This Week in Nushell #292

Published Saturday, March 29th, 2025

• So many bug fixes this week! Thanks to everyone who chipped in!
• Two new Polars commands - cut and qcut for binning
• And even some improvements to the VSCode Plugin from LemmusLemmus and LoicRiegel. Thank you!

Nushell

• blindFS:
  • added parse_warnings to diagnostics reports.
  • fixed the completions.external.enable config option not being respected.
  • fixed ls_color for ~/xxx symlinks.
  • ensured open sets default flags when calling "from xxx" converters.
  • fixed parser issues with comments in subexpressions of let/mut.
  • skipped eval_const when parsing errors are detected to avoid panics.
  • fixed flatten of empty closures
• ayax79 introduced Polars binning commands: cut and qcut.
• NotTheDr01ds:
  • ignored problematic overlapping tests for SHLVL.
  • fixed clip copy stripping control characters when de-ansifying.
  • added the current exe directory to the default $NU_PLUGIN_DIRS.
  • renamed user-facing occurrences of date to datetime
• LoicRiegel:
  • refactored to ensure bounded ranges.
  • fixed into datetime ignoring timezone with format.
• dependabot[bot] bumped tokio from 1.43.0 to 1.44.1.
• sgvictorino reset argument/redirection state after eval_call errors.
• Mrfiregem fixed path add bug when given a record.
• mokurin000 added support for ACL and SELinux in cd permission checks.

Documentation

• 132ikl added a note about breaking completions changes to the 0.103.0 changelog.
• LemmusLemmus added mentions of new operators.
• NotTheDr01ds:
  • updated the Plugin Chapter with an Overview/QuickStart section.
  • added TWiN 291
• Beinsezii added filepath escape troubleshooting to COOKBOOK/EXTERNAL_COMPLETERS.MD.
• mshalmanov updated the Russian translation.
• Kissaki improved the German landing page.

Nu_Scripts

• Direwolfesp added autojump argument parsing.
• NotTheDr01ds moved custom-completion auto-generate scripts to needs-update.
• ViSaturn updated ultimate_extractor to handle unzipping exe files.

Tree-sitter

• dependabot[bot] bumped tar-fs from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2.

Integrations

• hustcer:
  • added more tests after installing Nu.
  • introduced tests for installing APKs on riscv64 arch.
  • added tests for installing Nu on riscv64 arch.

VSCode Extension

• LemmusLemmus:
  • added has and has-not operators.
  • added support for floats, binary, and octal literals (with underscores).
  • improved highlighting of bare and raw strings, and added missing units & operators.
  • removed irrelevant autoClosingPair /**.
  • supported raw strings.
• LoicRiegel:
  • added syntax highlighting in Markdown code blocks.
  • added CONTRIBUTING.md.
  • fixed vulnerabilities detected by npm audit.

reedline

• KAAtheWiseGit upgraded unicode-width to 0.2.
• tisonkun upgraded thiserror to v2.

Awesome Nu

• a-slice-of-py added nu-aws-service-reference.