add pr links to summaries

Author: Bahex

blog/2025-10-14-nushell_v0_108_0.md

@@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ As part of this release, we also publish a set of optional [plugins](https://www
 
 ## Breaking changes
 
-### Pass optional and casing to follow path methods for `CustomValue`
+### Pass optional and casing to follow path methods for `CustomValue` ([#16736])
 Plugin authors that use `CustomValue` can now access the `optional` and `casing` fields in their `follow_path_int` and `follow_path_string` methods to add behavior for optional access or case sensitivity.
 
 This is a breaking change for the plugin signature so it needs an update. Simply ignoring these fields may be a valid solution.
 
-### `into value` is now `detect type`, and `into value` now converts custom values to plain values
+### `into value` is now `detect type`, and `into value` now converts custom values to plain values ([#16697])
 Until 0.107, `into value` tried to detect the types of table cells. It converted strings into typed values, which is where the name came from. But it didn't match the purpose of the other `into` commands.  
 This command is now called `detect type` but it doesn't operate on cells anymore, so you have to call `update cells {detect type}` to use that functionality again. With that we can also use that command on non-table types to try to infer the types.  
 The `into value` name is now used for converting custom values from plugins into native Nushell values.
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ CoolCustomValue
 string
 ```
 
-### Collecting a stream that contains errors now raises an error itself
+### Collecting a stream that contains errors now raises an error itself ([#16738])
 
 Previously, if an error was returned as a stream item and you collected that stream into a value, you would and up with a list that has an `error` item which you wouldn't know about until you interacted with that specific item.
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Error:
    ╰────
 ```
 
-### Changes to `EditCommand`s:
+### Changes to `EditCommand`s ([#16841])
 
 - renamed `cutinside` to `cutinsidepair` 
 - renamed `yankinside` to `copyinsidepair`
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Error:
 - added `cuttextobject`
 - added `copytextobject`
 
-### Vi Mode Text Objects
+### Vi Mode Text Objects ([#16841])
 
 Vi mode now supports inner and around (`i` and `a`) text objects for:
 - word, bound to `w` (a sequence of letters, digits and underscores, separated with white space)
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ It simply searches for the previous and next matching characters.
 
 ### Other breaking changes
 
-* ### The LSP session is no longer marked as interactive (`$nu.is-interactive == false`) ([#16580])
+* The LSP session is no longer marked as interactive (`$nu.is-interactive == false`) ([#16580])
 
 * The Polars plugin's value types are renamed to be prefixed with `polars_` (e.g. polars_dataframe) ([#16819])
 
@@ -231,15 +231,15 @@ NU_EXPERIMENTAL_OPTIONS="all" nu
 
 :::
 
-### Promoted `reorder-cell-paths` to opt-out
+### Promoted `reorder-cell-paths` to opt-out ([#16795])
 
 In Nushell 0.106.0, [experimental options](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2025-07-23-nushell_0_106_0.html#experimental-options-toc) were added, first of which is [`reorder-cell-paths`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/16766). With this release `reorder-cell-paths` is promoted to being opt-out, meaning that by default this experimental option is enabled now.
 
 This option improves cell-path accesses by reordering how the cell-path should be evaluated without modifying the output in any way.
 
 If you experience any trouble with this, you can disable it via passing `reorder-cell-paths=false` via the command-line argument or environment variable.
 
-### Pipefail
+### Pipefail ([#16449])
 
 This release adds a new experimental option: `pipefail`.
 
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Error: nu::shell::non_zero_exit_code
    ╰────
 ```
 
-### Enforce Assignment Type Annotations at Runtime
+### Enforce Assignment Type Annotations at Runtime ([#16079])
 
 Nushell is perfectly capable of catching type errors at parse time...
 
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ Error: nu::shell::cant_convert
 
 </details>
 
-### `--endian` flag for `format bits`
+### `--endian` flag for `format bits` ([#16574])
 
 `format bits` used to output in native endian, until Nu 0.107.0 (#16435) changed it to big endian. Now, you will be able to choose the behavior with `--endian` (use `format bits --endian native` to get the original behavior from before Nu 0.107.0).
 
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ Error: nu::shell::cant_convert
 00000010 00000001
 ```
 
-### `for` loops no longer collect their source
+### `for` loops no longer collect their source ([#16593])
 Previously, `for` loops only worked with values (ranges, lists, etc), so using them with streaming commands would collect the whole stream before iteration could start. Now it also works with streams too! 
 
