This Week in Nushell #374

Published Wednesday, 2026-11-04, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-10-16 through Thursday, 2026-10-22.

Nushell

• @ayax79:

  • fixed polars test breakages (#19317)

• @fdncred:

  • bumped webpki crates to clear the RustSec audit (#19308)
  • fixed(table): shrunk the widest columns first and honored width priorities everywhere (#19303)
  • fixed(unlet): hid a constant's name instead of rejecting it (#19294)
  • tested(run): dropped the shared short flag that #19271 made a parse error (#19274)
  • ignored the zip extraction advisories in cargo audit, since calamine never extracts (#19273)
  • fixed(run): rejected script arguments that main doesn't accept (#19272)
  • fixed the bugs found by the nu-conformance open questions (#19271)
  • fixed(mcp): didn't offer hidden commands, and left out the arguments an alias already passes (#19270)
  • fixed(cli): corrected the --mcp-host help text and example (#19268)

• @rajaryan0x1:

  • fixed(detect type): preserved whitespace-padded strings (#19299)

• @Tyarel8:

  • fixed(version check): propagated error and used github token (#19298)

• @manoj-1407:

  • fixed table --abbreviated crash when the row count is too large to allocate (#19296)
  • fixed last crash when the count is too large to allocate (#19295)
  • fixed window crash when the window size is too large to allocate (#19288)
  • fixed chunks crash when the chunk size is too large to allocate (#19286)
  • fixed roll panic on empty lists and records (#19285)

• @ymcx:

  • disallowed setting a negative indentation level in to xml (#19292)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • chore: bumped reedline to 39db5e3 (#19290)

• @qodelicious:

  • toned down the tutor echo intro (#19287)
  • fixed(into string): explained in help that binary input needs decode (#19284)
  • fixed(cli): showed the script name instead of main in errors about a script's arguments (#19282)
  • fixed(tee): kept the last help example short (#19281)
  • fixed(run-external): explained a missing shebang interpreter instead of showing an internal error (#19280)
  • fixed(hide): described the required argument as the name of what to hide (#19279)

• @intertermux-code:

  • fixed(du): counted a hard-linked file once, not once per link (#19283)

• @app/dependabot:

  • build(deps): bumped arboard from 3.6.1 to 3.7.0 (#19307)
  • build(deps): bumped serde-saphyr from 1.3.0 to 2.0.0 (#19306)
  • build(deps): bumped tango-bench from 0.8.0 to 0.9.0 (#19305)
  • build(deps): bumped taiki-e/install-action from 2.87.27 to 2.87.29 (#19304)

reedline

• @philocalyst:

  • fixed large completion menus and synchronized repainting (#1254)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • tested(painter): asserted on a vt100 screen instead of emitted bytes (#1249)
  • feat(history)!: dropped chrono from the public API with a millisecond HistoryTimestamp (#1248)
  • chore: added .claude to gitignore (#1247)

• @ppergame:

  • fixed(painter): printed external messages from the prompt's start row (#1243)

Documentation

• @qodelicious:

  • used 0-based split column names in the translated books (#2267)
  • fixed outdated nu_scripts links in the German book (#2266)
  • documented short-circuit evaluation of and/or on the Boolean page (#2265)

• @fdncred:

  • updated run docs (#2263)
  • updated since 0.116.0 + mcp + dap + new commands (#2262)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped vite from 8.1.3 to 8.3.5 (#2269)
  • bumped markdown-it from 14.3.2 to 14.3.3 (#2268)
  • bumped seroval and solid-js (#2261)
  • bumped @vue/server-renderer and vue (#2260)
  • bumped source-map-js from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 (#2259)
  • bumped markdown-it from 14.3.0 to 14.3.2 (#2255)

Nu_Scripts

• @qodelicious:

  • dynamic-load: check overlay names now that overlay list returns a table (#1300)
  • jalon-git: fixed the prompt on current nushell (#1299)
  • fixed completions still using 1-based split column names (#1295)
  • fixed modules still using 1-based split column names (#1294)
  • cargo completions: made --timings a switch (#1293)
  • zoxide-menu: kept the full score when parsing zoxide output (#1292)
  • fixed ssh completions for Include lines with comments or ~ paths (#1291)
  • avoided listing git subcommands twice in completions (#1290)
  • custom-menus: used commandline edit in the fuzzy history menu (#1289)

• @DavSanchez:

  • added remaining git abbreviations from oh-my-zsh and fish plugin-git (#1298)
  • fixed gcsm alias passing the commit message as a path (#1297)
  • allowed merging abbreviations that the user already defined (#1296)

• @0x4D5352:

  • fixed claude completion for optional-valued flags (#1288)

• @IanHollow:

  • fixed pytest completion list separators (#1287)

• @philocalyst:

  • fixed Git completion filenames, remotes, and push options (#1286)

nufmt

• @fdncred:

  • bumped to 0.1.6, added changelog (#249)

• @jadhavgaurav:

  • treated lists with non-simple items as complex when inlining a block (#248)

• @mkatychev:

  • ci(release): added dist release to nufmt (#247)

• @Sha1rholder:

  • fixed toolkit clippy and update-nushell-version; made ShellCheck happy (#246)