Zed's development team is actively transitioning the editor to the GPUI 2 framework, with significant progress made on porting complex UI components and improving keyboard event handling. The transition has highlighted the importance of keeping up with external project updates as evidenced by a recent challenge with the TypeScript language server integration, which required swift adaptation to changes in a community project. Other efforts include improving bug fixes and feature stability, particularly in the Prettier and diagnostic UI elements, and enhancing the new theme system to better manage theme overlays and streamline the importing process. The team is also working on an AI dashboard to track user interactions with built-in tools, while seeing a growing user base with over 1,000 weekly active installations. Additionally, they are addressing foundational issues discovered during the UI framework rebuild, such as concurrency bugs, and leveraging Rust's strict requirements to differentiate between system, third-party, and user themes. The team's goal is to make Zed a viable daily driver for developers, with ongoing efforts to refine the new theme and expand the editor's capabilities across different platforms.