This Week in Nushell #371

Published Sunday, 2026-10-25, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-09-25 through Thursday, 2026-10-01.

Nushell

• @kronberger-droid:

  • ran a wrapped rest completer on flag-like tokens (#19130)
  • kept menus open on no match, letting cancelled pickers close and reopen (#19129)
  • bumped reedline to d7bcb12 (#19123)
  • expanded alias heads in place.command, kept completer warnings off the menu (#19085)

• @fdncred:

  • updated cell_path.rs (#19112)
  • --title renamed a widget's border; tui label --title became --titlebar (#19102)
  • arrow keys resized tui split panes in both directions (#19101)
  • --border and $env.config.tui.border_type picked border lines by table --theme name (#19100)
  • builders no longer read piped streams, so slow streams showed live (#19099)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • bumped minor version (#19090)

• @hustcer:

  • fixed nushell command docs build error (#19084)

• @costajohnt:

  • kept XDG config when there is no home directory (#19083)

• @pickx:

  • added forward slash/backslash to char (#19082)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped mq-markdown from 0.8.4 to 0.9.1 (#19119)
  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.50.2 to 1.50.3 (#19118)
  • bumped taiki-e/install-action from 2.87.17 to 2.87.21 (#19117)

reedline

• @Mrakorez:

  • used fd-lock for file locking on Android (#1235)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • bumped minor version (#1229)

Nu_Scripts

• @fnuttens:
  • added abbreviations (#1275)

Documentation

• @fdncred:

  • updated docs, tested and fixed examples (#2253)
  • fixed deploy workflow by configuring GitHub Pages before deployment (#2251)

• @Decodetalkers:

  • made external_completer follow the nushell changes (#2250)

• @Bahex:

  • replaced $buffer | split with $place.command in examples (#2249)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • fixed release notes for 0.116.0 (#2248)
  • published release notes for v0.116.0 (#2247)

• @hustcer:

  • refreshed command docs for v0.116.0 (#2246)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped undici from 7.29.0 to 7.30.0 (#2254)

nufmt

• @iibabyy:
  • fixed nufmt removing invalid default values for named flags (#229)

Awesome Nu

• @maxomatic458:
  • added reedline-bash to reedline integrations (#172)