This week in Nushell #242

Nushell

• ayax79 made lots of dataframe improvements: moved dataframes support to a plugin (this is huge!), ensured that two columns named 'index' don't exist when converting a DataFrame to a nu value, added a short flag -c to polars append, handled relative paths correctly on polars to-(parquet|jsonl|arrow|etc), displayed span information, creation time, and size with polars ls, and showed full help when running the polars command
• devyn switched the CI to use macOS-13 instead of macOS-latest, due to failures, added a GetSpanContents engine call, isolated tests from user config, and added a --no-newline option to nu
• fdncred bumped Nushell to latest reedline, introduced better logging for the shell_integration setting, and aimed to be a bit more precise with REPL logging
• sholderbach fixed up plugin CI for macOS, bumped version to 0.92.3, bumped our Rust version to stable, and updated MSRV following rust-toolchain.toml
• IanManske updated kill to return a single value instead of a stream, did a drop refactor, refactored first and last, mentioned print in the echo help text, and renamed IoStream to OutDest
• amtoine fixed std log
• WindSoilder forced timeit to not capture stdout, and made ls and du support rest parameters
• singh-priyank fixed a bug with negative file sizes for into filesize
• oornaque fixed typo in help stor import
• texastoland lexed whitespace in input-output types, and ensured currently_parsed_cwd is set for config files

Documentation

• devyn posted release notes for 0.92.2
• intellild provided an ssh agent workaround for keychain
• kubouch updated the 2024-04-09-art-contest-summary and added an art contest showcase blog
• github-actions[bot] compressed images
• sophiajt fixed deadnames and updated contact info

Nu_Scripts

• Zuruuh added composer completions
• MilesCranmer fixed: prefix conda commands with conda, and fixed non-exported completions
• ehdevries panache-git: stopped printing stderr from Git commands
• csc530 added missing scoop completions, and added windows compatibility for command not found hook

reedline

• fdncred added bashism !term to prefix search for the last command beginning with term