Zed AI v1.28.0-pre

This week's release includes optional automatic Git fetching, a resizable Refs column in the Git Graph, dragging Git Panel files into terminals and editors, and mouse-wheel font zoom in diff views and terminals.

Features

AI

• Added an edit_predictions.button setting to toggle the edit prediction button in the status bar. (#66450; thanks z0al)

• Improved compatibility with the latest Agent Client Protocol, including handling of missing sessions, plan updates, diff formats, and cancellation of permission requests. (#66425)

• Improved the Agent's read_file tool output by truncating lines longer than 2,000 characters to prevent context window overflow. (#65395; thanks Antphar)

• Improved subagent cards so that full screen opens a finished subagent run at its start. (#66252)

Git

• Added optional automatic fetching of the current branch's upstream remote and the default branch's remote. Enable it with git.auto_fetch.enabled; configure the interval with git.auto_fetch.interval_secs (60 seconds by default). Automatic fetching is disabled by default. (#53089; thanks andriygm)

• Added a resizable "Refs" column to the Git Graph that can be toggled on or off from the column header's context menu. (#66260; thanks RemcoSmitsDev)

• Added support for dragging files from the Git Panel to the terminal and editor panes. (#66423; thanks mmatczuk)

• Added support for searching by branch name in the worktree picker. (#66384; thanks michelinux)

Debugger

• Added support for configuring the debugger panel’s default size via debugger.default_width and debugger.default_height. (#66435)

Languages

• Improved call hierarchy readability by adding spacing between item names and details. (#66144; thanks yskim308)

Linux

• Improved window startup time on Linux with NVIDIA GPUs. (#66002; thanks runsonmypc)

Other

• Added support for mouse-wheel font zoom in diff views and terminals with mouse_wheel_zoom enabled: cmd-scroll on macOS and ctrl-scroll on Linux/Windows. (#66296; thanks ndri)

• Improved responsiveness when navigating code, loading completion details, and comparing files. (#66487)

• Improved the reliability of language server and agent downloads with consistent checksum verification, rejection of failed HTTP responses, and better cleanup of partial downloads. (#66048)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where launching Zed on Windows while it was already running prevented the previous session from being restored. (#66364; thanks somtri)

• Fixed a crash when Tree-sitter syntax highlighting failed. (#66474)

• Fixed a hang in Vim visual-block mode at the end of a wrapped file. (#66118)

• Fixed Agent context compaction unnecessarily using uncached input tokens with supported providers, including OpenAI and xAI. (#64938; thanks tidely)

• Fixed auto-compaction only running once during a long agent turn, which could let the thread exceed the model's context window. (#66215)

• Fixed compaction not reusing the prompt cache for ChatGPT subscription models. (#66527)

• Fixed creating pull requests from Zed for Forgejo remotes, including Codeberg. (#66182; thanks Lachstec)

• Fixed external agents sometimes starting without MCP servers configured in user settings when the thread was created before the project folder finished loading. (#64612; thanks philwinder)

• Fixed Helix mode operations overwriting the system clipboard when vim.use_system_clipboard was set to "always". (#55455; thanks SrGaabriel)

• Fixed local files opening as empty buffers in remote workspaces. (#65771; thanks Huliiiiii)

• Fixed mentioning, sharing, and deleting project skills in remote workspaces. (#66207)

• Fixed Project Search buttons affecting the wrong pane when clicked in an unfocused split. (#50882; thanks transitoryangel)

• Fixed registry agents installed via npm (such as Claude Agent) failing to launch with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND after an interrupted or concurrent install. (#66235)