This Week in Nushell #316

Published Wednesday, 2025-09-17, including PRs merged Friday, 2025-09-05 through Thursday, 2025-09-11.

Nushell

• @fdncred:

  • added $nu.is-lsp to help with printing in lsp mode (#16635)
  • bumped nushell to latest nu-ansi-term (#16613)
  • updated help to remove incorrect link (#16585)

• @132ikl:

  • uploaded artifact during CI (#16633)
  • added release notes devdocs (#16614)
  • renamed A:dataframe to A:plugin-polars in label bot (#16612)
  • added area prefix to labeler bot labels (#16609)

• @sholderbach:

  • bumped scc to a non-yanked version (#16631)
  • fixed mismatched_lifetime_syntaxes lint (#16618)
  • reworked signature flag parsing (#16617)
  • updated labels in issue templates (#16610)

• @Sheape:

  • added integration test for associativity in power operator (#16627)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped tempfile from 3.21.0 to 3.22.0 (#16623)
  • bumped actions/labeler from 5 to 6 (#16621)
  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.36.0 to 1.36.2 (#16620)
  • bumped actions/setup-python from 5 to 6 (#16619)
  • bumped shadow-rs from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0 (#16573)
  • bumped hashbrown from 0.15.2 to 0.16.0 (#16572)
  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.35.5 to 1.36.0 (#16571)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • fixed building nu-command by itself (#16616)
  • installed prebuilt cargo-audit to speed up Security Audit workflow (#16615)

• @weirdan:

  • discarded path add input (#16606)
  • fixed std help externs (#16590)

• @blindFS:

  • fixed panic on large duration number (#16594)
  • fixed parser pitfall of redefining def (#16591)
  • refactored LSP to clean up duplicated testing code (#16578)
  • fixed LSP malfunctioning on unsaved files, empty workspaceFolder parameter, overlay use with prefixes (#16568)

• @Bahex:

  • made for loops lazy, no longer collecting their source (#16593)

• @Jan9103:

  • marked LSP sessions as non-interactive (#16580)

• @andoalon:

  • added --endian flag to format bits (#16574)

Integrations

• @Taywee:
  • ensured config directory exists in post-install and pre-remove (#70)

VSCode Extension

• @fdncred:
  • fixed the changelog (#215)
  • updated for pre-release (#214)
  • fixed lints (#213)
  • improved jsonrpc logging (#211)
  • added ability to start and stop the LSP (#210)

Documentation

• @acxz:

  • added nushell equivalents of various cat incantations (#2037)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped vite from 7.0.4 to 7.0.7 (#2035)

• @sholderbach:

  • removed mentions of the chocolatey package (#2023)

• @Kissaki:

  • reported and forgave missing plugins in make_docs.nu (#2017)

Nu_Scripts

• @Bahex:

  • wrapped string patterns in quotes in match expressions (#1172)

• @MelvinCou:

  • improved winget completion (#1171)

nu-ansi-term

• @wmmc88:

  • widened windows-sys dependency version range (#69)

• @fdncred:

  • fixed clippy doc warning (#68)

• @dpaoliello:

  • updated to windows-sys 0.60 (#66)