The open source code editor Zed has officially released version 1.0. The development team said that this does not mean that the product is "complete" or "perfect", but it means that it has crossed a key threshold, enough for developers to feel more comfortable adopting it in their daily work; if users have experienced Zed in the past year or two and felt that the functionality is still insufficient, it may be worth trying again now, because the editor is now more mature in terms of capabilities and performance than before.
According to this update, Zed 1.0 has added support for DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, these two new models have just been launched recently. At the same time, the new version also brings a bookmark function that can be retained between different sessions, and further enhances the integration with the Git command line, continuing to move closer to a more complete modern development tool form.
In addition to the expansion of AI and development process-related functions, Zed 1.0 also focuses on improving cross-platform consistency. The report pointed out that compared with the previous macOS-based experience, this update allows Windows and Linux users to obtain closer functionality and stability performance, including fixing the abnormal focus problem after Alt-Tab switching on the Windows platform, and the space key input failure in the X11 environment on the Linux platform.
For users who use Vim mode, the new version has also been specifically optimized. The previous interface flickering during mobile operations, as well as the problem that the clipboard content may be overwritten when pasting after visual selection, have been fixed in this update, further improving the smoothness and reliability of the editing process.
However, Zed 1.0 is not just about new features, it also includes a change that may affect the usage habits of some users. The development team has removed the preferred_line_length option in favor of bounded soft wrapping; this adjustment is a breaking update and may cause inconvenience to some users who rely on specific display preferences.
For background, Zed was built by three contributors who had participated in the development of GitHub's Atom text editor. Atom ceased maintenance in 2022, and GitHub shifted its focus to Visual Studio Code at that time; and after Zed was open sourced in 2024, it has received $32 million in financing from Sequoia Capital as a code editor written in Rust. Although the editor itself is free to use, some AI functions are provided for a fee.
For users who have already installed Zed, you can enter the update check through the menu in the upper left corner. Users who have not yet installed it can go to the Zed official website to download and experience this 1.0 official version:
https://zed.dev/download