This week in Nushell #299

Published 2025-05-16

Thanks again to all our wonderful contributors!

Nushell

• Tyarel8 fixed duplicate short_name in ansi command
• ysthakur used Default for making Suggestions in attribute_completions
• FlippinBerger corrected use-facing to user-facing in CONTRIBUTING.md
• fdncred allowed powershell scripts in the path to be executed
• dependabot[bot] bumped dependencies:
  • tempfile from 3.15.0 to 3.20.0
  • miette from 7.5.0 to 7.6.0
• LazyPluto fixed empty tables not respecting $env.config.use_ansi_coloring (closes #14896)
• ayax79:
  • Updated to Rust 1.85, edition=2024
  • Refactored DataType
• musicinmybrain updated lscolors from 0.17 to 0.20
• Mrfiregem:
  • Allowed path join to read ByteStream input (#15128)
  • Added lazy closure evaluation to default (#14160)
• Bahex:
  • Fixed parsing of bare word string interpolations starting with sub expressions
  • Added support for stored closures in where
• Kissaki added match examples for simple value and alternative values
• blindFS fixed inefficient select with large row numbers
• zhiburt removed unnecessary truncate logic in nu-table --expand
• hackeryarn made to nuon raw option remove all whitespace

Nu_Scripts

• Kissaki:
  • Fixed flags crossing subcommands in fishgen
  • Dropped unnecessary line length check in fishgen
• Cattle0Horse added complementary support for git config subcommands
• Arthapz fixed nu_msvs

Documentation

• kkoang fixed typo in special_variables.md
• NotTheDr01ds:
  • Added TWiN 298
  • Fixed typo in 297
• Kissaki replaced "Pipelines Behind the Scenes" with "Result Display Rendering"

Integrations

• hustcer:
  • Updated MSI user scope install tests
  • Updated MSI install/uninstall checking script
  • Added MSI install tests for winget and msiexec

Plugin Template

• fdncred updated to nushell 0.104.0