Roadmap

This roadmap gives an overview of the project direction. A detailed list of features planned or under consideration can be found in the project boards; priorities are tracked by milestones:

• Version numbers (0.1, 0.2, 0.2.1, …) track production releases. The next upcoming version has a target date.
• backlog holds low-priority items.
• unplanned holds zero-priority items (no feasible path to completion).

Note that all of these are tentative and can be changed, moved, or dropped at any time.

Major Topics

These are the current themes driving our work.

• Architecture, Interfaces, Editor: (API, Lua, treesitter, UI)
• Surface area. Deprecate old APIs, delete/rename/unify some interfaces. Fewer, more-composable concepts.
• Constraints. Vimscript 1 is frozen (no new syntax).
• Ubiquity. Embed Neovim everywhere

Next

Concrete high-level feature areas and changes.

0.12+

• Prepare for 1.0
• Redesign --remote
• File-change detection
• multicursor
• Task/Promise/Future abstraction, structured concurrency: vim.async

0.11

• Redesign (simplify) remote plugin concept, eliminate :UpdateRemotePlugins
• Lua remote plugin host
• UI detach, :connect: #5035
• Externalized UI: window layout events, messages
• vim.lsp.server()
• LSP: auto-completion (on_attach config)

Completed

Here are the headline features of the previous releases; for details see the corresponding release notes.

0.10

• Default colorscheme
• LSP inlay hints
• TermRequest, TermResponse
• treesitter: builtin parsers for bash, markdown, python
• vim.snippet
• vim.iter
• vim.lpeg, vim.re, vim.glob, vim.base64

0.9

• TUI as a remote UI
• LSP semantic token highlighting
• EditorConfig support
• 'exrc' and related "trust database" features
• 'statuscolumn'
• 'diffopt' "linematch" feature
• :Inspect, :InspectTree
• vim.loader optimized Lua module loader
• vim.version semver module
• $NVIM_APPNAME
• Lua script runner: nvim -l

0.8

• LSP improvements (v3.16 spec coverage, configuration, LspAttach)
• Lua API: vim.fs, vim.cmd{}, measure require() in --startuptime, :map/:command/:au can print Lua source location
• treesitter API: use queries to define spellcheck regions (aka "spellsitter")
• vim.ui_attach()
• UI and RPC performance
• user-defined command preview
• cmdheight=0
• clickable statusline

0.7

• Tree-sitter integration (highlighting, folds)
• TUI: extended keys (CTRL-i vs TAB, SHIFT modifier, …!)
• Global statusline: laststatus=3

0.6

• Unified diagnostics API
• Updated defaults

0.5 + 0.5.1

• Expanded Lua API and user config (init.lua)
• Built-in Language Server Protocol (LSP) support
• Tree-sitter integration (experimental)
• Decorations API improvements: extmarks, virtual text, highlights
• Lua API improvements
• LSP support improvements

0.4

• Lua "stdlib"
• Externalized UI: multigrid
• Externalized UI: floating windows
• Externalized UI: messages

0.3.x

• API: buffer update events
• Vimscript expression parser: nvim_parse_expression()
• Windows: MSVC support
• 0.2.1 Built-in Lua:vim.api, :lua, nvim_execute_lua(), …
• 0.2.1 Externalize UI components: cmdline, wildmenu
• 0.2.1 Windows :terminal
• 0.2.1 Pre-packaged "universal" binary for Linux

0.2.x

• Windows support
• Externalized UI: popumenu
• Externalized UI: tabline
• Pre-packaged builds for Windows and macOS

0.1.x

• First public release
• Publish a stable product that can be used as a benchmark for progress

What is Neovim?

Neovim is a Vim-based text editor engineered for extensibility and usability, to encourage new applications and contributions.

• Vision
• Roadmap

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