# Neovim News #11 - The Christmas Issue **URL:** \ **Category:** In The News\ **Tags:** news, neovim, official-news\ **Created:** [12 July 2021 19:00 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/neovim-news-11-the-christmas-issue/12827 "2021-07-12T19:00:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NewsBot](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/newsbot/32/1114_2.png) [@NewsBot](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/NewsBot)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2021 19:00 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/neovim-news-11-the-christmas-issue/12827/1 "2021-07-12T19:00:46Z")
A new [Neovim](https://devtalk.com/neovim) blog post/announcement has been posted! > [@](#): > > > The _real_ 0.5 was the friends we made along the way > > The long-awaited release of Neovim v0.5.0 finally happened on July 2, 2021. It took longer than everybody had hoped for, but it was worth the wait: With over 4000 commits, it is so big that it broke some of the release tooling. So these notes will not be able to touch on each of the many changes that were made over the course of development and only focus on the most user-visible improvements, ... Get the full details here: [Neovim News #11 - The Christmas Issue - Neovim](https://neovim.io/news/2021/07) ---
**Author:** ![KnowledgeIsPower](https://forum.devtalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c6cbf5/32.png) [@KnowledgeIsPower](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/KnowledgeIsPower)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2021 23:49 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/neovim-news-11-the-christmas-issue/12827/3 "2021-07-12T23:49:43Z")
It’s normal to have delay in software development, but they don’t have to use ‘Christmas’, LoL. ---
**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/astonj/32/7_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\ **Post date:** [13 July 2021 00:39 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/neovim-news-11-the-christmas-issue/12827/4 "2021-07-13T00:39:57Z")
Least they got there in the end 😂