Release 0.17.0

release

Command line tweaks, move to a GitHub org, new website, and a ton of module updates

Author

Evgeni Chasnovski

Published

December 18, 2025

Hello, Neovim users!

The ‘mini.nvim’ plugin has released a new 0.17.0 version. The previous release was a whopping 7 months and 235 commits ago. The new one is long overdue, to say the least.

Here is a full release description if you are curious.

There is only one new module in this release:

‘mini.cmdline’ - Command line tweaks. It enables autocomplete (requires Neovim>=0.11), autocorrect, and autopeek range when using command line. You can read more in this release post.

One of the big reasons why this release took so much more time than previous ones is that there was a lot of adjacent work:

The whole project was rebranded to be MINI: Modular Independent Neovim Improvements.
There is now a website. It took a lot of time to plan and execute.
Hosting moved from echasnovski personal GitHub account to a dedicated nvim-mini organization. This change is made to improve long term project stability. See more details here.
There is now an amazing team that helps me with MINI. Improving bus factor of the project is very important for its longevity.
There is an “official” Neovim config example based on ‘mini.nvim’: MiniMax. In fact, it is designed as a collection of examples, each independent and tailored to specific Neovim version. It is not a lot now, but with time it might be a valuable resource about how Neovim config can change with time.

The other big reason for a long release delay is that in July my initial PR for the Neovim’s built-in plugin manager (vim.pack) got merged. Its core ideas come from ‘mini.deps’ with some adjustments and overall improvements. It required a lot of time and effort to address initial issues and discussions.

The full changelog for 0.17 is here. Noticeable changes include:

There is now a set of static ‘mini.hues’ based color schemes to complete randomhue. They are inspired by four seasons: miniwinter, minispring, minisummer, miniautumn.
‘mini.ai’ and ‘mini.surround’ tree-sitter integrations now don’t use ‘nvim-treesitter’ functions by default in favor of built-in vim.treesitter approaches.
‘mini.extra’ got colorschemes picker and workspace_symbol_live scope to lsp picker.
‘mini.files’ now:
- Never hides a preview window, even if cursor is on something that can not be previewed. This should reduce flickering in various situations.
- Treats appending / to a file name as “delete it and create a directory with the same name”. Useful when earlier you wanted to create a directory but forgot to append “/”.
- Has config.content.highlight to adjust highlighting of file system entries.
‘mini.hues’ has several groups autoadjust their highlighting based on certain events. Like Pmenu adjusts based on the value of ‘pumborder’ option (on Neovim>=0.12).
‘mini.jump2d’ moved gen_xxx_spotter functions into a separate gen_spotter table to follow the pattern from other modules.
‘mini.misc’ got logging related functions (log_add, log_show, etc.). I use them very frequently during ‘mini.nvim’ development.
‘mini.pick’ now:
- Has grep and grep_live pickers with rg tool respect Neovim’s ‘ignorecase’ and ‘smartcase’ options when matching.
- “Paste” action supports some special registers. Like <C-r><C-w> will paste word at cursor.
‘mini.surround’ doesn’t create update_n_lines to save “mapping real estate”. This will be useful later.
‘mini.test’ screenshot testing now ignores text and highlighting attributes separately via ignore_text and ignore_attr.

Huge thank you for the continued support of ‘mini.nvim’ project! We are past 8.4K stars now 🙏

There is a lot more planned for ‘mini.nvim’ and MINI. So let’s keep in touch :)