This week in Nu 168.md

This week in Nushell #168

Nushell

• jt added additional assignment operators, and Add support for while loops, and Allow field assignment into the env variable, and Update README re: typechecking, and Fix environment conversions, and Limited mutable variables, and Convert 'for' to a statement, and Split blocks and closures, and Turn off foreground processes on macOS, and bump to 0.71, use 1.63 toolchain
• denstiny fixed (#7097): let-env should not be able to set PWD
• rgwood improved rm error message when file not found, and Remove --separator from seq date, and Fix CI failures after PR merge conflicts, and Simplify seq char, and Make seq output type consistent (by removing flags), and Require input for date format, and Remove --predicate flag from find, and Require column name(s) in sort-by, and Proposal: Remove the sqlparser SQLite commands
• fdncred fixed plugin detection in help commands, and add commented out mold linker usage, and use path.try_exist() to fix silent errors, and bump to dev release 0.71.1, and return value::int instead of value::record in history session, and Revert "Fix for escaping backslashes in interpolated strings (fixes #6737)"
• dandavison fixed command_type classification, and Collapse some help commands columns into a single column, and Add accidentally missing tests of some command examples , and Add an expected result to date format test, and Declare input and output types of commands
• dmatos2012 fixed overflow on negative bytes
• webbedspace replaced all instances of 'column path' in help messages with 'cell path', and Add help warnings for path exists and path type regarding usage, and Fixed $in in where blocks
• raccmonteiro created command open returns error when does not have parameters (#7048), and Type validation for headers command (#6918)
• sholderbach pinned reedline to 0.14.0 release, and Make the example names unique across workspace, and Update reedline, and Make example binaries proper cargo examples
• 1Kinoti added some search-terms to the platform category
• gavinfoley fixed for escaping backslashes in interpolated strings (fixes #6737)
• kubouch updated contributing guide and PR template
• WindSoilder created Dependency update: update polar to 0.25, and make take behave like first
• PerBothner created New "display_output" hook.
• nibon7 fixed ignore-errors for select

Extension

• melMass created fix: ⚡️ add path for arm brew

Documentation

• hustcer created Refresh commands docs for nu v0.71
• hbt created fix 404 link
• kubouch created Add review process change
• webbedspace created Fix let-env Path example to be accurate for Windows, and Update types_of_data.md, and Updated working_with_strings.md (closes #640)
• PerBothner created Document display_output hook
• sholderbach created Release notes for nushell 0.71

Nu_Scripts

• taooceros created Fix undetected windows enviroment

reedline

• sholderbach created Use Box::default() in more places, and Prepare the 0.14.0 release
• perlindgren created Custom validator and prompt code examples