This Week in Nushell #370

Published Sunday, 2026-10-25, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-09-18 through Thursday, 2026-09-24.

Nushell

• @fdncred:

  • fixed lsp hover tooltip markdown (#19080)
  • added --recursive flag to update cells to visit nested leaf values (#19060)
  • fixed flatten to keep nested fields that collide with top-level columns (#19059)
  • fixed default to accept cell paths for column arguments (#19058)
  • bumped fff-search to 0.11.0 (#19057)
  • reduced parser parse time by 30% - 50% (#19055)
  • fixed engine to run every finally on the way out of nested try blocks, and unwind break/continue through them (#19052)
  • made $nu.startup-time accurate and sped up config loading, plugin registry, and gstat (#19049)
  • added the tui family of commands (#19025)

• @mrhard9090:

  • fixed idx search to not cap matches at 200 per file (#19078)
  • fixed rm to answer one --interactive prompt per key press on Windows (#19067)
  • fixed table to keep markdown and restructured headers off the separator (#19066)
  • fixed rm to skip . and .. glob matches on Windows (#19065)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • bumped reedline to db34d84 (#19077)
  • fixed CI to run ready_for_review on the PR head, not on main (#19047)

• @mikehasa:

  • fixed std/dt to correct datetime-diff day count when borrowing a month (#19064)

• @windlandneko:

  • fixed parser to reject unexpected semicolons in list literals and patterns (#19063)

• @philocalyst:

  • made fixes for unified/completions in general (#19054)

• @LouisDeconinck:

  • fixed table to not panic when the terminal is too narrow to draw (#19045)

• @surma:

  • made save create parent directories with --force (#19039)

• @Dorumin:

  • stopped going to tmp if --directory is specified (#18996)

• @rvhelden:

  • added a nu-dap crate and nu --dap: a Debug Adapter Protocol server for Nushell (#18738)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped serde-saphyr from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0 (#19071)
  • bumped rstest from 0.26.1 to 0.27.0 (#19070)
  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.50.1 to 1.50.2 (#19069)
  • bumped taiki-e/install-action from 2.87.12 to 2.87.17 (#19068)
  • bumped aws-config from 1.10.0 to 1.12.0 (#18994)

reedline

• @shreeve:

  • fixed engine so Up and Down report whether they moved anything (#1226)
  • added feat to let a menu close at the end of the word it was opened for (#1209)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • refactored editor to give paste-after the same shape as paste-before (#1225)
  • dropped fd-lock, itertools, thiserror and unicase dependencies (#1223)
  • changed typos to v1 in CI (#1222)
  • switched between edit modes with one SwitchMode event (#1214)

• @bhouse-nexthop:

  • fixed painter to trust the measured cursor row over a short terminal size (#1206)

VSCode Extension

• @fdncred:
  • fixed badges in readme (#240)
  • got ready for a new release 2.0.6 (#239)

Nu_Scripts

• @WindSoilder:

  • fixed background task with module usage (#1282)

• @fdncred:

  • updated oh-my.nu (#1281)

Documentation

• @NotTheDr01ds:
  • wrote TWiN 369 (#2245)

nufmt

• @abrauninger:

  • fixed several formatting bugs that break valid code (#227)

• @dannyfritz:

  • added flag for --shebang (#222)

nushell-ghsa-7pxc-fr7f-7m25

• @Dheebz:
  • fixed to require absolute vendor autoload paths (#1)