Zed v1.4.2 Changelog

This release is all about making your coding tools smarter and less frustrating. It matters a lot to developers who use AI to help write code, as well as anyone who spends a lot of time managing code changes in Git. The update introduces new ways to teach the AI assistant how you like to work, while also fixing a bunch of glitches that used to get in the way.

What's new

• AI Agent Skills: You can now give the AI assistant specific "skills" (custom instructions or abilities) to help it do exactly what you need.
• Global AI Rules: You can create a global AGENTS.md file to give the AI instructions that apply to *every* project you work on, not just one.
• AI Terminal Shortcuts: You can set up custom keyboard shortcuts to instantly open an AI terminal thread.
• AI Image Support: The AI can now display images generated by external tools (MCP tools).
• Git Base Branch Selection: When comparing code changes (a "diff"), you can now pick which branch to use as the baseline.
• Toggle Diff Hunks: A new command lets you expand or collapse all "diff hunks" (chunks of changed code) at once, so you can hide code you don't need to see right now.
• C++ Runnables: You can now run C++ code directly from the editor.
• Linux Font Fallbacks: Linux users can now set backup fonts to use if the main font is missing special characters.
• CSV Column Pinning: When looking at a CSV file, you can "pin" a column so its title stays visible while you scroll down.

Improvements

• AI Mentions: It's now easier to tell the AI exactly which file or skill you're talking about when you type them in the chat.
• Git Avatars: User profile pictures in Git views look better.
• Git Diff Stats: Large numbers of changed lines now have commas (like 1,000 instead of 1000) to make them easier to read.
• Markdown Preview Fonts: You can now use a different font for code blocks when previewing a Markdown file.
• Restricted Mode: When you open a project you don't fully trust, the editor makes it much more obvious that you're in a safe, restricted mode and asks you to confirm before running anything.
• Cleaner Text Labels: When text is too long and gets cut off with an ellipsis (...), it no longer leaves weird trailing spaces or punctuation before the dots.
• Wayland Copying: On Linux's Wayland system, copying text with your mouse for the very first time works much better.

Fixes

• AI Image Reloading: Fixed an issue where images generated by AI tools wouldn't show up if you reloaded an old chat thread.
• AI OAuth Logins: Fixed bugs where logging into certain AI servers would fail if the server gave back broken links or didn't support standard registration.
• OpenAI Errors: Fixed a problem where error messages from OpenAI wouldn't display properly, and fixed crashes when the AI didn't return expected data.
• Git Graph Crash: Fixed a crash that happened if you had Git's "showSignature" setting turned on.
• Gemini Tool Crashes: Fixed bugs where Google's Gemini AI would fail or crash because Zed was sending it slightly incorrect data formats.
• SSH Window Bug: Fixed an issue where opening a remote SSH project would accidentally hijack an already-open window instead of making a new one.
• Weird Text Characters: Fixed a bug where special non-English characters in error messages would show up with random backslashes.
• Typing Crashes: Fixed several crashes (panics) that happened when typing into certain menus, streaming in large amounts of text, or having a lot of invisible characters on a single line.
• AI Auto-Accept: Fixed a glitch where the AI's code edits wouldn't be automatically accepted when they were committed.
• Copilot Switching: Fixed an error that happened when using GitHub Copilot and quickly switching between different AI models.
• Bash Highlighting: Fixed the colors for Bash scripts so that math and conditional expressions look right.
• Commit Length Checks: Fixed a bug where using special characters (like emojis) in a commit message tricked the editor into thinking the message was longer than it actually was.
• VS Code Settings Import: Fixed an issue where importing a specific VS Code setting would accidentally flip its value to the opposite of what you wanted.
• Mac Search Shortcut: Fixed the Cmd-E and Cmd-G shortcuts on macOS so you can properly grab selected text to search for it again.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.