github zed-industries/zed v1.24.1-pre

pre-release4 hours ago

This week's release includes Git tag creation, the ability to drag Terminal tabs into the Agent Panel, and pre-filling of the File Finder's search query with text selected in the editor or terminal.

Features

AI

  • Improved Agent Panel terminal support by allowing Terminal tabs to be dragged into it. (#60582; thanks cppcoffee)
  • Improved custom Amazon Bedrock model support with configurable tool use, images, and thinking. (#64953; thanks mpyuglgwkxcmodyrpo)
  • Improved memory and CPU usage while the agent responds in long threads. (#65244)

Git

  • Added a git: create tag at head command and a Create Tag… context menu action in Git history and Git Graph to create local tags on commits. Tags are not pushed automatically. (#61973, #65194; thanks cppcoffee)
  • Added gitiles as a Git hosting provider for Gitiles/Gerrit deployments, enabling permalinks and navigation from the Git blame diff view. (#63996; thanks JonathanBerkeley)
  • Added a side-by-side view for directory diffs opened with zed --diff. (#64967; thanks ian-h-chamberlain)
  • Added file counts to section headers in the Git Panel. (#65028; thanks mansoorkhan96)
  • Added self-hosted Gerrit repositories as a provider for permalinks. (#53832; thanks starsep)
  • Improved the Git Panel with a collapsible commit message editor, configurable with git_panel.commit_editor, and the Git Graph with collapsible commit details. (#63236; thanks mulhamna)
  • Improved Git Graph readability by moving refs from the description column into the graph. (#59839; thanks RemcoSmitsDev)
  • Improved Git Panel file actions for multiple selected files. (#64640; thanks Acd-kk)

Debugger

  • Improved the debugger variables view with distinct colors for values based on their type, such as integers and strings. (#64111; thanks syormon)

Languages

  • Added a Show Source option to the Markdown preview tab context menu. (#65081; thanks joshkent94)
  • Added a Go package-level test gutter button next to package declarations. (#56699; thanks cppcoffee)
  • Added support for language-server extensions to configure which language servers are enabled by default in extension.toml. See the extension documentation. (#65030)
  • Added markdown_preview.heading_font_weight to configure the font weight of headings in the Markdown preview. (#64421; thanks dremnik)
  • Added the mermaid_font_family setting to configure the font used in Mermaid diagrams. (#63430; thanks Sha1rholder)
  • Improved the column filter dropdown in the tabular data preview to sort values naturally (e.g., 2 before 10). (#64764; thanks HalavicH)

Remote Development

  • Improved remote server responsiveness when log or RPC response writes are blocked. (#65011; thanks Huliiiiii)

Linux

  • Reduced the Linux release binary size by about 23% on x86_64. (#65169)

macOS

  • Improved how Finder groups Zed on macOS by identifying it as a developer tool. (#65130; thanks kennyheard)

