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+title: 'This week in Nushell #350'
+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, 2026-05-07'
+---
+
+# This Week in Nushell #350
+
+Published Sunday, 2026-05-10, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-05-01 through Thursday, 2026-05-07.
+
+## Nushell
+
+- @Bahex:
+
+  - [added docs for `get_vendor_autoload_dirs` (#18163)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18163)
+  - [assorted small refactors (#18154)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18154)
+  - [removed implicit line splitting of byte streams in `parse` (#18141)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18141)
+
+- @fdncred:
+
+  - [implemented dynamic dispatch for % sigil commands (#18158)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18158)
+  - [added `idx` family of commands for in-memory indexing (#18142)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18142)
+  - [handled `kill -0` as signal shorthand and updated PID handling (#18081)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18081)
+
+- @kiil:
+
+  - [allowed filtering custom completions by description (#18156)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18156)
+
+- @cptpiepmatz:
+
+  - [allowed configuring `version` field in `version` command (#18144)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18144)
+
+- @Juhan280:
+
+  - [added `path_columns` metadata to `which` and history command (#18020)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18020)
+
+- @app/dependabot:
+  - [bumped openssl from 0.10.78 to 0.10.79 (#18167)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18167)
+  - [bumped rmcp from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 (#18166)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18166)
+  - [bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.45.2 to 1.46.0 (#18164)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18164)
+  - [bumped fancy-regex from 0.17.0 to 0.18.0 (#18138)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18138)
+  - [bumped lru from 0.17.0 to 0.18.0 (#18136)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18136)
+  - [bumped data-encoding from 2.10.0 to 2.11.0 (#18135)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18135)
+  - [bumped shadow-rs from 1.7.1 to 2.0.0 (#18134)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18134)
+  - [bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.45.1 to 1.45.2 (#18133)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/18133)
+
+## New nu-parser
+
+- @kubouch:
+  - [added block-getting helper (#69)](https://github.com/nushell/new-nu-parser/pull/69)
+
+## nufmt
+
+- @matystroia:
+
+  - [fixed typo after formatting single file (#184)](https://github.com/nushell/nufmt/pull/184)
+
+- @fdncred:
+  - [batch fixes, updated some deps (#183)](https://github.com/nushell/nufmt/pull/183)
+
+## Documentation
+
+- @NotTheDr01ds:
+  - [added TWiN 349 (#2160)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/2160)