This week in Nushell #174

Nushell

• webbedspace created a new values command (see #7166), and fixed signatures of commands which accept records also, and Change other instances of $nothing to null, and Fix #7551 record support in color_config, and Remove preview.rs, and Fix encode base64 type signature and examples, and Make $in work in catch closures, and Make config.filesize_format/config.filesize_metric conflict resolution consistent, and Standardise the use of ShellError::UnsupportedInput and ShellError::TypeMismatch and add spans to every instance of the former, and color_config now accepts closures as color values
• zhiburt fixed nu-explore configuration issues, and Patch explore 4, and Patch after fix after fix 7380
• rgwood made to text stream ListStreams, and added some cell path tests, and added cross-rs config, and Clarify --stdin flag, and explore tweaks Round 1, and table: Check stream timeout on every item, and Fix cell path when getting columns of non-records
• kubouch added "fall-through" signatures,and Remove shape-directed import pattern parsing, and Small parser refactors, and Initial support for parse-time constants
• sholderbach added more input/output type annotations, and Fix && quotation in to nuon after proptest fail, and Bump to new development version 0.73.1, and Remove unused deps or move to devdeps
• swarnimarun created chore: make the config setup messages consistent
• fdncred created fix the wix file to overwrite with save -f, and add xterm color names to ansi --list
• jntrnr bumped to 0.73, and Turn off cd abbreviations by default
• merelymyself let case_insensitive option work for variable completion as well, and prevent panic with format command, and tighter restrictions on alias and def names
• WindSoilder fixed a panic when using from nuon
• pinjeff replaced lazy_static with once_cell
• raccmonteiro added some filesystem command signatures

Documentation

• Tengs-Penkwe created Add section "Output result to external commands"
• sschneider-ihre-pvs created Update help.md
• merelymyself created clarify columns and rows
• rgwood created Mention breaking save change
• sholderbach created Add explore mode screenshot, and [WIP] Release notes for 0.73
• WindSoilder created add breaking change for fetch
• webbedspace created [release-notes-0.73] Add color closures and deeply mutable data structure features
• rsteube created custom completion: added external_completer
• zhiburt created Add a description file for explore command
• hustcer created Update book/make_docs.nu for nu v0.72.1+

Nu_Scripts

• maxim-uvarov created Function to format nicely big numbers: number-format.nu
• fdncred made just a couple tweaks to scripts
• jntrnr created Since last release script

reedline

• sholderbach fix the Github actions badge
• CozyPenguin made reedline handling cursor shapes more configurable