Skip to content

Conversation

@ychin
Copy link
Member

@ychin ychin commented Mar 3, 2025

CI is currently failing since :highlight auto-complete relies on loading v:colornames implicitly, but MacVim has its own special handling and parses a bundled Colors.plist file instead, which bypasses the whole system. Colors.plist was added a long time ago as Vim did not have a good cross-platform way to specify colors by names, but this has been alleviated upstream a while ago via runtime/colors/lists/default.vim which gets sourced for default color values.

To fix this, simply remove the file, as it serves no purpose anymore. Also remove custom hex color parsing logic which also should simply defer to Vim instead.

@ychin ychin added this to the Release 182 milestone Mar 3, 2025
@ychin ychin force-pushed the remove-colors-plist-fix-ci branch 2 times, most recently from 4029990 to 55ee9af Compare March 3, 2025 03:41
CI is currently failing since :highlight auto-complete relies on loading
v:colornames implicitly, but MacVim has its own special handling and
parses a bundled Colors.plist file instead, which bypasses the whole
system.  Colors.plist was added a long time ago as Vim did not have a
good cross-platform way to specify colors by names, but this has been
alleviated upstream a while ago via runtime/colors/lists/default.vim
which gets sourced for default color values.

To fix this, simply remove the file, as it serves no purpose anymore.
Also remove custom hex color parsing logic which also should simply
defer to Vim instead.
@ychin ychin force-pushed the remove-colors-plist-fix-ci branch from 55ee9af to 117efc7 Compare March 3, 2025 03:42
@ychin ychin merged commit 15cd80a into macvim-dev:master Mar 3, 2025
4 of 5 checks passed
@ychin ychin deleted the remove-colors-plist-fix-ci branch March 3, 2025 03:43
ychin added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 29, 2025
Updated to Vim 9.1.1887

This update is still built against macOS 15 Sequoia, and does not
contain any specific fixes or improvements for macOS 26 Tahoe. That will
come in a future update.

Announcements
====================

Moving macOS 10.13 - 10.15 support to legacy release
--------------------

Currently, MacVim binary releases are available in two versions: a
normal version (macOS 10.13 or above), and a legacy version (macOS
10.9-10.12). Starting next release (r183), the normal version will
require macOS 11 or above (due to Xcode 26 requirements), and macOS
10.13-10.15 users will need to use the legacy version instead. This will
mostly be a transparent change, and the updater will automatically
update to the right version. The legacy version should be almost
identical to said users as they are using older versions of macOS that
can't make use of newer OS features to begin with.

In the future we may remove support for macOS 10.9-10.12 but for now
they are still supported.

Features
====================

Better mouse support
--------------------

- Scroll wheels should feel much better to use in MacVim. A small scroll
  is now guaranteed to scroll at least one line, and shift-scrolling
  (horizontal scroll) works correctly now. You can now also turn off
  macOS's scroll wheel acceleration to scroll a fixed amount of lines in
  the "Input" settings pane. #1566
- Mouse buttons 4 and 5 can now be bound to `<X1Mouse>` and `<X2Mouse>`
  in Vim mappings (`:h X1Mouse`). #1534

New Vim Features
====================

- Diff mode improvements
    - Vim diff can now highlight per-character or per-word differences
      within a line. Per-character highlighting is now used by default.
      See `:h diffopt` under "inline". v9.1.1242
    - Diff anchors allow for more explicit controls over how and where
      the diff algorithm aligns text across files (`:h diff-anchors`).
      v9.1.1557
- Lots of auto-completion improvements. Some highlights below:
    - New option: `autocomplete`. Get completion suggestions as you
      type. See `:h ins-autocompletion`. v9.1.1590
    - Fuzzy matching now uses the fzf algorithm. v9.1.1627
    - Popup menu borders can now be styled (`:h pumborder` / `:h
      completepopup`). v9.1.1835 / v9.1.1856
    - Can now specify a custom completion source when using insert-mode
      completion (`:h 'complete'`). v9.1.1301
    - `set completeopt+=nearest` will sort completion items by proximity
      to the cursor. v9.1.1308
    - Command-line completion
        - Search commands like `/` and `:g` can be tab-completed now.
          v9.1.1490 v9.1.1526
        - Commands like `:filetype` and `:highlight` have better
          auto-completion. v9.1.1340 / v9.1.1138
- New vertical tab panel. v9.1.1490
- new bundled optional plugins (use `packadd` to enable them):
    - hlyank (`:h package-hlyank`): Briefly highlight region of last
      yank command
- new commands:
    - `:uniq` (`:h :uniq`): Remove duplicate adjacent lines v9.1.1477

