The scheduler integration (#44810) removed the special handling for
realtime audio tasks that spawn them on a dedicated thread. This caused
a panic in the Mac dispatcher when RealtimeAudio priority was passed to
the regular dispatch path.
This restores the original behavior: RealtimeAudio tasks are spawned on
a dedicated thread via dispatcher.spawn_realtime(), using a bounded
channel to send runnables to it.
Release Notes:
- N/A
## Motivation
This PR unifies the async execution infrastructure between GPUI and
other components that depend on the `scheduler` crate (such as our cloud
codebase). By having a scheduler that lives independently of GPUI, we
can enable deterministic testing across the entire stack - testing GPUI
applications alongside cloud services with a single, unified scheduler.
## Summary
This PR completes the integration of the `scheduler` crate into GPUI,
unifying async execution and enabling deterministic testing of GPUI
combined with other components that depend on the scheduler crate.
## Key Changes
### Scheduler Integration (Phases 1-5, previously completed)
- `TestDispatcher` now delegates to `TestScheduler` for timing, clock,
RNG, and task scheduling
- `PlatformScheduler` implements the `Scheduler` trait for production
use
- GPUI executors wrap scheduler executors, selecting `TestScheduler` or
`PlatformScheduler` based on environment
- Unified blocking logic via `Scheduler::block()`
### Dead Code Cleanup
- Deleted orphaned `crates/gpui/src/platform/platform_scheduler.rs`
(older incompatible version)
## Intentional Removals
### `spawn_labeled` and `deprioritize` removed
The `TaskLabel` system (`spawn_labeled`, `deprioritize`) was removed
during this integration. It was only used in a few places for test
ordering control.
cc @maxbrunsfeld @as-cii - The new priority-weighted scheduling in
`TestScheduler` provides similar functionality through
`Priority::High/Medium/Low`. If `deprioritize` is important for specific
test scenarios, we could add it back to the scheduler crate. Let me know
if this is blocking anything.
### `start_waiting` / `finish_waiting` debug methods removed
Replaced by `TracingWaker` in `TestScheduler` - run tests with
`PENDING_TRACES=1` to see backtraces of pending futures when parking is
forbidden.
### Realtime Priority removed
The realtime priority feature was unused in the codebase. I'd prefer to
reintroduce it when we have an actual use case, as the implementation
(bounded channel with capacity 1) could potentially block the main
thread. Having a real use case will help us validate the design.
## Testing
- All GPUI tests pass
- All scheduler tests pass
- Clippy clean
## Architecture
```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ GPUI │
│ ┌──────────────────────┐ ┌────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ gpui::Background- │ │ gpui::ForegroundExecutor │ │
│ │ Executor │ │ - wraps scheduler:: │ │
│ │ - scheduler: Arc< │ │ ForegroundExecutor │ │
│ │ dyn Scheduler> │ └────────────┬───────────────┘ │
│ └──────────┬───────────┘ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ └──────────┬──────────────────┘ │
│ ▼ │
│ ┌───────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Arc<dyn Scheduler> │ │
│ └───────────┬───────────┘ │
│ ┌──────────────┴──────────────┐ │
│ ▼ ▼ │
│ ┌──────────────────┐ ┌────────────────────┐ │
│ │ PlatformScheduler│ │ TestScheduler │ │
│ │ (production) │ │ (deterministic) │ │
│ └──────────────────┘ └────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```
Release Notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Antonio Scandurra <me@as-cii.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Yara <git@yara.blue>
Co-authored-by: Zed Zippy <234243425+zed-zippy[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Additionally this extracts more functionality into the RunnableVariant which is renamed to GpuiRunnable.
Release Notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Lukas Wirth <lukas@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Cole Miller <cole@zed.dev>
This expands the liveness check to cover all foreground tasks that don't
take the app as a context (as some of their internal futures might.)
