vimPlugins.image-nvim is outdated

sashee · January 3, 2026, 11:32am

I noticed that vimPlugins.image-nvim is at version 1.3.0 ( NixOS Search ) but 1.4.0 was released in September ( image.nvim/CHANGELOG.md at 446a8a5cc7a3eae3185ee0c697732c32a5547a0b · 3rd/image.nvim · GitHub ). AFAIK vim plugins are updated automatically (as seen here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=“vimplugins%3A%20update”) but seems like this plugin is not. Is this intentional?

nekizo · January 5, 2026, 8:19am

It appears that the author of this package used fetchzip instead of fetchFromGitHub.

github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix

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            magick,
          }:
          buildLuarocksPackage {
            pname = "image.nvim";
            version = "1.3.0-1";
            knownRockspec =
              (fetchurl {
                url = "mirror://luarocks/image.nvim-1.3.0-1.rockspec";
                sha256 = "1ls3v5xcgmqmscqk5prpj0q9sy0946rfb2dfva5f1axb5x4jbvj9";
              }).outPath;
            src = fetchzip {
              url = "https://github.com/3rd/image.nvim/archive/v1.3.0.zip";
              sha256 = "0fbc3wvzsck8bbz8jz5piy68w1xmq5cnhaj1lw91d8hkyjryrznr";
            };
          
            disabled = luaOlder "5.1";
            propagatedBuildInputs = [ magick ];
          
            meta = {
              homepage = "https://github.com/3rd/image.nvim";
              description = "🖼️ Bringing images to Neovim.";

The image.nvim repository doesn’t have a new tag, so https://github.com/3rd/image.nvim/archive/v1.3.0.zip is used instead.

Why did the author use fetchzip instead of fetchFromGitHub?

I have no idea.

sashee · January 5, 2026, 9:27am

What I see is that there is a new tag on github: GitHub - 3rd/image.nvim at v1.4.0 . But I don’t see a new version on luarocks: image.nvim - LuaRocks

Maybe this is the problem? Should I raise an issue at the image.nvim asking them to publish a new version at luarocks?