General
====================

- Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.8.0. #1605

Security Fixes
====================

- Fixed MacVim erroneously setting the get-task-allow entitlement, which
  could allow another user-installed application to inspect it
  (CVE-2025-8597) #1585

Fixes
====================

- Fixed issue where macOS services (available in the "Services" menu)
  could not insert text when not in visual mode. #1571 #1569
- Fixed issue where guifont did not accept PostScript names with
  underscores (e.g. "CascadiaMono-Regular_Light"). #1600
- MacVim now uses the standard `v:colornames` variable for choosing
  highlight colors. #1568
- Vim syntax now understands MacVim-specific function
  `showdefinition()`. #1601

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 5.34
- Python2 2.7
- Python3 3.9 or above
- Ruby 3.4
ychin added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 29, 2025
Updated to Vim 9.1.1887

This update is still built against macOS 15 Sequoia, and does not
contain any specific fixes or improvements for macOS 26 Tahoe. That will
come in a future update.

Announcements
====================

Moving macOS 10.13 - 10.15 support to legacy release
--------------------

Currently, MacVim binary releases are available in two versions: a
normal version (macOS 10.13 or above), and a legacy version (macOS
10.9-10.12). Starting next release (r183), the normal version will
require macOS 11 or above (due to Xcode 26 requirements), and macOS
10.13-10.15 users will need to use the legacy version instead. This will
mostly be a transparent change, and the updater will automatically
update to the right version. The legacy version should be almost
identical to said users as they are using older versions of macOS that
can't make use of newer OS features to begin with.

In the future we may remove support for macOS 10.9-10.12 but for now
they are still supported.

Features
====================

Better mouse support
--------------------

- Scroll wheels should feel much better to use in MacVim. A small scroll
  is now guaranteed to scroll at least one line, and shift-scrolling
  (horizontal scroll) works correctly now. You can now also turn off
  macOS's scroll wheel acceleration to scroll a fixed amount of lines in
  the "Input" settings pane. #1566
- Mouse buttons 4 and 5 can now be bound to `<X1Mouse>` and `<X2Mouse>`
  in Vim mappings (`:h X1Mouse`). #1534

New Vim Features
====================

- Diff mode improvements
    - Vim diff can now highlight per-character or per-word differences
      within a line. Per-character highlighting is now used by default.
      See `:h diffopt` under "inline". v9.1.1242
    - Diff anchors allow for more explicit controls over how and where
      the diff algorithm aligns text across files (`:h diff-anchors`).
      v9.1.1557
- Lots of auto-completion improvements. Some highlights below:
    - New option: `autocomplete`. Get completion suggestions as you
      type. See `:h ins-autocompletion`. v9.1.1590
    - Fuzzy matching now uses the fzf algorithm. v9.1.1627
    - Popup menu borders can now be styled (`:h pumborder` / `:h
      completepopup`). v9.1.1835 / v9.1.1856
    - Can now specify a custom completion source when using insert-mode
      completion (`:h 'complete'`). v9.1.1301
    - `set completeopt+=nearest` will sort completion items by proximity
      to the cursor. v9.1.1308
    - Command-line completion
        - Search commands like `/` and `:g` can be tab-completed now.
          v9.1.1490 v9.1.1526
        - Commands like `:filetype` and `:highlight` have better
          auto-completion. v9.1.1340 / v9.1.1138
- New vertical tab panel. v9.1.1490
- new bundled optional plugins (use `packadd` to enable them):
    - hlyank (`:h package-hlyank`): Briefly highlight region of last
      yank command
- new commands:
    - `:uniq` (`:h :uniq`): Remove duplicate adjacent lines v9.1.1477

