Zed 1.0 Reaches Stable: GPU-Accelerated Rust Editor with Parallel Agents and ACP External Agent Protocol
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Zed 1.0 shipped April 29–30 with parallel agent execution across the same codebase, Agent Client Protocol (ACP) as a stable integration surface for external agents (Aider, Codex CLI, Claude Code), DeepSeek V4 Pro/Flash model support, bookmarks, git commit view, and a Disable all AI features toggle. Available on macOS, Windows, Linux under Apache 2.0.
Why it matters
Hitting 1.0 stabilizes ACP as a durable cross-agent integration standard, making Zed the first major editor to formally ship a multi-agent protocol at stable. This is relevant for teams that mix multiple coding agent providers and want one editor that surfaces all of them.
Importance: 3/5
Version 1.0 milestone for a notable Rust-native editor with a novel cross-agent protocol.
Sources
official
Zed 1.0 Release — zed.dev