This week in Nushell #213

Nushell

• fdncred added functionality to evaluate $nu during --ide-check, and optimized aarch64 when able, and added a new command: into value, and allowed the values command to support LazyRecords
• anka-213 improved the parser to prevent cubic time on nested parentheses, and [fixed exponential parser time on sequence of [[[, and fixed tilde-expansion for multi-byte unicode chars
• Hofer-Julian made Nushell changes for the improved history isolation in reedline
• sholderbach removed dead BSON related tests, and improved assertions in src/tests.rs, and bumped to 0.85.1 development version, and pinned reedline to 0.24 for release, and bumped version for the 0.85 release, and simplified nu! test macros., and ran clippy in tests, and split up nu-protocol/src/engine/engine_state.rs, and improved select row perf for large N
• WindSoilder updated the lock file, and added a fix to not overwrite arg's type if it's annotated explicitly
• zhiburt added a new --abbreviated option to table
• tokatoka added 2 fuzzers for nu-path, nu-parser
• GPadley mapped DirectoryNotFound to FileNotFound for open command (issue #10085)
• amtoine removed str replace --string after deprecation
• stormasm updated the doc in toolchain.toml describing the update plan

Extension

• fdncred created Update to nushell 0.85.0
• nerditation created use which to search nu location, add icon too.

Documentation

• Hofer-Julian created Change to an actual link in last blog post
• hustcer created Refresh commands' docs for v0.85
• kubouch created Refactor const section, and Release notes for 0.85.0
• edhowland created Fix Rust example in contributor-book/plugins.md that does not compile in recent Nushell versions
• sholderbach created Fix formatting in de/book/hooks, and float instead of decimal
• FilipAndersson245 created Adds a note about mimalloc being default now
• petrisch created DE translation for hooks and background_tasks
• bradfitz created Update 2023-09-05-why-uu.md
• fdncred created Blog post documenting our integration with uutils
• JoaquinTrinanes created Fix direnv not using transformed values

Nu_Scripts

• fj0r created git-v2: new command gcf for copying files from other branch, and kubernetes/kn: create namespace when it doesn't exist
• marcelarie created Use 0.85 syntax in direnv module, and Use new syntax in rbenv module
• baehyunsol created use repeat instead of string multiplication
• amtoine created tix the release note PR opening script, and fix scripts
• sholderbach created Update the bump-version script, and Move random/into decimal to random/into float

reedline

• sholderbach created Bump version for 0.24 release
• Hofer-Julian created Improve history isolation