concept of stable release

[yellowtang]

I see version 9.1.0821 on the official webpage's download section but I am seeing more recently tagged versions on the github repo. Does that imply that subsequent versions not linked on the main page are considered unstable or dev releases or is the main page simply not updated as frequently?

[Christian Brabandt]

We don't really have a concept of stable versions. Minor versions (9.1,
9.0, 8.2, 8.1, 8.0) most closely reflect this concept. But since there
are several years between a new minor release, I sometimes update the
binaries on the Vim.org Homepage when someone asks me nicely about it
and has some convincing arguments. Last time, the convincing argument
was, that some of those patches fixes security related issues (although
we did not really have any serious issues but only rather minor ones).

I am currently including daily new minor patches, it just would be much
effort for dubious gain to update the binaries on the Vim Homepage every
day. On Windows you can however make use of winget, which provides the
daily vim.vim.nightly and more stable vim.vim version (roughly every 90
versions) streams.

We are now at 9.1.1563 and is has been roughly 1.5 years with many new
features since the 9.1 release. I am starting to think about releasing
the next minor version around the end of the year so that it's roughly 2
years. But before that, I'd like to have a few month stabilization
period.

I'll announce this later this year, once the other maintainers are
convinced, so stay tuned.

Thanks,
Christian
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