This week in Nushell #218

Nushell

• fdncred updated the NU_LIB_DIRS delimiter for command line, and fixed main not building due to errors later found in describe
• gaetschwartz fixed describe -d for lazy records, added a detailed flag for describe, and made debug info lazy
• WindSoilder fixed redirection bugs: 1, 2
• tertsdiepraam implemented whoami using uutils
• hudclark extended pattern matching to support null literals, and improved the --flexible flag on from tsv and from csv
• ayax79 added dataframe support for small int types
• ludwig-austermann created readded the --update flag to cp
• sholderbach reverted "Bump regex from 1.9.6 to 1.10.2"
• amtoine updated str downcase to use to_lowercase, and deprecated glob --not in favor of glob --exclude, and expand paths and split PATH in std path add, and synced $env.config.filesize.metric
• kubouch finished removing the profile command and related data
• CAD97 improved registry value return types, and removed the registry clean_string hack
• hustcer moved ansi link from extra to default feature, renamed str size to str stats, updated Nushell version to v0.86 for release script
• stfacc fixed theming to not use white text in the default light theme

Extension

• Yakiyo created automatically publish extension to open vsx registry on release

Documentation

• xBLACKICEx created zh-CN translation update dataframes
• Roba1993 created Book scripts with sub-commands
• CBenoit created Add a note on theming Reedline’s menus
• sholderbach created Update list of "types" i.e. syntax shapes for defs
• rukai created add translation for bash "command 2>&1 | less"
• Stromberg90 created Fixed typo.
• hustcer created Update shiki, vuepress plugins and Nushell grammar
• hatunike created Update types_of_data.md with "into float"

Nu_Scripts

• fdncred created fix conflicts between git-completions.nu and git-aliases.nu
• amtoine created make hooks a module, and make the themes a module
• Hullabaloo-and-Howdy-Do created null-stream.nu as stdlib-candidate