The gist: The Rust Project participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the third time this year. This time we had 13 projects, and our dear contributors have been working very hard on them for several months. As usual, the projects had various durations, so while some of them have ended in August, the last one has only fini
The gist: The rustup team has published a new point release of rustup, 1.29.3. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.3 This new patch release has fixed some minor regressions over the previous one: Fixed "I
The gist: TLDR: To fund general maintenance, donate to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund or sponsor the RustNL Maintainers Team To fund specific features and improvements, sponsor fundable Rust Project Goals To fund individual contributors, donate to their GitHub Sponsors accounts TLDR: To fund general maintenance, donate to
The gist: The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.2. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.2 This is a small release which only updates the rustls-webpki and webpki-root-cert
The gist: The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.99.1. 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 1.99.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can
The gist: With Rust 1.100.0, the following changes to 32-bit Windows targets will happen: i686-pc-windows-msvc Tier 1 with host tools target will be demoted to Tier 1 without host tools. i686-pc-windows-gnu Tier 2 with host tools target will be demoted to Tier 2 without host tools. Builds of the standard library will continue to
The gist: The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.99.0. 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 1.99.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can get rustup fro
The gist: At the end of August, we announced our first Maintainers in Residence, Rust Project contributors who are funded for their upstream contributions and maintenance work from the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (RFMF). Since then, the Rust Leadership Council has dedicated more funds from its Project Priorities budget to R
The gist: The Rust Security Response Team was notified that Miri stores all environment variables to target/, allowing secrets to persist in caches. While not necessary a vulnerability in and of itself, when paired with GitHub Actions caching behavior, it is possible for this to expose secrets to PRs. Overview GitHub Actions mak
The gist: We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting rust-lang members and owners of popular crates that is attempting to compromise devices and accounts in order to use them to publish malware. What we've seen A video call is set up for something positive — maybe for a job, maybe for a project, maybe for a contract
The gist: One of the biggest challenges Rust developers report in our annual surveys is a subpar debugging experience. So, back in February, we ran our first Rust Debugging Survey, in the hopes of identifying how Rust developers are using debuggers and what problems they are facing when doing so. We received over 2,300 responses
The gist: The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.98.1. 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 1.98.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can
The gist: The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.1. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.1 The headlines of this release are: Concurrency in certain rustup operations has b
The gist: We are very happy to announce the Rust Project's first round of Maintainers in Residence: Gen Li (@rami3l), Chris Denton (@ChrisDenton), Alejandra González (@blyxyas), León Liehr (@fmease), and Maintainer Grant recipients: Jason Newcomb (@Jarcho) and Jonas Böttiger (@joboet). These contributors will be funded for their
The gist: After nearly 4 years of active development, the next-generation trait solver is close to stabilization. We are enabling it by default on nightly to surface any remaining issues and plan to stabilize it in the next months. This is the largest single change to the Rust compiler since its initial release. It completely re
The gist: What happened On 2026-08-20 at 7:15 UTC we got a report that the proc-macro1 crate was malicious. The Rust Security Response Team verified this to be the case: the crate had a build script that was downloading a malicious payload. This crate proc-macro1 and others like it (proc-macro-en, aovine, arone, aronenao, tinyme
The gist: The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.98.0. 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 1.98.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can get rustup fro
The gist: TL;DR We are enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker (coined Polonius Alpha) on nightly in preparation for stabilization in the next few months. Whaaaaaat? Yes! You heard it right! The next iteration of the Rust borrow checker is coming! Rust's first borrow checker ("AST borrowck") was very limited and was ph
The gist: The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.97.1. 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 1.97.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can
The gist: Another six months have passed since our last development update, and the crates.io team has been busy. Here's a summary of the most notable changes and improvements made to crates.io since then. Source Code Viewer Crate pages now have a "Code" tab that lets you browse the contents of published crate versions directly
The gist: The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.97.0. 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 1.97.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can get rustup fro
The gist: 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
The gist: This is another post in our series covering what we learned through the Vision Doc process. We previously described the overall approach and what we learned about doing user research, we explored what people love about Rust, dug into what it takes to ship safety-crticial Rust, and described some of the major challenges
The gist: If you want to financially support the development of Rust, please consider donating to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund. If you want to financially support the development of Rust, please consider donating to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund. A few months ago, the Rust Foundation announced the Rust Foundation
