Updatify / Zed Editor | Release notes

• 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 invalid model ID (#54557)

Today, we are excited to announce parallel agents in Zed. Read the blog post for more information.

This week’s release also includes Claude Opus 4.7 support (for BYOK), an editor: toggle block comment action, scroll wheel font size zooming, and anchor links and footnotes in Markdown Preview.

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• Added support for anchor links for headings in Markdown Preview. (#53184; thanks dongdong867)
• Added support for footnotes in Markdown Preview. (#53086; thanks dongdong867)
• Added support for changing editor font size via scroll wheel (hold ctrl on Linux/Windows, cmd on macOS). Disabled by default; enable with the mouse_wheel_zoom setting. (#53452; thanks seanstrom)
• Fixed file duplication rename to select the entire filename stem instead of just the “ copy” suffix, allowing users to type a new name without manually clearing text. (#53146; thanks OmChillure)

• copilot_chat: Fix invalid reasoning effort for some models. (#54105)

This week’s release includes file finder search that matches terms in any order, “Focus Follows Mouse” for editor and terminal panes, and search support in the markdown preview.

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• Agent: Preserved draft_prompt when creating new agent threads. (#53250; thanks AmaanBilwar)
• File Finder: Improved fuzzy finding logic to be order-independent. For example, searching for Cargotoml ui will now match on crates/ui/Cargo.toml. (#51164; thanks 11happy)
• Vim: Added editor setting for changing regex mode default in vim searches. (#53092; thanks seanstrom)
• Helix: Fixed search selection range deduplication logic. (#52922; thanks feitreim)
• Repl: Fixed installing ipykernel with uv managed environments. (#51897; thanks feitreim)
• Fixed Failed to load shell environment errors on Windows when users have custom terminal shell arguments configured (e.g., cmd.exe with /k echo Hello or similar startup commands). (#51787; thanks AmaanBilwar)

• Fixed a bug where the web search tool might cause Zed cloud Claude models to not work.

This week’s release includes top-down streaming for agent threads, channel favorites in the collab panel, automatic split-to-unified switching in the git diff view, and a native devcontainer implementation with Zed extension support.

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• GPUI: Improved linear gradient rendering by adding dithering to eliminate visible banding in dark color ranges. (#51211; thanks iam-liam)
• GPUI: Fixed a bug where the scrollbar would disappear when using a bottom aligned list. (#51223; thanks feitreim)
• Fixed an issue where Gemini models would not work when using specific MCP servers. (#52670; thanks OmChillure)
• Fixed misleading “Max tokens reached” error by distinguishing between per-response output token limit and total context window limit. (#52724; thanks OmChillure)
• Fixed Outline Panel selection being off-by-one at Markdown heading boundaries. (#52673; thanks OmChillure)

• Fixed a crash on windows with diffs. (#53251)

• 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)
• Added controls for whether the Terminal and Agent panels use flexible or fixed width, in both the settings window and the status bar button right click menu.

This week’s release includes screen-sharing support on Wayland/Linux, multi-line search and replace, git status indicators in the project panel, pasting files and folders into the Agent Panel, and vim/emacs modeline support for per-file language detection and editor settings.

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• Added support for multi-line search and replace input in Buffer Search and Project Search. (#50783; thanks claiwe)
• Improved “Diff Clipboard with Selection” to support side-by-side diff view style. (#51966; thanks OmChillure)
• Improved Linux auto-update failure issue caused by missing rsync by surfacing actionable install guidance in the update UI. (#50637; thanks nihalxkumar)
• Improved semantic token highlighting for parameters and Python. (#52130; thanks lingyaochu)
• Updated Settings UI such that enabling Vim or Helix mode now disables the other if it was previously active. (#51706; thanks feitreim)

This week’s release includes BYOK support for the new 1M context window on Claude Opus and Sonnet, git panel improvements including a badge showing uncommitted change counts and file type icons, an action to align multiple cursors, pinch-to-zoom in the image viewer, and an easier way to unbind default key bindings.

Features

AI

• Agent: Updated BYOK integration to support the new 1M context window for Claude Opus and Sonnet. (#51625)
• Agent: Terminal tool permissions regexes can now match environment variables. Bare interpolations like $FOO are disallowed when permissions regexes are active for security. (#51689)
• Agent: Streaming text in threads now displays more fluidly. (#51499)
• Agent: Improved visibility of thinking blocks by making them auto-expanded while in progress. (#51525)
• Agent: Added support for usage tracking when streaming responses from OpenAI providers. (#45812; thanks Oft3r)
• Agent: API key input in the Add LLM provider modal is now masked. (#50379; thanks cppcoffee)

This week’s release includes the ability to easily ask the agent to resolve merge conflicts, @-mentioning your branch diff to provide all changes since main as context, removing/renaming worktrees over SSH, and deleting worktrees via the branch picker.

