This Week in Nushell #305

Published Monday, 2025-08-18, including PRs merged Friday, 2025-06-20 through Thursday, 2025-06-26.

Nushell

@sholderbach:
- bumped strip-ansi-escapes to deduplicate vte (#16054)
- added tango folder to .gitignore (#16052)
@Axlefublr:
- added note for figuring out datetime escape sequences to default config (#16051)
@musicinmybrain:
- updated which from 7.0.3 to 8.0.0 (#16045)
@fdncred:
- updated nushell to latest reedline e4221b9 (#16044)
- fixed LS_COLORS fi=0 coloring (#16012)
@adithyaov:
- updated how paths are interpreted in start (#16033)
@Tyarel8:
@ayax79:
- upgraded to polars 0.49 (#16031)
@Bahex:
- fixed hooks to correctly update config state when changing $env.config (#16021)
- preserved round float numbers' type in to <format> (#16016)
@hustcer:
- added loongarch64-unknown-linux-musl build target (#16020)
@Mrfiregem:
- allowed update cells to work on single records (#16018)
- streamed lazy default output (#15955)
@132ikl:
- added only command to std-rfc/iter (#16015)
- added backtick code formatting to help (#15892)
@echasnovski:
- added 'double' table mode (#16013)
@kumarUjjawal:
- fixed random dice to gracefully handle --sides 0 using NonZeroUsize (#16001)
- made drop nth command support spreadable arguments (#15897)
@blindFS:
- fixed completion for external path arguments with spaces (#15998)
- improved scalability of get_columns (#15780)

Nu_Scripts

@gin-lsl:
- fixed incompatible npm scripts (#1137)

Integrations

@hustcer:
- added updated manifests for 0.105.0 and 0.105.1 (#62)

Documentation

reedline

@qilme:
- fixed cursor start position for large buffers (#900)
@maxomatic458:
- added smooth scrolling to menus (#891)

NUPM

@kubouch:
- replaced filter with where (#123)
@mkatychev:
- added examples documentation to subcommands (#121)
@Rydwxz:
- worked on registry (#118)