This Week in Nushell #339

Published Friday, 2026-02-27, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-02-13 through Thursday, 2026-02-19.

Nushell

• @Juhan280:

  • feat(table): made record render also respect path_columns metadata (#17602)
  • feat(nu-command): added --keep-last flag for uniq-by command (#17564)
  • refactor: deprecated datasource-ls in favor of path-columns (#17562)
  • feat(commands): added path_columns metadata for du command (#17560)

• @fdncred:

  • fixed is-empty / is-not-empty on Empty Pipelines (#17594)
  • made sys host and uname const commands (#17593)
  • updated nushell to latest reedline cefb611 (#17578)
  • added user id to sys users (#17577)
  • updated how $NU_LIB_DIRS / $env.NU_LIB_DIRS is handled at startup time (#17563)
  • abstracted env var names so they're insensitive on windows and sensitive on other operating systems (#17558)

• @astral-l:

  • used RFC 3339 formatting for displaying dates with year > 9999 (#17589)

• @amaanq:

  • fixed: used write_all instead of eprintln! to avoid double-panic on stderr teardown (#17581)

• @WindSoilder:

  • pipefail: fixed freeze when assigning a large result of an external command to a variable (#17571)

• @hustcer:

  • attempted to fix "TLS required, but transport is unsecured" error (#17568)

• @it-education-md:

  • fixed pipeline let builtin var validation (#17525)

• @cablehead:

  • allowed Ctrl+C to interrupt HTTP requests (#17507)

• @app/dependabot:

  • built(deps): bumped uuid from 1.20.0 to 1.21.0 (#17587)
  • built(deps): bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.43.4 to 1.43.5 (#17582)

Nu_Scripts

• @kevmoo:

  • stopped parsing Dart and Flutter command output at runtime (#1225)

• @gbrls:

  • added zig and zvm completions (#1224)

• @LostExcalibur:

  • added support for blocks that define more than one Host in ssh-completion (#1223)

Documentation

• @c-git:

  • fixed typo in Nushell features section (#2122)

• @elviejo79:

  • made the parser error explicit (#2121)

Awesome Nu

• @SuaveIV:
  • added nu_script_wttr weather fetcher link (#153)

reedline

• @eitsupi:
  • fixed: used LF instead of CRLF in insert_newline on Windows (#1023)

VSCode Extension

• @PiotrTrzpil:
  • fixed: corrected TextMate scopes for keywords vs identifiers (#228)