This Week in Nushell #333

Published Friday, 2026-01-16, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-01-02 through Thursday, 2026-01-08.

Highlights

• New command - unlet!

Nushell

• @ChrisDenton:

  • Fixed removing broken symlinks on Windows (#17320)
  • Replaced uses of canonicalize in nu-command (#17319)
  • Introduced nupath::absolute_with and used it in glob (#17312)

• @fdncred:

  • Added more details to agents.md (#17318)
  • Replaced deprecated current_dir usage with EngineState::cwd in multiple files (#17303)
  • Updated reedline to latest commit (#17299)
  • Fixed explore searching (#17289)
  • Added memory_size function on nushell's Value (#17287)
  • Added new command: unlet (#17270)

• @IvolliousElectrolux:

  • Fixed OSC 9;9 path reporting in Windows Terminal (Fixes #17300) (#17311)

• @hustcer:

  • Fixed typo & upgraded crate-ci/typos (#17310)
  • Added --list flag to to md for ordered/unordered/none list formatting (#17250)

• @astral-l:

  • Added month_name column to cal --month-names (#17302)

• @atahabaki:

  • Stopped treating 0 as padding always | bracoxide | str expand (#17294)

• @ysthakur:

  • Changed default IdeMenu min_description_width to 15 (#17280)

• @tom-lubenow:

  • Added GetBlockIR engine call to plugin protocol (#17279)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • Used Signature::build instead of new on debug env (#17278)

• @ayax79:

  • Allowed series and expressions to be passed into polars is-in (#17275)

• @NotTheDr01ds:

  • Added --icons option to table for ls tables (#17248)

• @app/dependabot:

  • Bumped schemars from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 (#17316)
  • Bumped shadow-rs from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 (#17315)
  • Bumped dialoguer from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0 (#17314)
  • Bumped lru from 0.12.5 to 0.16.3 (#17313)
  • Bumped tokio from 1.46.1 to 1.49.0 (#17309)
  • Bumped unicase from 2.8.0 to 2.9.0 (#17308)
  • Bumped fancy-regex from 0.16.1 to 0.17.0 (#17307)
  • Bumped calamine from 0.28.0 to 0.32.0 (#17306)
  • Bumped uuid from 1.18.1 to 1.19.0 (#17264)
  • Bumped csv from 1.3.1 to 1.4.0 (#17262)
  • Bumped tempfile from 3.23.0 to 3.24.0 (#17261)

Documentation

• @pcrockett:

  • Used non-conflicting .list filename in install instructions (#2104)

• @NotTheDr01ds:

  • Published TWiN 332 (#2102)

• @cablehead:

  • Documented the new --unix-socket flag for HTTP builtins (#2059)

• @nome:

  • Removed outdated section on closure type signatures (#2044)

reedline

• @ysthakur:
  • Fixed IdeMenu to use width instead of bytes/chars (#998)
  • Fixed IdeMenu description position not depending on description width (#996)
  • Fixed #912 (#917)