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Velocity0.0

Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor

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Neovim's 0.12 line is into patch territory, four releases in, with no notes in the feed.

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◆Current state
Neovim shipped 0.12.0 at the end of March and has issued four patches since — 0.12.1 in April, 0.12.2 and 0.12.3 together in June, 0.12.4 in July. Every entry in the feed is the same install boilerplate: build type, LuaJIT version, download and extraction steps per platform. The changelog and news are linked rather than included, so what each patch fixed is not observable here.
◆Where it's heading
The release rhythm is a stable line settling down: a minor release, then patches at roughly monthly intervals, with the old 0.11 branch given a final 0.11.7 ninety minutes after 0.12.0 landed. Patch spacing is widening rather than tightening, which is what a maturing branch looks like.
◆Prediction
Expect continued 0.12.x patches on a monthly-to-six-week rhythm until a 0.13 development cycle opens. The feed gives no signal about what lands next, since it carries installation instructions rather than release notes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Nvim 0.12.4

    The fourth patch on the 0.12 line, arriving a month after the previous pair. As with every entry in this feed, the body is install instructions, so the fixes it carries are not visible from here.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Nvim 0.12.3

    Published thirty seconds after 0.12.2, which points to a re-cut rather than a separate round of work. No release notes accompany it.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Nvim 0.12.2

    The June patch, immediately superseded by 0.12.3 in the same minute. Contents are behind the linked changelog.

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  4. 4mo ago

    Nvim 0.12.1

    First patch after the 0.12 minor, a week out from release — the usual shakeout window. The entry documents installation, not changes.

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  5. 4mo ago

    Nvim 0.12.0

    The 0.12 minor release, the one entry here that marks a branch transition rather than a patch. Its actual feature content sits in the linked changelog and :help news, so the milestone is legible from the version number alone.

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  6. 4mo ago

    Nvim 0.11.7

    A final 0.11 patch cut ninety minutes before 0.12.0, closing out the previous stable line as the new one opened. Boilerplate body, no notes.

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