Announcing Rust 1.74.0
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.74.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed…
Category: Rust Lang
Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly
The Rust compiler's front-end can now use parallel execution to significantly reduce compile times. To try it, run the nightly compiler with the -Z threads=8 option. This feature is currently experimental, and we aim to…
Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly
The Rust compiler's front-end can now use parallel execution to significantly reduce compile times. To try it, run the nightly compiler with the -Z threads=8 option. This feature is currently experimental, and we aim to…
crates.io: Dropping support for non-canonical downloads
TL;DR We want to improve the reliability and performance of crate downloads. "Non-canonical downloads" (that use URLs containing hyphens or underscores where the crate published uses the opposite) are blocking these plans. On 2023-11-20 support…
A tale of broken badges and 23,000 features
Around mid-October of 2023 the crates.io team was notified by one of our users that a shields.io badge for their crate stopped working. The issue reporter was kind enough to already debug the problem and…
Announcing the New Rust Project Directors
We are happy to announce that we have completed the process to elect new Project Directors. The new Project Directors are: Scott McMurray Jakob Degen Santiago Pastorino They will join Ryan Levick and Mark Rousskov…
Announcing Rust 1.73.0
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.73.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed…
Increasing the minimum supported Apple platform versions
As of Rust 1.74 (to be released on November 16th, 2023), the minimum version of Apple's platforms (iOS, macOS, and tvOS) that the Rust toolchain supports will be increased to newer baselines. These changes affect…
crates.io Policy Update RFC
Around the end of July the crates.io team opened an RFC to update the current crates.io usage policies. This policy update addresses operational concerns of the crates.io community service that have arisen since the last…
Announcing Rust 1.72.1
The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.72.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust…