The team behind Zed has cut version 1.5 of its Rust-based editor, a weekly preview drop that focuses less on flashy AI features and more on the small frictions that pile up across a day of coding. The headline trio: a faster Mermaid renderer, clickable document links surfaced by language servers, and the ability to rename agent threads without leaving the sidebar.
Mermaid that keeps up with you
Zed has supported Mermaid diagrams inside markdown previews for a while, but rendering was slow on complex graphs and occasionally produced mangled output. This release improves Mermaid diagram rendering speed and accuracy, and a related fix addresses a crash when rendering Mermaid diagram flowcharts with deeply nested subgraphs. If you keep architecture sketches or sequence diagrams alongside your code, the preview now iterates closer to keystroke speed.
Language servers get clickable
The more interesting addition for anyone who lives in spec files is document-link support straight from the LSP. Zed added support for clickable document links provided by language servers. The practical payoff, as the Zed team illustrates:
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