Release Notes:
- N/A
## Screenshot testing
Adds visual testing infrastructure for GPUI that captures screenshots by
rendering directly to Metal textures. The
The screenshots end up in `target/visual_tests/` and look like this:
<img width="2560" height="1600" alt="workspace_with_editor2"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/54112343-4af1-4347-9bab-f099de97dd29"
/>
<img width="2560" height="1600" alt="project_panel2"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0cd54b61-dace-4398-a28e-0b4d7c2968f6"
/>
### Key Features
- **Direct texture capture**: Screenshots are captured by rendering the
scene to a Metal texture and reading pixels directly from GPU memory,
rather than using ScreenCaptureKit
- **No visibility requirements**: Windows don't need to be visible on
screen since we read directly from the render pipeline
- **Deterministic output**: Captures exactly what GPUI renders, not what
the OS compositor displays
- **No permissions needed**: Doesn't require Screen Recording permission
like ScreenCaptureKit would
### Running the Visual Tests
```bash
# Run visual tests (compares against baselines)
cargo run -p zed --bin visual_test_runner --features visual-tests
# Update baseline images (when UI intentionally changes)
UPDATE_BASELINE=1 cargo run -p zed --bin visual_test_runner --features visual-tests
# View the captured screenshots
open target/visual_tests/
```
### Implementation
- `Window::render_to_image()` - Renders the current scene to a texture
and returns an `RgbaImage`
- `MetalRenderer::render_to_image()` - Core implementation that renders
to a non-framebuffer-only texture
- `VisualTestAppContext` - Test context that uses real macOS platform
rendering
- `VisualTestAppContext::capture_screenshot()` - Synchronous screenshot
capture using direct texture rendering
### Usage
```rust
let mut cx = VisualTestAppContext::new();
let window = cx.open_window(...)?;
let screenshot: RgbaImage = cx.capture_screenshot(window.into())?;
```
Release Notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Amp <amp@ampcode.com>
This is in preparation for removing `Result<T>` from the `AsyncApp`
methods
Refactor machine goes brrrrrr
Plan and tracker for this PR:
https://gist.github.com/mikayla-maki/7dfc0d4907e76de119b5712e24665f02
This PR should be safe to merge, as I cannot observe any changes in
behavior from adding this to our application.
Release Notes:
- N/A
Improves the scheduler by allowing tasks to have a set priority which
will significantly improve responsiveness.
Release notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Yara <git@yara.blue>
Co-authored-by: dvdsk <noreply@davidsk.dev>
Closes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/39056
Leverages a new `await_on_background` API that spawns the future on the
background but blocks the current task, allowing to borrow from the
surrounding scope.
Release Notes:
- N/A *or* Added/Fixed/Improved ...
Improves the scheduler by allowing tasks to have a set priority which
will significantly improve responsiveness.
Release notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Yara <git@yara.blue>
When doing a project wide search in zed on windows for `hang`, zed
starts to freeze for a couple seconds ultimately starting to error with
`Not enough quota is available to process this command.` when
dispatching windows messages. The cause for this is that we simply
overload the windows message pump due to the sheer amount of foreground
tasks we spawn when we populate the project search.
This PR is an attempt at reducing this.
Release Notes:
- Reduced hangs and stutters in large project file searches
This happens quite often with cargo based diagnostics which may spawn
several lines (sometimes the entire screen), forcing the user to scroll
up to the start of the diagnostic just to see the hover message is not
great.
Release Notes:
- Fixed diagnostics hovers not working if the diagnostic spans out of
view
Set a TLS bit to skip invoking the crash handler when a detached thread
panics.
cc @P1n3appl3 - is this at odds with what we need the crash handler to
do?
May close#39289, cannot repro without a nightly build
Release Notes:
- Fixed extension panics crashing Zed on Linux
Co-authored-by: dino <dinojoaocosta@gmail.com>
This caused issues with #40172, as it made Zed execute and block on tad
few more background tasks. Parker is ~cheap to create, hence we should
be ok to just create it at the time it is needed.
Release Notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Cole Miller <cole@zed.dev>
The only warnings remaining are links to private modules/items, but I
lack knowledge to work out if the referenced modules/items should be
made public, or if the links should be rewritten into exposed
traits/items.
