Zed v0.209.6
Zed v0.209.6 was released on .
Summary
- Fixed an issue where having an empty formatter array in your settings "formatter": [] would result in an erroneous prompt to migrate settings. (40932)
Release Context
- This was the 3rd Zed release of 2025 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 2 days after Zed v0.209.5 (October 22, 2025).
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.352 (October 27, 2025)
- v0 2025.10.27 (October 27, 2025)
- Devin Desktop v1.12.27 (October 26, 2025)
- OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.50.0 (October 25, 2025)
- Amp 2025.10.25 (October 25, 2025)
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Release Notes
- Fixed an issue where having an empty formatter array in your settings "formatter": [] would result in an erroneous prompt to migrate settings. (40932)
Other Recent Zed Releases
- v1.28.1 (November 11, 2026)
- v1.27.0 (November 4, 2026)
- v1.26.2 (October 28, 2026)
- v1.25.3 (October 23, 2026)
- v1.25.2 (October 21, 2026)
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