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What platforms does Zed support?

Zed supports macOS, Linux, and Windows. You can download the latest builds here.

Asked by Sarai Cohen · Mar 28, 2026

What is "Zednesday"?

We publish new minor patches for Stable and Preview every Wednesday (aside from some holidays), so we internally celebrate it by calling it "Zednesday!" Don't worry, we don't know how to pronounce it either.

Asked by Elena Rossi · Mar 18, 2026

What is Quality Week?

Zed is a large, complex codebase. While we work to ship a steady stream of bug fixes in our releases each week, periodically, we conduct what we refer to as "Quality Week." During this time, we halt work on feature additions and pivot to working solely on user pain points within Zed. Prior to Quality Week, the community team spends time curating a project board of issues. We focus on finding issues that try to balance a small amount of work with a potentially large impact. We prioritize reducing cases where Zed can panic. The overall goal of Quality Week is to ship a more stable, refined Zed.

Asked by Bilal Choudhury · Mar 16, 2026

What can I expect of the beta?

While we are committed to building a stable, professional-grade editor, you'll likely run into bugs and pain points throughout the beta phase. Additionally, Zed may not support all languages you use and may not be available for your preferred operating system. What we can confidently say is that we are working hard to bring you the features, support, and stability you need to make Zed your homebase editor for building great software. As diligent as we try to be with every line of code we write, human error is inevitable, especially during periods of rapid development. Make sure to properly backup any code you are working on in Zed to protect yourself from potential catastrophic events. While we believe Zed to be safe to use, it is always advisable to err on the side of caution in these early stages.

Asked by Jana Krejčí · Mar 11, 2026

What are the release channels?

Nightly: Built daily from the main branch with the latest features. It has not gone through any testing and may have stability issues. Nightly isn't public. Preview: Our weekly release with recent features that have undergone initial internal testing. More stable than Nightly, but potentially less stable than Stable. Preview may contain experimental functionality and might experience reverts of recently-added features. You should anticipate experiencing a higher frequency of updates if you are on Preview. If the frequency of these updates is distracting for you, you can disable automatic update checks via "auto_update": false and run manual update checks via command palette > auto update: check. Stable: Our most production-ready version that has been tested in Preview for a week. This release is recommended for those relying on Zed for mission-critical work. On a typical release Wednesday, we follow these steps: Promote last week's preview to stable The preview branch from the previous week (e.g., v0.180.x) is promoted to stable by taking the most recent preview tag and creating a new tag on the latest commit without the -pre suffix (e.g., v0.180.1-pre → v0.180.1) Create a new preview branch A new branch is forked off of the main branch A tag with a -pre suffix is added to the latest commit (e.g., v0.181.0-pre) to mark the branch as preview Prepare main for the next cycle The version number on main is bumped to the next minor version During the week between minor releases, we

Asked by Lucas Petit · Feb 24, 2026