Neovim 0.12.5

Breaking: Neovim 0.12.5 Is Here.

Neovim 0.12.5 shipped August 23, 2026. It is the latest patch release on the 0.12 stable line, signed and tagged by the maintainer team.

What Changed

• Maintenance patch — bundled bug fixes and stability improvements accumulated since 0.12.4 (July 5, 2026).
• No new headline features — this is a hardening release for the 0.12 series.
• Built against LuaJIT 2.1.1774638290 with the release build type.

Why It Matters

If you are running the 0.12 series, this is the version to be on. Patch releases wrap up the fixes that land between stable milestones, and skipping them means living with bugs the maintainers already ironed out.

What's Next

Grab it from your package manager — Homebrew, apt, the AppImage, or the Windows zip and MSI installers. Configs written for 0.12 carry over cleanly to this patch.