This Week in Nushell #324

Published Wednesday, 2025-11-19, including PRs merged Friday, 2025-10-31 through Thursday, 2025-11-06.

Nushell

• @fdncred:

  • added winresource metadata to cargo.toml (#16985)
  • updated reedline and crossterm (#16975)
  • added name and description to the plugin list command (#16965)
  • bumped rust-toolchain to 1.89 (#16958)

• @sholderbach:

  • fixed README mention of Nu support in 3rd party product (#16984)
  • bumped sysinfo to latest 0.37.2 (#16983)

• @ayax79:

  • upgraded to polars 0.52 (#16979)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.38.1 to 1.39.0 (#16978)

• @cablehead:

  • added closure parameter to metadata set (#16976)
  • added -U short flag for --unix-socket to HTTP builtins (#16954)

• @blindFS:

  • fixed regression on flags without a long name (#16967)

• @pguerin3:

  • updated README.md to add windmill as a supported utility (#16953)

• @KaiSforza:

  • added nix flake to scripts/nix/ (#16848)

• @hustcer:

  • fixed memory leaks in REPL (#16348)

• @ysthakur:

  • allowed setting span in custom/extern completers (#15888)

Documentation

• @Kissaki:
  • fixed wrong/outdated color config references (#2064)
  • fixed use_ls_colors config reference (#2063)

reedline

• @lu-zero:
  • updated dependencies to use rustix-1.1.2 (#966)

Nu_Scripts

• @Tyarel8:
  • trimmed | from the closure in task.nu (#1184)