Zed 0.208.5 released
The people who made Atom and Tree-sitter have released version 0.208.5 of Zed Editor, a fast and collaborative code editor. This is one of the biggest updates so far. The new release adds a number of important features and improvements that will make the user experience better.
Support for Windows is one of the best new features in this release. It makes Zed Editor available on more than one operating system. Users can also use OpenAI's Codex agent through ACP (Atom Code Preview), which makes the coding environment more complete and interactive. There are also new features like a new settings UI, better performance in the project panel when working with big projects, and support for action sequences in keymap bindings.
Also, Zed Editor has added more languages by adding comment injections for Rust and stylized links in the Markdown preview using accented text colors. You can now paste TIFF and BMP images into the agent panel, and the "agent_buffer_font_size" setting lets you change the font size of the buffer in small steps.
The new version also has a number of performance improvements, such as project panel refreshes that have been redesigned. This should simplify the process of working on large projects. The Collab panel now shows display names and GitHub handles in the UI. Users can now also choose previous or all matched items from the Selection app menu.
Zed Editor's terminal functionality has also seen improvements, such as keeping the terminal selection after copying text by default, matching the behavior of many popular terminals. The onboarding UI is now easier to use because it has been combined into a single page. Users can now also link together several actions using action sequences in keymap bindings.
This release fixes several bugs, such as one that made keyboard shortcuts not work until you clicked inside Zed Editor on macOS and another that made the agent server start even when AI was turned off. Some of the other problems fixed are file finder floating problems, infinite loops when deleting a worktree, and panic when asking for completions after typing multibyte characters.
The new version has some breaking changes. It no longer lets you have format steps in both the "format_on_save" and "formatter" settings for languages. Instead, you have to put all of your format steps under the "formatter" key. Zed Editor will also not use a node from your $PATH if it is older than 22.x; instead, it will use the node that comes with it.
Overall, this version of Zed Editor has a lot of new features and improvements that will make coding easier and more fun for everyone.
Zed-industries/Zed Release v0.208.5
Fixed an issue with a settings migration that deprecated the code_actions_on_format setting. The code_actions_on_format setting has been un-deprecated, and affected users will have the bad migratio...
