models in the Agent Panel. (63248; thanks thibaudgg) - Added the agent.preventidles
- v1.20.2 (September 17, 2026) - - Fixed payment errors from non-Zed model providers incorrectly prompting users to upgrade to Zed Pro instead of displaying the original provider erro
- v1.20.1 (September 16, 2026) - AI - Added Gemini 3.8 Flash to the Google AI models. (63643; thanks macayu17) - Improved recovery when OpenAI temporarily returns HTTP 404 errors. (63
- v1.19.2 (September 9, 2026) - AI - Added support for effort-based reasoning when using OpenRouter models. (61308; thanks codello) - Added support for renaming Terminal Threads from
- v1.18.1 (September 4, 2026) - - Fixed AltGr / diacritic input being swallowed by the integrated terminal on Windows. (63763) - Fixed goToDefinition opening out-of-worktree entries
- v1.18.0 (September 2, 2026) - AI - Added support for GPT-5.6's 1M-token context window on Amazon Bedrock. (63069; thanks 5herlocked) - Added Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite to the Google AI
- v1.17.2 (August 26, 2026) - AI - Added Gemini 3.7 Flash to the Google AI models. (62670; thanks ArneshBanerjee) - Added an askuser tool that lets the Agent ask questions through
- v1.16.3 (August 26, 2026) - - Fixed a crash in the Git panel when collapsed sections were used in tree view. (63167)
- v1.16.2 (August 24, 2026) - - Fixed a potential filesystem sandbox escape when running extensions. (63147) - Fixed GitHub Copilot Chat authentication and API routing for GitHub E
- v1.16.1 (August 19, 2026) - AI - Added Gemini 3.6 Flash to the Google AI models. (62010; thanks ArneshBanerjee) - Added Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Ge
- v1.15.1 (August 18, 2026) - - Fixed an issue where the Cursor ACP agent would fail to start (62825) - Git: Fixed the GPG passphrase modal appearing on every commit for users whos
- v1.15.0 (August 12, 2026) - AI - Added support for self-hosted Sweep Next Edit models in OpenAI-compatible edit predictions, including the sweep prompt format and infer detection
- v1.14.2 (August 5, 2026) - AI - Added sandboxing for the Agent's terminal and fetch tools. (61711) - Added a reasoning effort selector for Anthropic-compatible providers when th
- v1.13.2 (August 2, 2026) - - Fixed Option+Left stopping to the left of punctuation between words Video URL: https://files.catbox.moe/8d5g2t.mp4 (62065) - Fixed a panic when sele
- v1.13.1 (July 29, 2026) - AI - Added "Copy this Agent response", "Scroll to User Message", and "Scroll to top" buttons to every Agent Panel response. (61245; thanks peakxy) - I
- v1.12.1 (July 27, 2026) - - Added Claude Opus 5 support for Anthropic and Amazon Bedrock BYOK providers. (61609) - Fixed an issue where hover documentation could have too many
- v1.12.0 (July 23, 2026) - AI - Enabled ACP elicitations by default, allowing ACP agents to collect structured user input. (60749) - Added support for adaptive thinking in custo
- v1.11.3 (July 15, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added support for searching (cmd-f on macOS, ctrl-f on Linux/Windows) inside of terminal threads. (60292) - Added "Agent Panel" and "Git P
- v1.10.3 (July 13, 2026) - - Fixed an issue with npm v12 that could cause language server startup failures (60870)
- v1.10.2 (July 10, 2026) - - agent: Added GPT 5.6 Sol & Terra for ChatGPT subscription. Note: GPT 5.6 Luna is not available yet, since OpenAI has not unlocked access for third-p
- v1.10.1 (July 9, 2026) - - openai: Added support for GPT 5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna (60699) - cli: Fixed an issue where the previous workspace would not be restored when using clidefa
- v1.10.0 (July 8, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added setting to exclude project rules files from commit message generation prompts (agent.commitmessageincludeprojectrules). (56867; than
- v1.9.0 (July 1, 2026) - 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 r
- v1.8.2 (June 24, 2026) - AI - Sidebar: Enabled creating a new worktree from the sidebar's "new thread" icon button. (59341) - Sidebar: Improved the archive "Search all threads
- v1.7.2 (June 17, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added auto-compaction and /compact to Zed Agent. (58931) - Agent: Improved agent skills management by moving it into the settings UI. (587
- v1.6.3 (June 10, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added a way to share skills via links. (58009) - Agent: Added support for symlinked global skill directories. (58095; thanks David3u) - Ag