 This makes it possible to use it with slow or unbounded streams:
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ for event in (watch . --glob=**/*.rs) {
 }
 ```
 
-### Guess no more! More completions in built-in commands.
+### Guess no more! More completions in built-in commands ([#16383])
 
 Thanks to some recent improvements behind the scenes, nushell built-in commands that expect a specific set of values now suggests these values.
 
@@ -419,12 +419,12 @@ The following commands now have suggestions:
 - `table --theme <...>`
 - `split list --split <...>`
 
-### Add `$nu.is-lsp` to help with printing in lsp mode
+### Add `$nu.is-lsp` to help with printing in lsp mode ([#16635])
 When nushell is launched with the `--lsp` flag, nushell will set `$nu.is-lsp` to true so that users can programmatically know when nushell is in LSP mode.
 
 When in LSP mode, the `print` command will only print to stderr. This is done to prevent the LSP from misbehaving when it sees text that isn't JSON-RPC in stdout, which is being listened to by the LSP.
 
-### New Configuration Option: `$env.config.table.batch_duration`
+### New Configuration Option: `$env.config.table.batch_duration` ([#16629])
 
 It is now possible to configure the batch duration for the `table` command.
 
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ $env.config.table.batch_duration = 2sec
 # ╰───┴─────────────╯
 ```
 
-### New Configuration Option: `$env.config.table.stream_page_size`
+### New Configuration Option: `$env.config.table.stream_page_size` ([#16629])
 
 It is now possible to configure the maximum page size of streamed data in the `table` command.
 
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ $env.config.table.stream_page_size = 2
 # ╰───┴────────╯
 ```
 
-### Table literal columns support variables
+### Table literal columns support variables ([#16669])
 Table literals can now have variables in the column names list. For example, this is now allowed:
 ```ansi:no-line-numbers
 > let column_name = 'column0'
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ Table literals can now have variables in the column names list. For example, thi
 ╰───┴─────────┴─────────╯
 ```
 
-### Add %J and %Q format specifiers for compact date/time formatting
+### Add %J and %Q format specifiers for compact date/time formatting ([#16588])
 The `format date` and `into datetime` commands now support two new format specifiers for creating compact, sortable date and time components:
 
 - **%J** produces compact dates in `YYYYMMDD` format (e.g., `20250918`)
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ Both commands use the same format specifications, ensuring consistency when pars
 
 This addition is fully backward compatible - all existing format specifiers continue to work unchanged.
 
-### Add configuration for columnar menu traversal direction
+### Add configuration for columnar menu traversal direction ([#16724])
 The feature makes it possible to choose the direction that items are placed in the columnar menu. With the default value of `"horizontal"`, items are ordered left-to-right in each row, with later items appearing in rows below earlier items.
 ```
 1   2   3   4
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ $env.config.menus ++= [{
 }]
 ```
 
-### Nushell MCP Server
+### Nushell MCP Server ([#16693], [#16758], [#16839], [#16857])
 
 When compiled with the "mcp" feature (not a part of the default feature set), the nushell binary can be used as a local (stdio) MCP server.
 
@@ -586,15 +586,15 @@ nu --mcp
 
 This will allow a local AI agent to use MCP to execute native nushell commands and external commands.
 
-### Add `--chars` to `str length` command
+### Add `--chars` to `str length` command ([#16768])
 The `str length` command now has a `--chars` flag to allow you to count characters.
 
 ```nushell
 > 'hällo' | str length --chars
   5
 ```
 
-### Simple syntax for simple completions
+### Simple syntax for simple completions ([#16789])
 
 Custom completions are powerful, able to provide dynamic completions based on what's written on the command line so far.
 
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ Completions can be provided as a list of strings inline in the command signature
 ```
 
 
-### Streams of Streams
+### Streams of Streams ([#16735])
 
 When you run `each` over a list (or stream), it can only return a single item for each input. When we need to create multiple values from a single input, we can just return a list in the closure and run the output through `flatten`.
 
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ def slow-source [range: range] {
 </tbody>
 </table>
 
-### Command-wide completion handler
+### Command-wide completion handler ([#16765])
 
 There is big difference between custom completions that can be specified in a command's signature, and the "global" external completer (`$env.config.completions.external.completer`).
 
