Roadmap

The roadmap is an overview of the project direction. Detailed plans and priorities are tracked in milestones (these are tentative and may be changed or dropped at any time):

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

Next

Concrete high-level feature areas and changes.

Future (unknown release)

• Prepare for 1.0
• Multicursor, super-macros
• Multibuffer #30463
• packspec / pkg.json
• File-change detection
• Externalized UI: window layout events, messages

0.13: “The year of Batteries Included” (visibility, stdlib features, UI elements)

• UI “block-level elements” so plugins can reason about regions
• UI “affordance” indicator so users know which elements they can interact with
• Unified event interface, nvim_on()
• stdlib: image API
• Task abstraction, structured concurrency: vim.async
• Redesign --remote
• LSP: vim.lsp.server()

0.12: “The year of Nvim OOTB”

• ✅ Plugin manager (vim.pack) #34009
• ✅ No more “Press ENTER” #27855
• UI :connect, :restart#5035
• Lua remote plugin host
• Redesign (simplify) remote plugin concept, eliminate :UpdateRemotePlugins

Completed

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

0.11

• Async tree-sitter (avoids blocking UI/input)
• LSP “config” concept: vim.lsp.config #31031
• LSP: auto-completion (:help lsp-completion)
• LSP: multiclient support
• TUI: URL highlight, theme event
• UI :detach #5035

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