This Week in Nushell #321

Published Wednesday, 2025-11-19, including PRs merged Friday, 2025-10-10 through Thursday, 2025-10-16.

Nushell

• @cablehead:

  • Respect --login flag in mcp (#16885)
  • Fix mcp by merging parsed blocks to prevent closure panic (#16884)
  • Disable ANSI coloring for mcp error messages (#16857)
  • Relay rich error formatting in mcp for LLM-friendly diagnostics (#16839)

• @blindFS:

  • Ignore hover_on_external_command in LSP tests for CI (#16880)
  • Fix wrong argument order of buffer_editor for config nu (#16877)
  • Fix flattening of aliased external calls (#16876)
  • Trim unmatched prefix/suffix quotes in completion matcher (#16869)
  • Fix file completion for redirection targets (#16831)
  • Refactor parser to move reserved keyword values check in parse_value (#16415)

• @Bahex:

  • Update to development version of reedline (#16878)
  • Clean up error handlers when jumping outside try blocks (#16838)

• @Tyarel8:

  • Add NotStartsWith and NotEndsWith operators to help (#16873)
  • Add not-starts-with and not-ends-with operators (#16852)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • Bump to dev version 0.108.1 (#16871)
  • Bump Windows crates (#16843)

• @app/dependabot:

  • Bump peter-evans/create-or-update-comment from 4 to 5 (#16866)
  • Bump peter-evans/find-comment from 3 to 4 (#16865)
  • Bump crate-ci/typos from 1.37.1 to 1.38.1 (#16864)

• @sholderbach:

  • Bump version for 0.108.0 release (#16863)
  • Add required fields for crate publish to nu-mcp (#16862)

• @simonborje:

  • Prevent directory completions from falling back to regular files (#16846)

• @fdncred:

  • Update reedline to latest commit a274653 (#16841)

• @mkatychev:

  • Enforce assignment type annotations at runtime (#16079)

Awesome Nu

• @brendon-felix:
  • Add nu_plugin_ls_colorize (#135)

Documentation

• @Bahex:

  • Add release notes for v0.108.0 (#2055)

• @Tyarel8:

  • Update operators documentation (#2054)

• @hustcer:

  • Fix typos in docs (#2053)
  • Refresh Nu command docs for v0.108.0 (#2052)

• @cablehead:

  • Add custom metadata support and HTTP response metadata docs (#2051)

nu-ansi-term

• @cptpiepmatz:
  • Prepare release (#72)
  • Ensure no-std works via CI (#70)

reedline

• @sholderbach:

  • Fix typos (#962)
  • Bump version for 0.43.0 release (#961)

• @blindFS:

  • Fix cursor dislocation during history navigation (#959)

• @collinmurch:

  • Fix shift selection in vi (insert) and emacs mode (#927)

Nu_Scripts

• @petrisch:

  • Add --upgrade-available flag to winget list (#1182)

• @ryan4yin:

  • Fix git worktree add - make branch optional (#1181)

• @sholderbach:

  • Include nu-mcp in make_release/nu_release (#1180)

• @Kissaki:

  • Add winget upgrades command (#1179)

• @Juhan280:

  • Add description to eza module (#1178)

Tree-sitter

• @blindFS:

  • Fix multiline match patterns (#229)

• @Tyarel8:

  • Add not-starts/ends-with operators (#227)