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+title: 'This week in Nushell #291'
+author: The Nu Authors
+author_site: https://nushell.sh
+author_image: https://www.nushell.sh/blog/images/nu_logo.png
+excerpt: "As you are well aware, 0.103 was released this week, and you're probably too busy having fun with background jobs to read TWiN. But just in case ..."
+---
+
+# This week in Nushell #291
+
+Published Friday, March 21st, 2025
+
+As you are well aware, 0.103 was released this week. You're probably too busy having fun with background jobs to read TWiN, but just in case ...
+
+As is often the case in a release-week, many of this week's PRs were related to release activity. That doesn't mean there haven't been a few
+nice additions since then:
+
+- Thanks to @LoicRiegel for making some of the `math` commands a bit nicer. They used to complain when passed
+  a range, but several additional `math` commands now play nice with ranges.
+- Thanks to @fdncred for making `ps -l` more functional on macOS. You can now retrieve the user ID and more!
+- @sholderbach and @132ikl made serialization even more consistent across various `to` commands. Thanks!
+
+And since it's a relatively slow week in the repos, here are a few bonus links to some fun Discord discussions:
+
+- RGBCube showed off some [cool code to linearize files in a directory](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/615253963645911060/1350527148821315738) (with an updated version
+  linked below).
+- Cheer posted [a module to manage a text todo file!](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/615253963645911060/1351058866800037969)
+- blindfs24 linked an [absolutely ridonkulous Nushell config](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/615253963645911060/1349919681103925338), leading to a [thread with additional configs](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/1349919681103925338).
+- fs posted some [cool calendar commands](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/615253963645911060/1350653519132098632)
+- Rose (a.k.a. 132ikl) and NotTheDr01ds collaborated on a [display hook to capture the output of any Nushell command](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/615253963645911060/1350721741588135936)
+  (see [this GitHub issue](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/2731#issuecomment-2740322964) for the (almost) latest version). Almost latest because then ...
+- Rose posted a method for [setting metadata from `metadata`](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/615253963645911060/1352495741288972432) and then applied it to the last-output hook. (We'll try to get a versioned one up
+  in Nu_scripts soon).
+- NotTheDr01ds added [an example of how to run a command with a timeout](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/601130461678272524/1351309481509916743) using the new background jobs feature.
+
+All repo updates for the week ...
+
+## Nushell
+
+- **blindFS**
+
+  - [fixed flatten of empty closures](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15374)
+  - [fixed explore to not create extra layer for empty entries](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15367)
+  - [fixed lsp verbose signature help response for less well supported editors](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15353)
+  - [fixed lsp ansi strip on hover text](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15331)
+  - [fixed completion for inline defined custom completions](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15318)
+  - [fixed completion quoting for file_completion/directory_completion](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15299)
+
+- **IanManske**
+
+  - [modified job output to not collect automatically](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15365)
+  - [removed nu-glob's dependency on nu-protocol](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15349)
+  - [ensured `into string` does not modify strings](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15320)
+
+- **132ikl**
+
+  - [added compile-time assertion for `Value`'s size](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15362)
+  - [added `From<IoError>` for `LabeledError`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15327)
+  - [disallowed DTD by default in `from xml`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15325)
+  - [unified closure serializing logic for `to nuon`, `to msgpack`, and `to json`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15285)
+
+- **sgvictorino**
+
+  - [enabled streaming in `random binary`/`chars`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15361)
+  - [preserved variable capture spans in blocks](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15334)
+
+- **sholderbach**
+
+  - [fixed `to nuon --serialize` for closures](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15357)
+  - [pinned reedline to `0.39.0` for release](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15338)
+  - [closed find handle in `ls` windows unsafe code](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15314)
+
+- **ysthakur**
+
+  - [bumped to 0.103.1 dev version](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15347)
+  - [bumped version for 0.103.0 release](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15340)
+  - [feature-gated `job unfreeze` behind "os"](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15339)
+
+- **dependabot[bot]**
+
+  - [bumped uuid from 1.12.0 to 1.16.0](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15346)
+  - [bumped indexmap from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15345)
+  - [bumped mockito from 1.6.1 to 1.7.0](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15343)
+  - [bumped zip from 2.2.1 to 2.4.1](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15335)
+
+- **fdncred**
+
+  - [added more columns to macos `ps -l`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15341)
+  - [removed mimalloc allocator](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15317)
+  - [bumped uutils crates to 0.0.30](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15316)
+
+- **hustcer**
+
+  - [added category to `pwd` and `banner` commands](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15330)
+  - [updated toolkit.nu to add nu_plugin_polars plugin for build and install](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15324)
+
+- **LoicRiegel**
+  - [allowed math commands to work with bounded ranges and produce lists](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15319)
+
+## Integrations
+
+- **blindFS**
+
+  - [added lsp setup tips in nvim documentation](https://github.com/nushell/integrations/pull/40)
+
+- **hustcer**
+  - [added install tests for almalinux and openeuler](https://github.com/nushell/integrations/pull/38)
+  - [bumped to v0.103.0-r0](https://github.com/nushell/integrations/pull/37)
+
+## Nu_Scripts
+
+- **dam4rus**
+
+  - [fixed zellij layouts completions on MacOS](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1074)
+
+- **Yethal**
+  - [added custom completions for aws-cli](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1073)
+
+## Documentation
+
+- **Kissaki**
+
+  - [fixed 0.103.0 release notes help command reference](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1837)
+
+- **hustcer**
+
+  - [refreshed Nu command docs for v0.103](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1835)
+
+- **yo-goto**
+
+  - [corrected tip for changing completion prompt marker](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1834)
+
+- **NotTheDr01ds**
+
+  - [added TWiN 290](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1833)
+
+- **ysthakur**
+  - [published release notes for `0.103.0`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1783)
+
+## Reedline
+
+- **sholderbach**
+  - [bumped version for `0.39.0` release](https://github.com/nushell/reedline/pull/889)