On Mi, 16 Jul 2025, yellowtang wrote:
> I see version 9.1.0821 on the official webpage's download section but > I am seeing more recently tagged versions on the github repo. Does > that imply that subsequent versions not linked on the main page are > considered unstable or dev releases or is the main page simply not > updated as frequently? We don't really have a concept of stable versions. Minor versions (9.1, 9.0, 8.2, 8.1, 8.0) most closely reflect this concept. But since there are several years between a new minor release, I sometimes update the binaries on the Vim.org Homepage when someone asks me nicely about it and has some convincing arguments. Last time, the convincing argument was, that some of those patches fixes security related issues (although we did not really have any serious issues but only rather minor ones). I am currently including daily new minor patches, it just would be much effort for dubious gain to update the binaries on the Vim Homepage every day. On Windows you can however make use of winget, which provides the daily vim.vim.nightly and more stable vim.vim version (roughly every 90 versions) streams. We are now at 9.1.1563 and is has been roughly 1.5 years with many new features since the 9.1 release. I am starting to think about releasing the next minor version around the end of the year so that it's roughly 2 years. But before that, I'd like to have a few month stabilization period. I'll announce this later this year, once the other maintainers are convinced, so stay tuned. Thanks, Christian -- As of next Tuesday, C will be flushed in favor of COBOL. Please update your programs. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/aHlhMOj8OyEWxgf%2B%40256bit.org.
