# Zed v1.17.1-pre

- Product: Zed (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zed)
- Vendor: Zed Industries
- Date: 2026-08-24
- Version: v1.17.1-pre
- Original notes: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases/tag/v1.17.1-pre
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zed/releases/v1.17.1-pre
- Labels: Pre-release

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- **security** — Fixed a potential filesystem sandbox escape when running extensions
- **fixed** — Fixed GitHub Copilot Chat authentication and API routing for GitHub Enterprise Cloud
- **fixed** — Fixed project-level language server settings being ignored by extensions built with extension API versions before and including v0.1.0
- **changed** — Disable ask_user tool by default
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where Flatpak CLI launches would open unrelated or nonexistent files due to a bug in argument construction

- Fixed a potential filesystem sandbox escape when running extensions. ([#63144](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/63144))
- Fixed GitHub Copilot Chat authentication and API routing for GitHub Enterprise Cloud ([#63141](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/63141))
- Fixed project-level language server settings being ignored by extensions built with extension API versions before and including v0.1.0. ([#63082](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/63082))
- Disable ask_user tool by default ([#63038](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/63038))
- Fixed an issue where Flatpak CLI launches would open unrelated/nonexistent files due to a bug in argument construction ([#62958](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/62958))