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).

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