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+title: 'This week in Nushell #351'
+author: The Nu Authors
+author_site: https://nushell.sh
+author_image: https://www.nushell.sh/blog/images/nu_logo.png
+excerpt: 'PRs and activity for Nushell the week ending Thursday, 2026-05-14'
+---
+
+# This Week in Nushell #351
+
+Published Friday, 2026-05-15, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-05-08 through Thursday, 2026-05-14.
+
+## Nushell
+
+- @vip892766gma:
+
+  - [fixed duplicated words in comments (#18196)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18196)
+
+- @pyz4:
+
+  - [added support for header row in `from xlsx` (#18189)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18189)
+
+- @Juhan280:
+
+  - [added optional column argument for `grid` command (#18187)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18187)
+  - [allowed `pre_prompt` and `env_change` hooks to modify the commandline (#18119)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18119)
+
+- @Bahex:
+
+  - [did some more cleaning (#18186)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18186)
+  - [added `nu-heavy-utils` crate and consolidated endian flag handling (#18184)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18184)
+  - [added new `prod` command for cartesian products in `std-rfc/iter` (#18177)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18177)
+  - [added support for multiple cell-paths in `std-rfc/iter recurse` (#18172)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18172)
+  - [deprecated the optional closure argument in `watch` command (#18143)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18143)
+
+- @fdncred:
+
+  - [added `--no-commas` flag to `to nuon` for compact output without comma separators (#18185)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18185)
+  - [fixed `hide-env` and renamed `remove_env_var` to `hide_env_var` for clarity (#18170)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18170)
+
+- @132ikl:
+
+  - [gated idx import and export commands behind sqlite feature (#18181)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18181)
+
+- @Metbcy:
+
+  - [added table rendering benchmarks for nu-table (#18179)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18179)
+
+- @WindSoilder:
+
+  - [fixed clippy warnings (#18174)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18174)
+  - [fixed `try` causing other code to run twice (#18173)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18173)
+  - [made `mv -v` and `mkdir -v` return structured data (#18171)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18171)
+  - [made ctrl-c work with `try..finally` while running script (#18155)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18155)
+
+- @vvvu:
+
+  - [fixed `cp --no-dereference` for symlinks (#18162)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18162)
+
+- @ymcx:
+
+  - [trimmed whitespace from REPL input, improving auto-cd with leading/trailing spaces (#18123)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18123)
+
+- @Tyarel8:
+
+  - [fixed parsing default values of type glob correctly (#18111)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18111)
+
+- @app/dependabot:
+  - [bumped scraper from 0.26.0 to 0.27.0 (#18194)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18194)
+  - [bumped calamine from 0.34.0 to 0.35.0 (#18193)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18193)
+  - [bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.46.0 to 1.46.1 (#18191)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18191)
+
+## Awesome Nu
+
+- @BoweFlex:
+  - [added Sessionizer.nu to Script List (#164)](https://github.com/nushell/awesome-nu/pull/164)
+
+## reedline
+
+- @casedami:
+
+  - [fixed quote detection in bash expansion (#1073)](https://github.com/nushell/reedline/pull/1073)
+  - [fixed abbreviation expansion before space is inserted (#1072)](https://github.com/nushell/reedline/pull/1072)
+  - [added support for fish-like abbreviations (#1060)](https://github.com/nushell/reedline/pull/1060)
+
+- @kronberger-droid:
+  - [refactored core_editor: extracted grapheme boundary helpers into free functions (#1068)](https://github.com/nushell/reedline/pull/1068)
+  - [introduced HelixRange selection type in helix-mode (no wiring) (#1061)](https://github.com/nushell/reedline/pull/1061)
+
+## Documentation
+
+- @Juhan280:
+
+  - [updated jq_v_nushell (#2164)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/2164)
+
+- @NotTheDr01ds:
+  - [published TWiN 350 (#2161)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/2161)
+
+## Nu_Scripts
+
+- @orthonormalremy:
+  - [made just-completions obey `set fallback` (#1253)](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/1253)
+
+## New nu-parser
+
+- @WindSoilder:
+  - [implemented `Copy` trait on `AstNode` (#70)](https://github.com/nushell/new-nu-parser/pull/70)
+
+## nufmt
+
+- @jmatth:
+  - [fixed preserving curly braces around `export module` blocks (#186)](https://github.com/nushell/nufmt/pull/186)