General
====================

- Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.8.0. #1605

Security Fixes
====================

- Fixed MacVim erroneously setting the get-task-allow entitlement, which
  could allow another user-installed application to inspect it
  (CVE-2025-8597) #1585

Fixes
====================

- Fixed issue where macOS services (available in the "Services" menu)
  could not insert text when not in visual mode. #1571 #1569
- Fixed issue where guifont did not accept PostScript names with
  underscores (e.g. "CascadiaMono-Regular_Light"). #1600
- MacVim now uses the standard `v:colornames` variable for choosing
  highlight colors. #1568
- Vim syntax now understands MacVim-specific function
  `showdefinition()`. #1601

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 5.34
- Python2 2.7
- Python3 3.9 or above
- Ruby 3.4
ychin added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 29, 2025
Updated to Vim 9.1.1887

This update is still built against macOS 15 Sequoia, and does not
contain any specific fixes or improvements for macOS 26 Tahoe. That will
come in a future update.

Announcements
====================

Moving macOS 10.13 - 10.15 support to legacy release
--------------------

Currently, MacVim binary releases are available in two versions: a
normal version (macOS 10.13 or above), and a legacy version (macOS
10.9-10.12). Starting next release (r183), the normal version will
require macOS 11 or above (due to Xcode 26 requirements), and macOS
10.13-10.15 users will need to use the legacy version instead. This will
mostly be a transparent change, and the updater will automatically
update to the right version. The legacy version should be almost
identical to said users as they are using older versions of macOS that
can't make use of newer OS features to begin with.

In the future we may remove support for macOS 10.9-10.12 but for now
they are still supported.

Features
====================

Better mouse support
--------------------

- Scroll wheels should feel much better to use in MacVim. A small scroll
  is now guaranteed to scroll at least one line, and shift-scrolling
  (horizontal scroll) works correctly now. You can now also turn off
  macOS's scroll wheel acceleration to scroll a fixed amount of lines in
  the "Input" settings pane. #1566
- Mouse buttons 4 and 5 can now be bound to `<X1Mouse>` and `<X2Mouse>`
  in Vim mappings (`:h X1Mouse`). #1534

New Vim Features
====================

- Diff mode improvements
    - Vim diff can now highlight per-character or per-word differences
      within a line. Per-character highlighting is now used by default.
      See `:h diffopt` under "inline". v9.1.1242
    - Diff anchors allow for more explicit controls over how and where
      the diff algorithm aligns text across files (`:h diff-anchors`).
      v9.1.1557
- Lots of auto-completion improvements. Some highlights below:
    - New option: `autocomplete`. Get completion suggestions as you
      type. See `:h ins-autocompletion`. v9.1.1590
    - Fuzzy matching now uses the fzf algorithm. v9.1.1627
    - Popup menu borders can now be styled (`:h pumborder` / `:h
      completepopup`). v9.1.1835 / v9.1.1856
    - Can now specify a custom completion source when using insert-mode
      completion (`:h 'complete'`). v9.1.1301
    - `set completeopt+=nearest` will sort completion items by proximity
      to the cursor. v9.1.1308
    - Command-line completion
        - Search commands like `/` and `:g` can be tab-completed now.
          v9.1.1490 v9.1.1526
        - Commands like `:filetype` and `:highlight` have better
          auto-completion. v9.1.1340 / v9.1.1138
- New vertical tab panel. v9.1.1490
- new bundled optional plugins (use `packadd` to enable them):
    - hlyank (`:h package-hlyank`): Briefly highlight region of last
      yank command
- new commands:
    - `:uniq` (`:h :uniq`): Remove duplicate adjacent lines v9.1.1477

