This Week in Nushell #375

Published Wednesday, 2026-11-04, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-10-23 through Thursday, 2026-10-29.

Nushell

• @fdncred:

  • Bumped libz-sys to 1.1.31 to clear RUSTSEC-2026-0418 (#19381)
  • Made the TUI draw on the terminal's own background by default (#19375)
  • Bumped scraper to 0.29.0, lru to 0.19.0, and calamine to 0.37.0 (#19373)
  • Bumped webpage and zstd-sys and ignored the other zstd advisories to clear the RustSec audit (#19359)
  • Routed commands found by id through a single IR call path (AST migration phase 3) (#19351)
  • Fixed try hanging under pipefail and kept an external's stderr through finally and o> (#19349)
  • Prevented Tab's partial completion from dropping suggestions that replace a different span (#19344)
  • Shortened table escape sequences and added a new ansi opt command (#19340)
  • Removed a file that was accidentally committed (#19331)

• @patatoish:

  • Fixed inverted error types in into int and into float (#19363)
  • Rejected duplicate column names in split column (#19362)
  • Returned an error for invalid alignment in fill (#19361)

• @mirsella:

  • Fixed OSC 7 directory URL escaping (#19358)

• @qodelicious:

  • Kept row order in to md when rows have different columns (#19356)
  • Made dirs drop a no-op when only one directory is left (#19355)

• @carlos-mercado:

  • Added record, table, and list-of-strings examples to str substring (#19354)

• @Tyarel8:

  • Documented $env.cmd_duration_ms and how to check for startup with it (#19350)

• @passionworkeer:

  • Fixed dc-glob traversal of explicit relative paths (#19348)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • Bumped ctutils, tokio, and clipboard-win to clear the RustSec audit (#19343)
  • Bumped reedline to c8d81b2 (#19342)

• @bercedev:

  • Drained a piped stderr before collecting an external in try (#19339)

• @akasakariko:

  • Reset stale REPL interrupts before running a new command (#19337)

• @armadavalor:

  • Stopped rewriting path separators for external args that merely contain ... (#19333)
  • Resolved Windows drive-relative paths like d: the way cmd does in cd (#19332)

• @app/dependabot:

  • Bumped fancy-regex from 0.19.0 to 0.20.0 (#19370)
  • Bumped uuid from 1.28.0 to 1.29.0 (#19368)
  • Bumped Swatinem/rust-cache from 2.9.2 to 2.9.3 (#19367)
  • Bumped actions/setup-python from 7.0.0 to 7.1.0 (#19366)
  • Bumped taiki-e/install-action from 2.87.29 to 2.87.31 (#19365)
  • Bumped hustcer/setup-nu from 3.28 to 3.29 (#19364)

Documentation

• @passionworkeer:

  • Added the missing zh-CN book chapters for TUI, MCP, debugging, and coming from PowerShell (#2274)

• @fdncred:

  • Added docs about @structured (#2273)

• @taylormhall:

  • Added Ghostty to the default shell terminal table (#2272)
  • Updated the lockfile to use registry.npmjs.org for all packages (#2271)

• @qodelicious:

  • Updated the Japanese Bash comparison table to current commands (#2270)

reedline

• @kronberger-droid:

  • Restored the terminal mode after the buffer editor exits (#1267)
  • Ungated the printer and commit messages in one frame (#1257)
  • Showed control characters instead of sending them (#1241)

• @Don-Yin:

  • Bound Shift+Backspace in insert modes (#1264)

• @Nacl-HCl:

  • Treated Ctrl+J as a line ending when draining the input batch (#1263)

• @fdncred:

  • Took the partial completion across all suggestion spans in the menu (#1261)

• @devtechedge:

  • Repainted whenever the vi mode changes (#1256)

• @eitsupi:

  • Let hinters and highlighters handle hints before auto-pair closers (#1244)

Nu_Scripts

• @qodelicious:
  • Updated shell_space to use std dirs now that shells is gone (#1302)
  • Fixed dice and the error helper in random-list for current Nushell (#1301)

VSCode Extension

• @rvhelden:
  • Integrated the debugger (#241)