github zed-industries/zed v1.3.0-pre

pre-release3 hours ago

This week's release includes a Git panel branch history view and support for running custom Git commands from the Git Graph context menu, inline image and Mermaid diagram rendering in the agent, a new subagent_model setting, optional text icons for completion items ("completion_menu_item_kind": "symbol"), and Vim g z jump-to-word navigation.

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Features

AI

  • Agent: Added setting subagent_model to specify which model is used when a subagent is spawned. (#56203)
  • Agent: Added support for rendering inline images. (#56427)
  • Agent: Added support for Mermaid diagrams. (#56430)
  • Agent: Improved UX when agent tries to edit unsaved buffer. (#55655)
  • Agent: Added Mistral Ministral 3 models. (#55443; thanks dargor)
  • Agent: Added support for grok-4.3 and grok-4.2. (#55931)
  • Agent: Added Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite. (#56248; thanks qtqgyt)
  • Agent: Updated OpenCode Free models (BigPickle and Ring 2.6 1T Free). (#56328; thanks Vlaaaaaaad)
  • Agent: Added support for gpt-5.4-nano/mini models for OpenAI provider. (#56476)
  • Agent: Improved output quality when using OpenAI models. (#56476)
  • Agent: Added guardrail_identifier and guardrail_version settings for AWS Bedrock, enabling use in environments where IAM policies require a guardrail on all model requests. (#50084; thanks 9to6)
  • Agent: Added support for editing the thread title for external agent threads. (#56446)
  • Agent: Added user confirmation requirement before letting tools modify files inside .agents/skills/ (per-project) or ~/.agents/skills/ (global), so skills installed by any agent are protected from unsolicited edits. (#56456)
  • Anthropic: Added dynamic fetching of available models from Anthropic API. (#56397)
  • Improved sidebar search placeholder text to read "Search threads…" instead of "Search…". (#56081)
  • Edit Prediction: Added the ability to input the "expected patch", i.e. what the model should have predicted in the edit prediction: rate completions modal. (#56629)
  • Improved Anthropic prompt cache utilization, reducing latency and cost for ongoing conversations. (#56472)
  • Improved Bedrock prompt cache utilization by anchoring the system prompt as its own cache prefix. (#56474)
  • Improved Copilot edit predictions to no longer rely on a system node installation, so the system node version no longer affects whether they work in Zed. (#56635)

Git

  • Added a history view to the Git panel that allows to quickly see in a list all the commits for a given branch. (#56500)
  • Added support for running global custom Git command tasks from the Git Graph commit context menu. (#56354)
  • Added support for force deleting worktrees that contain modified or untracked files. (#56519)
  • Added a Copy Tag action to the git graph context menu. (#56110)
  • Changed the git::Commit action (cmd-enter or ctrl-enter) to now commit a pending amend. (#54472)
  • Added confirmation prompt when deleting unmerged git branches, with option to force delete. (#55927)
  • Added alt+click on delete button to force delete a branch immediately. (#55927)

Vim / Helix

  • Added Vim-mode jump-to-word navigation on g z. (#55492; thanks GoldStrikeArch)
  • Added support for Helix' buffer picker that is opened via space b by default. (#55868; thanks jnns)
  • Added a setting vim.show_edit_predictions_in_normal_mode to control whether edit predictions are shown in normal mode. (#55956)

Remote Development

  • Added support for SCP style SSH urls: zed ssh://user@host:~/code/proj. (#56304; thanks notpeter)

Other

  • Added text icons for completion items (disabled by default, use "completion_menu_item_kind": "symbol" to enable). (#56396)
  • Improved Markdown preview table cells to vertically center content in tall rows and respect column alignment from the table header. (#53465; thanks davidalecrim1)
  • Improved Mermaid diagrams in rendered markdown to match your theme by default. (#56430)
  • Added a Hide Button entry to the right-click context menu on status bar items and panel buttons. (#54971)
  • Added support for opening a file with a line range selected in the file finder using the path:start-end syntax (e.g. file.rs:10-20). (#53958; thanks cppcoffee)
  • Added file:line:col navigation from ctrl+click hover links in the editor. (#55877; thanks jabdinghoff)
  • Optimized multibuffer creation by conditionally using headers based on RHS state. (#56058; thanks chirivelli)
  • Improved the minimum size of diagnostics pane excerpts. (#56172)
  • Improved default button focus in macOS dialogs. (#56513)
  • Improved auto update error message for NixOS users missing rsync. (#56097; thanks karol-broda)
  • Added theme keys for configuring editor diff hunk colors. (#51784; thanks vitallium)
  • Improved extension updates to be more resilient to network and upstream failures. (#54355)