General
====================

- Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.8.0. #1605

Security Fixes
====================

- Fixed MacVim erroneously setting the get-task-allow entitlement, which
  could allow another user-installed application to inspect it
  (CVE-2025-8597) #1585

Fixes
====================

- Fixed issue where macOS services (available in the "Services" menu)
  could not insert text when not in visual mode. #1571 #1569
- Fixed issue where guifont did not accept PostScript names with
  underscores (e.g. "CascadiaMono-Regular_Light"). #1600
- MacVim now uses the standard `v:colornames` variable for choosing
  highlight colors. #1568
- Vim syntax now understands MacVim-specific function
  `showdefinition()`. #1601

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 5.34
- Python2 2.7
- Python3 3.9 or above
- Ruby 3.4
ychin added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 29, 2025
Updated to Vim 9.1.1887

This update is still built against macOS 15 Sequoia, and does not
contain any specific fixes or improvements for macOS 26 Tahoe. That will
come in a future update.

Announcements
====================

Moving macOS 10.13 - 10.15 support to legacy release
--------------------

Currently, MacVim binary releases are available in two versions: a
normal version (macOS 10.13 or above), and a legacy version (macOS
10.9-10.12). Starting next release (r183), the normal version will
require macOS 11 or above (due to Xcode 26 requirements), and macOS
10.13-10.15 users will need to use the legacy version instead. This will
mostly be a transparent change, and the updater will automatically
update to the right version. The legacy version should be almost
identical to said users as they are using older versions of macOS that
can't make use of newer OS features to begin with.

In the future we may remove support for macOS 10.9-10.12 but for now
they are still supported.

Features
====================

Better mouse support
--------------------

- Scroll wheels should feel much better to use in MacVim. A small scroll
  is now guaranteed to scroll at least one line, and shift-scrolling
  (horizontal scroll) works correctly now. You can now also turn off
  macOS's scroll wheel acceleration to scroll a fixed amount of lines in
  the "Input" settings pane. #1566
- Mouse buttons 4 and 5 can now be bound to `<X1Mouse>` and `<X2Mouse>`
  in Vim mappings (`:h X1Mouse`). #1534

New Vim Features
====================

- Diff mode improvements
    - Vim diff can now highlight per-character or per-word differences
      within a line. Per-character highlighting is now used by default.
      See `:h diffopt` under "inline". v9.1.1242
    - Diff anchors allow for more explicit controls over how and where
      the diff algorithm aligns text across files (`:h diff-anchors`).
      v9.1.1557
- Lots of auto-completion improvements. Some highlights below:
    - New option: `autocomplete`. Get completion suggestions as you
      type. See `:h ins-autocompletion`. v9.1.1590
    - Fuzzy matching now uses the fzf algorithm. v9.1.1627
    - Popup menu borders can now be styled (`:h pumborder` / `:h
      completepopup`). v9.1.1835 / v9.1.1856
    - Can now specify a custom completion source when using insert-mode
      completion (`:h 'complete'`). v9.1.1301
    - `set completeopt+=nearest` will sort completion items by proximity
      to the cursor. v9.1.1308
    - Command-line completion
        - Search commands like `/` and `:g` can be tab-completed now.
          v9.1.1490 v9.1.1526
        - Commands like `:filetype` and `:highlight` have better
          auto-completion. v9.1.1340 / v9.1.1138
- New vertical tab panel. v9.1.1490
- new bundled optional plugins (use `packadd` to enable them):
    - hlyank (`:h package-hlyank`): Briefly highlight region of last
      yank command
- new commands:
    - `:uniq` (`:h :uniq`): Remove duplicate adjacent lines v9.1.1477

