This Week in Nushell #331

Published Friday, 2025-12-26, including PRs merged Friday, 2025-12-19 through Thursday, 2025-12-25.

Highlights

• Polars hits the trifecta with AWS, Azure, and now, thanks to @ayax79 - Google Cloud Platform!
• You can now both time a command and return its output using timeit --output thanks to @Tyarel8!

Nushell

• @fdncred:

  • Increased help menu description rows from 10 to 15 (#17223)
  • Used graphemes instead of byte indexes in explore regegx (#17219)

• @Jan9103:

  • Made bytes length available at const-time (#17204)

• @Tyarel8:

  • Added --output flag to timeit (#17202)

• @andrewgazelka:

  • Added par-each preference to mcp instructions (#17171)

• @ayax79:

  • Added Google Cloud support to Polars (#17135)

• @app/dependabot:

  • Bumped mach2 from 0.4.3 to 0.6.0 (#17227)
  • Bumped toml from 0.8.19 to 0.9.10+spec-1.1.0 (#17225)
  • Bumped rmcp from 0.8.1 to 0.8.5 (#17224)

Documentation

• @Paul-16098:

  • Clarified user defined menu layout in zh-cn docs (#2097)

• @NotTheDr01ds:

  • Published TWiN 330 (#2095)