Release History
| Date | Version | Changes and additions |
|---|---|---|
| June, 1987 | N/A | Tim Thompson releases Stevie (ST editor for VI enthusiasts), a limited vi clone for the Atari ST, posting the source on Usenet. |
| June, 1988 | N/A | Tony Andrews improves Stevie, and ports it to Unix and OS/2, releasing version 3.10 on Usenet. |
| 1988 | 1.0 | Bram Moolenaar creates Vi IMitation for the Amiga, based on Stevie, never publicly released |
| November 2, 1991 | 1.14 | First public release for the Amiga on Fred Fish disk #591 |
| 1992 | 1.22 | Port to Unix. Vim now competes with vi. |
| December 14, 1993 | 2.0 | This is the first release using the name Vi IMproved. |
| August 12, 1994 | 3.0 | Support for multiple windows |
| May 29, 1996 | 4.0 | Graphical user interface |
| February 19, 1998 | 5.0 | Syntax highlighting, basic scripting (user defined functions, commands, etc.) |
| April 6, 1998 | 5.1 | Bug fixes, various improvements |
| April 27, 1998 | 5.2 | Long line support, file browser, dialogs, popup menu, select mode, session files, user defined functions and commands, Tcl interface, etc. |
| August 31, 1998 | 5.3 | Bug fixes, etc. |
| July 25, 1999 | 5.4 | Basic file encryption, various improvements |
| September 19, 1999 | 5.5 | Bug fixes, various improvements |
| January 16, 2000 | 5.6 | New syntax files, bug fixes, etc. |
| June 24, 2000 | 5.7 | idem |
| May 31, 2001 | 5.8 | idem |
| September 26, 2001 | 6.0 | Folding, plugins, multi-language, etc. |
| March 24, 2002 | 6.1 | Bug fixes |
| June 1, 2003 | 6.2 | GTK2, Arabic language support, :try command, minor features, bug fixes |
| June 7, 2004 | 6.3 | Bug fixes, translation updates, mark improvements |
| October 15, 2005 | 6.4 | Bug fixes, updates to Perl, Python, and Ruby support |
| May 7, 2006 | 7.0 | Spell checking, code completion, tab pages (multiple viewports/window layouts), current line and column highlighting, undo branches, and more |
| May 12, 2007 | 7.1 | Bug fixes, new syntax and runtime files, etc. |
| August 9, 2008 | 7.2 | Floating point support in scripts, refactored screen drawing code, bug fixes, new syntax files, etc. |
| August 15, 2010 | 7.3 | Lua support, Python3 support, Blowfish encryption, persistent undo/redo |
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