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). New features are that way 👉
• Ubiquity. Embed Neovim everywhere

Next

Concrete high-level feature areas and changes.

0.8+

• TUI as a remote UI
• Lua script runner: nvim -l
• Lua API improvements
• LSP support improvements (v3.16 spec coverage, configuration)

0.9+

• File-change detection
• Default colorscheme
• Externalized UI: window layout events, ext_statusline
• Lua remote plugin host

Completed

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

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

0.5.1

• Lua API improvements
• LSP support improvements (v3.16 spec coverage, configuration)

0.5

• 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

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.

Visit #neovim:matrix.org or #neovim on irc.libera.chat to chat with the team.

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