It's time for a new release that includes both new features and some fixes and improvements to the backend code.

Features and improvements

• Motions to jump to start and end of math zones: ]n, ]N, [n, and [N (see #1818).
• The vlty grammar compiler has had some improvement (see #1821).
• The textidote grammar compiler has had some improvement (see #1805).
• Added option g:vimtex_context_pdf_viewer (see #1817).
• ToC support for fixme LaTeX package (see #1770).

Thanks to @openkork, @matze-dd, @mwageringel, @prataffel, and @bratekarate for PR contributions, and to everyone who contributes through opening issues with ideas, bug reports and discussions!

Teaser

For the curious, please note that there is now an ongoing project to embrace full syntax support within vimtex. I hope to finish this before Christmas and to announce it as a major version release (but I make no promises!). See #1799 for details.

This release brings some new features:

• A context menu for citations (:VimtexContextMenu mapped to <cr> by default).
• An environment variable for specifying the output directory (see :help VIMTEX_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY).
• Basic support for syntax highlighting of the IEEEtrantools package.
• New option: g:vimtex_complete_bib.bibliography_commands
• New option: g:vimtex_toc_config.indent_levels
• New event: VimtexEventInitPre
• Added user/dev API's vimtex#view#view and vimtex#view#reverse_search

The option g:vimtex_quickfix_latexlog is now deprecated in favour of the more versatile g:vimtex_quickfix_ignore_filters.

There was also some maintenance of the code with minor improvements to both code and tests. Several minor issues have been resolved. vim-polyglot no longer bundles a LaTeX plugin, so the note about polyglot in the docs has been removed.

Changes and new features

• Add folding for \items (#1765)
• Add warning if g:tex_flavor is undefined
• API: Add vimtex#compiler#start() (#1763)

Bug fixes

• Fixed broken autocmd for g:vimtex_view_use_temp_files (#1766)
• Some minor fixes (#1764, #1745)

Maintenance

• Some clean up and general improvements

This release brings some changes:

• New events: VimtexEventCompileSuccess / ...Failed and VimtexEventView
• Removed options deprecated by the new events (see :help vimtex-changelog)
• Added check and warning for deprecated options
• Plus more minor changes

The vimtex code base has been cleaned and upgraded to rely on more recent Vim and neovim versions, as was indicated in #1748.

This is the first "release" of vimtex. Versioning has not been a priority, as I have mostly avoided breaking changes. However, as discussed in #1748, I have decided to adapt more recent features in Vim and neovim. This means that users on older versions of Vim may experience that vimtex stops working. Thus, I want to apply versioning to make it easy to pin the version if one is stuck on old versions of Vim or neovim.

In future releases I plan to write more about the changes since the last release. Since this is the first release, one should simply all of the docs. :)