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# This week in Nu #48

- Tiwalun added [scoop install instructions](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/55)
- jzaefferer improved the [new Nu demo site](https://github.com/nushell/demo/pull/40), improved the [demo `sys`](https://github.com/nushell/demo/pull/22), improve [reading directories in the demo site](https://github.com/nushell/demo/pull/23), improved [browserfs init](https://github.com/nushell/demo/pull/24), made the [demo site GitHub-deployable](https://github.com/nushell/demo/pull/32)
- gedge cleaned up [unnecessary uses of peekable iterators](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2251), removed [piping of stderr](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2247)
- fdncred documented [the new keybinding options](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2246), improved [html theming](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2245), made [rustyline configurable](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2238), re-fixed the [history size limitation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2238), added a [char example](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2231), added an [ansi example](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2230), fixed a CSS issue on the [demo site](https://github.com/nushell/demo/pull/39)
- jonathandturner [released 0.17.0](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2237), added [hex pretty print to `to html`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2221), exposed [more of the base APIs](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2215), added [virtual filesystem to the demo site](https://github.com/nushell/demo/pull/19)
- k-brk added [xargs-like functionality for piping to external commands](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2232), fixed [`uniq` to work with simple values](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2214)
- JosephTLyons fixed a [regression in test runner speed](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2235), added a [case-insensitive sort](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2225), cleaned up the [`lines` implementation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2207)
- bailey-layzer fixed an issue with [aliases and detecting if a command is last in the pipeline](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2224)
- philip-peterson added [parsing tests](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2220)
- u5surf fixed the [description of the `if` command](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2213)

Title: Nu Shell Updates - Week #48
Summary
This week's Nu Shell update includes contributions from multiple developers, featuring improvements to the demo site, documentation, keybindings, HTML theming, and bug fixes. A new version 0.17.0 has been released, with added hex pretty print functionality. Also, xargs-like functionality for piping to external commands and case-insensitive sorting has been added.