Features

AI

• Agent: Added ability to @-mention your branch diff to include all changes since main as context. (#51235)
• Agent: Enabled thinking mode when using Anthropic models with Copilot. (#46540)
• Agent: Added Paste as Plain Text to the agent panel message editor right-click menu. (#50625)
• Agent: Added api_url and api_key settings for the LM Studio provider. (#48309; thanks SkyVence)

Git

• Added the ability to quickly resolve merge conflicts with the agent. (#49807)
• Added the ability to delete a git worktree from the worktree picker (cmd-shift-backspace on macOS, ctrl-shift-backspace on Linux/Windows). (#50015; thanks davidalecrim1)
• Added support for removing and renaming worktrees when connected via SSH. (#50759)

This week’s release includes support for parallel subagents, Vercel AI Gateway as a new LLM provider, git diff stats in the git panel, and support for compound emojis.

We’ve also migrated all built-in agents to the ACP Registry, enabling you to remove agents you do not use.

Features

AI

• Agent: Added a new spawn_agent tool which allows the Zed Agent to utilize subagents for doing tasks in parallel and better context management. (#50493)
• Agent: Added support for GPT-5.3-Codex as a bring-your-own-key model in the OpenAI provider. (#50122)
• Agent: Added Vercel AI Gateway as a new LLM provider in Zed. (#50207; thanks dancer)
• Agent: Added the ability to jump to a file from a diff inside the agent conversation with option-enter (editor: Open excerpts). (#50292)
• Agent: Added persistence for draft prompts across Zed restarts. (#49541)
• Agent: Added persistence for the thinking mode toggle and thinking effort when selecting a thread from history. (#49714)

• 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 event with empty choices. (#50799)
• Fixed a crash when opening the settings UI. (#50741)

This week’s release includes support for self-hosted OpenAI-compatible servers for edit predictions, a new Review Diff button in the git branch diff view for sending diffs to an agent for review, diagnostic count badges in the project panel, and the ability to undo the reject all action when reviewing agent-made changes.

Features

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 action from agent-made changes. (#48462)
• Agent: Added support for Claude Sonnet 4.6 for Bedrock. (#49439; thanks 5herlocked)
• Agent: Added fallback error handling for connect failures. (#50063)
• Agent: Changed agent::addSelectionToThread (cmd->) to use the current line of the cursor when there is no selection. (#48045; thanks notpeter)

Git

• Added diff stat numbers to the git branch diff (git: branch diff) view. (#49716)

• Fixed Zed failing to initialize OpenGL on certain Linux devices (#50652)
• Fixed Zed not being responsive on some Linux configurations (#50644)

• linux: Reduce crashes in the face of transient GPU errors (#50539)
• Linux: Select a more appropriate GPU (#50528)
• Linux: Fix panic when requested window size was larger than supported by your GPU (#50346)
• Fixed a visual gap between diff hunk controls and buffer headers (#50468)
• Fixed a bug that prevented settings files from opening on remotes (#50383)
• Linux: Fixed a panic in the new WPGU renderer during resize (#50344)
• vim: Fixed panic when incrementing a number preceded by a multibyte character (#50338)

• Added the ability to use a self-hosted OpenAI-compatible server for edit predictions. (#49554)
• acp: Fix for config selectors not always being refreshed (#50252)
• Fixed potential crash from initializing devcontainer.json (#50233)
• Fixed a panic when toggling the split diff view while searching. (#50215)
• Fixed a panic rendering diff hunk headers in 0-height editors (#50165)
• Fixed Zed panicking on invalid ranges in semantic token deltas (#50112)

This week’s release includes session history for external agents, agent panel restoration (so your threads survive editor restarts), thinking effort level controls for supported models, mermaid diagram support in markdown preview, and the option to include LSP document symbols in breadcrumbs and outline UI ("document_symbols": "on").

Additionally, Linux now uses wgpu as the graphics backend, resolving a handful of outstanding stability issues.

Features

AI

• ACP: Exposed session history for the following external agents: Auggie, Claude Agent, Codex, Factory Droid, Junie, Kimi CLI, Mistral Vibe, and OpenCode. (#49449)
• Agent: Added support for controlling thinking effort levels with supported models using the Zed provider. (#49274)
• Agent: Added support for installing ACP agents via ACP registry in remote projects. (#48935)
• Agent: Added agent panel restoration. Now restarting your editor won’t cause your thread to be forgotten. (#48800)
• Agent: Changed “Always allow” suggestions for terminal commands to be subcommand-specific (e.g. “Always allow for cargo build commands” instead of “Always allow for cargo commands”). (#49148)