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<p>Vim patch 8.2.1456</p>

<p>Features</p>

<li>New “Appearance” option pane (accessible via “⌘,” or MacVim → Preferences) to allow customizing how MacVim looks. Users can now select how MacVim works with Dark Mode, and configure titlebar to be hidden or transparent.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/912">#912</a><ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1038">#1038</a><ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1056">#1056</a>

<imgwidth="450"alt="appearance screenshot"src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1217449/90110322-e1ba2500-dd01-11ea-8032-007040c94fe5.png"/></li>

<li>MacVim localization support. It now uses translated Vim messages for the specified locale. See<code>:help multilang-messages</code> to see how to configure it.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/991">#991</a>

<imgwidth="450"alt="localization screenshot"src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1217449/90110395-ff878a00-dd01-11ea-8207-a8c6b250c4dd.png"/></li>

<p>General:</p>

<li>Python is now built against 3.8, up from 3.7.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1012">#1012</a></li>

<p>Fixes:</p>

<li>Fix mvim:// protocol handler behavior. Reverts behavior back to old behavior (before snapshot-162), but add new fallback handling to try to handle poorly formed URLs that don’t double-encode special characters. See<code>:help macvim://</code>.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1055">#1055</a></li>

<li>Can now change tabs using menu and keyboard shortcuts (⌘{ / ⌘} / ⌘T) when in terminal mode.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1045">#1045</a></li>

<li>Fix crash during MacVim launch in Snapshot 164 (8.2.1424) due to dynamic library linkage.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1073">#1073</a></li>

<p>Targets macOS 10.9+</p>

<p>Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:</p>

<li>Lua 5.3</li>

<li>Perl 5.18</li>

<li>Python2 2.7</li>

<li>Python3 3.8</li>

<li>Ruby 2.7</li>

<p>Updated to Vim 8.2.1719.</p>

<h1id="features">Features</h1>

<h2id="touch-bar-improvements">Touch Bar improvements</h2>

<p>Touch Bar now supports submenus, and allows mixed icon/text displays using<code>tmenu</code>. When in edit modes (e.g. insert), it will also display an emoji picker as well. See<code>:help touchbar</code> for documentation.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1084">#1084</a></p>

<p><imgwidth="640"src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1217449/93730988-f2bb4900-fb7f-11ea-9433-4a15187a4af1.png"alt="emoji picker / submenu / icons with labels"title="Example configuration with emoji picker / submenu / icons with labels"/></p>

<p><imgwidth="640"src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1217449/93730989-f77ffd00-fb7f-11ea-9e44-0dfc36d146f2.png"alt="inside submenu"title="Example of inside a submenu"/></p>

<p><imgwidth="640"src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1217449/93731159-b63c1d00-fb80-11ea-84a1-77c57d818452.png"alt="activated emoji picker"title="Activated emoji picker"/></p>

<h1id="fixes">Fixes</h1>

<li>Window menu no longer shows duplicate “Enter Full Screen” or “Tile Window to Left of Screen” entries whenever the user switches among different MacVim windows.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/566">#566</a><ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/992">#992</a></li>

<li>Fix issue where going to full screen mode when titlebar appearance is set to “hidden” would result in lost focus of the window.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1078">#1078</a></li>

<li>The password dialog box when using<code>:!sudo</code> or other commands that require password entry (<code>macvim-askpass</code>) will no longer focus on Finder, and will keep the focus on MacVim.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1091">#1091</a></li>

<li>Fix minor wrong tooltip in the “Appearance” preference pane.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1087">#1087</a></li>

<li>“General” preference pane will now be correctly sized when Sparkle updater is disabled (e.g. Homebrew builds).<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1089">#1089</a></li>

<li>Misc issues were fixed by Vim upstream, e.g.<code>vimgrep</code> causing a crash, and odd behaviors with using Shift-O on the first line.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1082">#1082</a><ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1083">#1083</a></li>

<h1id="compatibility">Compatibility</h1>

<p>Requires macOS 10.9 or above.</p>

<p>Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:</p>

<li>Lua 5.3</li>

<li>Perl 5.18</li>

<li>Python2 2.7</li>

<li>Python3 3.8</li>

<li>Ruby 2.7</li>

<p>Updated to Vim 8.2.2164.</p>

<p>This release (r169) is a minor update to fix the issue that r168 would

not launch on macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or below.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1138">#1138</a></p>

<summary>Release notes for r168</summary>

<p><em>Note</em>: This release doesn’t natively support Apple Silicon / M1 yet, but does work under Rosetta. See below.</p>

<h1id="features">Features</h1>

<h2id="big-sur--macos-11">Big Sur / macOS 11</h2>

<li>MacVim now has an updated app icon (<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1054">#1054</a>), and preference pane / toolbars have been updated to match Big Sur’s interface guidelines. (<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1128">#1128</a>)</li>

<li>Fixed Touch Bar warnings when launching MacVim from the terminal.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1114">#1114</a></li>

<li>SF Symbol characters will show up properly as double-width as most of these icons would take up more than one column. Note that these characters are specific to macOS and would not work in other platforms.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1129">#1129</a></li>

