Zed v1.24.2

This week's release includes Git tag creation, the ability to drag Terminal tabs into the Agent Panel, and pre-filling of the File Finder's search query with text selected in the editor or terminal.

Features

AI

• Improved Agent Panel terminal support by allowing Terminal tabs to be dragged into it. (#60582; thanks cppcoffee)
• Improved custom Amazon Bedrock model support with configurable tool use, images, and thinking. (#64953; thanks mpyuglgwkxcmodyrpo)
• Improved memory and CPU usage while the agent responds in long threads. (#65244)

Git

• Added a git: create tag at head command and a Create Tag… context menu action in Git history and Git Graph to create local tags on commits. Tags are not pushed automatically. (#61973, #65194; thanks cppcoffee)
• Added gitiles as a Git hosting provider for Gitiles/Gerrit deployments, enabling permalinks and navigation from the Git blame diff view. (#63996; thanks JonathanBerkeley)
• Added a side-by-side view for directory diffs opened with zed --diff. (#64967; thanks ian-h-chamberlain)
• Added file counts to section headers in the Git Panel. (#65028; thanks mansoorkhan96)
• Added self-hosted Gerrit repositories as a provider for permalinks. (#53832; thanks starsep)
• Improved the Git Panel with a collapsible commit message editor, configurable with git_panel.commit_editor, and the Git Graph with collapsible commit details. (#63236; thanks mulhamna)
• Improved Git Graph readability by moving refs from the description column into the graph. (#59839; thanks RemcoSmitsDev)
• Improved Git Panel file actions for multiple selected files. (#64640; thanks Acd-kk)

Debugger

• Improved the debugger variables view with distinct colors for values based on their type, such as integers and strings. (#64111; thanks syormon)

Languages

• Added a Show Source option to the Markdown preview tab context menu. (#65081; thanks joshkent94)
• Added a Go package-level test gutter button next to package declarations. (#56699; thanks cppcoffee)
• Added support for language-server extensions to configure which language servers are enabled by default in extension.toml. See the extension documentation. (#65030)
• Added markdown_preview.heading_font_weight to configure the font weight of headings in the Markdown preview. (#64421; thanks dremnik)
• Added the mermaid_font_family setting to configure the font used in Mermaid diagrams. (#63430; thanks Sha1rholder)
• Improved the column filter dropdown in the tabular data preview to sort values naturally (e.g., 2 before 10). (#64764; thanks HalavicH)

Remote Development

• Improved remote server responsiveness when log or RPC response writes are blocked. (#65011; thanks Huliiiiii)

Linux

• Reduced the Linux release binary size by about 23% on x86_64. (#65169)

macOS

• Improved how Finder groups Zed on macOS by identifying it as a developer tool. (#65130; thanks kennyheard)

Other

• Added an extension_suggestions setting to turn off extension suggestions. (#65109; thanks audinue)
• Improved the File Finder to pre-fill its query with text selected in the editor or terminal. Disable this with file_finder.prefill_query_from_selection. (#64946; thanks AbyssWaIker)
• Improved multi-cursor editing performance. (#64409; thanks Rani367)
• Improved project search speed and memory usage over misclassified binary files. (#64549)
• Improved the Extensions view so installed extensions appear even while offline or when the remote list is incomplete. (#64766)
• Improved the font family pickers in the settings window to render each option in its own font as a preview. (#64199; thanks mizanisoffline)
• Improved Zed startup time. (#65170)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed .env files being treated as shell scripts and triggering shellcheck warnings. They now use the Env language. (#64242; thanks pleahmacaka)
• Fixed a crash when editing a buffer while an inlay-hint request was pending. (#65193)
• Fixed a crash when syntax parsing requested bytes inside a multibyte character. (#65273)
• Fixed a ty language server panic when opening a Python file as a single-file project. (#60753; thanks MostlyKIGuess)
• Fixed ACP session title clearing and prevented programmatic title updates from being saved as user renames. (#65195)
• Fixed ChatGPT Subscription models disappearing when the model catalog takes longer than 5 seconds to load. (#64925; thanks dualfroz)
• Fixed Command-clicking a symbol whose name matches its file name doing nothing. (#64892; thanks skmanoj322)
• Fixed crashes on tab-indented code blocks. (#65406)
• Fixed emoji, symbol, and non-Latin fonts rendering as empty boxes on Linux after being used as a font fallback. (#65269)

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