Nushell 0.70

Nushell, or Nu for short, is a new shell that takes a modern, structured approach to your commandline. It works seamlessly with the data from your filesystem, operating system, and a growing number of file formats to make it easy to build powerful commandline pipelines.

Today, we're releasing version 0.70 of Nu. This release includes big improvements to table drawing and lots of overall polish.

Where to get it

Nu 0.70 is available as pre-built binaries or from crates.io. If you have Rust installed you can install it using cargo install nu.

If you want all the built-in goodies, such as support for dataframes and SQLite databases, you can install it via cargo install nu --features=extra.

As part of this release, we also publish a set of optional plugins you can install and use with Nu. To install, use cargo install nu_plugin_<plugin name>.

Themes of this release

New table flags

• --expand: changes a standard table view; expand the table structure so internally all data will be displayed as inner tables

  NOTICE

  The expand mode can be considered generally slower than a base table view. So, if you have a large data set it may be slow.

• --expand-deep {int}: set a limit after which table enlargement is stopped

• --flatten: an --expand view option to return a set of values instead of table for a simple lists

• --flatten-separator {char}: a configuration of a separator for --flatten

• --collapse: changes a standard table view; expand the table structure in a squashed way

  NOTICE

  collapse mode currently doesn't support width control, therefore if your terminal is not wide enough the table might be broken. The collapse mode can be considered generally slower than a base table view. So, if you have a large data set it may be slow.

Breaking changes

• The command first 1 now returns a list with the single value rather than the value itself. This brings it in line with the behaviour of last 1.
• The dataframe command with-sql or query dfr has been renamed to query df for consistency.

Next Steps

We're continuing to work on language updates and hope to have more information for you soon. If you'd like to become part of the effort, please join the discord.

Full changelog

Nushell

• jt created Fix let-env in banner, and Allow auto-cd to work with backticks
• sholderbach created Pin reedline to the 0.13.0 release, and Upgrade reedline to latest dev version, and Backport fixes from nushell/nushell.github.io#633, and Fix e.g. completion git push --force-with-lease
• JEndler created Update README.md
• unrelentingtech created Tolerate more tty acquisition failures in non-interactive mode, fixes #6719, and Foreground process group management, again
• dandavison created Rename query dfr -> query df, and Add documentation requirement to PR template, and Remove unnecessary flags from term size
• rjfc created Add search terms to roll commands
• fdncred created add filesize_metric comment, and add the ability to convert durations, and add a new command to query the registry on windows, and tweak the banner message and make the time more accurate, and changed the way durations and filesizes are parsed, and add better description to table_index_mode
• Dorumin created window --remainder, and Remove unnecessary clone in window, and Fix quadratic time complexity with large strides
• howardjohn created Delete out.log
• merelymyself created Improve erroring of config nu and config env, and let alias list aliases, and return gid and uid in numbers if name not found, and Don't attempt to eval and trace if the repl line is empty, and allow for $in to affect environment, and ensure Operator::And errors out with incompatible types
• HannahZhuSWE created Add search terms to arg dataframe commands
• Dylan987 created Add search terms for export commands
• zephaniahong created Add search terms for uppercase
• HoLLy-HaCKeR created Fix invalid variable name in input command docs
• WindSoilder created avoid freeze when external command generates too much stdout output , and avoid freeze when capturing external stderr, and avoid freeze for table print, and Eval external command result immediately when using do command with -c, and Make semicolon works better for internal commands
• KyleRAnderson created Filter out empty glob patterns to "glob" command
• jake-albert created Return error on str replace RegEx parse fail
• bcmyers created Upgrade num-format to 0.4.3
• hustcer created Update nushell version for release workflow
• NotLebedev created To nuon escapes
• rsteube created nu-cli: external completer precedence before file
• Kangaxx-0 created Fix issue 6596
• zhiburt created WIP/ Checkout to new tabled

Documentation

• WindSoilder created Add note about subexpression with external commands
• zephaniahong created Update working_with_lists.md, and Update working_with_lists.md, and Update working_with_strings.md
• HoLLy-HaCKeR created Fix example variables using - in their name
• merelymyself created add reference to semicolons, remove redundant group from types_of_data, and Update blog with breaking change: different behaviour for first 1
• ohno418 created Fix a sample code on the "moving around" chapter
• sholderbach created Mention the --features extra requirement in the text
• NotTheEconomist created Update installation.md
• avkonst created Make foo example for Groups parsable by nushell
• hustcer created Update some styles and command doc generation script, and ci skip, and Merge docs with the same command name, and Refresh commands for v0.69
• hugosenari created fix (plugins): python plugin url changed
• SUPERCILEX created Add example of inline string concat
• dandavison created Some copy editing of initial book sections

Nu_Scripts

• dandavison created sockets command
• eggcaker created fix the PATH not working on windows
• DWTW321 created New custom completions for ani-cli, btm, glow & tealdeer
• Yethal created add update-path.nu
• ehdevries created Replace str collect with str join in panache-git

reedline

• sholderbach created Fix completion example in README/lib.rs, and Fix examples in README based on lib.rs, and Prepare 0.13 release
• perlindgren created examples updated
• tailhook created Add Submit and SubmitOrNewline editor events, and Remove flicker on external print