Nushell 0.31 Release

--- title: Nushell 0.31 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 0.31 of Nu. This release includes continued polish of the engine and commands. --- # Nushell 0.31 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 0.31 of Nu. This release includes continued polish of the engine and commands.  # Where to get it Nu 0.31 is available as [pre-built binaries](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/releases/tag/0.31.0) 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`. If you'd like to try the experimental paging feature in this release, you can install with `cargo install nu --features=table-pager`. 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 This release is largely around polish. We've continued to improve Nushell's engine to work in the more streamlined style, improved the performance of commands like `ps` and the appearance of commands like `binaryview`. ## New commands (fdncred) - [`into string`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/3403) to convert values to strings - [`into binary`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/3370) to convert values to binary ## Improvements ### Nushell - natemara fixed [a slowness in the `ps` command](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3407) - elferherrera, kubouch, stormasm, LhKipp ported commands to the new engine-p style - fdncred improved [binaryview](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/3370), [added check for endian-ness, added a bytes and skip](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/3375), [added ability to change "#" color using header_color](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/3374), [tweaked the error handling to show specific errors](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/3367), [updated to a quicker Levenshtein implementation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/3366), and [allowed start to handle urls](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/3351)

Nushell 0.31 has been released with improvements to the engine, commands, and the addition of new commands like `into string` and `into binary`. Performance improvements have been made to commands like `ps`, and the appearance of commands like `binaryview` has been enhanced. Various bug fixes and improvements have been contributed by the community.