| There will be a post commenting on the release later this week, but the main things are: - neovim now follows the XDG spec: ~/.vimrc is now ~/.config/nvim/init.vim, etc. - the viminfo files were replaced by a new system, "shada" (for shared data) - lots of default settings have changed so it is more sensible[^1] by default The rest is all the new features (when compared with vim): - async execution (`jobstart()` et al), - the extensions to the plugin system, so plugins can run truly asynchronously, - the rpc api, that allows for extended clients. I might be fogetting some things, but these are imho the most outstanding things. [^1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible |