Vim 8.0 Released With GTK3 Support, Async I/O & DirectX Support - PhoronixVim 8.0 Released With GTK3 Support, Async I/O & DirectX Support Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 12 September 2016 at 09:23 AM EDT. 19 Comments Vi IMproved has been further improved with today's Vim 8.0 release. In fact, this is the first major release of Vim in the past decade! Vim 8.0 adds support for asynchronous I/O, channels, and JSON. Vim 8.0 also supports jobs, timers, partial