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ def fish-completer [spans: list<string>] {
 
 </details>
 
-### The `to md` command now always returns valid Markdown tables
+### The `to md` command now always returns valid Markdown tables ([#16681])
 Previously, a command like this:
 ```shell
 > [['foo' 'bar']; ['1 | 2' 'a | b']] | to md
@@ -790,17 +790,17 @@ Now, such special characters are automatically escaped, ensuring the output alwa
 | 1 \| 2 | a \| b |
 ```
 
-### New switches are available for `to md`
+### New switches are available for `to md` ([#16681])
 - `--escape-md` | `-m` escape all Markdown special characters
 - `--escape-html` | `-t` escape HTML special characters
 - `--escape-all` | `-a` escape both HTML and Markdown
 
-### `compact` your records
+### `compact` your records ([#16810])
 `compact` can now be used to remove `null` or `--empty` items from records too.
 
-### `compact --empty` now recognizes 0 byte binary values as empty.
+### `compact --empty` now recognizes 0 byte binary values as empty ([#16810])
 
-### Arbitrary Pipeline Metadata
+### Arbitrary Pipeline Metadata ([#16821])
 
 In addition to existing metadata fields (`content_type`, `source`, `span`), it's now possible to attach arbitrary metadata fields to pipeline data using `metadata set --merge`:
 
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ In addition to existing metadata fields (`content_type`, `source`, `span`), it's
 
 Combined with `metadata access`, this makes it possible to carry extra data with streams, without impacting the stream data itself.
 
-### HTTP Response Metadata
+### HTTP Response Metadata ([#16821])
 
 All `http` commands now attach response data (previously only accessible with `http * --full`) as metadata to their output streams. This can be accessed under the `http_response` field within the pipeline metadata:
 
@@ -839,12 +839,12 @@ http get --allow-errors https://api.example.com/events.jsonl
 
 ### Breaking changes
 
-
+### `collect` removes `source` metadata (TODO)
 
 `collect` now removes `source` metadata field even when `content_type` is set.
 Previously: both were preserved, now only `content_type` is preserved.
 
-### `string`s and `glob`s can now be implicitly cast between each other
+### `string`s and `glob`s can now be implicitly cast between each other ([#16079])
 
 Previously `string` types were not able to be coerced into `glob` types (and vice versa).
 They are now subtypes of each other.
@@ -878,15 +878,16 @@ aa
 
 * New operators: `not-starts-with` and `not-ends-with`. Added for parity with other comparison operators. ([#16852])
 
-* ### Added file completions for command redirections (`o>>`, `e>`, ...) ([#16831])
+* Added file completions for command redirections (`o>>`, `e>`, ...) ([#16831])
+
 ## Other changes
 
-### Add `network` feature to top-level crate
+### Add `network` feature to top-level crate ([#16686])
 Nushell can now be compiled without network related commands.
 
 If you are manually building Nushell without default features (`cargo build --no-default-features`) you will now need to pass `--features network` to get access the network commands.
 
-### Improved error messages for binary literals
+### Improved error messages for binary literals ([#16688])
 Previously, a generic shell error is thrown for invalid binary strings. Now, an improve error message is thrown for invalid binary, hexadecimal, and octal strings.
 ```nushell
 0b[121]
@@ -903,7 +904,7 @@ Error: nu::parser::invalid_binary_string
   help: binary strings may contain only 0 or 1.
 ```
 
-### Polars 50.1 upgrade
+### Polars 50.1 upgrade ([#16703])
 - `polars fetch` has been removed due to no longer being supported on LazyFrame
 - introduced flag `--drop-nulls` to `polars dummies`
 - introduced flag `--separator` to `polars dummies`
@@ -915,12 +916,12 @@ Error: nu::parser::invalid_binary_string
 - Introduced flag `--time-zone` to `polars as-datetime`
 - Introduced flag `--time-unit` to `polars as-datetime`
 
-### Allow saving `CustomValue`s
+### Allow saving `CustomValue`s ([#16692])
 > TODO(release-notes): Move this into plugin authors section.
 
 `CustomValue` now supports a `save` method. Implementors can use it to make their values savable to disk.
 
