Tables can now be configured to show a footer with the column names.

Nushell will now also respect your `LS_COLORS` environment variable if set. If it's not set, Nushell will provide a default 8-bit setting so people with color terminal can see file types in different colors as seen below in the following screenshots.

# Language improvements

There's quite a list of changes to the language itself. Let's talk about each one to help you transition to the new Nushell:

## Escape characters in strings

With 0.60, Nushell now divides strings into two types: strings with escape characters and strings without. The escaping case is written with double-quotes (`"`) and the non-escaping case is written with single-quotes (`'`):

```
> "hello\nworld"
hello
world
> 'hello\nworld'
hello\nworld
```

Nushell will prefer the single-quotes for things like path names that include spaces, allowing you to naturally write paths for Windows as well.

The difference in double-quoted and single-quoted strings also extends to interpolated strings (`$""` and `$''`):

```
> let x = 100
> $"value is:\n($x)"
value is:
100
> $'value is:\n($x)'
value is:\n100
```

## New value forms

The 0.60 release also brings with it a number of new value forms.

### Records

You now can write a record, or a list of key/value pairs, as a native data type in Nushell:

```
> {name: "Bob", age: 10}
╭──────┬─────╮
│ name │ Bob │
│ age  │ 10  │
╰──────┴─────╯
```

### Table as a list of records

With the introduction of records, a second way to define a table is a list (or stream) of records:

```
> seq 3 | each { |x| { name: Bob, x: $x } }
  #   name   x
────────────────
  0   Bob    1
  1   Bob    2
  2   Bob    3
```

### Integers are now signed 64-bit integers

We're moving away from the 'bigint' style of integers, so now integers are always signed 64-bit ints.

### Decimals are now signed 64-bit floats

Likewise, we're moving away from 'bigdecimal' to signed 64-bit float values.

### Dates

Earlier versions of Nushell supported dates as a value type, but they lacked a way to write them. You can now write a date literal in one of three ways: