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Author: NotTheDr01ds

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+title: 'This week in Nushell #295'
+author: The Nu Authors
+author_site: https://nushell.sh
+author_image: https://www.nushell.sh/blog/images/nu_logo.png
+excerpt: 'Ultra-cool contributors edition'
+---
+
+# This Week in Nushell #295
+
+Published 2025-04-18
+
+## Highlights and Special Thanks
+
+- It's really, really cool when someone sees a Discord discussion and submits a PR within a few hours to improve things, especially
+  when it's a (relatively) new contributor. Many thanks to the ultra-cool @Mrfiregem for making `kill ...$in` work!
+
+- Wow! An even dozen PRs for Polars this week, with 10 of these coming from @pyz4! New commands include `polars truncate`,
+  `polars over`, `polars convert-time-zone`, and `polars replace-time-zone`. A dozen thanks!
+
+- @whiter001 created a new, Nu (newNu?) plugin example ... written in JavaScript?! Nice work!
+
+- On a related note, the next time you go looking for plugin examples, keep in mind that they've moved out the main repo.
+  They weren't paying rent, they were eating our groceries, and they forgot to feed the goldfish. But if you really must know,
+  here's their [new address](https://github.com/nushell/plugin-examples).
+
+Read below for more great contributions, and thanks to the wonderful contributors!
+
+## Nushell
+
+- pyz4 made several contributions to the `polars` integration:
+
+  - [loosened constraints on accepted expressions in `polars group-by`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15583)
+  - [added `polars truncate` for rounding datetimes](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15582)
+  - [fixed casting as date to return `Date` type instead of `Datetime<ns>`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15574)
+  - [expanded `polars col` to handle multiple columns and by types](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15570)
+  - [updated `polars lit` to handle nushell `Value::Duration` and `Value::Date types`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15564)
+  - [updated `get-` datetime components commands to allow expressions as inputs](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15557)
+  - [extended `NuExpression::extract_exprs` to handle records](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15553)
+  - [added new command `polars over`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15551)
+  - [added new command `polars convert-time-zone`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15550)
+  - [added new command `polars replace-time-zone`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15538)
+
+- fdncred [added `--raw-value` option to `debug` command](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15581)
+- dependabot[bot] bumped dependencies:
+  - [data-encoding from 2.8.0 to 2.9.0](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15580)
+  - [rust-embed from 8.6.0 to 8.7.0](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15579)
+- ayax79 fixed issues:
+  - [cannot find issue when performing collect on an eager dataframe](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15577)
+  - [output type of `polars schema`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15572)
+- blindFS made improvements to LSP and completion:
+  - [fixed a panic caused by completion with decl_id out of range](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15576)
+  - [refactored flat_map with mutable accumulator](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15567)
+  - [fixed quoted cell path completion](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15546)
+  - [included decl_id in suggestion_kind for later usage](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15536)
+- 0x4D5352 made changes:
+  - [replaced `repeat().take()` with `repeat_n()`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15575)
+  - [moved 'job' to the experimental category](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15568)
+- jjflash95 [fixed #15440 where `default --empty` fails at empty streams](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15562)
+- Mrfiregem [allowed spreading arguments of the `kill` command](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15558)
+- cosineblast [made `config` commands add frozen jobs to the job table](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15556)
+- cptpiepmatz [added `--plugins` flag to `nu-std/testing.nu`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15552)
+- zhiburt [fixed commit f25525b](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15500)
+- whiter001 [created `nu_plugin_node_example.js`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15482)
+
+## Plugin-Examples
+
+- cptpiepmatz [set up the repository](https://github.com/nushell/plugin-examples/pull/1)
+
+## Reedline
+
+- divanshu-go [fixed the accurate location of matches within suggestion values](https://github.com/nushell/reedline/pull/903)
+
+## Nu_Scripts
+
+- Cattle0Horse [added completion for docker subcommands](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1085)
+- BattyBest [fixed `$env.PATH` for direnv](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1083)
+- rukins [improved basic git functionality](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1082)
+
+## Documentation
+
+- 132ikl [added a note about issue #15326](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1876)
+- kkoang [updated pipelines.md](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1874)
+- NotTheDr01ds made updates:
+  - [added TWiN #294](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1872)
+  - [updated the Config chapter for recent Nushell changes (e.g., user autoloads)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1868)