General
====================

- Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.8.0. #1605

Security Fixes
====================

- Fixed MacVim erroneously setting the get-task-allow entitlement, which
  could allow another user-installed application to inspect it
  (CVE-2025-8597) #1585

Fixes
====================

- Fixed issue where macOS services (available in the "Services" menu)
  could not insert text when not in visual mode. #1571 #1569
- Fixed issue where guifont did not accept PostScript names with
  underscores (e.g. "CascadiaMono-Regular_Light"). #1600
- MacVim now uses the standard `v:colornames` variable for choosing
  highlight colors. #1568
- Vim syntax now understands MacVim-specific function
  `showdefinition()`. #1601

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 5.34
- Python2 2.7
- Python3 3.9 or above
- Ruby 3.4
ychin added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 29, 2025
Updated to Vim 9.1.1887

This update is still built against macOS 15 Sequoia, and does not
contain any specific fixes or improvements for macOS 26 Tahoe. That will
come in a future update.

Announcements
====================

Moving macOS 10.13 - 10.15 support to legacy release
--------------------

Currently, MacVim binary releases are available in two versions: a
normal version (macOS 10.13 or above), and a legacy version (macOS
10.9-10.12). Starting next release (r183), the normal version will
require macOS 11 or above (due to Xcode 26 requirements), and macOS
10.13-10.15 users will need to use the legacy version instead. This will
mostly be a transparent change, and the updater will automatically
update to the right version. The legacy version should be almost
identical to said users as they are using older versions of macOS that
can't make use of newer OS features to begin with.

In the future we may remove support for macOS 10.9-10.12 but for now
they are still supported.

Features
====================

Better mouse support
--------------------

- Scroll wheels should feel much better to use in MacVim. A small scroll
  is now guaranteed to scroll at least one line, and shift-scrolling
  (horizontal scroll) works correctly now. You can now also turn off
  macOS's scroll wheel acceleration to scroll a fixed amount of lines in
  the "Input" settings pane. #1566
- Mouse buttons 4 and 5 can now be bound to `<X1Mouse>` and `<X2Mouse>`
  in Vim mappings (`:h X1Mouse`). #1534

New Vim Features
====================

- Diff mode improvements
    - Vim diff can now highlight per-character or per-word differences
      within a line. Per-character highlighting is now used by default.
      See `:h diffopt` under "inline". v9.1.1242
    - Diff anchors allow for more explicit controls over how and where
      the diff algorithm aligns text across files (`:h diff-anchors`).
      v9.1.1557
- Lots of auto-completion improvements. Some highlights below:
    - New option: `autocomplete`. Get completion suggestions as you
      type. See `:h ins-autocompletion`. v9.1.1590
    - Fuzzy matching now uses the fzf algorithm. v9.1.1627
    - Popup menu borders can now be styled (`:h pumborder` / `:h
      completepopup`). v9.1.1835 / v9.1.1856
    - Can now specify a custom completion source when using insert-mode
      completion (`:h 'complete'`). v9.1.1301
    - `set completeopt+=nearest` will sort completion items by proximity
      to the cursor. v9.1.1308
    - Command-line completion
        - Search commands like `/` and `:g` can be tab-completed now.
          v9.1.1490 v9.1.1526
        - Commands like `:filetype` and `:highlight` have better
          auto-completion. v9.1.1340 / v9.1.1138
- New vertical tab panel. v9.1.1490
- new bundled optional plugins (use `packadd` to enable them):
    - hlyank (`:h package-hlyank`): Briefly highlight region of last
      yank command
- new commands:
    - `:uniq` (`:h :uniq`): Remove duplicate adjacent lines v9.1.1477

General
====================

- Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.8.0. #1605

Security Fixes
====================

- Fixed MacVim erroneously setting the get-task-allow entitlement, which
  could allow another user-installed application to inspect it
  (CVE-2025-8597) #1585

