This Week in Nushell #343

Published Sunday, 2026-03-29, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-03-13 through Thursday, 2026-03-19.

Nushell

• @smartcoder0777:

  • fixed group-by behavior for lists/records (#17837)
  • added --base support to url parse (#17833)

• @fdncred:

  • upgraded rmcp to version 1.2.0 (#17836)
  • upgraded glob to use wax crate v0.7.0 (#17835)
  • swapped order of user and default library directories, const $NU_LIB_DIRS (#17819)
  • updated command docs to include command types (#17800)

• @ysthakur:

  • bumped reedline to latest main (#17834)

• @musicinmybrain:

  • updated lscolors from 0.20 to 0.21 (#17832)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • fixed clippy issues (#17825)
  • warned on clippy::needless_raw_strings (#17822)
  • refactored more command integration tests (#17820)
  • bumped toml crate to 1.0 (#17813)
  • warned on clippy::push_format_string (#17805)
  • gave http get tests with socks proxy more execution time (#17804)
  • enabled env_shlvl_in_repl and env_shlvl_in_exec_repl tests (#17803)
  • refactored test_examples usage with centralized testing (#17801)
  • fixed http not respecting proxy vars like ALL_PROXY (#17794)

• @hustcer:

  • excluded nu-test-support for loongarch64 to fix release script (#17821)

• @Rohan5commit:

  • fixed devdocs wording (#17818)

• @zhiburt:

  • adjusted width estimation for header_on_border in nu-table (#17812)

• @tauanbinato:

  • fixed output type signatures for hash md5 and hash sha256 (#17811)

• @Bahex:

  • added test_record! convenience macro (#17797)

• @ymcx:

  • dropped mode preservation to fix copying read-only dirs (#17791)

• @weirdan:

  • added completions for into binary --endian (#17788)

• @pickx:

  • added group-by flag to delete column after grouping (#17787)

• @blackhat-hemsworth:

  • added duplicate histogram output column check (#17783)

• @stuartcarnie:

  • added configurable external hinter closure to repl (#17566)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped winreg from 0.55.0 to 0.56.0 (#17831)
  • bumped scraper from 0.25.0 to 0.26.0 (#17830)
  • bumped sqlparser from 0.60.0 to 0.61.0 (#17774)

nufmt

• @fvsch:
  • removed cargo install nufmt from README (#91)

Documentation

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped undici from 7.16.0 to 7.24.1 (#2137)

• @c-git:

  • fixed minor typos (#2131)

Awesome Nu

• @SuaveIV:
  • added nu_plugin_audio, nu_script_time_sync, nu_script_world_time; alphabetized entries (#163)

Tree-sitter

• @app/dependabot:
  • bumped minimatch from 3.1.2 to 3.1.5 (#246)

reedline

• @ysthakur:
  • fixed ANSI stripping for suggestion width in completion menus (#1040)