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# This week in Nu #81

## Nushell

- tiffany352 added [optional exit codes to the `exit` command](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3132)
- fdncred improved the [coercion with $nothing for comparisons](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3133), cleaned up [some warnings](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3137), [moved bel and backspace to `char`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3144), switched [surf to use the hyper-client](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3154)
- rezural refactored [the internal draw_table functionality to output strings](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3135), updated [minus (the paging support crate) to 3.3.0](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3136)
- ahkrr fixed some [locking logic with output](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3140), fixed a [unicode character counting issue](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3159)
- tw4452852 fixed [trash functionality](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3146)
- jonathandturner released [0.28](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3149), fixed [input streams of text larger than a buffer](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3153)

## Docs and more

- jonathandturner added the [nushell script that publishes to crates.io to the script repo](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/blob/main/nu_release.nu)
- fdncred published [an official VSCode extension for Nushell](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TheNuProjectContributors.vscode-nushell-lang)
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Title: Nushell Updates - Week #81
Summary
This week's updates to Nushell include contributions to the core Nushell project as well as documentation and more. Changes include optional exit codes for the `exit` command, improvements to coercion with $nothing, refactoring of internal draw_table functionality, fixes to locking logic and unicode character counting, trash functionality fixes, a new release (0.28), and fixes to input streams. Additionally, the script for publishing to crates.io was added to the script repository, and an official VSCode extension for Nushell was published.