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title: Newsletter #2 - Never lost, Never give up
categories: newsletter
excerpt: "We know exactly what our purpose is, and we keep trying to do it, never get lost, never give up..."
---

# [newsletter](https://spacevim.org/development#newsletter) > Never lost, Never give up

Welcome to the second newsletter for SpaceVim, a project that hopes to turn vim to be an modular IDE for most languages.

## What is SpaceVim

SpaceVim is a distribution of the vim editor that's inspired by [spacemacs](https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs). It manages collections of plugins in layers, which help collect related packages together to provide features. For example, the [python layer](http://spacevim.org/layers/lang/python/) collects [deoplete.nvim](https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim/), [neomake](https://github.com/neomake/neomake) and [jedi-vim](https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim) together to provides autocompletion, syntax checking, and documentation lookup. This approach helps keep configuration organized and reduces overhead for the user by keeping them from having to think about what packages to install.

## Participating

If you are interested in contributing to SpaceVim, read the [development](http://spacevim.org/development/) page to get start. You can also join our [community channels](http://spacevim.org/community/).

## What's new

The last newsletter is posted on May 31, SpaceVim has released 4 releases.

### Release 0.3.1

This release is a HOTFIX after 0.3.0, it adds support for old version of vim and fix some startup errors. 

new features in this release:

- autocompletion when edit gitcommit.
- Undo/Redo quit windows
- `SPC b` prefix key bindings for buffer
- `SPC f` prefix key bindings for file
- `g` prefix key bindings guide
- `z` prefix key bindings guide
- `SPC s` prefix key bindings for searching && searching index

for more info, please check the [release page of 0.3.1](https://spacevim.org/SpaceVim-release-v0.3.1/)

### Release 0.4.0

This release has improved the user experience with some layers.

- background searching and grep on the fly in incsearch layer
- add prompt and web api
- help describe for key bindings: `SPC h d k`
- Add comment/manipulation/insertion key bindings

for more info, please check the [release page of 0.4.0](https://spacevim.org/SpaceVim-release-v0.4.0/)

### Release 0.5.0

This release is a big release after 0.4.0, three months development brings many new features.

- Improve help describe key bindings
- Improve ci
- modular statusline/tabline
- job API for neovim/vim
- project manager and remote manager
- new language layers

for more info, please check the [release page of 0.5.0](https://spacevim.org/SpaceVim-release-v0.5.0/)

### Release 0.6.0

The latest release brings a host of fixes and improvements. We will list some new features here, and be sure to check the [release page](https://spacevim.org/SpaceVim-release-v0.6.0/) for all the details.

- gf support in windows for plugin manager
- runner/debuger/REPL support for language layer
- language server protocol support
- Improve the plugin manager UI (added in v0.3.0)

## Thanks

Thank you contributors, sponsors, bug-reporters, supporters. Thank you [@wsdjeg](https://github.com/wsdjeg) for the awesome project and thank you [@syl20bnr](https://github.com/syl20bnr) for your foundational work.