Vim History - Release Dates of User Versions and Developer Versions

This page shows the "history" of Vim, ie the list of (alpha and beta) versions of Vim from past to present.

This list will be updated with every new release, so it should be ideal to use it with a web notification service if you want to be informed about new releases. Then again, it is probably much easier and better to subscribe to the vim-announce mailing list for this.

Vim Release History

If you are curious about the recent changes then take a look at the announcements. They are listed here with their release dates. User releases are marked with "USER" and development releases are marked with "DEV".

NOTE: Since Vim-5.6 the development of Vim now uses "CVS". Almost 100 patches have been applied to Vim-5.6; this was released as Vim-5.7 which is considered to be the "most stable version ever".

So - please upgrade to Vim-5.7 - thankyou!

Development for Vim-6 is currently in alpha phase. Testing is only suggested for those who know the program well and really know what they are doing. Disclaimer is as usual: Expect loss of data - keep backups! ;-)

VIM History - Official Release Dates of Vim Versions

2001

VIM-6 releases:

DEV  010121	Mon, 21 Jan 00   vim-6.0t
DEV  010114	Mon, 14 Jan 00   vim-6.0s
DEV  010101	Mon, 01 Jan 00   vim-6.0r

2000

VIM-6 releases:

DEV  001217	Sun, 17 Dec 00   vim-6.0q
DEV  001210	Sun, 10 Dec 00   vim-6.0p
DEV  001203	Sun, 03 Dec 00   vim-6.0o
DEV  001119	Sun, 19 Nov 00   vim-6.0n
DEV  001112	Sun, 12 Nov 00   vim-6.0m
DEV  001105	Sun, 05 Nov 00   vim-6.0l
DEV  001029	Sun, 29 Oct 00   vim-6.0k
DEV  001022	Sun, 22 Oct 00   vim-6.0j
DEV  001015	Sun, 15 Oct 00   vim-6.0i
DEV  000831	Thu, 31 Aug 00   vim-6.0h
DEV  000820	Sun, 20 Aug 00   vim-6.0g
DEV  000813	Sun, 13 Aug 00   vim-6.0f
DEV  000806	Sun, 06 Aug 00   vim-6.0e
DEV  000730	Sun, 30 Jul 00   vim-6.0d
DEV  000723	Sun, 23 Jul 00   vim-6.0c
DEV  000716	Sun, 16 Jul 00   vim-6.0b
DEV  000709	Sun, 09 Jul 00   vim-6.0a

VIM-5 releases:

USER 000624	Sat, 24 Jun 00   vim-5.7
USER 000116	Sun, 16 Jan 00   vim-5.6

1999

DEV  990829	Sun, 29 Aug 99   vim-5.5a

USER 990726	Mon, 26 Jul 99   vim-5.4

DEV  990719	Mon, 19 Jul 99   vim-5.4p
DEV  990711	Sun, 11 Jul 99   vim-5.4o
DEV  990621	Wed, 21 Jun 99   vim-5.4n
DEV  990609	Wed, 09 Jun 99   vim-5.4l
DEV  9905??	Sun, 16 May 99   vim-5.4k
DEV  990516	Sun, 16 May 99   vim-5.4j
DEV  990502	Sun, 02 May 99   vim-5.4i
DEV  990418	Sun, 18 Apr 99   vim-5.4h
DEV  990322	Mon, 22 Mar 99   vim-5.4g
DEV  990308	Mon, 08 Mar 99   vim-5.4f
DEV  990217	Wed, 17 Feb 99   vim-5.4e
DEV  990125	Mon, 25 Jan 99   vim-5.4d
DEV  990106	Wed, 06 Jan 99   vim-5.4c
DEV  981221	Mon, 21 Nov 98   vim-5.4b
DEV  981102	Mon, 02 Nov 98   vim-5.4a

USER 980831	Mon, 31 Aug 98   vim-5.3
USER 980824	Mon, 24 Aug 98   vim-5.2

DEV  980817	Mon, 17 Aug 98   vim-5.2k
DEV  980810	Mon, 10 Aug 98   vim-5.2j
DEV  980803	Mon, 03 Aug 98   vim-5.2i
DEV  980727	Mon, 27 Jul 98   vim-5.2h
DEV  980713	Mon, 13 Jul 98   vim-5.2g
DEV  980629	Mon, 29 Jun 98   vim-5.2f
DEV  980615	Mon, 15 Jun 98   vim-5.2e
DEV  980602	Mon, 02 Jun 98   vim-5.2d
DEV  980518	Mon, 18 May 98   vim-5.2c
DEV  980504	Mon, 04 May 98   vim-5.2b

USER 980406	Mon, 06 Mar 98   vim-5.1

DEV  980330	Mon, 30 Mar 98   vim-5.1b
DEV  980316	Mon, 16 Mar 98   vim-5.1a
USER 980219	Thu, 19 Feb 98   vim-5.0

USER 98xxxx	Mon, 16 Feb 98   vim-5.0x
USER 98xxxx	Mon, 09 Feb 98   vim-5.0w
USER 98xxxx	Mon, 26 Jan 98   vim-5.0v
USER 98xxxx	Mon, 12 Jan 98   vim-5.0u
USER 98xxxx	Tue, 23 Dec 97   vim-5.0t
USER 98xxxx	Mon, 08 Dec 97   vim-5.0s

DEV  971124	Mon, 24 Nov 97   vim-5.0r
DEV  971110	Mon, 10 Nov 97   vim-5.0q
DEV  971020	Mon, 20 Okt 97   vim-5.0p
DEV  970929	Mon, 29 Sep 97   vim-5.0o
DEV  970917	Wed, 17 Sep 97   vim-5.0n
DEV  970827	Wed, 27 Aug 97   vim-5.0m
DEV  970728	Mon, 28 Jul 97   vim-5.0l
DEV  970611	Wed, 11 Jun 97   vim-5.0k
DEV  970602	Mon, 02 Jun 97   vim-5.0j
DEV  970527	Tue, 27 May 97   vim-5.0i
DEV  970513	Tue, 13 May 97   vim-5.0h
DEV  970501	Thu, 01 May 97   vim-5.0g
DEV  970423	Wed, 23 Apr 97   vim-5.0f
DEV  970415	Tue, 15 Apr 97   vim-5.0e
DEV  970408	Tue, 08 Apr 97   vim-5.0d
DEV  970402	Wed, 02 Apr 97   vim-5.0c
DEV  97XXXX	XXX, XX XXX XX   vim-5.0b - not released
DEV  97XXXX	XXX, XX XXX XX   vim-5.0a - not released

Vim Milestones

DATE	VERSION	Milestone
2000 Jul 09	Vim 6.0a	Folding (and more)
1998 Feb 19	Vim 5.0	Syntax coloring/highlighting
1996 May 29	Vim 4.0	Graphical User Interface (Robert Webb).
1994 Aug 12	Vim 3.0	Support for multiple buffers and windows.
1992	Vim 1.22	Port to Unix. Vim now competes with Vi. This was when Vim became Vi IMproved.
1991 Nov 2	Vim 1.14	First release (on Fred Fish disk #591).

URL:         http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/hist.html
URL:         http://www.vim.org/hist.html (mirror)
Created:     Thu Jun 11 11:11:11 CEST 1998

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