Fixes
====================

- Fixed issue where macOS services (available in the "Services" menu)
  could not insert text when not in visual mode. #1571 #1569
- Fixed issue where guifont did not accept PostScript names with
  underscores (e.g. "CascadiaMono-Regular_Light"). #1600
- MacVim now uses the standard `v:colornames` variable for choosing
  highlight colors. #1568
- Vim syntax now understands MacVim-specific function
  `showdefinition()`. #1601

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 5.34
- Python2 2.7
- Python3 3.9 or above
- Ruby 3.4
ychin added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 30, 2025
Updated to Vim 9.1.1887

This update is still built against macOS 15 Sequoia, and does not
contain any specific fixes or improvements for macOS 26 Tahoe. That will
come in a future update.

Announcements
====================

Moving macOS 10.13 - 10.15 support to legacy release
--------------------

Currently, MacVim binary releases are available in two versions: a
normal version (macOS 10.13 or above), and a legacy version (macOS
10.9-10.12). Starting next release (r183), the normal version will
require macOS 11 or above (due to Xcode 26 requirements), and macOS
10.13-10.15 users will need to use the legacy version instead. This will
mostly be a transparent change, and the updater will automatically
update to the right version. The legacy version should be almost
identical to said users as they are using older versions of macOS that
can't make use of newer OS features to begin with.

In the future we may remove support for macOS 10.9-10.12 but for now
they are still supported.

Features
====================

Better mouse support
--------------------

- Scroll wheels should feel much better to use in MacVim. A small scroll
  is now guaranteed to scroll at least one line, and shift-scrolling
  (horizontal scroll) works correctly now. You can now also turn off
  macOS's scroll wheel acceleration to scroll a fixed amount of lines in
  the "Input" settings pane. #1566
- Mouse buttons 4 and 5 can now be bound to `<X1Mouse>` and `<X2Mouse>`
  in Vim mappings (`:h X1Mouse`). #1534

New Vim Features
====================

- Diff mode improvements
    - Vim diff can now highlight per-character or per-word differences
      within a line. Per-character highlighting is now used by default.
      See `:h diffopt` under "inline". v9.1.1242
    - Diff anchors allow for more explicit controls over how and where
      the diff algorithm aligns text across files (`:h diff-anchors`).
      v9.1.1557
- Lots of auto-completion improvements. Some highlights below:
    - New option: `autocomplete`. Get completion suggestions as you
      type. See `:h ins-autocompletion`. v9.1.1590
    - Fuzzy matching now uses the fzf algorithm. v9.1.1627
    - Popup menu borders can now be styled (`:h pumborder` / `:h
      completepopup`). v9.1.1835 / v9.1.1856
    - Can now specify a custom completion source when using insert-mode
      completion (`:h 'complete'`). v9.1.1301
    - `set completeopt+=nearest` will sort completion items by proximity
      to the cursor. v9.1.1308
    - Command-line completion
        - Search commands like `/` and `:g` can be tab-completed now.
          v9.1.1490 v9.1.1526
        - Commands like `:filetype` and `:highlight` have better
          auto-completion. v9.1.1340 / v9.1.1138
- New vertical tab panel. v9.1.1490
- new bundled optional plugins (use `packadd` to enable them):
    - hlyank (`:h package-hlyank`): Briefly highlight region of last
      yank command
- new commands:
    - `:uniq` (`:h :uniq`): Remove duplicate adjacent lines v9.1.1477

General
====================

- Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.8.0. #1605

Security Fixes
====================

- Fixed MacVim erroneously setting the get-task-allow entitlement, which
  could allow another user-installed application to inspect it
  (CVE-2025-8597) #1585

Fixes
====================

- Fixed issue where macOS services (available in the "Services" menu)
  could not insert text when not in visual mode. #1571 #1569
- Fixed issue where guifont did not accept PostScript names with
  underscores (e.g. "CascadiaMono-Regular_Light"). #1600
- MacVim now uses the standard `v:colornames` variable for choosing
  highlight colors. #1568
- Vim syntax now understands MacVim-specific function
  `showdefinition()`. #1601

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 5.34
- Python2 2.7
- Python3 3.9 or above
- Ruby 3.4
ychin added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 30, 2025
Updated to Vim 9.1.1887

This update is still built against macOS 15 Sequoia, and does not
contain any specific fixes or improvements for macOS 26 Tahoe. That will
come in a future update.

