Neovim v0.8.0 has been released.

Major feature changes

• runtime: Enable filetype.lua by default (#19216)
• Add undo!
• Add “prerelease” to version dict
• Click support for ‘statusline’, ‘winbar’ #18650
• Add preview functionality to user commands
• allow Cmdheight=0 (EXPERIMENTAL) #16251
• Stdpath(‘run’), /tmp/nvim.user/ #18993
• Add ‘mousescroll’ option (#12355)
• Allow :wincmd to accept a count (#19815)
• Multibuffer preview support for inccommand
• Man: Port to Lua (#19912)

See the release note for details.

Neovim is a fork of Vim,Aims to improve the codebase, allow easier API implementation, improve user experience and plugin implementation. Neovim has 30% less source code than Vim.

Its goals are:

• Refactor code to improve maintenance
• Implement new advanced features
• Demonstrate a better and more powerful plugin system
• Open development model, accepting contributions at any time, and the acceptance criteria are also very clear.

characteristic:

• modern graphical user interface
• Access APIs from any language, including C/C++, C#, Clojure, D, Elixir, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Julia, Lisp, Lua, Perl, Python, Racket, Ruby, Rust
• Embedded, scriptable terminal emulator
• Asynchronous job control
• Shared data (shada) between multiple editor instances.
• Support XDG base directory
• Compatible with most Vim plugins, including Ruby and Python plugins