This Week in Nushell #362

Published Friday, 2026-08-14, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-07-24 through Thursday, 2026-07-30.

Nushell

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • stabilized unreliable tests in CI (#18756)
  • refactored a handful of tests to use test() (#18748)
  • refactored open tests (#18740)
  • updated the help text of test binaries (#18739)
  • updated kitest (#18727)
  • stopped running CI on lower layers of stacked PRs (#18720)
  • removed --testbin from nu (#18719)
  • updated internal commands tests (#18718)
  • updated external commands tests (#18717)
  • updated eval tests (#18716)
  • updated run external tests (#18715)
  • updated redirection tests (#18714)
  • refactored most test files that used nu --testbin (#18713)
  • refactored some tests (#18712)

• @Bahex:

  • made error make raise errors for invalid labels (#18755)
  • stopped lines from prematurely collecting output for string value input (#18753)
  • fixed the job spawn closure so it runs with an empty pipeline, not null (#18752)
  • fixed generate to handle null input the same as an empty pipeline (#18751)

• @fdncred:

  • updated math commands to handle records and support cell path rest params (#18754)
  • updated doc_config.nu and tweaked the explore section (#18750)
  • made $env.config show default configuration when not set even with nu -n (#18747)
  • fixed startup with dangling symlinks (#18726)
  • fixed ls ** when using the dc-glob experimental option (#18724)
  • added more consistency with null types (#18709)

• @xtqqczze:

  • bumped num-bigint from 0.4.6 to 0.4.8 (#18746)

• @danielcadev:

  • fixed save to serialize structured data to text files (#18735)
  • fixed RHS pipeline input type checking (issue #18682) (#18723)

• @ayax79:

  • added lazy and expression support for polars rolling (#18730)

• @ZayanKhan-12:

  • fixed devdocs links in AGENTS.md (#18721)

• @rvhelden:

  • passed Stack to the IR debugger instruction callbacks (#18708)

reedline

• @philocalyst:
  • strengthened contracts around completions (#1136)

Documentation

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • fixed the --experimental-options typo in the ExperimentalOption element (#2213)

• @NotTheDr01ds:

  • caught up on TWiN (again) (#2212)

• @ColumbusLabs:

  • documented passing arguments to external commands (#2211)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped immutable from 5.1.5 to 5.1.9 (#2210)

Tree-sitter

• @app/dependabot:
  • bumped flatted from 3.3.3 to 3.4.3 (#254)
  • bumped js-yaml from 4.1.1 to 4.3.0 (#253)

Awesome Nu

• @fhalim:
  • added nu_plugin_todoist (#170)