Zilong Liang / Hack Notes on Dec 22, 2025
Since Zig hasn’t hit 1.0 and is still evolving rapidly, following the master branch is common practice for trying out new features and tracking where the language is heading. Even its release notes say “working on a non-trivial project using Zig may require participating in the development process.”
However, nightly master builds quietly stopped on November 26, 2025, when the Zig team announced the migration from GitHub to Codeberg. I assumed the builds were provided by some automation tied to GitHub.
Today, I found that nightly master builds have resumed! The download index JSON used by version managers like ZVM is now being updated again, though the download page hasn’t caught up yet.
Nevertheless, good news! I’m looking forward to trying out exciting follow-ups on the new async I/O.
Zig download page
Update Dec 23, 2025: The download page is now updating again!
TIL: When editing Markdown files in VS Code, you can paste URLs as formatted links via the markdown.editor.pasteUrlAsFormattedLink.enabled setting.
This setting was first introduced in June 2023, with the release of VS Code 1.80.
This is a nice quality-of-life feature. I used to type brackets, parentheses, and URLs manually, always wishing for a simpler way. I’m now using the smart option, which “smartly creates Markdown links by default when not pasting into a code block or other special element.”
Here’s a quick demo:
Paste URLs demo