From the Zed Blog: How we broke auto-update in production and what are we going to do going forward.

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Zed's development team broke auto-updating functionality in versions 0.203.0-0.203.4 and 0.204.0 due to a settings parsing change that converted an Option<bool> to bool, causing the system to default to false instead of using fallback values. The bug was caught hours before stable release but communication issues prevented the fix. Users need to manually trigger updates to get fixed versions 0.203.5 or 0.204.1. The team is implementing better escalation processes, simplifying settings code, and adding automated testing to prevent similar issues.

Auto Update Post-Mortem — Zed's Blog

<p>I find the open forward communication about their issues refreshing. I don’t know how they handled other cases. But here, it’s a nice change of pace that they openly address how things went wrong, instead of sweeping it under the rug or blaming others.</p>
