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+title: 'This week in Nushell #296'
+author: The Nu Authors
+author_site: https://nushell.sh
+author_image: https://www.nushell.sh/blog/images/nu_logo.png
+excerpt: 'Déjà vu edition - More datetime features and much more!'
+---
+
+# This Week in Nushell #296
+
+### Published 2025-04-29, with PR Updates through 2025-04-25
+
+## Highlights
+
+- Ack! I'm late; I'm late! TWiN #296 apologies for this week's delay. Something about a dog, homework, and a giant bouncy house?
+- Wow - @Kissaki did some awesome work in `nu_scripts` with _15 PRs_! Thank you!
+- Another new Polars command joins the team courtesy of @MMesch — `polars join_where`.
+  Did you know that brings us to a total of _three_ SQL-like `join` commands in Nushell?
+- Job control continues to progress with @cosineblast's addition of tags! And as a sneak preview, there's a special
+  job-control surprise in store that just missed the cutoff for this week's TWiN. You can read all about it in ...
+- The 0.104 release notes! That's right - This week is release week!
+
+As always, special thanks to _all_ our wonderful contributors for the PRs below.
+
+## Nushell
+
+- Bahex [added `:nu` back to the help text in explore](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15644).
+- cptpiepmatz [added `cat` and `get-content` to `open`'s search terms](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15643).
+- pyz4 made several improvements and fixes for Polars:
+  - [Fixed conversion from nanoseconds to time_units in Datetime and Duration parsing](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15637).
+  - [Enabled parsing decimals in Polars schemas](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15632).
+  - [Removed the requirement that pivot columns must be the same type in `polars pivot`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15608).
+  - [Mapped the `//` operator to FloorDivide for custom values and in Polars](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15599).
+  - [Added the `pow` (`**`) operator for Polars expressions](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15598).
+  - [Enabled `as_date` and `as_datetime` to handle expressions as inputs](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15590).
+- MMesch:
+  - [Added the `polars join_where` command](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15635).
+  - [Fixed a mistake in the description of the Polars pivot command](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15621).
+- sholderbach [fixed the labeling of plugins through the correct glob](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15634).
+- SkillFlame [fixed an issue where `to md` breaks on tables with empty values](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15631).
+- LoicRiegel:
+  - [Fixed the output of `start_timestamp` as datetime instead of string in SQLite history tables](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15630).
+  - [Made `str join` output dates consistently (RFC2822 when possible)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15629).
+  - [Fixed the loss of precision when parsing values with units](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15606).
+  - [Added support for creating durations from records](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15600).
+- AucaCoyan [added a labeler bot](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15627).
+- sebasnallar [added the `--follow-symlinks` flag to the `glob` command](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15626).
+- WindSoilder:
+  - [Raised a reasonable error when using subexpressions with the `and` operator](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15623).
+  - [Allowed subexpressions with redirection in IR](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15617).
+  - [Kept PWD after activating an overlay through a file](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15566).
+- suimong [improved the performance of `std/log`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15614).
+- hfrentzel [enabled running scripts of any file extension in PATHEXT on Windows](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15611).
+- blindFS [fixed a regression in semantic tokens for module-prefixed commands](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15603).
+- scarlet-storm [enabled SOCKS proxy support in ureq](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15597).
+- fdncred [added more details to `describe -d`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15591).
+- Tyarel8 [fixed `kv set` with a closure argument](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15588).
+- NotTheDr01ds [added env-conversion helpers to `std`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15569).
+- cosineblast [added job tags](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15555).
+- lazenga [fixed outer joins incorrectly removing unmatched rows](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15472).
+
+## Documentation
+
+- thesoulless [fixed a constant](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1885).
+- marcransome [fixed the example of multi-dot shortcut path expansion](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1884).
+- Beinsezii [updated fish quotes in the external completers documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1883).
+- NotTheDr01ds [added TWiN 295](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1882).
+- LoicRiegel [highlighted datetime handling in the 0.104.0 release notes](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/1873).
+
+## Awesome Nu
+
+- LoicRiegel [added `uv` to Integrations](https://github.com/nushell/awesome-nu/pull/118).
+
+## Integrations
+
+- hustcer [fixed the format of Nu scripts to Unix format](https://github.com/nushell/integrations/pull/47).
+
+## Nu_Scripts
+
+- mn9891 [updated Mamba/Conda info parsing and fixed syntax errors](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1104).
+- Kissaki made many improvements:
+  - [Updated some fish-sourced generated completion files](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1103).
+  - [Updated more fish-sourced generated completion files](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1102).
+  - [Dropped the generated `highlight.nu` file](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1101).
+  - [Dropped added PATHs on folder leave](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1098).
+  - [Used `path join` to join path parts](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1097).
+  - [Supported configs with no hooks in `rusty-paths.nu`](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1096).
+  - [Fixed `parse-fish.nu`](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1094).
+  - [Improved the auto-generated `README.md`](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1093).
+  - [Removed duplicate "moved" auto-generated files from the old location](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1092).
+  - [Fixed `winget show` completions](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1091).
+  - [Fixed `winget` completions breaking `winget show`](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1090).
+  - [Added `md-to-clip` custom completions](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1089).
+  - [Dropped a draft note](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1088).
+  - [Improved git completions](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1087).
+  - [Ported `parse_aws_s3_ls.nu` from before v0.60](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1086).
+- kiil [added a games folder with a simple game demonstrating Nu code concepts](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1100).
+- jaredmontoya [added a `capture-foreign-env` module](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1099).
+
+## Reedline
+
+- WindSoilder [introduced a KillLine command and bound it to `ctrl_k` in emacs mode](https://github.com/nushell/reedline/pull/901).