Rust 1.88.0
10 months ago
- #Rust
- #Software Development
- #Programming
- Rust 1.88.0 has been released, featuring new capabilities and improvements.
- Introduction of 'Let chains' in Rust 2024 edition, allowing &&-chaining of let statements in if and while conditions.
- Support for naked functions with #[unsafe(naked)] attribute, offering full control over assembly generation.
- Boolean configuration in cfg predicates now supports true and false literals for clearer conditional compilation.
- Cargo introduces automatic cache cleaning to manage disk usage by removing old, unused files.
- Several APIs have been stabilized, including Cell::update, HashMap::extract_if, and more.
- The i686-pc-windows-gnu target has been demoted to Tier 2, potentially affecting future testing and bug fixes.
- Encouragement for users to test future releases via beta or nightly channels and report bugs.