This Week in Nushell #372

Published Sunday, 2026-10-25, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-10-02 through Thursday, 2026-10-08.

Nushell

• @fdncred

  • added record family of commands (#19190)
  • fixed in and not-in between cell paths, and a panic on an empty cell path (#19187)
  • fixed match to allow .. and ..$rest anywhere in a match list pattern, like Rust (#19172)
  • made minor updates to AGENTS.md and CONTRIBUTING.md (#19164)
  • bumped rust toolchain to 1.97.1 (#19160)
  • fixed ps to list every process and report the same columns on every platform (#19145)
  • made the parser parse real scripts about 1.3x faster (#19138)
  • fixed startup to time nushell from main like bash and zsh, and fix exec (#19136)

• @qodelicious

  • wrote line breaks in to md table cells as
    (#19189)

• @ymcx

  • fixed a crash if buffer editor is invalid (#19185)
  • fixed IDE completion with an out of bounds location (#19183)
  • made nushell start non-interactively when running as MCP server (#19153)

• @kronberger-droid

  • fixed nix to take libx11 instead of the deprecated xorg set (#19181)
  • bumped reedline to e9fcfdb (#19175)

• @Adnan-Husayn

  • added LSP serverInfo to the initialize response (#19180)

• @Sha1rholder

  • removed the x86_64-darwin target in flake.nix (#19173)

• @rvhelden

  • fixed a bug where the debug adapter inspect would deadlock (#19167)

• @weslem

  • corrected float into string conversions (#19166)

• @feiiiiii5

  • measured nuon table column widths in runes, not bytes (#19165)
  • rejected to nuon --raw --no-commas, which writes no separator (#19158)
  • stripped one leading byte order mark in from nuon (#19157)
  • fixed nuon to error on a duration head that overflows (#19087)

• @cptpiepmatz

  • made changes after patch release (#19156)
  • prepared for patch release (#19154)
  • allowed TZ_VARIANTS in into datetime --timezone (#19139)
  • updated CI artifact uploading (#19106)

• @akshitj11

  • added only matching output flag to find (#19150)

• @GhostCoder6969

  • fixed it-if typo in chained error doc comment (#19143)

• @app/dependabot

  • bumped hustcer/setup-nu from 3.27 to 3.28 (#19178)
  • bumped xxhash-rust from 0.8.15 to 0.8.19 (#19155)

reedline

• @kronberger-droid

  • fixed helix to give h and l the arrow keys' fallbacks in normal mode (#1240)
  • fixed engine to keep auto-pairs out of menu queries and hint before trailing closers (#1239)
  • documented engine to spell out what a templated buffer editor keeps and test envs (#1234)
  • fixed painter to hide the cursor before the anchor query (#1233)

• @cptpiepmatz

  • prepared for patch release (#1238)

• @Dark-Alex-17

  • fixed painter to saturate the large buffer line math for 0/1-row terminals (#1236)

• @SatvikMishra08

  • documented the Completion and VI UX checklist (#349) (#1224)

• @glcraft

  • added helix match selection to editor (#1188)

• @pickx

  • added templated command for OpenEditor (#1041)

Nu_Scripts

• @roberttidball

  • added fxmacrodata module (#1284)

• @fdncred

  • updated git completions to the latest completion syntax (#1283)

Documentation

• @fdncred

  • updated the tui docs (#2257)

• @cptpiepmatz

  • wrote release notes for v0.116.1 (#2256)

nufmt

• @Sha1rholder

  • changed nushell badge version in README to 0.116.1 (#239)
  • upgraded rust edition and dependencies; removed "authors" in Cargo.toml (#238)

• @fdncred

  • batch fixed issues 217, 220, 231, 232, 233, 236 and upgraded to 0.116.1 (#237)

• @iibabyy

  • refactored format_signature to compute and store the default values of every args once (#235)

Awesome Nu

• @wangjiawen2013
  • added nu_plugin_charton to plugins list (#173)