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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

### Release 0.5.0

### Release 0.6.0

This 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.

## 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.