- v1.5.5 (June 9, 2026) - - Add Claude Fable 5 to Anthropic BYOK. (58957) - Fixed a bug where clicking the button to trust a git repository would do nothing. (58716)
- v1.5.4 (June 6, 2026) - - Fix crash that could occur when unsplitting a side by side diff view (58695) - acp: Fix for certain ACP Registry agent downloads not starting (58633
- v1.5.3 (June 3, 2026) - AI - Agent: Made the Skill Creator window resizable and its contents scrollable when the window is smaller than the form. (57754) - Agent: Improved re
- v1.4.4 (May 28, 2026) - - copilot: Fixed an issue where using GPT models would return an error in invalidrequestbody (57979)
- v1.4.3 (May 28, 2026) - - Fixed GitHub Copilot Chat showing an empty model dropdown for users on newer Copilot SDK builds (57965)
- v1.4.2 (May 27, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added support for skills. - Agent: Added support for a global AGENTS.md file alongside settings.json for user-wide instructions that are i
- v1.3.7 (May 25, 2026) - - Fixed a bug on macOS where Git operations could be blocked depending on the timing of spawning child processes. (57662)
- v1.3.6 (May 21, 2026) - - Fixed npm-backed tool installs to better respect npm release-age filters. (57439) - google: Support thinking levels for Google models. (57394) - Add
- v1.3.5 (May 20, 2026) - AI - Added the ability to create Terminal Threads in the Sidebar and Agent Panel. (56685) - Agent: Added setting subagentmodel to specify which model
- v1.2.7 (May 19, 2026) - - git: Fix git blame processes not getting dropped properly. (56912)
- v1.2.6 (May 15, 2026) - - Added support for specifying effort level when using OpenAI models via ChatGPT subscription (56872) - Always pass null when body is non-existent in
- v1.2.5 (May 15, 2026) - - Fixed pressing "New Thread" (or Cmd-N) doing nothing when the Agent Panel's Settings view was open (56818)
- v1.2.4 (May 15, 2026) - - Added ChatGPT subscription provider, allowing users to use their ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscription with the Zed agent. (56811) - Removed deprecated Open
- v1.2.3 (May 13, 2026) - AI - Agent: Improved the edit tool so it can still apply edits when a file has changed on disk, as long as the target text still matches. (55606) - Ag
- v1.1.8 (May 12, 2026) - - Fixed some issues where the activity indicator would show the wrong icon and not be clickable on errors present. (56471) - Fixed a memory leak with
- v1.1.7 (May 8, 2026) - - Fixed local zeta2 edit predictions using the wrong prompt format. (56192) - Fixed an issue where broken symlinks, permission errors, or other fs err
- v1.1.6 (May 6, 2026) - - Fixed ACP agents failing to launch on Windows with "The system cannot find the file specified" (55947) - Fixed inotify event queue overflows on Linu
- v1.1.5 (May 6, 2026) - AI - Agent: Improved edit tool performance for models that support streaming tool calls. (55193) - ACP: Improved support for min-release-age settings
- v1.0.1 (May 4, 2026) - - Fixed an issue where agent failed to apply edits in some cases (55500)
- v1.0.0 (April 29, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash models. (54731; thanks cppcoffee) - Added configure provider menu item to Copilot and Codestra
- v0.233.10 (April 24, 2026) - - Added support for GPT 5.5 and GPT 5.5 Pro via the OpenAI provider (54829)
- v0.233.9 (April 24, 2026) - - Fixed agent threads appearing to be missing after upgrading to the parallel-agents sidebar. The thread-metadata migration was racing against the on-
- v0.233.8 (April 23, 2026) - - agent: Fixed an issue where clicking on "New from summary" would not do anything (54658) - git: Fix create worktree hook tasks running when switchin
- v0.233.7 (April 23, 2026) - - git: Fix remote branch picker (54576)
- v0.233.6 (April 23, 2026) - - Fixed a crash that could occur when git worktree creating fails (54561) - bedrock: Fixed an issue where Opus 4.7 would not work because of an invali
- v0.233.5 (April 22, 2026) - AI - Added Claude Opus 4.7 as an available language model (for BYOK). (54190) - Agent: Improved error messages in the agent panel to show specific, ac
- v0.232.3 (April 20, 2026) - - copilotchat: Fix invalid reasoning effort for some models. (54105)
- v0.232.2 (April 15, 2026) - AI - Added a max-width to the thread view for better readability, particularly when the panel is zoomed in. (52730) - Bedrock: Added 9 new models acro
- v0.231.2 (April 10, 2026) - - Fixed a bug where the web search tool might cause Zed cloud Claude models to not work.
