Vim is an excellent open source text editor, is Linux/unix user very commonly used text Editing tool, after 1 years 5 days of waiting, we ushered in Vim 7.1 stable version. The revised version fixes a security issue and some causes crash errors, no new features. User upgrades are strongly recommended.
Announcing:vim (Vi improved) version 7.1
This are a stable release of Vim, version 7.1. Since version 7.0 lots of
Problems were fixed and runtime files were updated. It has been one
Year and five since 7.0!
Most of Vim 7.1 is already available as patches for quite a while. A
Couple of test versions were made to spot problems in the distribution.
Therefore Vim 7.1 can be considered very stable.
If you are using a older version, it is highly recommended you install
Vim 7.1. Several crashing bugs and a security issue were fixed.
Once you have installed Vim 7.1 Your can find details about the
Changes since Vim 7.0 with ": Help version-7.1".
I'll not make a Amiga or OS/2 binary for Vim 7.1. A MAC version is
Hopefully available soon on http://macvim.org/
Download: Vim 7.1
http://www.vim.org/download.php