Bug Fixes

  • Agent: Fixed an issue where editing would sometimes fail for specific models (Deepseek v4). (#55894)
  • Ollama: Fixed issue where specifying auto_discover: false would still auto discover models. (#55999; thanks ogtega)
  • Fixed a bug where restoring diff hunks in remote projects would leave stale no-op hunks in the UI. (#54823)
  • Fixed a bug where selection mentions would resolve to the literal selection rather than the URI in draft threads. (#55203)
  • Fixed a bug where Zed incorrectly kept a removed pane as the active pane. (#56229)
  • Fixed a crash in follow mode when opening multibuffers. (#55948)
  • Fixed a crash in markdown preview when a mermaid flowchart contained a partially-typed parallelogram node like A[/] or A[\]. (#56199)
  • Fixed agent "finished" notification appearing right before the queued message is sent. (#56157)
  • Fixed agent panel staying in a generating state when the underlying prompt task was cancelled before completing. (#55562; thanks brunorodmoreira)
  • Fixed an issue where local settings files would not correctly open on remote workspaces. (#56373)
  • Fixed an issue where re-running the git: branch diff after changing the active project would not refresh the branch diff to show the branch diff of the active project. (#56552)
  • Fixed an out-of-bounds panic when the AI produced multiple inline rewrites in a single completion. (#52458; thanks mre)
  • Fixed code lens decorations painting outside the editor viewport when horizontally scrolling. (#56549; thanks terror)
  • Fixed eagerly truncated labels in the Debug modal. (#56510; thanks afgomez)
  • Fixed file names containing markdown special characters (e.g. __somefile__) being rendered as formatted text in the git discard confirmation dialog. (#56197; thanks alkinun)
  • Fixed installing extensions when Zed's cache and data directories are on different filesystems. (#56437; thanks PiasekDev)
  • Fixed resolved lens causing flickers. (#56047)
  • Fixed some rare cases where API requests would fail with Unauthorized. (#56559)
  • Fixed the ACP Registry getting stuck on loading when registry or icon requests hang. (#56108; thanks grgwuk990)
  • Fixed the agent panel to show "Restore checkpoint" as soon as the agent starts editing instead of waiting until the turn ends. (#56611)
  • Fixed unsaved untitled buffers being silently lost when opening a file or project from an empty window. (#55889)
  • Fixed vim change surrounds for MiniQuotes, MiniBrackets, and AnyQuotes. (#51067; thanks ian-h-chamberlain)
  • Fixed Windows installer task arguments syntax. (#50464)
  • Fixed scrollbar position jumping or inverting when content height changes during a scrollbar drag (e.g. in the agent panel while streaming). (#53378; thanks KlausUllrich)
  • Fixed DashScope (Aliyun) tool calls not preserving id and name across streaming delta chunks.
  • Fixed file names containing markdown special characters (e.g. __somefile__) being rendered as formatted text in the file deletion confirmation dialog. (#55697; thanks alkinun)
  • Fixed Vim % (jump to matching) to match C preprocessor directives (e.g. #if/#endif) and comment delimiters, like Neovim. (#55515; thanks tanaxer01)
  • Fixed Vim % incorrectly expanding into the rest of the file when used on a blank line inside a bracket range. (#55515; thanks tanaxer01)

Breaking Changes and Notices

  • Removed open tool from built-in Agent tools. (#56295)
  • Removed deprecated xAI models. (#55931)
  • Removed deprecated Mistral models. (#55443; thanks dargor)
  • Removed deprecated OpenCode models (MiMo V2, Hy3, and Claude 3.5 Haiku). (#56278; thanks Vlaaaaaaad)
  • Removed Ling 2.6 Flash Free model from the OpenCode provider. (#55984; thanks Sikriet)
  • Removed deprecated OpenAI models. (#56476)

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