Closes#49329
This area has regressed a few times across #34514, #35361, and #44234.
The problem is that we were still mixing XKB client-side and server-side
state handling on the same `xkb::State`.
On X11, `XkbStateNotify` already keeps the client state synchronized.
But the key event path was still doing two extra things on the shared
`state.xkb`:
- calling `update_key()`
- rewriting the same state from `KeyPress` / `KeyRelease.state`
The libxkbcommon X11 docs say that `XkbStateNotify` is the more accurate
source of truth for X11 clients and that there is no need to call
`xkb_state_update_key()` once the client state is synchronized. This
follows the libxkbcommon X11 client model more closely by keeping
persistent state notify-driven and using event-local state only for
lookup.
This PR fixes that by:
- removing the remaining `update_key()` calls from X11 `KeyPress` /
`KeyRelease`
- keeping the long-lived `state.xkb` driven only by `XkbStateNotify` and
keymap notifications
- creating a temporary event-local `xkb::State` for per-event lookup
I also added regression tests around the historical bugs in this area:
- #14282: Caps Lock / Neo 2 regressions from the earlier X11 fixes
- #31193: German key resolution
- #26468: `space` with Cyrillic and Czech layouts / non-locked layout
groups
- #40678: macro-style shifted input like `Shift+]`
Release Notes:
- Fixed issue on Linux X11 where you coundn't input space key in some
cases.
Closes#53426
Fixes a crash when previewing markdown with GIFs, and enables GIF
animation in the preview panel.
Two issues: a partially-decoded GIF could crash the preview, and GIFs in
markdown previews never animated.
The fix for GIFs with empty comment extensions (`21 fe 00`) was
implemented upstream in the `image-gif` crate (image-rs/image-gif#228)
and released as `gif 0.14.2`. This PR bumps the dependency so those GIFs
now render correctly in the markdown preview without any further changes
to Zed itself.
## Screenshot
Left=VS Code
Right=Zed
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7950abbc-1a79-4f01-a425-9595aa688325
Release Notes:
- Fixed a crash in certain scenarios when opening Markdown Preview with
GIFs.
- Added GIF animation support for Markdown Preview.
---------
Co-authored-by: Smit Barmase <heysmitbarmase@gmail.com>
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Closes#53219
Updates the built-in **One Dark** theme so `syntax.link_text.font_style`
is `italic`, matching other built-in themes.
Release Notes:
- Fixed One Dark `link_text` not italic
## What Changed
- compute range-format support from formatter configuration and
language-server capabilities
- show `Format Selections` only when at least one selected buffer has a
range-capable formatter
- keep Prettier-supported range formatting available without depending
on LSP support
- hide the action for formatter modes that cannot honor selections, such
as external-command and code-action formatters
- keep the action handler safe by rechecking support and returning early
when range formatting is unavailable
- restrict capability checks to the servers actually registered for the
current buffer
- add regression coverage for supported, unsupported, and mixed-server
cases
- document when `Format Selections` is available in both action docs and
user docs
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Closes#25796
Release Notes:
- Improved `Format Selections` so it is only shown when the active
formatter supports range formatting.
Testing I did:
Here are the formatters I used:
<img width="829" height="434" alt="Screenshot_20260405_102047"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cae4a238-277e-4188-873f-189e9f098699"
/>
Note: I've chosen three formatters:
1. Prettier, which supports range formatting
2. clangd (LSP) which also supports range formatting
3. gopls which do not support range formatting
[Screencast_20260405_102431.webm](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/69ce3f95-0b73-46a0-853d-3b5be6329dde)
---------
Signed-off-by: Pratik Karki <pratik@prertik.com>
Co-authored-by: Kirill Bulatov <kirill@zed.dev>
## Problem
When creating a new agent thread from the sidebar's **+** button (or via
the `NewThread` / `NewThreadInGroup` actions), the panel always returned
the cached draft thread — even if the user had since switched to a
different agent. This meant the new thread would use the wrong agent
(typically the default Zed Agent instead of the last-used external
agent).
The root cause was in `ensure_draft()`: it cached the draft and returned
it unconditionally on subsequent calls without checking whether its
agent
matched the current `selected_agent`.
Meanwhile, **cmd-n from within the agent panel** dispatched
`NewExternalAgentThread`, which calls `create_thread()` — this always
creates a fresh thread with the correct `selected_agent`, so it worked
fine.
