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# This week in Nu #23

The 0.9.0 release!

- Byron shrunk our install crate size by 3MB (#1316)
- jonathandturner improved the default help message (#1313)
- jonathandturner also released 0.9.0 (#1297)
- coolshaurya updated some of the command documentation (#1307, #1279)
- coolshaurya also added a new `calc` command (#1280)
- andrasio made `debug` output more colorful by default (#1302)
- andrasio also fixed some issues with environment variables and paths (#1296, #1294, #1287)
- JosephTLyons added support for the `--with-symlink-targets` flag to `ls` (#1300, #1292)
- nespera brought our build docs up to date (#1295)
- Amanita-muscaria added support for erroring if `ls` is giving a pattern or path that doesn't match (#1286)
- thegedge moved Nu from the subprocess crate to std::process (#1284)
- notryanb added more code documentation to the repos (#1282)
- Jacobious52 updated rustyline and added a new completion mode (#1289)
- Borimino added attribute support to `from-xml` (#1272)

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Title: Nu Release 0.9.0 and Recent Improvements
Summary
Nu version 0.9.0 has been released with contributions including reduced install size, improved help messages, updated documentation, a new `calc` command, more colorful debug output, fixes for environment variables and paths, symlink support for `ls`, updated build docs, error handling for `ls` patterns, migration from subprocess to std::process, improved code documentation, updated rustyline with a new completion mode, and attribute support for `from-xml`.