This Week in Nushell #306

Published Monday, 2025-08-18, including PRs merged Friday, 2025-06-27 through Thursday, 2025-07-03.

Nushell

• @dilr:

  • Fixed 'find --columns .. --regex ..' to work and updated the help message (#16103)

• @yertto:

  • Added ANSI style reset codes (#16099)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • Allowed enabling deprecated experimental options (#16096)
  • Forwarded experimental options in toolkit run (#16095)
  • Allowed dashes in experimental option identifiers (#16093)
  • Added infrastructure for experimental options (#16028)

• @Bahex:

  • Refactored parse to return null for unmatched capture groups instead of empty string (#16094)
  • Optimized cell-path member accesses to avoid clones (#15682)

• @app/dependabot:

  • Bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.33.1 to 1.34.0 (#16088)
  • Bumped indexmap from 2.9.0 to 2.10.0 (#16087)
  • Bumped quick-xml from 0.37.1 to 0.37.5 (#16086)

• @fdncred:

  • Updated Rust to version 1.86.0 (#16077)

• @Tyarel8:

  • Fixed std/help by adding debug -v to string default parameters (#16063)

• @sholderbach:

  • Fixed easy clippy lints from the latest stable release (#16053)

• @kumarUjjawal:

  • Fixed metadata set to return an error when both --datasource-filepath and -datasource-ls are used (#16049)

• @132ikl:

  • Added pipeline span to metadata (#16014)

• @liquid-dragons:

  • Made save return directory_not_found when parent directory doesn't exist (#15961)

Nu_Scripts

• @TechnoTecna:

  • Fixed custom completion for pass by converting the path pattern string to glob (#1141)

• @renestalder:

  • Fixed composer completions by replacing filter with where (#1140)

• @samoylovfp:

  • Stripped ANSI from the main branch name (#1139)

• @shimeoki:

  • Fixed pause in background_task (#1138)

Documentation

• @scarlet-storm:

  • Optimized fish_completer path lookups (#1963)

• @oatovar:

  • Added header for parsing commits section (#1962)

• @link1183:

  • Fixed Getting started documentation to use where instead of filter (#1961)

• @Axlefublr:

  • Fixed book to suggest configuration syntax that merges rather than overrides (#1959)

Tree-sitter

• @Bahex:

  • Added highlighting for regex strings and nu -c <commands> (#210)

• @blindFS:

  • Refactored to add string_content child node to val_string (#209)
  • Fixed cellpath literal as new value type (#205)