## Fix
`ensure_draft()` now compares the cached draft's agent against the
desired agent. When they differ and the draft's editor is empty, the
stale draft is discarded and a new one is created with the correct
agent.
If the draft has user-typed content, it is preserved to avoid losing
work.
## Test
Added `test_draft_replaced_when_selected_agent_changes` which verifies:
1. A draft created with `NativeAgent` gets replaced when
`selected_agent`
changes to a custom agent
2. The replacement draft uses the correct agent
3. Calling `activate_draft` again with the same agent reuses the cached
draft (no unnecessary replacement)
The test fails without the fix (returns the stale `NativeAgent` draft)
and passes with it.
Release Notes:
- N/A
This fixes#53819.
JSON schema downloads were still going through the JSON language server
without picking up Zed's configured proxy. On networks that require the
proxy, that made schema fetches fail even though the rest of the app
could connect normally.
This passes the proxy setting through to the JSON language server
configuration so schema requests follow the same network path as the
rest of Zed.
## Test plan
- `rustfmt --edition 2024 crates/languages/src/json.rs`
- `git diff --check -- crates/languages/src/json.rs`
Release Notes:
- Fixed JSON schema downloads ignoring Zed's proxy setting.
---------
Co-authored-by: Christopher Biscardi <chris@christopherbiscardi.com>
- Don't ever swap to the ellipsis menu with the close icon button; we
now always have it
- Promote the "focus the last workspace" feature through the ellipsis
menu
- Add a unified tooltip for the thread item to show relevant thread
metadata
- Use a different icon for accessing the now "all threads" view
- Simplifies how we display archived threads
- Bonus: Don't display the "open in new window" button in currently
active worktrees (in dedicated picker)
- Bonus: Use the "main worktree" label for whenever we're mentioning the
original worktree
Release Notes:
- N/A
- Adds a status toast to the announcement banner for surfacing the
layout revert option
- Removes the agent panel banner
A good chunk of the diff here was because I touched up the status toast
component API a little bit.
Release Notes:
- N/A
The cross-channel import tests from #54002 hardcoded
`ReleaseChannel::Preview` and `ReleaseChannel::Nightly` as source
channels. When those tests run on a release branch (where the current
channel is Preview or Nightly), the import skips the current channel,
causing test failures.
This adds a `foreign_channels` helper that dynamically picks two
channels that are neither the current one nor Dev, making the tests work
on main, preview, nightly, or any other branch.
Discovered while cherry-picking #54002 to v0.233.x (#54021).
Release Notes:
- N/A
Users have been testing the threads sidebar on Nightly and Preview but
once we release the feature we expect many of these users to move back
to Stable. As it stands right now, they would lose the threads they'd
been working on. This PR adds a way to import these threads.
- [x] Add `agent: import threads from other channels` action to the
command palette.
- This can be always available for users that switch between channels
regularly.
- [x] Add tests for import behavior
- [x] Add a button that disappears after using it to make importing more
discoverable for when users first switch.
Release Notes:
- Added an action to the command palette that imports threads from other
Zed release channels into the current one.
---------
Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <daniloleal09@gmail.com>
### Summary
This PR implements remote support for git store operations that the
sidebar's archive thread checkpoint/restore featured relied on. This was
the second to last blocker for remote usage of this feature.
I also made a shared backend between `update_ref` and `delete_ref`
called `edit_ref` because they run the same git command and this allowed
for some code unification.
#### Remote Git Operations
- `Repository::update_ref`
- `Repository::delete_ref`
- `Repository::repair_worktrees`
- `Repository::create_archive_checkpoint`
- `Repository::restore_archive_checkpoint`
#### Follow up
`agent_ui::thread_worktree_archive::find_or_create_repository` needs to
be made aware of the remote machine that the repository it's searching
for is on. Once that is completed, we can get the correct repo when
archiving a remote thread and the flow should work without any problems.
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- N/A
When archiving a thread, we now check whether the linked worktree lives
inside the Zed-managed worktrees directory (configured via
`git.worktree_directory`). If it doesn't — meaning the user created it
themselves outside of Zed — we skip both the directory deletion and the
`git worktree remove`, leaving it untouched.
Previously, archiving a thread would delete *any* linked worktree
associated with the thread's folder paths, even ones the user had
created manually via `git worktree add`.
Release Notes:
- Fixed archiving an agent thread deleting linked git worktrees the user
created outside of Zed's managed worktrees directory.
