What's New in Rust 1.62, 1.63, and 1.64

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.62, 1.63, and 1.64 releases of Rust. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you’d like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: [email protected] Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:50] - Rust 1.62 [@00:58] - cargo add Maintaining sorting in TOML files toml_edit cargo-edit [@03:37] - #[default] enum variants Generated bounds part of RFC Macro helper attributes Extra bounds on derive [@07:36] - Thinner, faster mutexes on Linux Tracking issue Short thread on the change from Mara More details from Mara on pthread mutexes [@13:21] - Bare-metal x86_64 target Target triples Tier 2 target policy Tier 2 targets x86_64-unknown-none Custom target triples [@22:20] - Stabilized APIs f64::total_cmp Implementing PR Stdin::lines FusedIterator [@29:22] - Changelog deep-dive cargo -F for --features unaligned_references lint now warns by default addr_of! [@31:09] - Rust 1.62.1 Not much to talk about. We also didn’t talk about: Rustup 1.25.0 Rustup 1.25.1 [@31:56] - Rust 1.63 [@31:56] - Scoped threads The Leakpocalypse issue Pre-Pooping Your Pants With Rust [@40:41] - Rust ownership for raw file descriptors Rust I/O Safety RFC [@43:45] - const mutex initialization [@43:54] - Turbofish and impl Trait arguments Search/replace generics reference Rust reference for turbofish [@52:03] - Non-lexical lifetimes migration complete NLL stabilization and borrowck’s future polonius [@51:33] - Stabilized APIs array::from_fn Box::into_pin Things Rust-in-Linux needs from Rust [@56:27] - Changelog deep-dive cargo --config cargo new test code updated New targets: Apple WatchOS and Nintendo 3DS ​[OsStr]::join The Join trait [@1:00:24] - Rust 1.64 [@1:00:32] - IntoFuture Reference in original async/await RFC Original IntoFuture regression [@1:03:43] - C-compatible FFI types in core libc crate libcpocalypse [@1:09:37] - rust-analyzer component in rustup rust-analyzer proxy binary added to rustup [@1:13:19] - Cargo workspace inheritance and multi-target builds Inheriting attributes from the workspace [@1:15:58] - Stabilized APIs Stabilization PR for ready! [@1:18:03] - Compatibility notes Increasing the glibc and Linux kernel requirements RLS deprecation [@1:22:33] - Other changes Profile-Guided Optimization PR landing lint for unused tuple fields [@1:25:12] - Changelog deep-dive [build.jobs] Implementing PR for negative values New target: Nintendo Switch Improve derive(Debug) Other internal changes Optimizing Vec::insert Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Aerocity Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jon Gjengset Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel