u/zed_joseph

Hey everyone 👋

Over the last year, as promised, we’ve been hard at work on DeltaDB. As we built it, we created a new app so the two could evolve together, quickly and without disrupting the workflows Zed users rely on. We loved using it, so we kept iterating.

Today, we’re ready to introduce that app: Delta, a multiplayer environment for coding with agents and reviewing what they build.

Delta

Delta keeps code and conversations connected, giving developers, teammates, and agents the full context of how the code came to be.

Our push to get Delta ready for beta is why Zed’s release notes may have seemed thinner lately, but Zed isn’t going anywhere. We’ll continue improving it, and DeltaDB will come to Zed in the future.

We’ve been using Delta extensively, building Delta from Delta, and we’re excited for you to finally try it and share your feedback. The first invites are going out today, with more to come over the next few weeks.

https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta

We open-sourced Zed in January 2024.

Since then, more than 84,000 of you have starred the repo, and the community has sent us more thoughtful PRs, issues, ideas, and feedback than we ever expected. ♥️

Along the way, we've gotten to know contributors whose work, care, and consistency have made Zed better for everyone.

So we wanted a more formal way to recognize them.

Introducing the Zed Community Champions program.

We just shipped Terminal Threads in Zed v1.3.5!

You can now run claude, amp, pi, or any terminal-based workflow as a managed thread in the Threads Sidebar, right alongside your other agent threads. Just open a new Terminal Thread from the Agent Panel and your terminal session will appear in the sidebar.

Use Terminal Threads for cli agents, long compiles, eval runs, or anything you want to keep visible and organized in your workspace. You can mix and match as many terminal threads as you like, and keep everything in one place.

This is especially useful for Claude Code users. With upcoming changes to their pricing, Terminal Threads will be the only way to use Claude Code in Zed with your existing subscription.

Give it a try: Download Zed v1.3.5

Anthropic is rolling out billing changes on June 15, and we put together a writeup of what it means for Zed users.

The short version: agent and SDK usage will now draw from a separate credit pool billed at API rates, which is a notable cost increase for heavy users. The good news is that your Claude subscription still works at its usual limits when you run the official `claude` CLI in a terminal. To help soften the impact, next week we're shipping Terminal Threads to Stable, which brings terminal agents into the new Sidebar alongside your native agent threads.

Zed stays open either way. You can bring your own API keys, use Copilot, run local models, or connect any ACP-compatible agent.