Announcements
====================

Moving macOS 10.13 - 10.15 support to legacy release
--------------------

Currently, MacVim binary releases are available in two versions: a
normal version (macOS 10.13 or above), and a legacy version (macOS
10.9-10.12). Starting next release (r183), the normal version will
require macOS 11 or above (due to Xcode 26 requirements), and macOS
10.13-10.15 users will need to use the legacy version instead. This will
mostly be a transparent change, and the updater will automatically
update to the right version. The legacy version should be almost
identical to said users as they are using older versions of macOS that
can't make use of newer OS features to begin with.

In the future we may remove support for macOS 10.9-10.12 but for now
they are still supported.

Features
====================

Better mouse support
--------------------

- Scroll wheels should feel much better to use in MacVim. A small scroll
  is now guaranteed to scroll at least one line, and shift-scrolling
  (horizontal scroll) works correctly now. You can now also turn off
  macOS's scroll wheel acceleration to scroll a fixed amount of lines in
  the "Input" settings pane. #1566
- Mouse buttons 4 and 5 can now be bound to `<X1Mouse>` and `<X2Mouse>`
  in Vim mappings (`:h X1Mouse`). #1534

New Vim Features
====================

- Diff mode improvements
    - Vim diff can now highlight per-character or per-word differences
      within a line. Per-character highlighting is now used by default.
      See `:h 'diffopt'` under "inline". v9.1.1243
    - Diff anchors allow for more explicit controls over how and where
      the diff algorithm aligns text across files (`:h diff-anchors`).
      v9.1.1557
- Lots of auto-completion improvements. Some highlights below:
    - New option: `autocomplete`. Get completion suggestions as you
      type. See `:h ins-autocompletion`. v9.1.1590
    - Fuzzy matching now uses the fzf algorithm. v9.1.1627
    - Popup menu borders can now be styled (`:h 'pumborder'` / `:h
      'completepopup'`). v9.1.1835 / v9.1.1856
    - Can now specify a custom completion source when using insert-mode
      completion (`:h 'complete'`). v9.1.1301
    - `set completeopt+=nearest` will sort completion items by proximity
      to the cursor. v9.1.1308
    - Command-line completion
        - Search commands like `/` and `:g` can be tab-completed now.
          v9.1.1490 v9.1.1526
        - Commands like `:filetype` and `:highlight` have better
          auto-completion. v9.1.1340 / v9.1.1138
- New vertical tab panel (`:h tabpanel`). v9.1.1391
- new bundled optional plugins (use `packadd` to enable them):
    - hlyank (`:h package-hlyank`): Briefly highlight region of last
      yank command
- new commands:
    - `:uniq` (`:h :uniq`): Remove duplicate adjacent lines v9.1.1477

General
====================

- Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.8.0. #1605

Security Fixes
====================

- Fixed MacVim erroneously setting the get-task-allow entitlement, which
  could allow another user-installed application to inspect it
  (CVE-2025-8597) #1585

Fixes
====================

- Fixed issue where macOS services (available in the "Services" menu)
  could not insert text when not in visual mode. #1571 #1569
- Fixed issue where guifont did not accept PostScript names with
  underscores (e.g. "CascadiaMono-Regular_Light"). #1600
- MacVim now uses the standard `v:colornames` variable for choosing
  highlight colors. #1568
- Vim syntax now understands MacVim-specific function
  `showdefinition()`. #1601

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 5.34
- Python2 2.7
- Python3 3.9 or above
- Ruby 3.4
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

1 participant