Other

  • Added an extension_suggestions setting to turn off extension suggestions. (#65109; thanks audinue)
  • Improved the File Finder to pre-fill its query with text selected in the editor or terminal. Disable this with file_finder.prefill_query_from_selection. (#64946; thanks AbyssWaIker)
  • Improved multi-cursor editing performance. (#64409; thanks Rani367)
  • Improved project search speed and memory usage over misclassified binary files. (#64549)
  • Improved the Extensions view so installed extensions appear even while offline or when the remote list is incomplete. (#64766)
  • Improved the font family pickers in the settings window to render each option in its own font as a preview. (#64199; thanks mizanisoffline)
  • Improved Zed startup time. (#65170)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed .env files being treated as shell scripts and triggering shellcheck warnings. They now use the Env language. (#64242; thanks pleahmacaka)
  • Fixed a crash when editing a buffer while an inlay-hint request was pending. (#65193)
  • Fixed a crash when syntax parsing requested bytes inside a multibyte character. (#65273)
  • Fixed a ty language server panic when opening a Python file as a single-file project. (#60753; thanks MostlyKIGuess)
  • Fixed ACP session title clearing and prevented programmatic title updates from being saved as user renames. (#65195)
  • Fixed ChatGPT Subscription models disappearing when the model catalog takes longer than 5 seconds to load. (#64925; thanks dualfroz)
  • Fixed Command-clicking a symbol whose name matches its file name doing nothing. (#64892; thanks skmanoj322)
  • Fixed emoji, symbol, and non-Latin fonts rendering as empty boxes on Linux after being used as a font fallback. (#65269)
  • Fixed files created in a directory that was deleted and immediately recreated (for example by a build or test step that clears and repopulates an output directory) not appearing until the workspace was reloaded. (#61372; thanks marcalc)
  • Fixed files in symlinked directories opening in a separate worktree when a language server reports them by their canonical path. (#64895; thanks taburet)
  • Fixed hanging during remote project search. (#65257)
  • Fixed JSON completion ordering when typing the start of a key. (#65139; thanks ragen1337)
  • Fixed language association for file_type path globs with single-file worktrees. (#60307; thanks notpeter)
  • Fixed Markdown Preview ignoring pane-split actions when focused; splitting now opens another preview in the new pane. (#65136; thanks yskim308)
  • Fixed remote paths sometimes reusing a workspace connected to a different host. (#64145; thanks hamishc)
  • Fixed selected context being lost when added before an agent thread finished loading. (#64252; thanks porada)
  • Fixed the Git Panel offering to initialize a repository when a single file was opened as a project, which failed with "Not a directory". (#64948; thanks virajbhartiya)
  • Fixed the minimap thumb and cursor moving inconsistently. (#62087; thanks InfyniteHeap)
  • Fixed worktree creation on a Windows remote from a Unix client. (#63075; thanks lingyaochu)
  • Fixed "Scroll to User Message" so it lands on typed answers to AskUserQuestion. (#64007; thanks seth-wood)
  • Fixed editor: open docs failing to open local documentation when its file URL contained encoded characters. (#64317; thanks xdBronch)
  • Fixed envFile not being loaded when debugging Python projects with debugpy. (#52933; thanks davidalecrim1)
  • Fixed macro_rules! text flickering in the Rust completion menu. (#63185; thanks mTvare6)
  • Fixed shift-click and shift-up/shift-down selection in the Project Panel omitting folded directories or the starting entry. (#65266; thanks tsutoringo)
  • Fixed shift-enter in the JetBrains keymap not selecting the previous search match. (#65129; thanks codello)
  • Fixed an empty frame being drawn next to diff hunks in the Git Panel when the Stage/Restore buttons are disabled. (#65121; thanks kevin-pierik)
  • Fixed auto-closing brackets being inserted inside comments or strings at the end of a file. (#64840; thanks rn23thakur)
  • Fixed bracket colors flickering during agentic edits. (#65157)
  • Fixed copying Markdown code blocks nested inside blockquotes, lists, and callouts. (#64264; thanks julian-bruyers)
  • Fixed debugger error messages showing placeholders like {response_message} instead of the actual error text. (#65006; thanks SATVIKsynopsis)
  • Fixed dropping external files onto a specific directory in a folded path in the Project Panel. (#65259; thanks kevin-pierik)
  • Fixed identical Backspace and Delete icons in the Keymap Editor. (#65037; thanks GautamBytes)
  • Fixed LM Studio models not appearing when a Splash model is installed. (#64847; thanks dio-az)
  • Fixed Markdown Preview and the Agent Panel rendering the text between two --- separators as a YAML metadata block. (#64162; thanks meditationduck)
  • Fixed Markdown task-list checkboxes not appearing or sitting above the first line of text in Markdown Preview. (#53699, #65113; thanks AdamJedl and gitKashish)
  • Fixed missing reasoning options when applying a default model to an ACP agent session. (#65233)
  • Fixed navigation from agent file links opening the wrong file or workspace. (#64748)
  • Fixed selected radio indicator alignment in agent elicitation forms. (#63885; thanks itsfuad)
  • Fixed some inlay hints appearing at the wrong position while editing. (#64791; thanks HuaGu-Dragon)
  • Fixed SSH config hosts sometimes remaining missing or stale in the remote projects picker. (#65246; thanks egecemkirci)
  • Fixed text selection and copying in Thinking previews in agent threads. (#65231)
  • Fixed the Agent Panel's "Awaiting Confirmation" row jumping while its ellipsis animated. (#64952; thanks virajbhartiya)
  • Fixed the debugger panel stack-frame error banner persisting after a successful refresh. (#63977; thanks whitecat1331)
  • Fixed the default value shown for format_on_save in the settings popup. (#65167; thanks skatromb)
  • Fixed the which-key popup and pending keystrokes indicator showing disabled bindings or hiding actions that also start longer shortcuts. (#64935, #64942)
  • Fixed unhelpful tool-call error messages when a model returned an invalid or incomplete response. (#65245)

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