This Week in Nushell #366

Published Friday, 2026-08-28, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-08-21 through Thursday, 2026-08-27.

Nushell

• @aron-intframe:

  • fixed format date to render locales whose format carries %E or %O (#18918)

• @fdncred:

  • fixed inferring string from semver | into string (#18901)
  • fixed completions to keep the REPL usable when a completer runs fzf or input list (#18881)
  • fixed lines --skip-empty for string and byte stream input (#18872)
  • fixed unmatched { at end of format pattern and parse patterns (#18871)
  • improved performance by stopping parse-time-loading modules and extra cwd walks while typing use std/ (#18841)
  • reduced ast dependency for ir calls - phase 1 (#18813)
  • made named parameters able to pass null or omit parameter entirely for easier shadowing (#18796)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • chore(reedline): bumped reedline fc19b91 (#18892)
  • chore(reedline): bumped reedline to 73b928a (#18890)
  • chore(reedline): bumped reedline to e692224 (#18878)
  • fixed config to merge keybindings by name and key instead of name alone (#18870)
  • feat(completions): added a background-completions opt-out (#18764)

• @ayax79:

  • added Polars date range (#18887)
  • updated h2 due to RUSTSEC-2026-0258 (#18875)
  • upgraded to polars 0.55.2 (#18866)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • bumped patch version after release (#18885)
  • prepared patch release (#18884)
  • fixed test by removing printf calls (#18883)
  • allowed float value strings with commas in into float (#18882)
  • allowed raw null as a value for to yaml --non-roundtrip (#18851)

• @philocalyst:

  • applied completer fixes (#18868)

• @pickx:

  • rounded up 2 fixes for "did you mean?" (#18728)

reedline

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • bumped minor version (#1184)

• @catlover-bot:

  • fixed vi replace with v (#1169)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • docs(enums): recorded why WordKind::Unicode is not collapsing (#1194)
  • fix: guarded the zero-width divisions in the painter and menus (#1187)
  • fix(menu): closed the division panics in the columnar menu (#1186)
  • feat(helix): accepted a HelixChangeMode event so keybindings can switch mode (#1182)
  • refactor(engine): dropped two invariant re-check panics in the event arms (#1181)
  • refactor(menu): sliced the list page with get instead of indexing (#1180)
  • refactor(menu): read display widths through a checked helper (#1179)
  • ci: added nushell's security-audit workflow (#1178)
  • chore: bumped wayland-scanner to 0.31.11 for quick-xml 0.41 (#1177)
  • refactor(menu): read the picked example through and_then instead of expect (#1174)
  • fix(engine): propagated history errors instead of panicking (#1173)
  • refactor(engine): read the excluded history item through Option instead of unwrap (#1172)
  • fix(engine): kept history traversal alive while moving inside a recalled entry (#1171)
  • fix(menu): kept the whole diff when old is a prefix of new (#1170)
  • refactor: made three invariant re-checks structural (#1168)
  • fix(painter): rebuilt pairs in style_range instead of splitting in place (#1167)
  • refactor(menu): removed the panic surfaces in parse_selection_char and truncate_with_ansi (#1165)
  • fix(hinter): stopped panicking when the history search fails (#1164)
  • refactor(editor): made EditStack a zipper so no index can go stale (#1163)
  • chore(external_printer)!: replaced crossbeam with std::sync::mpsc (#1162)
  • chore!: dropped the helix feature flag (#1161)
  • chore: folded the sqlite/sqlite-dynlib cfg pairs into a _sqlite feature (#1160)
  • chore: dropped the idle_callback feature flag (#1158)
  • feat(history): let callers construct HistorySessionId (#1157)
  • fix(painter): kept the cursor position query off the tty in tests (#1156)
  • fix(vi): pasted linewise before the current line, not the previous one (#1155)
  • fix(engine): dropped the todo!() arm for SubstringSearch in history navigation (#1154)
  • fix(vi): saturated the count parser and capped it at u16::MAX (#1153)

Integrations

• @Taywee:
  • fixed post-install.sh for install by non-user UIDs (#78)

Nu_Scripts

• @hongquan:
  • updated the uv-completions to be compatible with uv 0.12 (#1277)
  • found aws_completer in libexec (#1276)

Documentation

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • published release notes for v0.115.1 (#2231)

• @NotTheDr01ds:

  • published TWiN 365 (#2230)

• @Kissaki:

  • improved v0.115.0 blog post text (#2229)

• @dependabot:

  • bumped dependencies (example)