The `worktree_receivers` and `worktree_directory_setting` were pre
computed as `Option`s before the async block, then unwrapped with
`expect` inside the match arm that always had them set. Move the
fetching directly into the `WorktreeCreationArgs::New` arm so the values
are never optional, replacing the panicking expects with error
propagation via `?`.
The expects were guaranteed to never panic because the `Some` codepath
used the same branching logic of the unwrap codepath later on. This
change is just for future maintainability though.
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- N/A or Added/Fixed/Improved ...
This fixes a but that @ConradIrwin noticed where the flexible docks
widths are weirdly dependent on the width of the active pane.
Release Notes:
- Fixed a bug where flexible docks resized incorrectly in certain cases.
- Fixed an issue where resizing a flexible-width panel in the left dock
would also resize fixed-width panels.
This adds a merge queue trigger to our main CI job to allow for a merge
queue which runs a subset of our tests before merging to main.
With this setup, merging to main would probably take around one to two
minutes and would not catch all but definitely most issues. We could
extend it here though as we'd like.
Release Notes:
- N/A
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Release Notes:
- Added "New Center Terminal" button to window context menu
"New Terminal" only opens a new terminal window in the dedicated
terminal view, while "New Center Terminal" opens a new terminal in the
currently active view.
"+"/"New..." context menu
<img width="487" height="318" alt="Screenshot_20260411_184840"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7c1597cf-5638-4d76-a486-537033cb8da5"
/>
Right click context menu
<img width="422" height="386" alt="Screenshot_20260411_184904"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4e557e21-8839-4226-b704-87e37fbd8f46"
/>
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Closes#53503
Release Notes:
- Fixed gap where runArgs were not respected when specified in
devcontainer.json
This is a follow up to #48003, instead of removing the settings key in a
new migration, we can prevent the existing one from adding settings in
the first place.
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- N/A
Remove the `DEFAULT_THREADS_SHOWN` limit and the View More / Collapse
row from the sidebar thread list. When a project group is expanded, all
of its threads are now shown. Fold/unfold of project group headers is
preserved.
### Changes
- Remove `ListEntry::ViewMore` variant and `render_view_more`
- Remove `DEFAULT_THREADS_SHOWN`, `group_extra_batches`,
`set_group_visible_thread_count`, `expand/collapse_thread_group`
- Remove `visible_thread_count` from `ProjectGroupState`,
`SerializedProjectGroupState`, `ProjectGroup`, and persistence
- Remove `ShowMoreThreads` / `ShowFewerThreads` actions and vim
keybindings
cc @danilo-leal
Release Notes:
- N/A
### Docs update.
- adding 'what is Dexter' one-liner
- adding config examples
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✅ Elixir LS update -
[PR](https://github.com/zed-extensions/elixir/pull/115) merged
Release Notes:
- N/A
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Co-authored-by: AltCode <altcode@vivaldi.net>
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Closes #ISSUE
Release Notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Gaauwe Rombouts <mail@grombouts.nl>
Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <daniloleal09@gmail.com>
Track new telemetry:
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- N/A
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Co-authored-by: Bennet Bo Fenner <bennetbo@gmx.de>
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- N/A
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Co-authored-by: Max Brunsfeld <maxbrunsfeld@gmail.com>
## Summary
- The cross-compile path for building `remote_server` via `cargo
zigbuild` was missing `.current_dir()`, causing it to inherit the
process cwd
- This fails with "cannot specify features for packages outside of
workspace" when Zed is launched from outside its source tree
- The native build path at the same location already sets
`.current_dir()` correctly — this aligns the cross-compile path
Closes#53950
## Test plan
- [x] Build Zed from source
- [x] Launch from `/tmp`: `cd /tmp && /path/to/zed some-project
--dev-container`
- [x] Verify dev container cross-compilation succeeds
Release Notes:
- Fixed dev container cross-compilation failing when Zed is launched
from outside its source directory
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When adding code lens to the long list of search items, I've failed to
find it when searching, as we always select first item in the matches
list, which is not necessarily the best one.
Left is before, right is after:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9033dfd8-abde-4a45-a214-ae859105d6ad
Release Notes:
- Improved settings search ergonomics
Closes#53919
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Release Notes:
- gemini: Fixed an issue with MCP servers specifying tools with specific
schemas
The `cli_default_open_behavior` setting controls how `zed <path>` opens
directories, but the underlying behavior is gated behind the
`AgentV2FeatureFlag` in `open_listener.rs`. Without the flag enabled,
the setting has no effect — Zed always falls back to `NewWindow`
behavior.
