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 Lua interface.
Constraints. Vimscript 1 is frozen (no new syntax).
Ubiquity. Embed Neovim everywhere

Concrete high-level feature areas and changes.

0.10+

--remote
multicursor
treesitter: builtin parsers for markdown, ...
vim.iter
vim.lsp.server()
Default colorscheme
Externalized UI: window layout events, ext_statusline
File-change detection
Lua remote plugin host

Completed

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

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