This Week in Nushell #358

Published Friday, 2026-07-24, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-06-26 through Thursday, 2026-07-02.

Nushell

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • Ignored cargo audit errors about quickxml (#18513)
  • Feature gated the nu-heavy-utils crate (#18476)

• @fdncred:

  • fixed nu --plugins handling (#18500)
  • allowed idx find and idx search to show hits relative to cwd (#18477)
  • bumped reedline to 4d20caf (#18474)
  • added semver as a custom value type with support commands (#18473)
  • added a few new commands (union, intersect, difference, permutations, combinations) (#18467)

• @Alb-O:

  • added structured evaluate output (#18499)

• @pheenty:

  • suggested command categories in help messages (#18498)
  • fixed multiple search items help message (#18482)
  • added math cbrt builtin (#18481)

• @yertto:

  • added –prefer-integers flag for whole-number float conversion (#18497)

• @Himanshu121865:

  • Fixed --content-type flag being ignored for JSON body variants (#17640) (#18496)
  • Fixed showing target command name instead of alias name (#18351) (#18483)

• @Bahex:

  • fixed toolkit run pr runtime type checking issue (#18489)
  • Made error record passed to the catch block have more details (#18479)
  • Made even more type system improvements (#18450)
  • Made assortment of std improvements (#18449)
  • Made from ods and from xlsx consistent (breaking change) (#18436)

• @cacdu:

  • Fixed math errors propagation from table columns instead of silencing them (#18480)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • Bumped reedline to 4a5ebce (#18478)

• @jlcrochet:

  • Improved input list streaming stability/perf and rendering (#18462)

• @Juhan280:

  • Refactored to remove deprecated features of grid command (#18276)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped lsp-server from 0.7.9 to 0.8.0 (#18505)
  • bumped quick-xml from 0.40.1 to 0.41.0 (#18503)

Documentation

• @app/dependabot:
  • bumped js-yaml from 3.14.2 to 3.15.0 (#2189)

reedline

• @kronberger-droid:

  • Added a pull request template (#1115)
  • Added visual mode on a unified Cursor + rest-policy model (breaking change) (#1109)

• @MerlijnW70:

  • Fixed abbreviation expansion inserting a double trailing space (#1111)

Nu_Scripts

• @tonythethompson:

  • Fixed scale-minmax-table failing on current Nu (undefined column2, deprecated merge) (#1265)

• @rossnomann:

  • Added git cherry to git-completions (#1264)

Tree-sitter

• @blindFS:
  • Fixed dot in flag identifier (#250)