Nu Release Notes: Aliases, Windows Fixes, and Pipeline Blocks

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# This week in Nu #34

Some long-awaited features landed this week, including aliases, fixes to Windows support, and ability to put pipelines in blocks.

- quebin31 improved how we canonicalize our paths (#1571, #1576, #1588)
- jonathandturner made trash optional (#1572), changed uptime to being a duration (#1573), added quickcheck support (#1574), allowed pipelines in blocks (#1579), fixed windows panic (#1581), added expression blocks (#1584), aliases (#1589, #1593),

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Title: Nu Release Notes: Aliases, Windows Fixes, and Pipeline Blocks

Summary

This week's Nu release includes several significant updates, such as the implementation of aliases, fixes to improve Windows support and prevent panics, and the new ability to include pipelines within blocks. Other improvements include better path canonicalization and making the trash feature optional.