This Week in Nushell #350

Published Sunday, 2026-05-10, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-05-01 through Thursday, 2026-05-07.

Nushell

• @Bahex:

  • added docs for get_vendor_autoload_dirs (#18163)
  • assorted small refactors (#18154)
  • removed implicit line splitting of byte streams in parse (#18141)

• @fdncred:

  • implemented dynamic dispatch for % sigil commands (#18158)
  • added idx family of commands for in-memory indexing (#18142)
  • handled kill -0 as signal shorthand and updated PID handling (#18081)

• @kiil:

  • allowed filtering custom completions by description (#18156)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • allowed configuring version field in version command (#18144)

• @Juhan280:

  • added path_columns metadata to which and history command (#18020)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped openssl from 0.10.78 to 0.10.79 (#18167)
  • bumped rmcp from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 (#18166)
  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.45.2 to 1.46.0 (#18164)
  • bumped fancy-regex from 0.17.0 to 0.18.0 (#18138)
  • bumped lru from 0.17.0 to 0.18.0 (#18136)
  • bumped data-encoding from 2.10.0 to 2.11.0 (#18135)
  • bumped shadow-rs from 1.7.1 to 2.0.0 (#18134)
  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.45.1 to 1.45.2 (#18133)

New nu-parser

• @kubouch:
  • added block-getting helper (#69)

nufmt

• @matystroia:

  • fixed typo after formatting single file (#184)

• @fdncred:

  • batch fixes, updated some deps (#183)

Documentation

• @NotTheDr01ds:
  • added TWiN 349 (#2160)