<h2id="renderer--scrolling-performance-improvements">Renderer / scrolling performance improvements</h2>

<p>The Core Text renderer has been rewritten and is now much faster! Scrolling should not stutter and lag like before and generally it should feel a lot smoother now. Thanks to Sidney San Martín (<ahref="https://github.com/s4y">@s4y</a>) for the contribution.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/858">#858</a></p>

<p>With this change, the non-Core-Text renderer is now considered deprecated. The old renderer is accessible either through the Preference Pane (under Advanced) or by setting the defaults “MMRenderer” to 0. It works for now, but it will be removed in a future update as it has known bugs.</p>

<h2id="menu-localization">Menu Localization</h2>

<p>Menus are now localized, see<code>:h langmenu</code> for how Vim menu localization works. You can use<code>set langmenu=none</code> to turn it off if you would like.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1099">#1099</a></p>

<p><imgwidth="500"alt="localized menus"src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1217449/101893005-f942d680-3b58-11eb-9cf3-96d117c5a370.png"/></p>

<p>There still exists a few menu items that are not localized, and the general MacVim GUI is not localized as well. If you would like to help, please use<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1102">#1102</a> to coordinate with MacVim dev team.</p>

<h2id="getting-help--help-menu">Getting help / Help menu</h2>

<p>Help menu’s search bar now searches Vim documentation as well! See<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1095">#1095</a>.</p>

<p><imgwidth="400"alt="help menu search"src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1217449/101957566-86684880-3bb6-11eb-8466-2bf73b3585bd.png"/></p>

<li>Vimtutor is now bundled with MacVim, and you can access vimtutor from the Help menu (<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1096">#1096</a>).</li>

<li>There is also a link to the latest release notes as well (<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1131">#1131</a>).</li>

<h1id="general">General</h1>

<h2id="apple-silicon">Apple Silicon</h2>

<p>This release does not contain a native universal app for Apple Silicon / M1 Macs yet. The release binary will still work under Rosetta, which should provide enough performance, but if you use Python/etc plugins, you need to make sure you have x86 versions of Python/etc installed (which is still the default for Homebrew as of this release).</p>

<p>MacVim is buildable under Apple Silicon, so if you need a native binary, you could build it yourself by downloading the source from the Github repository. See<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1136">#1136</a> for progress on releasing a universal app for Apple Silicon.</p>

<h2id="github-discusisons">Github Discusisons</h2>

<p>MacVim has enabled the Github Discussions feature, which serves as a good spot for general discussions and questions. See<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/discussions/">https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/discussions/</a> and check it out!</p>

<h1id="fixes">Fixes</h1>

<li>Launching MacVim from the Dock with locales that use “,” for decimal separators now works correctly.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/11">#11</a> (Vim 8.2.1738)</li>

<li><code>WinBar</code> menus (which are used by plugins like vimspector) now work properly and don’t create dummy menu items.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/918">#918</a></li>

<li>Using<code>:browse tabnew</code> no longer crashes MacVim in terminal mode.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1107">#1107</a> (Vim 8.2.1842)</li>

<h1id="misc">Misc</h1>

<li>Scripting languages versions:

<li>Python is now built against 3.9, up from 3.8.</li>

<li>Lua is now built against 5.4, up from 5.3.</li>

<h1id="compatibility">Compatibility</h1>

<p>Requires macOS 10.9 or above.</p>

<p>Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:</p>

<li>Lua 5.4</li>

<li>Perl 5.18</li>

<li>Python2 2.7</li>

<li>Python3 3.9</li>

<li>Ruby 2.7</li>

<p>Updated to Vim 8.2.2576.</p>

<p>This was a somewhat delayed release. My apologies! Next few releases should be more frequent.</p>

<h1id="features">Features</h1>

<h2id="apple-silicon-support">Apple Silicon Support</h2>

<p>MacVim’s binary release now fully supports Apple Silicon! If you have an M1 Mac you should notice MacVim being more snappy and smoother.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1150">#1150</a></p>

<p>If you would like to (e.g. if you only installed Python 3 in Rosetta and use plugins that use Python), you could run MacVim under Rosetta. You could use<code>:version</code> while in MacVim to tell whether you are running in Rosetta / Intel or Apple Silicon by seeing whether it says x86_64 or arm64. (Vim 8.2.2174)</p>

<p>If you rely on Python/Ruby/Lua integration, note that previously MacVim by default searches the<code>/usr/local/</code> path for installed language runtimes. With this release, MacVim will still search those folders under Intel / x86-64 builds, but under Apple Silicon / M1, MacVim will search under<code>/opt/homebrew/</code> instead, which is the default folder for Homebrew under Apple Silicon. If you don’t use Homebrew, or installed language runtimes under other folders, you would need to set<code>python3dll</code>/<code>luadll</code>/<code>rubydll</code> in your vimrc.</p>

<h2id="full-screen-fixes-and-improvements">Full Screen Fixes and Improvements</h2>

