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title: Nushell 0.9.0
author: Sophia Turner
author_site: https://twitter.com/sophiajturner
author_image: https://www.nushell.sh/blog/images/sophiajt.jpg
excerpt: We're happy to announce the 0.9.0 release of Nu. This release offers better help and error feedback, better support for the native shell, new commands, lots of command improvements, and bugfixes.
---

# Nushell 0.9.0

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.

We're happy to announce the 0.9.0 release of Nu. This release offers better help and error feedback, better support for the native shell, new commands, lots of command improvements, and bugfixes.

# Where to get it

Nu 0.9.0 is available as [pre-built binaries](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/releases/tag/0.9.0) 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 more goodies, you can install `cargo install nu --features=stable`.

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` available on all commands (Amanita-muscaria)

One of the first things a user might do in a new shell is to type a familiar command and pass it `--help`. A perfectly reasonable thing to do, and with 0.9.0 it does exactly you'd expect. It will now print out the help information for the given command for all internal commands (much in the same way as using `help <command name>`)

## Better error feedback (wycats, andrasio)

Our improvements to the parser as part of 0.9.0 also come with some fun perks. One of these is that unknown flags, and similar errors, will now get highlighted red to let you know that this isn't a valid input to the command.