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title: Nushell 0.64

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title: Nushell 0.64
author: The Nu Authors
author_site: https://twitter.com/nu_shell
author_image: https://www.nushell.sh/blog/images/nu_logo.png
excerpt: Today, we're releasing version 0.64 of Nu. 
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# Nushell 0.64

Nushell, or Nu for short, is a new shell that takes a modern, structured approach to your commandline. It works seamlessly with the data from your filesystem, operating system, and a growing number of file formats to make it easy to build powerful commandline pipelines.

Today, we're releasing version 0.64 of Nu. 

# Where to get it

Nu 0.64 is available as [pre-built binaries](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/releases/tag/0.64.0) or from [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/nu). If you have Rust installed you can install it using `cargo install nu`.

If you want all the built-in goodies, you can install `cargo install nu --features=extra`.

As part of this release, we also publish a set of optional plugins you can install and use with Nu. To install, use `cargo install nu_plugin_<plugin name>`.

# Themes of this release

## Future SQLite backed history (phiresky)
The API for storing history entries has changed in the background. This now supports also storing your history in a SQLite database. Currently this adds some metadata such as the current working directory, whether a command succeeded, and execution times. In the future this will enable you to query the history in a more rich and meaningful way. 

Currently the simple text based history is still the default. If you want to test out the new history change your `config` to contain:
```
let-env config = {
  ...
  history_file_format: "sqlite" # "sqlite" or "plaintext"
  ...
}
```
# New commands

- TODO new fancy command with short example (author)

## Simplified dataframes

The dataframes commands now are simpler to access. The prefix `dfr` is gone and now they can be used without it. So, if you need to do some serious data processing you can read a massive file or convert a Nu table and group by and aggregate your way to happiness. 

# Quality-of-life Improvements

- TODO everything is getting better

# Breaking changes

TODO

# Looking ahead

TODO

# Changelog

TODO Autogenerate

## nushell

## Documentation

## nu_scripts

## reedline

## nana


