This Week in Nushell #336

Published Wednesday, 2026-02-04, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-01-23 through Thursday, 2026-01-29.

Nushell

• @fdncred:

  • fixed cargo semver-checks with history (#17457)
  • added more rules to agents.md (#17453)
  • deserialized spans in ast --json command (#17452)
  • updated to ratatui 0.30 (#17430)
  • updated view source to show flags on custom commands (#17423)
  • added special handling for sqlite dbs with last, first, select, length (#17415)
  • refactored cli lexopt (#17405)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped shadow-rs from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 (#17443)
  • bumped sysinfo from 0.37.2 to 0.38.0 (#17442)
  • bumped uuid from 1.19.0 to 1.20.0 (#17440)
  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.42.1 to 1.42.3 (#17439)

• @ChrisDenton:

  • fixed old plugin file migration (#17437)
  • replaced more canonicalize with absolute (#17412)

• @pyz4:

  • added join on advanced column expressions to polars (#17436)
  • added nulls-equal argument to polars join (#17435)

• @WindSoilder:

  • updated assert_cmd to 2.1.1 (#17426)
  • added support for try {} finally {} (#17397)

• @sgvictorino:

  • updated eml-parser to 0.1.5 (#17417)

• @benblank:

  • added a umask command (#17386)

• @astral-l:

  • fixed std repeat returning empty list on null input (#17332)

• @ysthakur:

  • allowed custom/external completers to override display value (#17330)

• @KaiSforza:

  • added Type::Any to input type for error_make (#17323)

Awesome Nu

• @adevore:
  • added nu_plugin_ldap (#150)

Documentation

• @flinesse:

  • fixed and clarified explanation of semicolon behavior in pipelines (#2117)

• @Kissaki:

  • improved code blocks with common format and output (#2116)
  • removed duplicate windows ls change listing (#2115)
  • fixed typo in rm behavior change description (#2114)
  • fixed match and guard 'arms' typo (#2113)
  • fixed unlet example code in 0.110.0 release notes (#2112)

• @james-smith-za:

  • documented deprecation of $env.NU_LIB_DIRS (#2101)

• @Noah765:

  • updated carapace example to use $env.CARAPACE_LENIENT (#2099)

Nu_Scripts

• @Kissaki:

  • documented WolframAlpha API wrapper AppId requirement (#1211)
  • added winget pin custom completions (#1210)

• @kevmoo:

  • added completion for branch -D to git (#1209)

• @PeterhrCZ:

  • fixed from-env format to work with nushell version > 109.1 (#1206) (#1207)

Tree-sitter

• @blindFS:
  • added new let syntax (#241)

VSCode Extension

• @Paul-16098:
  • added <> to autoClosingPairs (#227)

reedline

• @ysthakur:
  • allowed overriding suggestion display value (#1002)

NUPM

• @TianyangGuo:
  • replaced deprecated $nu.temp-path with $nu.temp-dir (#127)