This Week in Nushell #293

Published Friday, 04-Apr 2025

Highlights

• Thanks to @LoicRiegel for two improvements to into datetime this week - The command can now use a timezone flag when parsing a specific format, and it also accepts floats as input.
• A few additional improvements come to into datetime with the upgrade of the human-date-parser crate. While we don't always remember to call out upstream improvements, Nushell just wouldn't be possible without the contributions of numerous contributors outside and upstream from our repos. A huge thanks to these (usually) unsung heroes.
• @pyz4 improved the polars cast command to accept a decimal precision and scale. Thank you!
• @blindFS has enabled tab-complete for the built-in modules std, std-rfc, and their submodules. Woot! Thanks!
• And thanks to @vansh284 for additional exact-match improvements for completions!
• Finally, @mztikk added support on Windows for running scripts on the path.

As always, thank you to all the contributors this week!

Nushell

Features & Fixes

• mztikk considered PATH when running a command is a nushell script in Windows.
• fdncred:
  • bumped to the latest Rust version.
  • updated human-date-parser to 3.0.
• blindFS:
  • refactored commands to be identified by name instead of span content.
  • added stdlib virtual path completion & exportable completion.
• pyz4 polars cast: added a decimal option for the dtype parameter.
• WindSoilder:
  • updated rand and rand_chacha to 0.9.
  • updated shadow-rs to version 1.
  • removed -s and -p options in do.
• migraine-user fixed a typo in doc_config.nu and improved the description.
• ysthakur:
  • enabled exact match behavior for any path with slashes.
  • reverted "Improve completions for exact matches (Issue #14794)".
• hustcer fixed upgrading and checking of typos.
• 132ikl added boolean examples to any and all.
• vansh284 improved completions for exact matches (Issue #14794).
• LoicRiegel:
  • fixed into datetime ignoring timezone with format.
  • made into duration accept floats.
• dependabot[bot]:
  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.31.0 to 1.31.1.
  • bumped bytesize from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3.
  • bumped array-init-cursor from 0.2.0 to 0.2.1.
  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.29.10 to 1.30.3.

Documentation

• sunnyzanchi made positional parameters more searchable.
• Anabar fixed an erratum in the default_shell.md.
• dependabot[bot] bumped vite from 6.0.11 to 6.0.13.
• bfeitknecht corrected the std-rfc reference.
• Kissaki clarified immutability to avoid confusion.
• hank20010209 fixed broken links in configuration.md, environment.md, and explore.md.
• NotTheDr01ds added TWiN 292.
• antonio-caceres corrected light theme instructions to use the module.
• cosineblast added documentation for jobs.

Reedline

• WindSoilder fixed clippy: replaced last with next_back on DoubleEndedIterator.

Integrations

• hustcer added tests when installing Nu on loongarch64.