Zed 1.16.1

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. Shipped by the Zed Guild 🛡️

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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Added Gemini 3.6 Flash to the Google AI models. (#62010; thanks ArneshBanerjee) Added Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Kimi K3, Grok 4.6, and Muse Spark 1.2 to OpenCode Zen. (#61199; thanks Vlaaaaaaad) Added Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, Hy3, GPT 5.6 Luna, Qwen 3.8 Max, and GLM 5.3 to OpenCode Go. (#61199; thanks Vlaaaaaaad) 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) Added the gutter.git_gutter_width setting to the Settings UI with default (font-size-scaled) and custom (fixed pixel width) options. (#62813)

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) 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 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 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 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) Removed OpenCode Free models from Zed's built-in OpenCode provider because they are only available through OpenCode surfaces, such as its external agent through ACP. (#61199; thanks Vlaaaaaaad) Removed the deprecated Claude Opus 4.1 model from OpenCode Zen. (#61199; thanks Vlaaaaaaad)