v1.6.0

This release brings the fork up to upstream Zed as of 2026-10-08 (zed-industries@b47a4ca595).

Fork changes

Language servers in background projects

With several projects open in one window, the language servers of a background project could restart every few hundred milliseconds without end. Each restart leaked a handle into every extension that the servers called, and after a few minutes every call into those extensions failed with "resource table has no free keys". kjanat/zed-editor#194 fixes both and makes the LSP menu show every server that is not running.

• No restart loop. An editor in a suspended project no longer resumes it for document highlights, code actions or linked edits. Hover, completions, formatting and the other requests you make still resume the project.
• Extension handles. Each call into an extension frees the worktree, project and key-value store handles it lent, on success and on error, and dropping an HTTP response stream frees it too.
• Reload extensions. zed: reload extensions reloads every installed extension, so each one starts again with an empty resource table.

LSP menu

• A server that failed to start keeps a red row with its error under its worktree, and a stopped server keeps a grey row with Start Server. Each worktree gets its own row, so a server stopped in one worktree stays visible while it runs in another. (kjanat/zed-editor#194)
• Start Server after Stop All Servers starts only that server, and the others stay stopped. A language opened later starts its server as usual. (kjanat/zed-editor#194)
• Start Server and Restart Server stay disabled until a file of the server's languages is open in its worktree, and the menu says so. (kjanat/zed-editor#194)
• SSH projects list their stopped and failed servers, and Restart All Servers restarts them on the host. Collab guests, including guests of a shared SSH project, see the host's running, stopped and failed servers and its restarts. (kjanat/zed-editor#194)

Displays

• Fixed a crash on Windows when a display change arrived while Zed was inside an app update. (kjanat/zed-editor#191)
• On X11, a resolution or rotation change from xrandr reaches Zed. (kjanat/zed-editor#191)
• On macOS and Windows, a window that moves to another display reads that display's current refresh rate. (kjanat/zed-editor#191)

Builds and releases

• The pacman packages of this release were built outside GitHub Actions and carry no build provenance attestation.

From upstream

• Fixed text duplication when converting case with multiple cursors in one word (zed-industries/zed#65291).
• Fixed a crash on Linux when EGL failed without reporting an error (zed-industries/zed#65329).
• Fixed transparent Threads Sidebar backgrounds in some themes (zed-industries/zed#65343).
• The debugger terminal panel supports search (zed-industries/zed#56863).
• The branch picker explains what deleting a remote-tracking branch does (zed-industries/zed#61793).
• Markdown aligns images in HTML blocks (zed-industries/zed#63166), and a code block's scrollbar track stays inside its rounded corners (zed-industries/zed#64978).
• Agent elicitations are cancelled when the agent disconnects (zed-industries/zed#65282), and threads that cannot restore checkpoints no longer create them (zed-industries/zed#65304).

Full Changelog: v1.5.1...v1.6.0