Links to associated items such as trait implementations have to be
written using full markdown format such as:
... [[ `App::update_global` ]](( BorrowAppContext::update_global ))
This is due to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/74563 which
sadly prohibits fully-qualified syntax:
... [[ `<App as BorrowAppContext>::update_global` ]]
Release Notes:
- N/A
Probably related to https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/37072
- Adds a new smoke test for the use of the read_file tool by the agent
in an SSH project
- Fixes the SSH shutdown sequence to use a timer from the app's executor
instead of always using a real timer
- Changes the main executor loop for tests to advance the clock
automatically instead of panicking with `parked with nothing left to
run` when there is a delayed task
Release Notes:
- N/A
There's still a bit more work to do on this, but this PR is compiling
(with warnings) after eliminating the key types. When the tasks below
are complete, this will be the new narrative for GPUI:
- `Entity<T>` - This replaces `View<T>`/`Model<T>`. It represents a unit
of state, and if `T` implements `Render`, then `Entity<T>` implements
`Element`.
- `&mut App` This replaces `AppContext` and represents the app.
- `&mut Context<T>` This replaces `ModelContext` and derefs to `App`. It
is provided by the framework when updating an entity.
- `&mut Window` Broken out of `&mut WindowContext` which no longer
exists. Every method that once took `&mut WindowContext` now takes `&mut
Window, &mut App` and every method that took `&mut ViewContext<T>` now
takes `&mut Window, &mut Context<T>`
Not pictured here are the two other failed attempts. It's been quite a
month!
Tasks:
- [x] Remove `View`, `ViewContext`, `WindowContext` and thread through
`Window`
- [x] [@cole-miller @mikayla-maki] Redraw window when entities change
- [x] [@cole-miller @mikayla-maki] Get examples and Zed running
- [x] [@cole-miller @mikayla-maki] Fix Zed rendering
- [x] [@mikayla-maki] Fix todo! macros and comments
- [x] Fix a bug where the editor would not be redrawn because of view
caching
- [x] remove publicness window.notify() and replace with
`AppContext::notify`
- [x] remove `observe_new_window_models`, replace with
`observe_new_models` with an optional window
- [x] Fix a bug where the project panel would not be redrawn because of
the wrong refresh() call being used
- [x] Fix the tests
- [x] Fix warnings by eliminating `Window` params or using `_`
- [x] Fix conflicts
- [x] Simplify generic code where possible
- [x] Rename types
- [ ] Update docs
### issues post merge
- [x] Issues switching between normal and insert mode
- [x] Assistant re-rendering failure
- [x] Vim test failures
- [x] Mac build issue
Release Notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Antonio Scandurra <me@as-cii.com>
Co-authored-by: Cole Miller <cole@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Mikayla <mikayla@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Joseph <joseph@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: max <max@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Michael Sloan <michael@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Mikayla Maki <mikaylamaki@Mikaylas-MacBook-Pro.local>
Co-authored-by: Mikayla <mikayla.c.maki@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: joão <joao@zed.dev>
Release Notes:
- Added a more detailed message in place of the generic `checking...`
messages when Rust-analyzer is running.
- Added a rate limit for language server status messages, to reduce
noisiness of those updates.
- Added a `cancel language server work` action which will cancel
long-running language server tasks.
---------
Co-authored-by: Richard <richard@zed.dev>
Run any Jupyter kernel in Zed on any buffer (editor):
<img width="1074" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/assets/836375/eac8ed69-d02b-4d46-b379-6186d8f59470">
## TODO
### Lifecycle
* [x] Launch kernels on demand
* [x] Wait for kernel to be started
* [x] Request Kernel info on start
* [x] Show in progress indicator
* [ ] Allow picking kernel (it defaults to first matching language name)
* [ ] Menu for interrupting and shutting down the kernel
* [ ] Drop running kernels once editor is dropped
### Media Outputs
* [x] Render text and tracebacks with ANSI color handling
* [x] Render markdown as text
* [x] Render PNG and JPEG images using an explicit height based on
line-height
* ~~Render SVG~~ -- not happening for this PR due to lack of text in SVG
support
* [ ] Process `update_display_data` message and related `display_id`
* [x] Process `page` data from payloads as outputs
* [ ] Render markdown as, well, rendered markdown -- Note: unsure if we
can get line heights here
### Document
* [x] Select code and run
* [x] Run current line
* [x] Clear previous overlapping runs
* [ ] Support running markdown code blocks
* [ ] Action to export session as notebook or output files
* [ ] Action to clear all outputs
* [ ] Delete outputs when lines are deleted
## Other missing features
The following is a list of missing functionality or expectations that
are out of scope for this PR.
