Releases

Vim 8.0 is finally out! The Vim 8.0 announcement includes an overview of the main features of this major release. One of the significant changes is asynchronous I/O, which means plugins can execute without blocking Vim’s UI. The communication protocol used for this supports JSON, which means you can write servers…

After a successful beta, Vim 7.4 was released. The main feature of this release is a faster regular expression engine, but as Bram points out there are over a thousand fixes and small improvements.

If you want to upgrade, you can download it from the Vim download page. I upgraded my…

A beta of Vim 7.4 has been released. One of the significant changes is a new regular expression engine:

Announcing:  Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.4a BETA

This is the first BETA release of Vim 7.4.

Please check that the…

It turns out Vim did reach version 7.3.999, and then 7.3.1000 and beyond:

• 7.3.999 — New regexp engine sets curbuf temporarily, use reg_buf instead, like the old engine
• 7.3.1000 — Typo in char value causes out of bounds access, fix…

In a somewhat lighthearted announcement on vim_announce, Bram Moolenaar announced Vim 7.4:

We are now at patch level 7.3.931. In a few weeks we would reach 999. I don’t want to find out what happens if we go over that, so it’s time for Vim 7.4!