---
title: Nushell 0.36
author: The Nu Authors
author_site: https://twitter.com/nu_shell
author_image: https://www.nushell.sh/blog/images/nu_logo.png
excerpt: Today, we're releasing 0.36 of Nu. This release fixes some long-standing issues with history, improves the help system, improves dataframes, and much more.
---

# Nushell 0.36

Nushell, or Nu for short, is a new shell that takes a modern, structured approach to your commandline. It works seamlessly with the data from your filesystem, operating system, and a growing number of file formats to make it easy to build powerful commandline pipelines.

Today, we're releasing 0.36 of Nu. This release fixes some long-standing issues with history, improves the help system, improves dataframes, and much more.

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# Where to get it

Nu 0.36 is available as [pre-built binaries](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/releases/tag/0.36.0) or from [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/nu). If you have Rust installed you can install it using `cargo install nu`.

If you want all the goodies, you can install `cargo install nu --features=extra`.

As part of this release, we also publish a set of plugins you can install and use with Nu. To install, use `cargo install nu_plugin_<plugin name>`.

# What's New

## Help now has search (fdncred)

You can now use `help -f <term>` and search the help for text. This can come in handy if you know roughly what you want but can't remember the name of the command:

```
> help -f string
────┬──────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────
 #  │           name           │                     usage                      │ extra_usage
────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────
  0 │ ansi strip               │ strip ansi escape sequences from string        │
  1 │ build-string             │ Builds a string from the arguments.            │
  2 │ dataframe concatenate    │ [Series] Concatenates strings with other array │
  3 │ dataframe contains       │ [Series] Checks if a pattern is contained in a │
    │                          │ string                                         │
  4 │ dataframe replace        │ [Series] Replace the leftmost (sub)string by a │
    │                          │ regex pattern                                  │
...
```

## Built-in tutor (sophiajt)

In addition to the new help search, we've also started to build out a built-in Nushell tutorial. You can navigate by topic or search the help text for a string.