This Week in Nushell #314

Published Tuesday, 2025-09-02, including PRs merged Friday, 2025-08-22 through Thursday, 2025-08-28.

Nushell

• @ItsHarper:

  • Fixed documentation of --number-bytes flag for several bits commands (#16542)

• @sholderbach:

  • Fixed issue form syntax (#16541)
  • Fixed polars open to use tab as separator for TSV (#16524)
  • Added "did my homework" checkboxes to issue template (#16520)

• @fdncred:

  • Pinned polars dependency planus to version 1.1.1 (#16538)

• @weirdan:

  • Added dummy 'namespace' commands for multiword orphans (#16529)
  • Prevented detect columns from creating invalid records with duplicate keys (#16527)
  • Reset content type for commands returning partial input (#16500)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • Fixed some broken doc links (#16519)
  • Fixed native-tls feature (#16518)

• @app/dependabot:

  • Bumped heapless from 0.8.0 to 0.9.1 (#16517)
  • Bumped indexmap from 2.10.0 to 2.11.0 (#16516)

• @Sheape:

  • Used default color in default theme for light-theme terminals (#16509)

• @Tyarel8:

  • Added docs to run-external and help command descriptions (#16493)

• @Bahex:

  • Refactored Record api to reduce code duplication (#16490)

• @pyz4:

  • Fixed polars fill-null signature to also accept expression as input (#16444)

• @hardfau1t:

  • Added active column to overlay list (#16125)

Documentation

• @sholderbach:

  • Fixed plugin loadup from 'use' to 'plugin use' (#2025)

• @ItsHarper:

  • Fixed reference to nonexistent into bits command (#2024)

• @NotTheDr01ds:

  • Added TWiN #313 (#2022)

• @jexjws:

  • Fixed tip breaking content layout in 3 files (#2021)
  • Updated zh-CN Translation (#2012)

• @Kissaki:

  • Mentioned loop advantage on custom errors (#2020)
  • Mentioned items in Iterating over a Record (#2019)
  • Fixed tip breaking content layout in variables.md (#2018)

• @Tyarel8:

  • Added custom help command information (#2015)

Nu_Scripts

• @j-xella:

  • Allowed wildcard expansion in eza completions (#1165)

• @fnuttens:

  • Skipped ouch decompress confirmation for zvm module (#1164)

Tree-sitter

• @blindFS:
  • Fixed allowing colon in short flags (#221)
  • Refactored cleanup rules that can be assimilated as commands (#220)