This week in Nushell #278

Nushell

• 132ikl added a merge deep command for merging nested data
• fdncred added a config flatten command (1 2, 3), added a view blocks command for debugging Nu, tweaked polars join for better cross joins, improved view source (1, 2), and reverted a few PRs (1, 2)
• sholderbach removed pub on some command internals and removed unused sample_login.nu file
• NotTheDr01ds set split-by doc category to "deprecated", added shape_garbage, added version info to startup banner, removed duplicate version line, fixed doc files, added missing color_config settings, and moved additional env vars out of default_env and updated some transient prompt vars
• WindSoilder removed -a/-all flag in du and updated shadow-rs to 0.37
• Bahex added tests for path self, removed content_type metadata from pipeline after from ... commands, changed closure signature in std/iter scan to be consistent with reduce, removed the deprecated index argument from filter commands' closure signature, and added an example demonstrating accumulator as pipeline input in reduce docs
• PerchunPak fixed issues in the example configs
• ayax79 improved handling of columns with null values and added flag --coalesce-columns to allow columns to be coalesced on full joins
• cptpiepmatz fixed commands::network::http::*::*_timeout tests on non-English systems
• hustcer fixed a CI error for polars profile

Documentation

• Bahex added release notes for Bahex PRs
• 0x4D5352 fixed outdated commands in coming_from_bash.md
• SOF3 updated documentation on internal nushell commands using structured data
• RobbingDaHood fixed some examples for Command Output in Nushell
• hustcer upgraded shiki, vuepress and vuepress plugins
• PerchunPak fixed typo in moving_around.md
• IanManske started release notes for 0.101.0
• prx0 updated creating_errors.md to use $span variable directly in example
• NotTheDr01ds added "return value" topics to "Thinking in Nu" and added release notes for NotTheDr01ds PRs

Nu_Scripts

• WindSoilder made conda activate expand $env.PATH to a connection of absolute paths
• DualHappiness fixed delete-session no auto target and updated zellij completions
• NotTheDr01ds fixed invalid type signature and added and updated new config files

reedline

• sholderbach fixed clippy lints