After upgrading from 8.0.0386-r1 to 8.0.0983, Vim defaults to light background. Default color scheme is light despite `set background=dark`. For Gruvbox color scheme Vim chooses light rather than dark. In GVim everything is fine. Downgrading Vim to older version fixes the problem.
Created attachment 492214 [details] emerge --info
USE="gtk nls perl python ruby session" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" ABI_X86="(64)"
app-editors/vim-core-8.0.0386
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The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=bbf9548d7b7f81510dd9252b8f90f830a3796a13 commit bbf9548d7b7f81510dd9252b8f90f830a3796a13 Author: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-03-26 08:38:15 +0000 Commit: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-03-26 08:44:12 +0000 app-editors/vim: drop old version Dropping all old versions, which do not support slotted lua, while current stable does. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/616680 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/716450 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715886 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/691892 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/688044 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/684336 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/642356 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/641946 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/645062 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/630018 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/629830 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/628974 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/612030 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.17, Repoman-3.0.2 Signed-off-by: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> app-editors/vim/Manifest | 4 - app-editors/vim/vim-8.2.0360.ebuild | 320 ------------------------------------ app-editors/vim/vim-8.2.0508.ebuild | 320 ------------------------------------ app-editors/vim/vim-8.2.0638.ebuild | 320 ------------------------------------ app-editors/vim/vim-8.2.0814.ebuild | 320 ------------------------------------ 5 files changed, 1284 deletions(-)