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

• 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

0.12+

• Prepare for 1.0
• Redesign --remote
• File-change detection
• multicursor

0.11

• Redesign (simplify) remote plugin concept, eliminate :UpdateRemotePlugins
• Lua remote plugin host
• Task/Promise/Future abstraction, structured concurrency: vim.async
• Externalized UI: window layout events, messages
• vim.lsp.server()

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.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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