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Zed AI

Zed Industries · ide · freemium

High-performance editor with integrated AI agent features.

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Config files Zed AI has changed

Config you own — hooks, permission rules, MCP servers, settings — that releases below state a change to. Counted from the release notes we track, newest change first. How a harness is layered.

skills and plugins3 changes · 9 releases touched it · latest Jun 17, 2026 · v1.7.2 ↗
permission rules2 changes · 10 releases touched it · latest Jun 17, 2026 · v1.7.2 ↗
hooks2 changes · 4 releases touched it · latest Jul 29, 2026 · v1.13.1 ↗
background and headless runs2 changes · latest Jul 15, 2026 · v1.11.3 ↗

Release signals

Zed AIv1.6.3Jun 10, 2026

This week's release includes the ability to open a Git diff for a single file in its own dedicated tab from the Git panel, "Fast mode" for Anthropic and OpenAI models in the agent panel, shareable agent skill links, split diff mode in the commit history view, total added/removed line counts in the Git panel, and the ability to open files from the file finder without dismissing it.

  • Agent: Added a way to share skills via links. ([#58009](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58009))
  • +62 more changes
Read the full release note

This week's release includes the ability to open a Git diff for a single file in its own dedicated tab from the Git panel, "Fast mode" for Anthropic and OpenAI models in the agent panel, shareable agent skill links, split diff mode in the commit history view, total added/removed line counts in the Git panel, and the ability to open files from the file finder without dismissing it.

Features

AI

  • Agent: Added a way to share skills via links. (#58009)

  • Agent: Added support for symlinked global skill directories. (#58095; thanks David3u)

  • Agent: Added a manual way to trigger the Rules to Skills migration. (#58278)

  • Agent: Improved project skills support in remote workspaces. (#58094)

  • Agent: Improved skill creation toast confirmation by making it auto-dismissed. (#57855)

  • Agent: Added Claude Opus 4.8 BYOK support. (#57984)

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Zed AIv1.6.3-preJun 10, 2026

Fixed a hang that could occur when opening a new workspace. ([#58994](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58994))

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Zed AIv1.5.5Jun 9, 2026

Add Claude Fable 5 to Anthropic BYOK. ([#58957](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58957))

  • Fixed a bug where clicking the button to trust a git repository would do nothing. ([#58716](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58716))
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Zed AIv1.6.2-preJun 9, 2026

Add Claude Fable 5 to Anthropic BYOK. ([#58955](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58955))

  • Fixed a crash in hang detection when foreground thread statistics were missing. ([#58850](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58850))
  • Fixed a bug where clicking the button to trust a git repository would do nothing. ([#58715](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58715))
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Zed AIv1.5.4Jun 6, 2026

Fix crash that could occur when unsplitting a side by side diff view ([#58695](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58695))

  • acp: Fix for certain ACP Registry agent downloads not starting ([#58633](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58633))
  • Update both `editor: go to diagnostic` and `editor: go to previous diagnostic` to prefer activating the diagnostic under the cursor before jumping to the next or previous diagnostic, respectively ([#58603](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58603))
  • +3 more changes
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  • Fix crash that could occur when unsplitting a side by side diff view (#58695)

  • acp: Fix for certain ACP Registry agent downloads not starting (#58633)

  • Update both editor: go to diagnostic and editor: go to previous diagnostic to prefer activating the diagnostic under the cursor before jumping to the next or previous diagnostic, respectively (#58603)

  • Fixed high CPU usage when using Zeta in some cases (thanks @clupprich!) (#58591)

  • Fixed a crash that could occur while streaming agent edits containing multibyte characters. (#58452)

  • Fixed an issue where Zed would stop responding to file system changes in some cases (#58692

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Zed AIv1.6.1-preJun 6, 2026

Fix crash that could occur when unsplitting a side by side diff view ([#58694](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58694))

  • Fixed symlinked files showing the entire file as changed in the git diff/gutter. ([#58679](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58679))
  • acp: Fix for certain ACP Registry agent downloads not starting ([#58632](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58632))
  • Fixed high CPU usage when using Zeta in some cases (thanks @clupprich!) ([#58590](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58590))
  • +2 more changes
Read the full release note

  • Fix crash that could occur when unsplitting a side by side diff view (#58694)

  • Fixed symlinked files showing the entire file as changed in the git diff/gutter. (#58679)

  • acp: Fix for certain ACP Registry agent downloads not starting (#58632)

  • Fixed high CPU usage when using Zeta in some cases (thanks @clupprich!) (#58590)

  • Fixed a crash that could occur while streaming agent edits containing multibyte characters. (#58451)

  • Fixed an issue where Zed would stop responding to file system changes in some cases (#58692

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Zed AIv1.6.0-preJun 3, 2026

This week's release includes the ability to open a Git diff for a single file in its own dedicated tab from the Git panel, "Fast mode" for Anthropic and OpenAI models in the agent panel, shareable agent skill links, split diff mode in the commit history view, total added/removed line counts in the Git panel, and the ability to open files from the file finder without dismissing it.

  • Agent: Added a way to share skills via links. ([#58009](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58009))
  • +62 more changes
Read the full release note

This week's release includes the ability to open a Git diff for a single file in its own dedicated tab from the Git panel, "Fast mode" for Anthropic and OpenAI models in the agent panel, shareable agent skill links, split diff mode in the commit history view, total added/removed line counts in the Git panel, and the ability to open files from the file finder without dismissing it.

Features

AI

  • Agent: Added a way to share skills via links. (#58009)

  • Agent: Added support for symlinked global skill directories. (#58095; thanks David3u)

  • Agent: Added a manual way to trigger the Rules to Skills migration. (#58278)

  • Agent: Improved project skills support in remote workspaces. (#58094)

  • Agent: Improved skill creation toast confirmation by making it auto-dismissed. (#57855)

  • Agent: Added Claude Opus 4.8 BYOK support. (#57984)

Excerpt ends here — this release continues at the source ↗.

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Zed AIv1.5.3Jun 3, 2026

This week's release includes a new Mermaid renderer with faster and more accurate diagrams, clickable document links provided by language servers, and the ability to rename threads directly in the sidebar.

  • Agent: Made the Skill Creator window resizable and its contents scrollable when the window is smaller than the form. ([#57754](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/57754))
  • Agent: Improved `read_file` tool output rendering with a line-number gutter. ([#56779](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/56779))
  • +69 more changes
Read the full release note

This week's release includes a new Mermaid renderer with faster and more accurate diagrams, clickable document links provided by language servers, and the ability to rename threads directly in the sidebar.

Features

AI

  • Agent: Made the Skill Creator window resizable and its contents scrollable when the window is smaller than the form. (#57754)

  • Agent: Improved read_file tool output rendering with a line-number gutter. (#56779)

  • Agent: Improved scrolling smoothness when expanding read_file tool calls with large file outlines. (#57287)

  • Agent: Improved visibility of pending tool call confirmations when they are scrolled out of view in the Agent Panel. (#57632)

  • Agent: Added a notification indicator to collapsed project headers in the sidebar when a thread completes. (#57322)

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Zed AIv1.5.3-preMay 28, 2026

No public-facing changes in this release. [View the commits](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/compare/v1.5.2-pre...v1.5.3-pre#commits_bucket).

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Polled sources

[github-releases] GitHub Releases

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https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases

[zed-blog] Zed blog

html · every 360m

https://zed.dev/blog