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Zed

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Velocity6.3

High-performance multiplayer code editor built in Rust

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Zed ships weekly, and the Git surface is finally catching up to the agent surface

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◆Current state
Zed is on a reliable weekly cadence with a mix of agent work, Git tooling, and editor fundamentals, plus fast point releases when something breaks. The last two months moved Git from a panel into a real review workflow — staged and unstaged multibuffers, hunk-level staging, branch picker filtering, a Git Graph with configurable columns, and now a git.diff_base setting that chooses between HEAD and the branch merge base. Model support arrives within days of provider launches, which is a maintenance burden the team has chosen to carry.
◆Where it's heading
The agent is being hardened rather than expanded: sandboxed terminal commands and web fetches, undoable file operations, and search inside terminal threads all bound what it can do rather than widening it. That pairs with the Git investment, since reviewing what an agent changed is the workflow that makes autonomy usable. External contributions carry a visible share of each release, which keeps the editor-fundamentals work moving in parallel with the AI work.
◆Prediction
With diff bases, hunk staging, and sandboxing all in place, the next step is likely to connect them — agent-authored changes reviewed as a staged diff before they touch the working tree.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6d ago

    Zed 1.15 adds a branch-wide diff base and Project Panel drag-out

    A git.diff_base setting now decides whether gutters, file-status colors, and git: diff compare against HEAD or against the default branch's merge base, which matters for anyone reviewing a whole branch rather than a single commit. The release also adds Project Panel drag-out to external apps on macOS and Wayland, plus linked editing for custom elements in JSX and TSX.

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  2. 13d ago

    Zed 1.14.2 sandboxes Agent terminal commands and web fetches

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    Sandboxing arrives for the Agent's terminal commands and web fetches, alongside undoable Project Panel file operations and a Skip Hooks commit option. It is the release where Zed stopped relying on the user to supervise the agent and started bounding it at the runtime.

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  3. 16d ago

    Zed 1.13.2 patches word motion, a selection panic, and Gruvbox colors

    A patch release fixing word-motion behavior around punctuation, a panic on tab-expanded column selections, Gruvbox parameter colors, and a missing CLI flag in the docs. Routine cleanup between weekly features.

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  4. 20d ago

    Zed 1.13.1 improves the branch picker, LSP timing logs, and solo diffs

    Branch picker filtering and grouping improve, runnable gutter controls gain run-status indicators, and LSP Logs now show request durations so slow language servers are diagnosable. Solo diffs also default to showing the full file, continuing the steady Git-review buildout.

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  5. 22d ago

    Zed 1.12.1 adds Claude Opus 5 for Anthropic and Bedrock BYOK

    Claude Opus 5 support lands for the Anthropic and Amazon Bedrock BYOK providers within days of availability. The speed is the point: Zed treats provider parity as a release-cadence commitment rather than a roadmap item.

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  6. 27d ago

    Zed 1.12 groups staged and unstaged changes in the Git Panel

    Staged and Unstaged grouping arrives in the Git Panel, with multi-select in the File and Text Finders and row filtering in CSV previews. Another increment in turning the Git panel into somewhere real review work happens.

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