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Zed v1.4.2

What's new in Zed v1.4.2, released May 27, 2026 (). Newer: v1.25.3 (Oct 23, 2026)

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Release notes

Zed v1.4.2

This week's release includes support for agent skills, a global AGENTS.md file for user-wide agent instructions, the ability to choose a base branch in the branch diff view, and a new editor: toggle all diff hunks action.

Features

AI
  • Agent: Added support for skills.
  • Agent: Added support for a global AGENTS.md file alongside settings.json for user-wide instructions that are included in every project’s system prompt. (#56757)
  • Agent: Added commands to open global and project-specific AGENTS.md rules. (#57847)
  • Agent: Added agent: new terminal thread for defining custom shortcuts to launch an Agent Panel terminal thread. (#57400)
  • Agent: Added support for image output from MCP tools. (#57134)
  • Agent: Added support for OAuth client pre-registration with a client ID and client secret in the built-in MCP client. (#52900)
  • Agent: Improved file and skill mention disambiguation in the Agent Panel. (#50097; thanks jmg-duarte, #56926)
  • OpenCode: Updated available models and metadata, including reasoning support, image support, and token counts. (#57076; thanks Vlaaaaaaad)
Git
  • Added the ability to choose the base branch in the branch diff view. (#56569)
  • Added keyboard shortcuts for switching between the Changes and History tabs: cmd-1/cmd-2 on macOS and ctrl-1/ctrl-2 on Linux/Windows. (#56743)
  • Added editor: toggle all diff hunks to expand or collapse all diff hunks at once. (#56421)
  • Improved the display of user avatars in Git-related surfaces. (#56755)
  • Improved diff stats by formatting large line counts with thousand separators. (#56754)
  • Added the git.show_stage_restore_buttons setting to hide Stage/Restore buttons on diff hunks. (#56740)
Languages
Linux
  • Added support for buffer_font_fallbacks on Linux. (#54878; thanks Albab-Hasan)
  • Improved the first mouse-driven text copy action on Wayland. (#50406; thanks soundslocke)
Other
  • Added markdown_preview_code_font_family to override the code font in the markdown preview. (#56744; thanks wln)
  • Improved CSV preview with column pinning to keep identifiers visible while scrolling. (#56619; thanks HalavicH)
  • Improved restricted mode by making it more obvious and requiring immediate action when opening an untrusted project. (#57056)
  • Improved truncated text labels so they no longer show trailing spaces or punctuation before the ellipsis. (#57106)

Bug Fixes

  • Agent: Fixed image output from tools not being reloaded when restoring a thread. (#57143)
  • MCP OAuth: Fixed authentication failing when an MCP server returned a broken metadata URL. (#53502)
  • MCP OAuth: Fixed OAuth client registration failing with some MCP servers. (#53501)
  • Fixed AI completions from OpenAI-compatible providers failing when token usage details were missing. (#55919; thanks marius851000)
  • Git Graph: Fixed breakage that occurred when Git’s log.showSignature setting was enabled. (#55708; thanks toddlerer)
  • OpenAI: Fixed an issue where error messages would not appear properly. (#57750)
  • Fixed certain ACP registry agents not cleaning up old versions. (#55290; thanks cppcoffee)
  • Fixed some Gemini tool calls failing because Zed could send incomplete tool schemas. (#57160)
  • Fixed a bug where using Gemini with certain tools, especially via MCP, resulted in "Invalid JSON payload received" errors due to incompatible JSON schema formats. (#49292; thanks dastrobu)
  • Fixed zed --new ssh://host/path reusing an existing SSH window instead of opening a new one. This also applied to other URL-shaped path arguments. (#54408)
  • Fixed a bug where non-ASCII characters in diagnostic messages were incorrectly rendered with spurious \ characters. (#55782; thanks alkinun)
  • Fixed a crash in GPUI when typing into an Input widget inside a cached view (#50456). (#50665; thanks xcb3d)
  • Fixed a panic that could occur when streaming in text with the edit_file tool. (#57100)
  • Fixed a panic when loading certain Tree-sitter grammars containing supertypes. (#57183)
  • Fixed a rare panic that could occur when lines in the editor contained many invisible characters. (#57137)
  • Fixed agent edits sometimes not getting auto-accepted when they were committed. (#56892)
  • Fixed the agent erroring when using Copilot as a provider and switching between OpenAI and Anthropic models. (#56655)
  • Fixed bash syntax highlighting for conditional expressions, arithmetic expressions, and related operators. (#56484; thanks terror)
  • Fixed the activity indicator in the status bar not opening a menu with items to cancel running actions. (#56865)
  • Fixed commit title length checks miscounting multi-byte characters as multiple characters. (#57025; thanks koxya)
  • Fixed context server availability updates when a new worktree is added to or removed from a project. (#51244; thanks rioriost)
  • Fixed importing the VS Code setting files.simpleDialog.enable

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