Rust's eleventh year and the shape of a finished language
Six-week releases, no breakage, and a backlog that is finally shorter than it was. What's left is the hard part.
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11 pieces tagged rust,
from January 9, 2025 to January 20, 2026.
Rust 1.92 closes the year
More const, more stable APIs, and a language whose release notes have become pleasantly dull.
Rust 1.91 and the slow work of shrinking unsafe
More const, more stable APIs, and an ecosystem that keeps finding ways to need less unsafe code.
Rust 1.90 and the linker nobody talks about
LLD becomes the default linker on x86-64 Linux. Link times drop and nobody notices, which is the point.
Rust 1.89 and the long tail of const generics
Inferred array lengths in const generic position, plus x86 SIMD stabilizations that matter for anyone doing math.
Rust 1.88 ships let chains, and a decade-old papercut closes
if let A = a && let B = b finally compiles. Also naked functions and automatic cargo cache cleaning.
Rust 1.87, and the standard library grows an anonymous pipe
std::io::pipe, asm! jumping to Rust code, and the tenth anniversary of 1.0.
Rust 1.86 lands trait upcasting after eight years
You can finally coerce dyn Sub to dyn Super. Also: HashMap::get_disjoint_mut, and a soundness fix worth reading.
Linux 6.14 and Rust in the kernel, one driver at a time
Faster fuse, better hardware support, and a Rust for Linux effort that keeps advancing through genuine disagreement.
Rust 2024 is the largest edition since 2018
New match ergonomics, gen blocks reserved, RPIT lifetime capture changes, and unsafe attributes. Here's what will break.
Rust 1.84 and the quiet rewrite underneath
The next-generation trait solver goes live for coherence checking. Most people will never notice, which is the point.