-### Add `run pr` and `download pr` to `toolkit`
+### Add `run pr` and `download pr` to `toolkit` ([#16770])
 The toolkit in the Nushell repository can now download and run PRs by downloading artifacts from CI runs. It can be run like this:
 ```nushell
 use toolkit
@@ -933,7 +934,7 @@ toolkit run pr <number>
 
 ## Bug fixes
 
-### Discard `path add` input
+### Discard `path add` input ([#16606])
 Previously `path add` (from `std/util`) could fail if it was fed `any` input.
 ```ansi:no-line-numbers
 > use std/util 'path add'
@@ -957,34 +958,34 @@ Now any input to `path add` will be discarded. It's still possible to pass it wi
 [a b c] | each {|p| $env.HOME | path join $p } | path add $in
 ```
 
-### Aliases are now expanded before being sent to external completers
+### Aliases are now expanded before being sent to external completers ([#16640])
 
 Before this change, when an external completer was invoked for an alias, the first argument sent to the completer would be the alias itself instead of the aliased command.
 
 For example, with an alias defined as `alias gl = git log`, typing `gl branch_name` and pressing `TAB` would send the arguments `gl`, `log`, `branch_name` to the external completer.
 
 After this change, the alias is expanded and the arguments sent to the external completer will be `git`, `log`, `branch_name`.
 
-### Fixed IR evaluation error caused by redirecting output of branched blocks
+### Fixed IR evaluation error caused by redirecting output of branched blocks ([#16676])
 
 The following commands will no longer raise ir-eval errors:
 
  - `if true { echo "hey" } out> /dev/null`
  - `if false { echo "hey" } else { echo "ho" } out> /dev/null`
  - `try { 1/0 } catch { echo "hi" } out> /dev/null`
 
-### Dotnu completion refactor, fixes path with space for both dotnu module path and external executable
+### Dotnu completion refactor, fixes path with space for both dotnu module path and external executable ([#16715])
 Module path completion for command `use`/`source` now behaviors in the same manner of basic file completion, which is less error prone when dealing with paths with spaces or other special characters.
 
 Fixed the bug of empty result of external executable path completion at the head of a pipeline when the path prefix contains spaces.
 
-### boolean coloring in light theme
+### boolean coloring in light theme (TODO)
 When using `std/config light-theme`, booleans inside structures are now colored in dark cyan instead of white, which was very hard to read in combination with a light terminal background.
 
-### changed fallback for unknown color names
+### changed fallback for unknown color names (TODO)
 If some named color in `$env.config.color_config` is misspelled or otherwise unknown to nu, the corresponding element is now colored using the terminal's default (as in `ansi reset`) instead of white.
 
-### Improve collection type inference
+### Improve collection type inference ([#16530])
 Fixes order-dependent table type inference bugs and introduces similar type widening for lists:
 
 ```nushell
@@ -1000,7 +1001,7 @@ let foo = [ { baz: 1 }, { baz: 1, extra: true } ]
 get_type # list<any> -> list<record<baz: int>>
 ```
 
-### Using `break`/`continue` outside loops raises a compile error
+### Using `break`/`continue` outside loops raises a compile error ([#16740])
 
 Previously this error wasn't caught during compilation, and manifested as a runtime error when the execution reached the invalid `break`/`continue` call.
 
@@ -1026,11 +1027,11 @@ Error:   × Main thread panicked.
    ╰────
 ```
 
-### Windows device path fixes
+### Windows device path fixes ([#16775])
 * On Windows, UNC and device paths no longer get a trailing `\` appended when being cast to `path`
 * On Windows, `open`, `save` and `source` now work with device paths like `\\.\NUL` or `\\.\CON`, as well as reserved device names like `NUL` and `CON`. Using full device paths is recommended.
 
-### Clean up error handlers when jumping outside of `try` blocks
+### Clean up error handlers when jumping outside of `try` blocks ([#16838])
 
 Previously, jumping out of a `try` block (possible with `break`/`continue` commands) did not clean up the error handler properly the way exiting it normally does.
 
@@ -1070,7 +1071,7 @@ This was due to a miscompilation bug, which is now fixed.
 
 * Fixed building `nu-command` by itself. ([#16616])
 
-* ### `for` and `while` loop blocks starting with a range literal no longer causes a compiler error ([#16764])
+* `for` and `while` loop blocks starting with a range literal no longer causes a compiler error ([#16764])
 
 * Some `attr` subcommands had incorrect output signatures, which are now fixed. ([#16774])