The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.85.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.85.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page on our website. What's in 1.85.1 Fixed combined doctest compilation Due to a bug in the implementation, combined doctests did not work as intended in the stable 2024 Edition. Internal errors with feature stability caused rustdoc to automati ..read more

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.28.1. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. Challenges with rustup 1.28.0 rustup 1.28.0 was a significant release with many changes, and there was a quick response from many folks that this release broke their processes. While we considered yanking the release, we worried that this would cause problems for people who had already updated to adopt some of the changes. Instead, we are rolling forward with 1.28.1 today and poten ..read more

This is the first Project Goals update for the new 2025h1 period. For the first 6 months of 2025, the Rust project will work towards a slate of 39 project goals, with 3 of them designed as Flagship Goals. This post provides selected updates on our progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof). The full details for any particular goal are available in its associated tracking issue on the rust-project-goals repository. Flagship goals Bring the Async Rust experience closer to parity with sync Rust Why this goal? This work continues our drive to improve support for async programmi ..read more

We are happy to announce that the Rust Project will again be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025, same as last year. If you're not eligible or interested in participating in GSoC, then most of this post likely isn't relevant to you; if you are, this should contain some useful information and links. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual global program organized by Google that aims to bring new contributors to the world of open-source. The program pairs organizations (such as the Rust Project) with contributors (usually students), with the goal of helping the participants make ..read more

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.28.0. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.28.0 This new release of rustup has been a long time in the making and comes with substantial changes. Before digging into the details, it is worth mentioning that Chris Denton has joined the team. Chris has a lot of experience contributing to Windows-related parts of the Rust Project -- expertise we were previously lacking -- so we're happy to have him on bo ..read more

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.85.0. This stabilizes the 2024 edition as well. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.85.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page on our website, and check out the detailed release notes for 1.85.0. If you'd like to help us out by testing future releases, you might consider updating locally to use the beta channel (rustup default beta) or th ..read more

Hello, Rustaceans! The Rust Survey Team is excited to share the results of our 2024 survey on the Rust Programming language, conducted between December 5, 2024 and December 23, 2024. As in previous years, the 2024 State of Rust Survey was focused on gathering insights and feedback from Rust users, and all those who are interested in the future of Rust more generally. This ninth edition of the survey surfaced new insights and learning opportunities straight from the global Rust language community, which we will summarize below. In addition to this blog post, we have also prepared a report conta ..read more

Back in July 2024, we published a blog post about the ongoing development of crates.io. Since then, we have made a lot of progress and shipped a few new features. In this blog post, we want to give you an update on the latest changes that we have made to crates.io. Crate deletions In RFC #3660 we proposed a new feature that allows crate owners to delete their crates from crates.io under certain conditions. This can be useful if you have published a crate by mistake or if you want to remove a crate that is no longer maintained. After the RFC was accepted by all team members at the end of August ..read more

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.84.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.84.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page on our website. What's in 1.84.1 1.84.1 resolves a few regressions introduced in 1.84.0: Fix ICE 132920 in duplicate-crate diagnostics. Fix errors for overlapping impls in incremental rebuilds. Fix slow compilation related to the next-gene ..read more

Over the last six months, the Rust project has been working towards a slate of 26 project goals, with 3 of them designated as Flagship Goals. This post provides a final update on our progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof). We are currently finalizing plans for the next round of project goals, which will cover 2025H1. The full details for any particular goal are available in its associated tracking issue on the rust-project-goals repository. Flagship goals Bring the Async Rust experience closer to parity with sync Rust Our big goal for this period was async closures, and ..read more