This Week in Nushell #346

Published Friday, 2026-04-10, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-04-03 through Thursday, 2026-04-09.

Nushell

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • marked CustomValue::is_iterable as deprecated (#18003)
  • made random choice behave like first (#17983)
  • moved conversion between nu_json::Value and nu_protocol::Value into nu-json (#17980)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped tempfile from 3.25.0 to 3.27.0 (#18000)
  • bumped similar from 2.7.0 to 3.0.0 (#17999)
  • bumped tokio from 1.50.0 to 1.51.0 (#17998)
  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.44.0 to 1.45.0 (#17997)
  • bumped unicode-segmentation from 1.12.0 to 1.13.2 (#17949)

• @andrewgazelka:

  • improved model guidance (#17996)
  • fixed nu-mcp to deliver full output for promoted background jobs (#17989)

• @Juhan280:

  • added rustfmt.toml (#17995)

• @fdncred:

  • bumped uu_* packages to 0.8.0 (#17994)
  • refactored some commands and added tests (#17988)
  • fixed help command to prefer built-in help over aliases (#17979)
  • refactored parser to consolidate span adjustment for external calls (#17978)
  • made input list streamable (#17966)
  • added new sigil % for built-ins (#17956)

• @Benjas333:

  • added frameless table theme (#17993)

• @hustcer:

  • fixed input list when stdin is redirected in Unix TTY environments (#17987)
  • fixed parser scope leak in where $cond (#17976)

• @xtqqczze:

  • updated git2 minimum to 0.20.4 (#17984)

• @blindFS:

  • reverted allowing default values in external signatures (#17974)

• @sholderbach:

  • fixed confusing double negation with empty else if (#16708)

Nu_Scripts

• @neko-side:

  • added lsd completions (#1242)

• @cab404:

  • fixed yarn and tldr completion directories (#1241)
  • renamed custom-completions/bend to adere to *-completions.nu format (#1240)

• @gbrls:

  • added television custom-completions (#1239)

• @alightgoesout:

  • updated jj completions for version 0.40.0 (#1238)

VSCode Extension

• @fdncred:
  • updated for nushell 0.112.0 (#230)