This change gates the settings UI entry behind the same feature flag so
it only appears when the feature is actually active.
**Changes:**
- Converted `general_settings_section()` from a fixed-size array to a
`Vec` so the CLI setting can be conditionally appended
- Added `feature_flags` as a dependency to `settings_ui`
Release Notes:
- N/A
## Context
When a file is renamed via the project panel while open in an editor,
Zed would restore the old (no longer existing) path on reload .
On rename, `language::Buffer` emits `BufferEvent::FileHandleChanged`,
which propagates to `multi_buffer::Event::FileHandleChanged` →
`EditorEvent::TitleChanged`. However, `should_serialize()` only matched
`Saved | DirtyChanged | BufferEdited`, so no re-serialization was
triggered and the `editors` DB table retained the stale `abs_path`.
The fix adds a dedicated `EditorEvent::FileHandleChanged` variant, emits
it alongside `TitleChanged` when the buffer's file handle changes, and
adds it to `should_serialize()`. Since `Editor::serialize()` already
reads the current path from the buffer at call time, this naturally
writes the new path to the DB.
Closes#51629
## How to Review
Three files edited:
- `editor.rs`: splits `FileHandleChanged` into its own arm and emits the
new event variant
- `items.rs`: adds `FileHandleChanged` to `should_serialize`
- `items.rs` (test): `test_file_handle_changed_on_rename` does a full
rename via `Project::rename_entry` and asserts the event fires and the
buffer path updates
## Self-Review Checklist
- [x] I've reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability
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Release Notes:
- Fixed renamed files being reopened with their old path after a restart
**Important remark :**
This pull request is a follow-up on the review of @SomeoneToIgnore on
this pull request, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/51717,
which was inadvertently closed because I mistakenly deleted my previous
fork of the zed repo, sorry for any inconvenience caused by this
Manual test video below :
[Screencast from 2026-03-16
23-28-46.webm](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ff2e3259-ae26-4655-83b8-f693e84306d2)
## Context
Closes#53252
When using `ToggleAll` to open the tab switcher and then closing the
last tab in the currently active pane via `CloseSelectedItem`, the tab
switcher would unexpectedly dismiss. Closing tabs from an inactive pane
worked correctly.
**Root cause:** `force_remove_pane` in `Workspace` unconditionally calls
`window.focus(fallback_pane)` when the active pane is removed. This
focus change causes the tab switcher picker's editor to receive a
`Blurred` event, which
triggers `Picker::cancel` → `delegate.dismissed` → `DismissEvent`,
dismissing the modal.
**Fix:** When a modal is active, skip the `window.focus` call and
instead call `set_active_pane` directly. This keeps the active pane
pointer up to date without stealing focus from the modal.
Video of manual test after fix :
[Screencast from 2026-04-07
00-24-56.webm](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/eeb74313-1713-48db-8421-db740ef7a7b2)
## How to Review
- `crates/workspace/src/workspace.rs` : In `force_remove_pane`, when the
removed pane was the active pane, the fallback pane now only receives
focus if no modal is currently open. Otherwise, `set_active_pane` is
called directly, which updates `active_pane`, `last_active_center_pane`,
and the status bar without touching window focus.
- `crates/tab_switcher/src/tab_switcher_tests.rs` : New test
`test_toggle_all_stays_open_after_closing_last_tab_in_active_pane`
reproduces the issue: two panes each with one file, the active pane's
tab is closed via `CloseSelectedItem`, and the test asserts the tab
switcher remains open with the other file still listed.
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Release Notes
- Fixed tab switcher dismissing when closing the last tab in the active
pane
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Closes #ISSUE
Release Notes:
- N/A or Added/Fixed/Improved ...
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Fixes calculation of Ollama model context length. Now prefers num_ctx
model configuration over model architecture context length the same way
Ollama does.
Closes#42340
Release Notes:
- Fix calculation of Ollama model context length
When archiving a thread's linked worktree, `git worktree remove` can
fail to delete the working directory while still removing the admin
metadata in `.git/worktrees/<name>`. This leaves an orphaned folder on
disk that no longer appears in `git worktree list`.
## Fix
Delete the directory ourselves first with `std::fs::remove_dir_all`,
then call `git worktree remove --force` to clean up only the admin
entry. Git already handles the case where the working tree is already
gone (since
[git/git@ee6763a](https://github.com/git/git/commit/ee6763af0a3b97225803c6c908a29de40336cf38)).