<p>Removed the fade-to-black animation when transition to full screen, as they were distracting and looked jarring. For non-native full screen, you could set<code>MMFullScreenFadeTime</code> to a non-zero value to still get the animation back.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1171">#1171</a></p>

<p>Non-native full screen:</p>

<li>Non-native full screen now has an option to show menu bar when it’s active (under Appearance preference pane).<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1170">#1170</a></li>

<li>Fixed non-native full screen to properly hide the menu / dock when used on a secondary screen. Also, fixed misc issues with non-native full screen not drawing at the right offset.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/7">#7</a><ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1155">#1155</a><ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1170">#1170</a></li>

<li>Fixed non-native full screen’s<code>fuopt</code> setting. It now works again. This feature allows you to limit only expand horizontally or vertically when using non-native full screen to help focus on the content, see<code>:help fuopt</code>.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/509">#509</a></li>

<p>Fixed small bug in Touch Bar’s full screen button sometimes not being updated correctly.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1171">#1171</a></p>

<h1id="known-issues">Known Issues</h1>

<h2id="text-invisible-after-plugging-in-monitor-or-waking-from-sleep">Text invisible after plugging in monitor or waking from sleep</h2>

<p>There is currently a known issue in rendering where after plugging/unplugging an external monitor, or waking from sleep when connected to a monitor, there is a small chance MacVim will stop drawing text. If you see that, please report that to<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1164">#1164</a>. This release contains some additional logging to help dignose the issue and we are still looking to root cause it.</p>

<h1id="general">General</h1>

<li>Added an option to ignore font’s line height. r168 introduced a new renderer which changed the behavior for how font’s line height works – instead of ignoring it, the new renderer respects the line height of the font. This new setting allows MacVim to behave in the old way, since some fonts have large line height that the user may not want to use.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1152">#1152</a></li>

<h1id="fixes">Fixes</h1>

<li>Fixed balloon APIs (<code>balloon_show()</code> /<code>balloon_gettext()</code>) so plugins relying on them should now work.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/902">#902</a><ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1064">#1064</a></li>

<h1id="misc">Misc</h1>

<li>Scripting languages versions:

<li>Ruby is now built against 3.0, up from 2.7.</li>

<h1id="compatibility">Compatibility</h1>

<p>Requires macOS 10.9 or above.</p>

<p>Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:</p>

<li>Lua 5.4</li>

<li>Perl 5.18</li>

<li>Python2 2.7</li>

<li>Python3 3.9</li>

<li>Ruby 3.0</li>

<p>Updated to Vim 8.2.2681.</p>

<p>This is a small update mostly containing a fix to a rendering bug in Core Text renderer.</p>

<h1id="fixes">Fixes</h1>

<li>Fixed a rendering issue where MacVim would stop drawing text when the computer is running low on memory. Previously the user would have to restart MacVim in order to get the rendering back.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1164">#1164</a></li>

<h1id="compatibility">Compatibility</h1>

<p>Requires macOS 10.9 or above.</p>

<p>Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:</p>

<li>Lua 5.4</li>

<li>Perl 5.18</li>

<li>Python2 2.7</li>

<li>Python3 3.9</li>

<li>Ruby 3.0</li>

<p>Updated to Vim 8.2.3455.</p>

<p>Apologies for the late update, as I have not had much time to work on MacVim. This update is primarily to catch up to latest Vim. Future MacVim releases in near future will go back to more bug fixes / features, and addressing potential issues caused by macOS 12.</p>

<h1id="compatibility">Compatibility</h1>

<p>Requires macOS 10.9 or above.</p>

<p>Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:</p>

<li>Lua 5.4</li>

<li>Perl 5.18</li>

<li>Python2 2.7</li>

<li>Python3 3.9</li>

<li>Ruby 3.0</li>

<p>Updated to Vim 9.0.0065.</p>

<p>MacVim is now updated to Vim 9!</p>

<p>I just want to apologize for the infrequent update cadence for MacVim over the last year and a half. I have not had much time to work on MacVim, which made catching up harder, leading to a bad feedback loop. I would like to move back to a more regular release cadence to keep MacVim more updated relative to Vim, and to be able to start working on macOS 12/13 integrations as well as fixing outstanding bugs and merging the various pull requests that have been waiting to be merged for a while. Please don’t hesitate to poke on GitHub if MacVim starts falling behind again.</p>

<h1id="general">General</h1>

<li>MacVim now supports the<code>+sodium</code> feature, which allows you to use the newer “xchacha20” encryption method for encryption. See<code>:help cryptmethod</code>.<ahref="https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/1225">#1225</a></li>

<h1id="misc">Misc</h1>

<li>Scripting languages versions:

<li>Ruby is now built against 3.1, up from 3.0.</li>

<h1id="compatibility">Compatibility</h1>

<p>Requires macOS 10.9 or above.</p>

<p>Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:</p>

<li>Lua 5.4</li>

<li>Perl 5.18</li>

<li>Python2 2.7</li>

<li>Python3 3.9</li>

<li>Ruby 3.1</li>