Zed v1.16.0-pre

This week's release includes Gemini 3.6 Flash support, collapsible grouped changes and optional stash messages in the Git Panel, zooming and horizontal scrolling for Mermaid diagrams, and a new setting for controlling whether the Terminal Panel opens automatically in new workspaces.

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• Improved Git Panel organization by making grouped change sections collapsible. (#62441; thanks chirivelli)
• Linux: Improved memory usage. (#62192; thanks tidely)
• Fixed a bug where update checks for extension-provided language servers could get stuck on flaky internet connections. (#62175; thanks vitallium)
• Fixed directional focus navigation into the Git Panel's History tab. (#62215; thanks feeiyu)
• Fixed language server RPC logs displaying untimed requests beneath an unrelated response's duration header. (#61452; thanks aviatesk)

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Features

AI

• Added Gemini 3.6 Flash to the Google AI models. (#62010; thanks ArneshBanerjee)
• Improved the terminal tool's ability to target project subdirectories. (#59937; thanks infogulch)
• Improved Agent Panel terminals to shrink after being cleared. (#62504)

Git

• Added an optional message prompt when stashing changes. (#62439; thanks Priyadharshan0903)
• Added Copy Path and Copy Relative Path options to the Git Panel context menu. (#62352; thanks Huliiiiii)

Vim / Helix

• Added support for using tab and shift-tab to navigate the code actions menu in Helix mode. (#62356; thanks Huliiiiii)

Languages

• Added highlighting for Python dunder variables via attribute.special in themes. (#58158; thanks allachance)
• Added a suggestion to install the windows-batch extension when opening .bat and .cmd files. (#62363; thanks pleahmacaka)
• Improved navigation of wide Markdown tables by adding horizontal scrollbars. (#61745; thanks Zeraphim)

Terminal

• Added terminal.starts_open to control whether the Terminal Panel opens automatically in new workspaces. (#54373; thanks jknlsn)

Other

• Improved Mermaid diagrams with zooming and horizontal scrolling in the Markdown Preview and Agent Panel. (#62115)
• Added frame-rendering performance data to the diagnostics Zed collects when telemetry is enabled, helping identify stutters and dropped frames. (#61871)
• Improved loading spinners to rotate in phase with one another. (#62332)
• Improved the Text Finder by highlighting queries as regular expressions when the regex filter is enabled. (#61128; thanks apoorva-01)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the terminal tool failing to block path traversal escapes. (#59937; thanks infogulch)
• Fixed the terminal tool targeting absolute directories on Windows hosts connected to remote SSH or WSL projects. (#59937; thanks infogulch)
• Fixed undoing or redoing Project Panel operations potentially trashing files with unsaved edits without confirmation. (#62294)
• Fixed word movement and selection stopping on the wrong side of punctuation. (#62224)
• Fixed IOPub connection failures over SSH on slow or unstable connections by retrying with exponential backoff. (#62358; thanks marsjane and MostlyKIGuess for the earlier implementation in #52302)
• Fixed alt-shift gestures potentially triggering standalone shift keybindings. (#62036; thanks terror)
• Fixed cmd-click go-to-definition falling back to a references multibuffer when lsp_results_location was set to picker. (#61187; thanks savked)
• Fixed a bug where a worktree was reported as entirely ignored when its repository's info/exclude named one of the worktree's parent directories. (#62325; thanks hferreiro)
• Fixed a bug where expanding a "Context Compacted" message in the Agent Panel scrolled to the end of the thread instead of preserving the scroll position. (#62210)
• Fixed a bug where renaming a symbol also renamed its file but left the open buffer at the old path. (#61142; thanks tnayuki)
• Fixed auto-indent occasionally using stale syntax after rapid edits. (#62024)
• Fixed hover interactions not updating when interface elements moved beneath a stationary pointer. (#62335)
• Fixed images not rendering in Markdown Preview over remote connections. (#62490)
• Fixed incorrect symbol types in workspace symbol search. (#62458; thanks Huliiiiii)
• Fixed Markdown previews not respecting the scrollbar.show setting. (#60410; thanks akshitj11)
• Fixed Mermaid diagrams in Markdown previews when they used triple-tilde fences. (#62257; thanks KimSeogyu)
• Fixed Mermaid entity-relationship diagrams with multibyte attribute tokens failing to render. (#62236)
• Fixed missing separators between OpenAI reasoning summaries. (#62466)
• Fixed remote SFTP uploads for paths containing spaces. (#62239; thanks twitchyliquid64)
• Fixed the error toast not appearing for malformed tasks.json files. (#62387)
• Fixed Zed hanging when opening certain binary files, such as game assets and maps, that were misdetected as UTF-16 text. (#61250; thanks MillhioreBT)

Breaking Changes and Notices

• Changed the default model for OpenAI subscription users to GPT-5.6 Sol. (#62477)