This week in Nushell #217

Nushell

• Hofer-Julian did lots of work with long flags/options: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• p00f made hints aware of the current directory
• sholderbach created a new platform support policy document, and did lots of version-bump-related work: 1, 2, 3, 4
• amtoine did lots of work to deprecate+remove old commands (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) and added toolkit run to run a Nushell revision
• fdncred renamed unfold to generate, updated release-pkg.nu with updated manual instructions, added coreutils to cp search terms, and added a debug info command to show memory info
• jntrnr fixed the flag type on release-pkg.nu
• hustcer fixed winget release submission error
• gaetschwartz implemented modulo for duration
• WindSoilder refactored the lex_item implementation, and remove duplicate code to simplify lite_parsing logic
• Tiggax added --ignore-error to reject
• 0scvr allowed empty list inputs in group-by and return empty record, and fixed typos in CONTRIBUTING.md
• lavafroth escaped path that could be a flag, and fix: only escape path containing numbers if they can be valid floating points, and Extract common logic for setting error in parse_short_flags
• zhiburt updated table rendering code to use config color scheme in kv tables and table -e
• bobhy allowed filesystem commands to access files with glob metachars in name

Extension

• fdncred created Prepare for release

Documentation

• 0scvr created Update outdated std log import in std_log.nu
• hustcer created Refresh command docs for Nu v0.86
• das-g created Nushell 0.86 release notes: fix grammar "to now about" → "to know about", and Nushell 0.86 release notes: fix grammar "made their"→"made there"
• kubouch created Extend notes about bool options and def changes
• dependabot[bot] created Bump postcss from 8.4.29 to 8.4.31
• amtoine created Release notes for 0.86

Nu_Scripts

• AntoineSebert created fix: replace -c ['name' 'connection'] by --column { name: connection }
• amtoine created fix removed commands, and make_release: do not annotate boolean switches in public API, and enhance release note PR template, and add a section about after the release in the release README
• drbrain created Improved CDPATH
• fj0r created replace def-env with def --env, and upgrade to 0.86
• TechWatching created Move def before extern in winget-completions.nu
• bobhy created Add widget for nu exe (debug/release, and main vs other branch)

reedline

• p00f created add cwd aware hinter
• sholderbach created Fix clippy lint from most recent Rust, and Bump version for 0.25.0 release