Announcing Rust 1.96.1

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.96.1.

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 1.96.1 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 1.96.1 Rust 1.96.1 fixes: Missing retries / timeouts in Cargo's HTTP client Miscompilation in a MIR optimization It also fixes three CVEs affecting libssh2 (which is compiled into Cargo): CVE-2025-15661 CVE-2026-55199 CVE-2026-55200 Contributors to 1.96.1 Many people came together to create Rust 1.96.1. We couldn't have done it without all of you. Thanks!