This week in Nushell #263

Nushell

• ayax79 implemented tons of Polars-related improvements (added expression support for polars cumulative, reorganized Polars commands, added expression support for polars str-slice, added expression support for polars str-lengths, renamed polars concatenate and added expression support, added expression support for polars contains, added expression support for polars strftime) and a few HTTP improvements too (used String::contains instead of exact match for http request content types and fixed string values passing their content-type correctly on http requests with a body)
• IanManske added an error on non-zero exit statuses, used IntoValue in config code, and implemented IntoValue for more types
• devyn removed bincode and used MessagePack instead for plugin custom values, and made tee work more nicely with non-collections
• fdncred updated the latest reedline, fixed an issue with find not working with symbols that should be escaped, removed config use_grid_icons and moved it to a parameter of the grid command, added version and path to plugin executable help, and fixed --ide-ast when there are errors
• WindSoilder made a user-friendly message when use_grid_icons is used in config, and prevented panic on detect columns with --guess flag
• sholderbach fixed serde feature selection in nu-protocol, and removed unneeded serde feature on byte-unit dep
• hustcer added aarch64-unknown-linux-musl and armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf release targets
• cptpiepmatz added #[nu_value(rename = "...")] as helper attribute on members for derive macros
• JTopanotti refactored send_request in client.rs

Documentation

• NotTheDr01ds added a blog announcement for Discord Showcase, updated the Plugin Chapter, and added a dropdown for docs on the main page
• lfrancke fixed broken links

Nu_Scripts

• Schweber added handling of empty input to nix activation-script

reedline

• HKalbasi fixed panic in long item completion in ide menu