Nu Shell Development Updates

blog/2020-06-26-twin0044.md

e48184c58141f5b8fed32dd2796dcecb23a70521e82aded00000000300000699

# This week in Nu #44

- charlespierce, fdncred, and jonathandturner got a new release pipeline working to build the [binaries for each release](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2048)
- jonathandturner landed [`nu-table`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2015) and new table drawing algorithms
- fdncred added [config for the bat-based text viewing](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2010), fixed bugs with [linked externals](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2035), added [wix support](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2054)
- JosephTLyons renamed `math average` to [`math avg`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2014), [bumped heim](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2019), [formatted project markdown](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2031), improved the [`cal` command](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2040), added [`random uuid`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2050), and added [`random bool`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2061)
- andrasio improved supporting for [`math median`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2016)
- siedentop added [`--count` to `uniq`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2017)
- HiranmayaGundu added tests for [Windows drive letters](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2022)
- bailey-layzer added errors for [division by zero](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2030)
- arashout added tests for the [new math functionality](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2037)
- amousa11 added [`math mode`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/2043)
- zombie110year translated more book chapters to [Simplified Chinese](https://github.com/nushell/book/pull/108)

Chunks

e1dc6e57 (1st chunk of `blog/2020-06-26-twin0044.md`)

Title: Nu Shell Development Updates - Week #44

Summary

This week's Nu Shell development updates include a new release pipeline for binaries, improvements to table drawing, bug fixes for externals, added Wix support, renaming of 'math average' to 'math avg', improvements to math functions like median and mode, adding '--count' to 'uniq', tests for Windows drive letters and new math functionality, and more book chapter translations to Simplified Chinese.