The last 2 weeks in Nushell #239

(we were busy and missed last week's update, sorry)

Nushell

• devyn made a LOT of improvements, mostly around plugins:

  • introduced better generic errors for plugins (and perhaps scripts)
  • allowed plugins to set environment variables in their caller's scope
  • refactored PluginCustomValue::render_to_base_value_in
  • merged stream_example into the example plugin and cleaned up names
  • added Value::recurse_mut() to save duplicated code in PluginCustomValue
  • supported custom values in plugin examples
  • made more robustness improvements to plugin persistence tests
  • disabled plugin GC tests on macOS
  • reorganized plugin API around commands
  • added environment engine calls for plugins
  • made the plugin persistence GC delay test more reliable
  • synced with the plugin garbage collector when setting config
  • fixed an unused IntoSpanned warning in nu_parser::parse_keywords when 'plugin' feature not enabled
  • fixed locking soundness in PersistentPlugin
  • improved the error message for a plugin version mismatch
  • supported all custom value operations on plugin custom values
  • kept plugins persistently running in the background
  • added support for engine calls from plugins.
  • improved handling of EOF in MsgPack deserializer
  • miscellaneous documentation fixes
  • refactored PipelineDataHeader ⇄ PipelineData
  • fixed a broken build by replacing value_string() straggler
  • added support for into string for custom values
  • made custom value type handling more consistent
  • made EngineState clone cheaper with Arc on all heavy objects (1, 2)
  • fixed zip signature to mention closure input type
  • changed the ignore command to use drain() instead of collecting a value

• fdncred bumped the rust-toolchain to 1.75.0, and removed stdlib logging environment variables.

• JoaoFidalgo1403 fixed usage of the --tabs flag while converting to json.

• WindSoilder removed the str escape-glob command, cleaned cp tests, removed test warnings, fixed ls with an empty string, and made closure in do command support default parameters and type checking.

• sholderbach refactored source cache into the CachedFile struct, updated contributor image generation with new upper bound, bumped arboard from 3.3.0 to 3.3.2, responded to nightly clippy, removed the rarely used std-lib issue template, minor refactored in to html, refactored benches for more command benchmarks, included benchmarks in the CI clippy run, bumped iana-time-zone due to yanked locked version, removed outdated doccomment on EngineState, disabled fmt feature of polars(-core), bumped reedline to dev (and strum), removed feat extra and included it in default, and restructured nu-protocol into more meaningful units.

• YizhePKU fixed a missing parse error when extra tokens were given to let bindings, and fixed inaccurate sleep duration.

• IanManske used the rest argument in export use to match use, fixed wrong stdout with e>|, fixed $in value for insert closure, fixed ignored clippy lints, fixed clippy lints, and overhauled IO and redirection.

• sarubo adjusted permissions using umask in mkdir.

• thomassimmer fixed a histogram error message.

• zhiburt used hex-dump for binary data in nu-explore.

• Tastaturtaste used the system clipboard only for explicit copy/paste operations, addressing issue 11907.

• ysthakur canonicalized each component of config files, canonicalized the config dir, updated tests Playground, and used XDG_CONFIG_HOME before the default config directory.

• nils-degroot improved the error message for into sqlite with empty records.

• kubouch refactored nu-check, and continued to experiment with the debugger.

• hustcer upgraded actions/checkout and softprops/action-gh-release, fixed Nu release packages after upgrading to Nu v0.91, and upgraded Nu to v0.91 for release and nightly workflow.

• rgwood fixed up ctrl+C handling in into_sqlite.

• NowackiPatryk fixed unexpected sqlite insert behavior (attempt 2).

• wellweek removed a repetitive word.

• FilipAndersson245 dived into extra benchmarks.

• dannou812 fixed to json -r not removing whitespaces.

• rtpg allowed for stacks to have parents.

• lavafroth used environment variables to prevent the command_not_found from recursing.

Documentation

• IanManske created Edit release notes
• qdm12 created fix(files.md): override Cargo.toml in example
• devyn created Release notes for 0.92.0 for @devyn so far, and Plugin command api doc updates, and Env var plugin engine calls docs, and Custom value ops documentation, and Add "Contrib" link to the navbar, and Documentation for plugin persistence, and Documentation for engine calls
• fdncred created a few more tweaks, and some formatting tweaks to the language guide
• gdennie created ensure showing of back ticks in <code /> block example
• zerfix created Document dynamic command arguments
• jweckman created Update plugins.md (#12146)
• ysthakur created Add info on XDG_CONFIG_HOME
• sholderbach created Remove feature extra detection from make_docs.nu, and Fix release note toc
• remmycat created Add cookbook chapter on how to read env vars from foreign shell scripts
• Gremious created Clarify pipeline arguments/output in book
• edhowland created Added missing types in Basic Types section.

Nu_Scripts

• texastoland created [stdlib-candidate] Clean up str append/prepend a little, and Refactor toolkit.nu, and Refactor stdlib-candidate for nupm, and [stdlib-candidate] set-env
• AucaCoyan created ✨ add gh gist and gh repo list and view, and ✨ add flutter completions, and 🐛 fix more parser errors, and 🐛 fix a couple of parser errors, and ✨ clone all script, and 🐛 fix scoop completinos (an extra ), and ✨ add a nu-check verification CI
• fnuttens created Add chezmoi aliases
• fj0r created standardized parameter naming for --help and fix regex capture, and nu-complete docker containers: show all containers
• neur1n created fix: update modules/virtual_environments/nu_msvs to work with nushell 0.91.0

reedline

• fdncred created Revert "Move left when exiting insert mode"
• sholderbach created Bump version of strum/strum_macros
• Tastaturtaste created Use the OS clipboard only for explicit cut/copy/paste operations

Nana

• cablehead created fix: collect LazyRecords before attempting to serialize them