### Python Environments
Detecting python environments should probably be done in a separate PR
in tandem with how they're used with LSP. Users likely want to pick an
environment for their project, whether a virtualenv, conda env, pyenv,
poetry backed virtualenv, or the system. Related issues:
* https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7646
* https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7808
* https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7296
### LSP Integration
* Submit `complete_request` messages for completions to interleave
interactive variables with LSP
* LSP for IPython semantics (`%%timeit`, `!ls`, `get_ipython`, etc.)
## Future release notes
- Run code in any editor, whether it's a script or a markdown document
Release Notes:
- N/A
The previous implementation relied on a background thread to wake up the
main thread,
which was prone to priority inversion under heavy load.
In a synthetic test, where we spawn 200 git processes while doing a 5ms
timeout, the old version blocked for 5-80ms, the new version blocks for
5.1-5.4ms.
Release Notes:
- Improved responsiveness of the main thread under high system load
This introduces semantic indexing in Zed based on chunking text from
files in the developer's workspace and creating vector embeddings using
an embedding model. As part of this, we've created an embeddings
provider trait that allows us to work with OpenAI, a local Ollama model,
or a Zed hosted embedding.
The semantic index is built by breaking down text for known
(programming) languages into manageable chunks that are smaller than the
max token size. Each chunk is then fed to a language model to create a
high dimensional vector which is then normalized to a unit vector to
allow fast comparison with other vectors with a simple dot product.
Alongside the vector, we store the path of the file and the range within
the document where the vector was sourced from.
Zed will soon grok contextual similarity across different text snippets,
allowing for natural language search beyond keyword matching. This is
being put together both for human-based search as well as providing
results to Large Language Models to allow them to refine how they help
developers.
Remaining todo:
* [x] Change `provider` to `model` within the zed hosted embeddings
database (as its currently a combo of the provider and the model in one
name)
Release Notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Nathan Sobo <nathan@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Antonio Scandurra <me@as-cii.com>
Co-authored-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Marshall Bowers <elliott.codes@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Antonio <antonio@zed.dev>
This PR adds an `zed: Install Local Extension` action, which lets you
select a path to a folder containing a Zed extension, and install that .
When you select a directory, the extension will be compiled (both the
Tree-sitter grammars and the Rust code for the extension itself) and
installed as a Zed extension, using a symlink.
### Details
A few dependencies are needed to build an extension:
* The Rust `wasm32-wasi` target. This is automatically installed if
needed via `rustup`.
* A wasi-preview1 adapter WASM module, for building WASM components with
Rust. This is automatically downloaded if needed from a `wasmtime`
GitHub release
* For building Tree-sitter parsers, a distribution of `wasi-sdk`. This
is automatically downloaded if needed from a `wasi-sdk` GitHub release.
The downloaded artifacts are cached in a support directory called
`Zed/extensions/build`.
### Tasks
UX
* [x] Show local extensions in the Extensions view
* [x] Provide a button for recompiling a linked extension
* [x] Make this action discoverable by adding a button for it on the
Extensions view
* [ ] Surface errors (don't just write them to the Zed log)
Packaging
* [ ] Create a separate executable that performs the extension
compilation. We'll switch the packaging system in our
[extensions](https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions) repo to use
this binary, so that there is one canonical definition of how to
build/package an extensions.
### Release Notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Marshall <marshall@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Marshall Bowers <elliott.codes@gmail.com>
This PR updates the tenses used by the summary line of doc comments to
match the [Rust API documentation
conventions](https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1574-more-api-documentation-conventions.html#summary-sentence).
Specifically:
> The summary line should be written in third person singular present
indicative form. Basically, this means write ‘Returns’ instead of
‘Return’.
I'm sure there are plenty occurrences that I missed.
Release Notes:
- N/A
Piotr Osiewicz