What's New in Rust 1.76, 1.77, and 1.78

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.76, 1.77, and 1.78 releases of Rust. This episode was recorded as part of a YouTube live stream on 2024-05-18, which you can still watch. 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 [@00:34] - Rust 1.76 [@01:18] - ABI compatibility updates The updated ABI section An interesting article on ABIs in Swift vs Rust [@08:53] - Type names from references type_name type_name_of_val [@10:35] - Stabilized APIs [@10:56] - Result::inspect [@13:53] - Arc::unwrap_or_clone [@15:25] - std::hash::DefaultHasher [@18:01] - ptr::addr_eq [@21:30] - Changelog deep-dive [@21:33] - Resize/hide rustdoc bars [@22:40] - Rust 1.77 [@22:51] - C-string literals std::ffi::CStr [@28:20] - Support for recursion in async fn [@31:43] - offset_of! [@36:32] - Enable strip in release profiles by default [@39:35] - Stabilized APIs [@39:36] - core::net [@40:59] - f64::round_ties_even [@42:05] - Mutex::clear_poison [@43:43] - File::create_new OpenOptions [@46:15] - Changelog deep-dive [@46:46] - Lint on references to static mut SyncUnsafeCell [@50:05] - Undeprecate unstable_features lint [@51:37] - Deny braced macro invocation in let-else Details from dtolnay comment [@55:45] - cargo:: in build scripts [@56:20] - Standardized package ID spec in Cargo [@57:36] - slice::first_chunk [@59:55] - Rust 1.77.1 Stripping debug info in release builds broke Windows. [@1:00:58] - Rust 1.77.2 Fixes CVE-2024-24576. Detailed advisory, fix, and current logic. [@1:04:54] - Rust 1.78 [@1:07:55] - Diagnostic attributes #[diagnostic] documentation [@1:13:13] - Asserting unsafe preconditions Implementation PR [@1:19:56] - Deterministic realignment [@1:23:24] - Stabilized APIs [@1:23:33] - impl Read for &Stdin [@1:24:03] - Relax bounds on Error trait implementations [@1:25:40] - Compatibility notes [@1:25:40] - Windows requirement bump Replace pthread RwLock Slim reader/writer locks [@1:29:25] - LLVM 18 brings *128 ABI change [@1:32:04] - Changelog deep-dive [@1:32:04] - Make non-PartialEq-typed consts as patterns a hard error [@1:34:59] - Suggest moving definition if non-found macro_rules! is defined later [@1:36:08] - Stabilize v4 of Cargo lockfile [@1:37:36] - cargo update highlights stale dependencies [@1:38:23] - Deprecate non-extension .cargo/config files [@1:39:19] - Clippy lint assigning_clones [@1:40:49] - Clippy lint incompatible_msrv [@1:42:22] - cargo new stopped commenting in Cargo.toml Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Aerocity Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jon Gjengset Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel