Publicise zed nightly releases

[nesrve]

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Hello 👋 , I think publicising the nighty releases would be a great addition to the preview releases, I'd like to be able to use the latest features when I'm contributing to Zed. At the moment, I believe if one wants the nightly releases they'd have to manually download the dmg from a workflow in the latest commit (correct me if I'm wrong), which seems very inconvenient.

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[ConradIrwin]

Although you are welcome to build and run any version of Zed you wish (yay open source), for now we're not going to make our internal nightly builds "public"

The main reason for this is to reduce time we spend "not writing code":

• we don't need to write release notes
• we don't need to worry about merging a change to main that might break things
• we don't need to process bug reports from external people on nightly

This may change in the future, but for now we'd prefer you use Preview (or build your own!).

[d1y]

I think this problem has been fixed, but the version was not released in time, which made me switch back to vscode immediately

• the release notes not a problem, just use all-commit-message directly

• after using the night version, we have agreed not to report any bugs that may occur during the use of night

Let's open up the night version, open door

[ConradIrwin]

Thanks for calling that out @d1y. One thing that we're not good at is getting fixes into preview – which we need to do to prevent regressions going to stable. I'll make sure that fix is in both.

[jaydenseric]

How do you configure Zed auto updates to opt into prerelease updates? There are fixes and features in prereleases (e.g. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases/tag/v0.125.0-pre) that I want to use now, instead of waiting several days or a week for the next release.

[Moshyfawn]

How do you configure Zed auto updates to opt into prerelease updates? There are fixes and features in prereleases (e.g. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases/tag/v0.125.0-pre) that I want to use now, instead of waiting several days or a week for the next release.

There are no release channels in the way you're describing. You can download Zed Preview from the Preview Releases page.. It'll share your Zed config as well.