Neovim 0.10 Ships a New Default Color Scheme and Inlay Hints

Neovim 0.10 arrives

Neovim 0.10 was released on May 16, 2024. It was one of the more visible releases in the 0.x line, changing the out-of-the-box appearance and adding several long-requested LSP and Lua capabilities.

A new look by default

Neovim 0.10 updated its default color scheme to be 'Nvim branded' and accessible, with ':colorscheme vim' available to revert to the old legacy scheme. It also enabled 'termguicolors' by default when Nvim can determine the host terminal supports 24-bit color, so true-color highlighting works without manual configuration. The 'grepprg' default now uses ripgrep when available.

LSP inlay hints and diagnostics

The release implemented LSP inlay hints, pull diagnostics via textDocument/diagnostic, and LSP type hierarchy, and added support for the positionEncoding server capability and dynamic capability registration, meaning client.supports_method() should be used instead of checking server_capabilities. vim.lsp.start() now sets default keymaps like K for hover when a server supports it.

New Lua APIs and commenting

Neovim 0.10 added a batch of Lua utilities: vim.iter() for iterating any iterable, vim.system() for running commands, vim.snippet for expanding snippets, vim.ui.open() for opening URIs with the system handler, and vim.base64 and vim.text helpers. It also bundled built-in commenting support, added extmark features like inline virtual text and clickable URL highlights via OSC 8, and made floating windows able to show a footer.

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See also: Neovim 0.9 and semantic tokens.

Sources

• Nvim v0.10.0 release (github.com/neovim)
• Neovim 0.10 news (neovim.io)

Published date reflects the original event date (2024-05-16). This article is original Skillo editorial written from the sources above; facts were verified in September 2026.