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Zed v1.13.1

What's new in Zed v1.13.1, released Jul 29, 2026 (). Newer: v1.25.3 (Oct 23, 2026)

Release notes

Zed v1.13.1

This week's release includes improved branch picker filtering and grouping, run-status indicators for runnable gutter controls, and editable image-viewer zoom levels.

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  • Improved branch picker filtering, grouping, branch creation suggestions, and remote-provider icons. (#61215; thanks chirivelli)
  • Improved LSP Logs by showing request durations alongside RPC responses, making slow language server behavior easier to diagnose. (#61018; thanks aviatesk)
  • Improved solo diffs to show the full file by default while retaining Git change indicators in the scrollbar. (#60989; thanks chirivelli)
  • Deprecated Fast Mode for Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7. (#61341; thanks tidely)
  • Fixed excessive memory usage when composing text with Fcitx5 on KDE Wayland. (#61079; thanks amtoaer)
  • Editor: Fixed a bug where selection boxes did not render when the cursor was offscreen. (#60054; thanks feitreim)
  • Fixed bottom dock clipping when resizing windows. (#61161; thanks amtoaer)
  • Fixed editor right-click context menus intermittently failing to appear at certain scroll positions. (#61348; thanks amtoaer)
  • Fixed editor text showing through multibuffer headers and overlapping header text in transparent themes. (#61268; thanks amtoaer)
  • Fixed Git blame entries overflowing the gutter when avatars are displayed. (#61287; thanks lingyaochu)
  • Fixed inaccurate diff stats for partially staged files in the Git Panel. (#60815; thanks chirivelli)
  • Markdown: Fixed inline HTML block highlighting. (#61212; thanks feitreim)
  • Fixed Markdown emphasis delimiters being removed when joining lines. (#61298; thanks lingyaochu)
  • Fixed the preview button for Markdown and SVG files opening the focused file instead of the file in its pane when multiple panes were open. (#61218; thanks austincummings)
  • Recent Projects: Fixed the picker showing projects after they were removed from a group. (#61062; thanks RemcoSmitsDev)
  • Fixed Vim Visual and Helix Select mode behavior when selections included a trailing newline. (#61253; thanks lingyaochu)

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Features

AI
  • Added "Copy this Agent response", "Scroll to User Message", and "Scroll to top" buttons to every Agent Panel response. (#61245; thanks peakxy)
  • Improved performance in agent threads with many file changes. (#61272)
  • Updated Mistral Medium to version 3.5. (#60898; thanks dargor)
Git
  • Added support for loading Git commit template messages in remote and collaboration projects. (#55490; thanks OmChillure)
  • Added support for opening a specific line in a diff using the CLI. (#45499; thanks cs50victor)
  • Improved discoverability of the create_worktree hook for setting up Git worktrees when they are created. (#61148)
  • Improved the Git Panel's History tab to keep an entry highlighted while its context menu is open. (#61354)
  • Disabled commit actions while a commit message is being generated. (#51727; thanks cppcoffee)
Vim / Helix
  • Improved Vim paste behavior by setting the [ and ] marks to the start and end of pasted text. (#56593; thanks cppcoffee)
Languages
  • Added run statuses to runnable gutter controls, showing the last run result and providing a Clear Run Status context-menu action for completed runs. (#61095, #61375; thanks pixel365)
  • Improved Markdown previews by showing link destinations in the bottom-left corner when hovering over links. (#60942; thanks WaryaWayne)
  • Added support for surrounding selected text with backticks in Rust, C, and C++ comments. (#58674; thanks notJoon)
Other
  • Added a preview pane to the buffer symbols picker. (#61069; thanks neiii)

  • Added support for editing image viewer zoom levels directly from the toolbar. (#57215; thanks transitoryangel)

  • Added support for opening relative file links such as src/main.rs#L42 at the referenced line in Agent responses and Markdown previews. (#61006)

  • Improved Text Finder to seed its query from the focused item's selection, including the terminal. (#60351; thanks ozacod)

  • Added an include_ignored parameter to file_finder::Toggle, allowing keybindings to open the File Finder with ignored files already included. (#59568; thanks dastrobu)

    ["file_finder::Toggle", { "include_ignored": true }]
    
  • Added default keybindings for opening Text Finder from the editor and buffer search: cmd-alt-f on macOS and ctrl-alt-f on Linux and Windows. (#60677; thanks paveldroo)

  • Added support for the variable.parameter theme color. (#61134)

  • Added the title_bar.show_worktree_name setting, which defaults to true; set it to false to hide the worktree-name picker in the title bar. (#61137; thanks suliatis)

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