Roadmap

The roadmap defines the project direction. 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.
• todo holds low-priority items.
• unplanned holds zero-priority items (no feasible path to completion).

Next

0.5

• Lua remote plugin host
• Lua user-config: init.lua
• Treesitter syntax engine #10124
• Code navigation client (LSP)
• Extended marks (text properties)

0.6

• Better file-change detection

Future/Long-term

• Embed Neovim everywhere
• Externalized UI: window layout events
• Syntax API: allow clients to query and define syntax groups, text attributes

Completed

0.4

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

0.3.x

• API: buffer update events
• VimL 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