# Auto Update Post-Mortem

DevFeed: [Auto Update Post-Mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/auto-update-post-mortem-13424.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://zed.dev/blog/auto-update-post-mortem>)

Author: Conrad Irwin

Published: 2025-09-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Zed Industries - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/zed-industries-blog.md>)

Topics: [Post Mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/post-mortem.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bug.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>)

Tags: [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

Zed explains how a settings-parsing change broke automatic updates in production for versions 0.203.0-0.203.4 and 0.204.0. The article identifies the fallback bug, lists fixed versions and recovery steps, and discusses testing and release-process improvements.

## Source excerpt

How we broke auto-update in production and how we're addressing it.