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📰 What's new?

11.x

• New Website: There's a whole new website with a fresh look and improved documentation. Check it out at https://lazy.folke.io. The GitHub README.md has been updated to point to the new website. The vimdoc contains all the information that is available on the website.

• Spec Resolution & Merging: the code that resolves a final spec from a plugin's fragments has been rewritten. This should be a tiny bit faster, but more importantly, fixes some issues and is easier to maintain.

• Packages can now specify their dependencies and configuration using one of:

  • Lazy: lazy.lua file
  • Rockspec: luarocks *-scm-1.rockspec file
  • Packspec: pkg.json (experimental, since the format is not quite there yet)

  Related lazy.nvim options:

  {
    pkg = {
      enabled = true,
      cache = vim.fn.stdpath("state") .. "/lazy/pkg-cache.lua",
      -- the first package source that is found for a plugin will be used.
      sources = {
        "lazy",
        "rockspec", -- will only be used when rocks.enabled is true
        "packspec",
      },
    },
    rocks = {
      enabled = true,
      root = vim.fn.stdpath("data") .. "/lazy-rocks",
      server = "https://nvim-neorocks.github.io/rocks-binaries/",
    },
  }
  

• Installing neorg is now as simple as:

  { "nvim-neorg/neorg", opts = {} }
  

• Packages are not limited to just Neovim plugins. You can install any luarocks package, like:

  { "https://github.com/lubyk/yaml" }
  

  Luarocks packages without a /lua directory are never lazy-loaded, since it's just a library.

• build functions or *.lua build files (like build.lua) now run asynchronously. You can use coroutine.yield(status_msg) to show progress. Yielding will also schedule the next resume to run in the next tick, so you can do long-running tasks without blocking Neovim.