Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived

The popular nvim-treesitter plugin has been archived by its owner following a heated dispute with the community over version compatibility and release management.

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This repository was archived by the owner on Apr 3, 2026. It is now read-only.

I noticed the plugin doesn't really do releases, and asking users to always keep latest updated build, it looks a little bit strange to me, afaik usual practice is to have stable releases and possible breaking ones, why the tags and releases aren't used for this plugin?

Yeah, completely dropping support for v0.11 on day 1 of v0.12 release by removing a single check is insane. If the problem is keeping up with constant updates to parsers, there should be at least some grace period.

I'm basically cut off from updates until Arch package passes all safety checks. Just because of the "insane burden" lifted by this commit: c82bf96

OK, I kept my silence because I didn't want to deal with this but: This plugin has officially required Nvim 0.12 for a long time; since people apparently can't read and kept opening issues and PRs about Nvim 0.11, I was forced to make 0.11 a hard error (the dropped compat shim was incidental).

And it bears repeating that this plugin is still experimental; there's a pinned issue about the roadmap. If and when we hit stable, then there will be releases.

For now, just pin to whatever commit you want and stop upgrading.

No, it's actually this plugin's docs and commit messages that treat people like burden. I have defended your position on master-main switch, but the current statement is simply not true: the plugin worked in Neovim 0.11 up until that very commit.

Unlike you, I try to stick to what people do, not what people are. So please, do go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people.

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