Also fixes `FakeGitRepository::remove_worktree` to handle a missing
working tree directory (matching real git behavior) by scanning
`.git/worktrees/` entries when the `.git` pointer file can't be read.
Release Notes:
- Fixed archiving an agent thread sometimes leaving the worktree folder
on disk even though the git worktree was removed.
This fixes#53740.
A few MCP docs links were still pointing at old extension slugs, so they
led to dead pages. This updates those links to the current canonical
slugs.
Release Notes:
- N/A
This fixes a regression where `zed -n .` in a subdirectory of an
already-open
project would redirect to the parent window instead of creating a new
one.
The root cause was that commit 66d2cb20c9 ("Adjust `zed -n` behavior")
made
`-n` run the worktree matching loop with subdirectory matching enabled,
when
previously `-n` skipped matching entirely.
## Changes
### Bug fix
- **Restore `-n` to always create a new window.** No worktree matching,
no
exceptions. This matches the behavior from when `-n` was first
introduced.
### New `--classic` flag
- Adds a hidden `--classic` CLI flag that explicitly selects the
pre-sidebar
default behavior: new window for directories, reuse existing window for
files already in an open worktree.
- The `cli_default_open_behavior` setting now toggles between `-e` (add
to
sidebar) and `--classic` behavior. When set to `new_window`, the classic
logic is used instead of unconditionally opening a new window.
### Refactor CLI open options
Replaces the old grab-bag of `open_new_workspace: Option<bool>`,
`force_existing_window: bool`, `classic: bool`, and `reuse: bool` with:
- **`cli::CliOpenBehavior` enum** — a single enum on the IPC boundary
with
variants `Default`, `AlwaysNew`, `Add`, `ExistingWindow`, `Classic`, and
`Reuse`.
- **`workspace::WorkspaceMatching` enum** — describes how to match paths
against existing worktrees (`None`, `MatchExact`, `MatchSubdirectory`).
- **`workspace::OpenOptions`** — uses `WorkspaceMatching` plus a simple
`add_dirs_to_sidebar: bool` instead of overlapping boolean flags.
The translation from CLI enum to workspace options happens in
`open_listener.rs`, keeping both layers clean and independent.
Release Notes:
- N/A
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Display the git branch name alongside the worktree name in the sidebar's
thread list (or without the worktree name, if it's a main worktree).
Release Notes:
- Added branch name display next to worktree names in the agent sidebar
thread list.
Closes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/53262
- Remove the ability to pick a branch from the agent panel; delegate
this to the title bar picker
- Make the worktree creation earger, just as you selected whether you
want to create it from main or current branch
- Remove flicker when creating a new worktree and switching to a
previously existing one
- Improve some UI stuff: how we display that a worktree is
creating/loading, the branch and worktree icons, etc.
- Fixed a bug where worktrees in a detached HEAD state wouldn't show up
in the worktree pickers
A big part of the diff of this PR is the removal of everything involved
with the `StartThreadIn` enum/the set up involved in only creating the
worktree by the time of the first prompt send.
Release Notes:
- Agent: Improved and simplified the UX of creating threads in Git
worktrees.
- Git: Fixed a bug where worktrees in a detached HEAD state wouldn't
show up in the worktree picker.
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Co-authored-by: Nathan Sobo <nathan@zed.dev>
Improves the worktree restore and archive code paths:
- In `restore_worktree_via_git`, the old code blindly attempted
`change_branch` and fell back to `create_branch` on failure, which could
clobber a branch that had moved to a different SHA during archival. Now
resolves the branch ref first and only checks out the branch if it still
points at the original commit; if the branch has moved, the worktree
stays in detached HEAD. If the branch doesn't exist, tries to recreate
it.
- In `change_worktree_paths` and `change_worktree_paths_by_main`,
archived threads are now excluded from path mutations so their folder
paths are preserved for restore.
- In the sidebar, `ProjectGroupKey` construction for archived thread
activation now uses `from_worktree_paths` (which resolves to main
worktree paths) instead of `new` with the linked worktree's folder
paths. This ensures that restoring a linked worktree thread matches the
main repo workspace rather than creating a spurious new one.
- Added `Repository::resolve_ref` for resolving a git ref to its SHA.
- Added tests for `resolve_ref`, branch-moved/not-moved/deleted restore
scenarios, and workspace-matching on restore.
Release Notes:
- N/A
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