Zed AI v1.20.0-pre

This week's release includes configurable window title formatting, support for configuring what is shown on new windows, a setting to open Markdown files directly in the rendered preview, and an optional cursor movement animation.

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• Added the on_new_window setting to choose whether new windows show the Launchpad (launchpad, the default) or an empty untitled buffer (empty_tab). (#63522; thanks albertbogusz)

• Fixed ctrl-tab jumping to random documents when the mouse moved during a quick tab switch. (#52671; thanks OmChillure)

• Fixed a crash in editor: rotate selections forward and editor: rotate selections backward when using cursors on nonconsecutive lines. (#63937; thanks timvermeulen)

• Fixed language servers from other projects appearing in the LSP Logs view and their statuses showing in unrelated windows' status bars. (#61221; thanks aviatesk)

• Fixed layout issues in the Settings UI for recently created GitHub accounts. (#63630; thanks tidely)

• Fixed "View File History" when run from a diff view. (#63539; thanks albertbogusz)

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Features

AI

• Added Gemini 3.8 Flash to the Google AI models. (#63643; thanks macayu17)

• Improved recovery when OpenAI temporarily returns HTTP 404 errors. (#63705)

Git

• Improved repository cloning by showing live progress in the activity indicator. (#63239; thanks itsfuad)

• Improved Git Graph commit details to show the same full commit timestamp as the Date column. (#62679; thanks dem1tris)

Languages

• Added Emmet's wrap with abbreviation support (editor: wrap with abbreviation). (#63383)

• Added syntax highlighting for the C23 constexpr keyword. (#63833; thanks Jesse-Cooper)

• Improved language server request routing to respect dynamically registered document selectors. (#59243; thanks aviatesk)

• Improved Go syntax highlighting by distinguishing control-flow keywords from other keywords. (#63769; thanks Gami13)

macOS

• Improved detection of worktree root path changes to use fewer file descriptors. (#63863)

Other

• Added configurable window title formatting with the window_title_format and window_title_separator settings. (#54379; thanks jknlsn)

  • Currently supported variables are ${projectName}, ${fileName}, ${filePath}, ${relativePath}, ${branch}, ${remoteName}, ${remoteHost}, ${appName}, and ${separator}.
  • These settings will be populated when importing from VS Code's settings, if window.title and window.titleSeparator are set.

• Added the markdown_preview.open_markdown_files_in_preview setting to open Markdown files directly in the rendered preview. (#63462; thanks joshkent94)

• Added an optional cursor movement animation, enabled by setting cursor_animation.enabled to true. (#63195; thanks tiny-paris)

• Added a status bar countdown for pending multi-stroke key bindings. (#63343)

• Added a tooltip showing the file path when hovering over files and folders in the Project Panel. (#63299; thanks skmanoj322)

  • The tooltip can be disabled, or its delay configured, by changing the project_panel.title_tooltip_delay setting.

• Improved multi-cursor editing performance. (#60605; thanks Rani367)

• Improved installed size on macOS and Linux by stripping debug symbols from release binaries, making them roughly 25% smaller. (#63429)

• Improved worktree scan performance by removing redundant executable checks. (#63190; thanks hamishc)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed private files being shared with collaborators through project search. (#63860; thanks 39ali)

• Fixed a settings key containing a quote or a backslash corrupting settings.json. (#62949; thanks interkelstar)

• Fixed the Git Panel's History tab, commit search, branch diff, and opening a commit by ref failing when a branch name matched a path in the working tree. (#63666; thanks itsfuad)