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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.

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Vim Release History

This page lists the "history of Vim", ie every released version (be it alpha or beta) with its release date.

If you are curious about the recent changes then take a look at the announcements. The announcements are marked with a status: 

DEV   Development releases.  First ALPHA, then BETA.
ALPHA The same as "DEV" - for developers only.
BETA  Test phase towards a USER release.
USER  Releases for users.  Usually after a long of time testing.

Since Vim-5.6 the development of Vim is done with CVS (for more info see the CVS page).

Almost a hundred patches have been applied to Vim-5.6; this was released as Vim-5.7 which was considered to be the "most stable version ever".

The following year added 30 more patches to Vim-5.7, so the author released it as Vim-5.8, adding updates to many syntax files. After that, another 30 patches were added to Vim-5.7, which were bundled and released as Vim-5.8 one year after

The latest USER release is Vim-6.0 - released on September 26th 2001. Since then Bram has released over 150 patches to make Vim even more stable than it already was. Also, a lot of syntax files have been added or updated. So - please upgrade to Vim-5.8 - thankyou!

And please send all binary maintainers an email and ask them for upgrades! For example - Debian has made Vim-6.0.093 available now [020130].

VIM History - Official Release Dates of Vim Versions 

2002
020130:  Vim-6.0.153
2001
VIM-6 releases:
USER 010927	Thu, 27 Sep 01   vim-6.0
BETA 010921	Fri, 21 Sep 01   vim-6.0ax
BETA 010916	Sun, 16 Sep 01   vim-6.0aw
BETA 010910	Mon, 10 Sep 01   vim-6.0av
BETA 010902	Sun, 02 Sep 01   vim-6.0au GOLDEN BETA!
BETA 010827	Mon, 27 Aug 01   vim-6.0at
BETA 010819	Sun, 19 Aug 01   vim-6.0as
BETA 010812	Sun, 12 Aug 01   vim-6.0ar
BETA 010805	Sun, 05 Aug 01   vim-6.0aq
BETA 010722	Thu, 29 Jul 01   vim-6.0ap
DEV  010722	Thu, 22 Jul 01   vim-6.0ao
DEV  010712	Thu, 12 Jul 01   vim-6.0an
DEV  010701	Sun, 01 Jul 01   vim-6.0am
DEV  010624	Sun, 24 Jun 01   vim-6.0al
DEV  010617	Sun, 17 Jun 01   vim-6.0ak
DEV  010610	Sun, 10 Jun 01   vim-6.0aj
DEV  010603	Sun, 03 Jun 01   vim-6.0ai
DEV  010527	Sun, 27 May 01   vim-6.0ah
DEV  010520	Sun, 20 May 01   vim-6.0ag
DEV  010513	Sun, 13 May 01   vim-6.0af
DEV  010506	Sun, 06 May 01   vim-6.0ae
DEV  010429	Sun, 29 Apr 01   vim-6.0ad
DEV  010422	Sun, 22 Apr 01   vim-6.0ac
DEV  010416	Mon, 16 Apr 01   vim-6.0ab
DEV  010404	Wed, 04 Apr 01   vim-6.0aa
DEV  010318	Sat, 24 Mar 01   vim-6.0z
DEV  010318	Sun, 18 Mar 01   vim-6.0y
DEV  010311	Sun, 11 Mar 01   vim-6.0x
DEV  010226	Mon, 26 Feb 01   vim-6.0w
DEV  010204	Sun, 04 Feb 01   vim-6.0u
DEV  010121	Mon, 21 Jan 01   vim-6.0t
DEV  010114	Mon, 14 Jan 01   vim-6.0s
DEV  010101	Mon, 01 Jan 01   vim-6.0r
2000
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 010531	Thu, 31 May 01   vim-5.8
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
2001 ??? ?? Vim 6.0 Folding (and more)
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:         https://www.vim8.org/hist.html (mirror)
Created:     Thu Jun 11 11:11:11 CEST 1998
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