This Week in Nushell #361

Published Friday, 2026-07-24, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-07-17 through Thursday, 2026-07-23.

Nushell

• @fdncred:

  • added splashboard to .gitignore (#18701)
  • bumped reedline dep to latest commit 7eb9bf2 (#18695)
  • updated fff-search to 0.10.1 and tokio to 1.53.1 (#18693)
  • updated agent.md (#18683)
  • bumped nushell to latest reedline commit a2c6e124 (#18681)
  • updated some dependencies (#18678)
  • disallowed keywords from being shadowed (#18662)
  • fixed is-terminal OS detection and added is-redirected for pipeline destinations (#18661)
  • updated nushell to latest reedline commit (#18655)
  • added idx watch command (#18639)
  • fixed bug where ls with dc-glob would fail with literal * name files (#18632)
  • expanded paths for --config-home parameter also ensured xdg is absolute (#18629)
  • disallowed export main from modules with keyword names (#18619)

• @pyz4:

  • fixed date floor/ceil rounding for durations >= 1day (#18696)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • bumped reedline to latest commit 83c17a2 (#18694)
  • bumped reedline to latest commit (#18685)

• @Alb-O:

  • refactored idx: removed import/export, kept single live index (#18679)
  • fixed idx: kept watched imports live (#18674)
  • fixed idx: excluded tombstoned entries (#18673)
  • avoided cloning list values for performance (#18636)

• @philocalyst:

  • updated to use CompletionResult (#18671)

• @ahmojo:

  • fixed parser: restored scopes before interpolation fallback (#18666)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • updated terminal tests (#18663)

• @Bahex:

  • updated some tests to use the new test infra (#18651)
  • replaced built-in date floor/ceil commands with nu rewrites (#18640)

• @Tyarel8:

  • added new duration_max_unit config option (#18650)

• @cablehead:

  • fixed engine: preserved metadata and streams through early return (#18625)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped aws-config from 1.8.15 to 1.10.0 (#18689)
  • bumped actions/setup-python from 6 to 7 (#18688)
  • bumped actions/labeler from 6 to 7 (#18687)

Documentation

• @fdncred:

  • added ide_completion_menu (#2208)

• @ninjack-dev:

  • fixed incorrect update date overriding publish date in Atom feed (#2207)
  • fixed pubDate not being added to RSS entries (#2206)

Awesome Nu

• @casedami:
  • added nu_plugin_todu (#169)

nufmt

• @HigherOrderLogic:

  • preserved comments at the end of multiline pipeline (#210)
  • added clippy to devShell (#209)

• @Mrfiregem:

  • fixed: don't use exclusive range operator before step (#208)

reedline

• @fdncred:

  • updated some dependencies (#1129)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • refactored prompt: used nu_ansi_term::Color throughout Prompt Trait (#1128)
  • split Extend into CoverLanding vs Span (#1113)

• @casedami:

  • fixed: dont expand abbr eagerly on submit (#1125)

• @philocalyst:

  • made Reedline aware of the status of completors (#1123)
  • fixed for surfaced unlayout in Nushell (#1122)

• @easyinplay:

  • fixed floor word_end to char boundary in abbreviation expansion (panic on multibyte char before cursor) (#1121)

• @eitsupi:

  • added typed inherent methods and JSON filter to SqliteBackedHistory (#1112)

Nu_Scripts

• @nextgenthemes:

  • fixed folder name (#1271)

• @AucaCoyan:

  • replaced str downcase for str lowercase (#1270)