This week in Nushell #288

Published Friday, 2025-02-28

Highlights

Wow! What a week!

• Huge thanks to cosineblast for the incredible effort in landing one of Nushell's most anticipated and highly requested features. Support for background jobs has arrived!

• A warm welcome to cptpiepmatz and Bahex as the newest members of the core Nushell team! Thank you for all you have done for our community!

• And Nushell is easier to install than ever with official .deb, .rpm, and .apk packages. See the Installation Guide for newly added directions for Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat/Fedora, Rocky, and Alpine. Thank you hustcer!

As always, thanks to all the contributors this week:

Nushell

• hardfau1t fixed test-support to use the CARGO_BUILD_TARGET_DIR env var.
• blindFS made several improvements:
  • Fixed new Clippy warnings from Rust 1.85.0.
  • Added semantic tokens for highlighting internal commands with spaces in LSP.
  • Fixed prefix_str trimming for element_expression in completions.
  • Fixed edge cases in operator completions.
  • Refactored flatten_shape to expression for internal/external/operator completions.
• 132ikl optimized runtime pipeline input type checking performance.
• fdncred made several updates:
  • Updated Reedline edit commands in Nushell.
  • Improved query json help and examples.
  • Allowed bench to handle larger numbers.
• sholderbach bumped Reedline to its latest commit and updated ratatui to version 0.29.0.
• dependabot[bot] handled dependency updates:
  • Bumped rust-embed from 8.5.0 to 8.6.0.
  • Bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.29.5 to 1.29.10.
  • Bumped actions-rust-lang/setup-rust-toolchain from 1.10.1 to 1.11.0.
• ayax79 made changes to Polars:
  • Allowed any Polars expression for the pattern argument in polars strip-chars.
  • Moved to Polars bigidx.
• hongquan improved documentation for the each command.
• IanManske added benchmarks for insert.
• Bahex enhanced split list with streaming, closure arguments, and splitting before/after separators.
• cosineblast Added jobs functionality.
• cptpiepmatz improved precision of ErrorKind::NotFound errors.
• sgvictorino added signal checks in nu-glob and ls.
• MMukundi fixed insert/upsert creation for nested lists.
• MMesch added Polars str strip-chars with --end and --start options.

Nu_Scripts

• ziboh made several updates:
  • Formatted scoop-completions scripts with topiary-nushell.
  • Fixed the fnm bug during Nushell reloading.
  • Corrected substring indices to properly trim .ps1 extensions in scoop-completions.
• fnuttens added:
  • A clean command for the zvm module.
  • Windows support for the zvm module.
• bminer enhanced find in with the --exclude flag and improved file opening.
• hongquan made two updates:
  • Added compatibility notes about Nu versions.
  • Improved git checkout completer speed.
• shemraz added Komorebi completions.

Documentation

• sgvictorino replaced references to old logical operators (&&, ||).
• vojta001 fixed grammar.
• isaacadams implemented tables.
• hustcer added installation guides for .deb, .rpm, and .apk packages.
• choan fixed quoting for the EDITOR value in setup.md.
• 132ikl replaced usages of use std.
• NotTheDr01ds added twin #0287.

reedline

• sholderbach bumped the itertools version.

Integrations

• hustcer made several updates:
  • Moved Nu plugins to /usr/libexec/nushell and registered them post-installation.
  • Added sha256sum for release assets.
  • Added Arch Linux installation tests.
  • Added Arch Linux release packages.
  • Attempted to add RISC-V64 architecture support.
  • Attempted to add Loongarch64 packages.
  • Handled Gemfury push results.
  • Created releases and uploaded .deb, .rpm, and .apk artifacts.
  • Added test and publish status badges.
  • Built and published Nushell .deb, .rpm, and .apk packages.

Tree-sitter

• blindFS made several refactors:
  • Refactored body rules to reduce state counts.
  • Reduced state counts for val_table.
  • Reverted changes for internal commands with spaces.

Awesome Nu

• KAAtheWiseGit updated endecode and template Nu library versions.