Release notes for 0.96.0

Please add your new features and breaking changes to the release notes
by opening PRs against the `release-notes-0.96.0` branch.

## TODO
- [ ] look at interesting contributions
- [ ] write all the sections
- [ ] order the sections by interest
- [ ] add the breaking changes
- [ ] detail the breaking changes
- [ ] add the full changelog
- [ ] complete all the `TODO`s inside the release note
- [ ] ... (PRs that need to land before the release, e.g. [deprecations](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/labels/deprecation) or [removals](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Aremoval-after-deprecation))

blog/2024-07-23-nushell_0_96_0.md

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+---
+title: Nushell 0.96.0
+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 0.96.0 of Nu. This release adds...
+---
+<!-- TODO: complete the excerpt above -->
+
+# Nushell 0.96.0
+
+Nushell, or Nu for short, is a new shell that takes a modern, structured approach to your command line. 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 command line pipelines.
+
+<!-- TODO: write this excerpt -->
+Today, we're releasing version 0.96.0 of Nu. This release adds...
+
+# Where to get it
+
+Nu 0.96.0 is available as [pre-built binaries](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/releases/tag/0.96.0) or from [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/nu). If you have Rust installed you can install it using `cargo install nu`.
+
+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>`.
+
+# Table of content
+- [_Highlights and themes of this release_](#highlights-and-themes-of-this-release-toc)
+- [_Changes to commands_](#changes-to-commands-toc)
+  - [_Additions_](#additions-toc)
+  - [_Breaking changes_](#breaking-changes-toc)
+  - [_Deprecations_](#deprecations-toc)
+  - [_Removals_](#removals-toc)
+  - [_Other changes_](#other-changes-toc)
+  - [_Bug fixes_](#bug-fixes-toc)
+- [_All breaking changes_](#all-breaking-changes-toc)
+  - [_Notes for plugin developers_](#notes-for-plugin-developers)
+- [_Hall of fame_](#hall-of-fame-toc)
+- [_Full changelog_](#full-changelog-toc)
+<!-- TODO: please add links to the other sections here
+
+    the following command should help pre-generate a great deal of the table of content.
+    be careful with the format and false-positives :wink:
+    ```nushell
+    rg '^#+ ' blog/...
+        | lines
+        | each {
+            str replace '# ' '- '
+                | str replace --all '#' '    '
+                | str replace --regex '- (.*)' '- [_$1_](#$1-toc)'
+        }
+        | to text
+    ```
+-->
+
+# Highlights and themes of this release [[toc](#table-of-content)]
+<!-- NOTE: if you wanna write a section about a breaking change, when it's a very important one,
+    please add the following snippet to have a "warning" banner :)
+    > see [an example](https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2023-09-19-nushell_0_85_0.html#pythonesque-operators-removal)
+
+    ```md
+    ::: warning Breaking change
+    See a full overview of the [breaking changes](#breaking-changes)
+    :::
+    ```
+-->
+<!-- NOTE: see https://vuepress.github.io/reference/default-theme/markdown.html#custom-containers
+    for the list of available *containers*
+-->
+
+# Changes to commands [[toc](#table-of-content)]
+
+## Additions [[toc](#table-of-content)]
+
+## Breaking changes [[toc](#table-of-content)]
+
+## Deprecations [[toc](#table-of-content)]
+
+## Removals [[toc](#table-of-content)]
+
+## Other changes [[toc](#table-of-content)]
+
+## Bug fixes [[toc](#table-of-content)]
+
+<!-- NOTE: to start investigating the contributions of last release, i like to list them all in a raw table.
+    to achieve this, one can use the [`list-merged-prs` script from `nu_scripts`](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/blob/main/make_release/release-note/list-merged-prs)
+    as follows:
+
+    ```nushell
+    use ./make_release/release-note/list-merged-prs
+    use std clip
+
+    let last_release_date = ^gh api /repos/nushell/nushell/releases
+        | from json
+        | into datetime published_at
+        | get published_at
+        | sort
+        | last
+
+    let prs = list-merged-prs nushell/nushell $last_release_date
+        | sort-by mergedAt
+        | update url {|it| $"[#($it.number)]\(($it.url)\)" }
+        | update author { $"[@($in)]\(https://github.com/($in)\)" }
+        | select author title url
+        | rename -c {url: pr}
+        | to md --pretty
+
+    $prs | to md --pretty | clip
+    ```
+-->
+
+# All breaking changes [[toc](#table-of-content)]
+<!-- TODO:
+    paste the output of
+    ```nu
+    ./make_release/release-note/list-merged-prs nushell/nushell --label pr:breaking-change --pretty --no-author
+    ```
+    here
+-->
+
+## Notes for plugin developers
+
+# Hall of fame [[toc](#table-of-content)]
+
+Thanks to all the contributors below for helping us solve issues and improve documentation :pray:
+
+| author                               | title       | url                                                     |
+| ------------------------------------ | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [@author](https://github.com/author) | ...         | [#12345](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/12345) |
+
+# Full changelog [[toc](#table-of-content)]
+<!-- TODO:
+    paste the output of
+    ```nu
+    ./make_release/release-note/get-full-changelog
+    ```
+    here
+-->