- v0.231.1 (April 8, 2026) - AI - Made the thread generation be top-down instead of bottom-up. Agent content now streams from the top and auto-scrolls as it goes beyond the viewpo
- v0.230.2 (April 6, 2026) - - Fixed a crash on windows with diffs. (53251)
- v0.230.1 (April 3, 2026) - - Edited buffers are no longer saved by default before running a task, but you can still configure this using the "save" field in tasks.json. (52976)
- v0.230.0 (April 1, 2026) - AI - Added support for pasting files and folders into the Agent Panel. (52300) - Anthropic: Added support for selecting reasoning effort. (51946) - Op
- v0.229.0 (March 25, 2026) - AI - Agent: Updated BYOK integration to support the new 1M context window for Claude Opus and Sonnet. (51625) - Agent: Terminal tool permissions regex
- v0.228.0 (March 18, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added ability to @-mention your branch diff to include all changes since main as context. (51235) - Agent: Enabled thinking mode when usin
- v0.227.1 (March 11, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added a new spawnagent tool which allows the Zed Agent to utilize subagents for doing tasks in parallel and better context management. (50
- v0.226.5 (March 6, 2026) - - Added GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4-pro as available models when using your own OpenAI API key. (50858) - Fixed an error when OpenRouter returns a usage-only
- v0.226.4 (March 4, 2026) - AI - Added the ability to use a self-hosted OpenAI-compatible server for edit predictions. (49554) - Agent: Added the ability to undo the reject all a
- v0.225.13 (March 4, 2026) - - Fixed Zed failing to initialize OpenGL on certain Linux devices (50652) - Fixed Zed not being responsive on some Linux configurations (50644)
- v0.225.12 (March 3, 2026) - - linux: Reduce crashes in the face of transient GPU errors (50539) - Linux: Select a more appropriate GPU (50528) - Linux: Fix panic when requested w
- v0.225.10 (February 27, 2026) - - Added the ability to use a self-hosted OpenAI-compatible server for edit predictions. (49554) - acp: Fix for config selectors not always being refre
- v0.225.9 (February 25, 2026) - AI - ACP: Exposed session history for the following external agents: Auggie, Claude Agent, Codex, Factory Droid, Junie, Kimi CLI, Mistral Vibe, and Op
- v0.224.11 (February 21, 2026) - - Fixed a panic that could occur when using the branch diff in split view mode. (49768)
- v0.224.10 (February 20, 2026) - - Fixed a crash when using the split diff view. (49731)
- v0.224.9 (February 20, 2026) - - Fixed a crash in split diff view when a folded buffer was removed and re-added. (49699)
- v0.224.8 (February 20, 2026) - - Fixed an issue with relative line numbers where some rows would be missing their relative line number with deleted hunks showing. (49658)
- v0.224.7 (February 19, 2026) - - Added support for Gemini 3.1 Pro (49634) - Fixed dev highlights view panicking when interacting with editor-like not-editors (49611)
- v0.224.6 (February 19, 2026) - - Fixed a regression where the toolchain path selector would immediately dismiss upon selecting a path, preventing the addition of new toolchains. (49
- v0.224.5 (February 18, 2026) - - Fixed some UI in split diff mode.
- v0.224.4 (February 18, 2026) - AI - Agent: Introduced per-tool permission settings, including regexes for controlling when tools may be auto-allowed, auto-denied, or always require
- v0.223.5 (February 17, 2026) - - Added BYOK support for Claude Sonnet 4.6 (49391) - Fix a potential crash around multibyte characters in edit predictions (49368) - ruby: Added Kanay
- v0.223.4 (February 17, 2026) - - Fix panic that could occur when navigating external code (49339) - agent: Fix permission options not rendering on terminal commands (49275)
- v0.223.3 (February 11, 2026) - AI - Edit Prediction: Added support for multiple edit prediction providers, including GitHub Copilot's Next Edit Suggestions, Ollama, Codestral, Sweep
- v0.222.4 (February 6, 2026) - - Fixed a bug that caused Copilot Chat to not report any available models.
- v0.222.3 (February 5, 2026) - - Added Claude Opus 4.6 - Now Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.5 BYOK models support variations that have context windows of 1 million tokens (and have di
- v0.222.2 (February 4, 2026) - AI - Edit Prediction: Added support for multiple edit prediction providers, including GitHub Copilot's Next Edit Suggestions, Ollama, Codestral, Sweep
- v0.221.5 (January 29, 2026) - - Fixed issues with signing into Copilot via the Settings UI (47954) - Fixed a typo in the link to the ACP registry URL blog post (47893)
- v0.221.4 (January 28, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added the ability to install new Agents via the ACP Registry. (47470) - Agent: Added the ability to edit queued messages. (47234) - Agent:
- v0.220.7 (January 27, 2026) - - Fixed excessive disk space usage from the hangtraces directory. (47692)
- v0.220.6 (January 25, 2026) - - Fixed Anthropic models not appearing in the Copilot Chat model picker (47592)
- v0.220.5 (January 24, 2026) - - editor: Fix a crash that could happen when the editor visible line height is zero (47501) - Fixed authentication issues with Copilot. (47493)
- v0.220.3 (January 22, 2026) - Fix regression in tool call permission defaults for some terminal tool actions.
- v0.220.2 (January 21, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added an agent.showturnstats setting, default to false, that shows the timer, the number of tokens, and whose turn it is. (46390) - Agent:
- v0.219.5 (January 20, 2026) - - Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to edit edit prediction providers in the settings UI. (47162) - Fixed images in agent threads being conve
- v0.219.4 (January 14, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added the ability to mark language models as favorites and pin them to the top of the list. This feature is available in the native Zed ag
- v0.218.7 (January 12, 2026) - - Fixed worktree trust not applied in window reuse (46629) - Fixed groups of language servers not starting after worktree trust approval (46615) - Fix
- v0.218.6 (January 8, 2026) - - Fixed incorrect ordering of paths in the project diff when using the git panel's tree view. (46286) - Fixed partially-staged files being fully stage
- v0.218.5 (January 7, 2026) - AI - Agent: Added savefile and restorefilefromdisk agent tools to handle dirty buffers when editing files. (45005) - Agent: Added a button to the agen
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