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Zed: all versions and old releases

High-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

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5 versions of Zed are listed here, from October 14, 2026 to the current 1.25.3. Each one links to the publisher’s own installer files.

2026: 5 5 26
VersionDateSizeFiles
1.25.3Latest October 23, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)ARM64 EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
- Updated dependencies to address recent software ecosystem vulnerabilities. (#66023, #65963)
1.25.2 October 21, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)ARM64 EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
This week's release includes smaller Zed binaries across macOS, Windows, and Linux, the ability to apply inlay hint text edits by double-clicking, context compaction and session notices for external agents, and new GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5.5 models on Amazon Bedrock.
Features
AI
- Added GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5.5 to the Amazon Bedrock provider. (#64201, #64685; thanks IbrahimKhan12 and alexandergunnarson)
- Enabled session notices and context compaction for external agents using ACP. (#65414)
Git
- Improved the branch picker to make clear that deleting a remote-tracking branch only removes the local ref, and removed the force delete option for remote-tracking branches, since it had no effect. (#61793; thanks lld4n)
Languages
- Added support for applying inlay hint text edits by double-clicking a hint, or by running editor: accept inlay hint with the cursor at the hint. (#64789)
- Added HTML syntax highlighting for svg, mathml and raw tagged templates, and CSS syntax highlighting for template literals in css({ ... }) objects, in JavaScript and TypeScript. (#65688)
Remote Development
- Improved SSH remote connection time by detecting the remote shell, platform, and OS version in one command instead of three, which helps most when connecting from Windows. (#65065; thanks Huliiiiii)
Other
- Added automatic unfolding of folded sections when jumping to a location via go to line, go to definition/declaration/implementation/type definition, symbol navigation, the outline and project symbol pickers, multibuffer location results, and navigation history. (#65217; thanks henne90gen)
- Added an "Open SVG Preview" option to the Project Panel's context menu for SVG files. (#65539; thanks skmanoj322)
- Added the tab_switcher.show_file_preview setting, which controls whether files are previewed in the editor while cycling through the tab switcher (defaults to true). (#56235; thanks sebascadpi)
- Improved the tab switcher so it no longer changes selection on mouse hover and no longer delays showing its popover; you can still click entries to switch tabs. (#65546)
- Improved startup time when restoring hundreds of editor selections. (#65171)
- Improved startup time when using custom icon themes. (#65173)
- Reduced Zed's binary size by about 33% on macOS, 28% on Windows, and 7% on Linux. (#65168)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where environment variables, including secrets, passed to external agents and MCP servers in remote projects were visible in the local machine's process list. (#65174)
- Fixed prompts to external agents being slow to send, or never sending, because of unneeded Git checkpoints. (#65304)
- Fixed the remote server failing to start when connecting to a Windows host over SSH. (#55292; thanks sergio-u)
- Fixed ctrl-o and ctrl-i in Vim mode not navigating back and forward when a Markdown preview was focused. (#65299; thanks gitKashish)
- Fixed a bug where archiving an agent thread did nothing and kept a CPU core busy when the thread's linked worktree folder had been deleted. (#65578)
- Fixed a bug where case conversion and other text transformation commands duplicated the word when multiple cursors were inside it. (#65291; thanks gitKashish)
- Fixed a bug where navigating back skipped a Markdown preview tab after switching to another file. (#65299; thanks gitKashish)
- Fixed a bug where notification sounds could stop playing after an audio output error, and on Linux an audio thread could keep using a full CPU core until Zed restarted. (#65158)
- Fixed a bug where the Git Panel's commit editor buttons changed opacity when hovering over empty space. (#65448; thanks shuvroroy)
- Fixed a bug where the Project Panel's "Open Markdown Preview" option did not appear for files opened on their own (e.g. zed README.md). (#65539; thanks skmanoj322)
- Fixed a bug where the Settings UI sidebar did not highlight the subsection being scrolled through, including the last short subsections of a page. (#65172
1.24.4 October 20, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)ARM64 EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
- Fixed OpenCode models failing to load with a missing field npm error. (#65875)
1.24.3 October 17, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)ARM64 EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
- Added Gemini 4 Argon to the Google AI models (#65725)
1.24.2 October 14, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)ARM64 EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
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

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