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Updated to Vim 9.0.1677

MacVim release-177 download MacVim release-177 download (10.9-10.12)

Announcements

Website

The official website for MacVim is now https://macvim.org. Previously it just forwarded to https://macvim-dev.github.io/macvim/ (#1385).

You can also now read the MacVim documentation at https://macvim.org/docs/gui_mac.txt.html. See #1382 for announcement.

Features

Updater / What's New page

There is now a "What's New" page that will automatically be shown whenever MacVim detected that it has been updated to a new version (can be disabled in Settings). The page will also include all the release notes if you have updated across multiple versions. This feature is useful for users who turned on "Automatically install updates" or installs MacVim through other methods like Homebrew but would still like to see the release notes when a new version comes out. You can also access it through the Help menu. #1414

MacVim should now report its version in a much more consistent manner in the "About MacVim" page and when the updater reports there is a new version. It should look something like "r176 (Vim 9.0.1276)" where "r176" is the MacVim release number and the 9.0.1276 is the bundled Vim version. #1293 #1393

Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.4.2. #1416

New Vim features

  • New bundled colorschemes: wildcharm/retrobox/sorbet/zaibatsu (vim/vim#12163)
  • File encryption now has a new cryptmethod: xchacha20v2, which is designed to be more forward compatible with future Vim versions than xchacha20. (v9.0.1481)
  • switchbuf works for more commands. (v9.0.1546)
  • Statusline now supports multiple alignment "%=" items. (v9.0.1300)
  • New UTF-16 utility functions (strutf16len and utf16idx) (v9.0.1485)
  • Misc 'smoothscroll' bugs fixes

General

  • Removed non-Unicode localization files, which helps cut down on app size. #1397
  • Miscellaneous documentation fixes. #1415 #1375 #1386 #1363 (by @dkav)
  • The disk image for MacVim (MacVim.dmg) is now in APFS and uses better compression for better efficiency. #1409

Fixes

  • Printing a file in macOS 13 Ventura (using :hardcopy or File→Print) should work again. #1390
  • Fixed a broken symlink to XPCServices in the Sparkle framework. #1367
  • Fixed MacVim to not throw (safe) Objective C exceptions when quitting. #1371
  • Fixed welcome message not being aligned properly in Simplified Chinese and show the Vim 9 prompt. #1381
  • Removed some unnecessary test files in the runtime folders which were included erroneously. #1418

Scripting

  • Scripting languages versions:
    • Python is now built against 3.11, up from 3.10.
Compatibility

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above. (10.9 - 10.12 requires downloading a separate legacy build)

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

  • Lua 5.4
  • Perl 5.30
  • Python2 2.7
  • Python3 3.11
  • Ruby 3.2

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