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+title: 'This week in Nushell #331'
+author: The Nu Authors
+author_site: https://nushell.sh
+author_image: https://www.nushell.sh/blog/images/nu_logo.png
+excerpt: 'PRs and activity for Nushell the week ending Thursday, 2025-12-25'
+---
+
+# This Week in Nushell #331
+
+Published Friday, 2025-12-26, including PRs merged Friday, 2025-12-19 through Thursday, 2025-12-25.
+
+## Highlights
+
+- Polars hits the trifecta with AWS, Azure, and now, thanks to @ayax79 - Google Cloud Platform!
+- You can now both time a command and return its output using `timeit --output` thanks to @Tyarel8!
+
+## Nushell
+
+- @fdncred:
+
+  - [Increased help menu description rows from 10 to 15 (#17223)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/17223)
+  - [Used graphemes instead of byte indexes in `explore regegx` (#17219)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/17219)
+
+- @Jan9103:
+
+  - [Made bytes length available at const-time (#17204)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/17204)
+
+- @Tyarel8:
+
+  - [Added `--output` flag to `timeit` (#17202)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/17202)
+
+- @andrewgazelka:
+
+  - [Added par-each preference to mcp instructions (#17171)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/17171)
+
+- @ayax79:
+
+  - [Added Google Cloud support to Polars (#17135)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/17135)
+
+- @app/dependabot:
+  - [Bumped mach2 from 0.4.3 to 0.6.0 (#17227)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/17227)
+  - [Bumped toml from 0.8.19 to 0.9.10+spec-1.1.0 (#17225)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/17225)
+  - [Bumped rmcp from 0.8.1 to 0.8.5 (#17224)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/17224)
+
+## Documentation
+
+- @Paul-16098:
+
+  - [Clarified user defined menu layout in zh-cn docs (#2097)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/2097)
+
+- @NotTheDr01ds:
+  - [Published TWiN 330 (#2095)](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io/pull/2095)