Zed v1.7.2 Changelog

This update is all about making your coding workflow smoother, especially if you use AI to help write code or rely heavily on Git for version control. It matters most to developers who want a faster, smarter editor that stays out of your way, offering better memory management for AI chats and more powerful shortcuts for managing code history.

What's new

• AI memory management: The built-in AI assistant can now automatically "compact" (summarize) long conversations to save memory, and you can manually trigger this with a new /compact command.
• Custom Git commands: In the Git graph view, you can now right-click on branches or tags to run your own custom Git commands on them.
• New Markdown shortcuts: You can now easily turn selected text into a blockquote, or wrap text with ~ (tilde) characters just by typing it.
• Clickable terminal links: Web-style zed:// links are now clickable right inside the terminal.
• Recent projects behavior: You can now choose whether opening a recent project opens it in a new window or adds it to your current sidebar.
• Local file ignoring: You can now easily ignore files locally (using .git/info/exclude) without modifying the shared .gitignore file.

Improvements

• Cleaner Markdown: The preview window for Markdown files has been restyled to be much easier to read.
• Better AI model options: Updated the list of available external AI models, adding new ones like MiniMax M3 and DeepSeek V4 Flash, and removing some older ones.
• Smarter settings menu: Navigating settings is easier because you can switch between global user settings and project-specific settings without leaving the page.
• Faster big edits: The editor is now much faster when applying changes to really large files or dealing with heavy code differences (especially during merge conflicts).
• Clearer call buttons: If you're doing a collaborative call, the buttons are redesigned so you clearly know if you are sharing your screen or just the code project.
• Smoother code navigation: Jumping to a function's definition is faster and won't lag your computer by constantly re-checking the code as you move your mouse.

Fixes

• AI chat scrollbar: Fixed an annoying bug where a weird, empty scrollbar would show up next to wrapped code blocks in the AI chat window.
• Sidebar glitches: Fixed a bug where the option to collapse the project header would incorrectly pop up while you were searching for something.
• Missing icons: Fixed an issue where three-dot ellipses (like [...]) in sidebar titles weren't displaying correctly.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.