Zed v1.11 is out, and its headline is a long-overdue upgrade to the Git workflow inside the editor. The release centers on three things: a proper split between staged and unstaged changes, a more informative Git Graph, and a preview pane in the project symbols picker. None of these are flashy AI features, but they're the kind of quality-of-life improvements that make you stop reaching for a terminal or a separate Git GUI.
Staging, finally done right
The biggest addition is the new dedicated Staged Changes and Unstaged Changes views. These are opened via the git: view staged changes and git: view unstaged changes actions. Before this, Zed's Git panel showed all your changes in one flat list, which made it hard to reason about what was actually going into your next commit.
These views are built on top of Zed's multibuffer concept, which is Zed's name for a single editor surface that stitches together excerpts from multiple files. All of the changes displayed behave exactly the same as any other multibuffer: they are all editable excerpts of files, and you can stage or unstage each hunk as well as a whole file by hitting the buttons on the tab bar or their corresponding keybindings. That means you can literally edit your code and stage hunks in the same view, without switching context.
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