What's New in Rust 1.68 and 1.69

Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.68 and 1.69 releases of Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@01:30] - Rust 1.68

• [@01:32] - Cargo’s sparse protocol
• [@09:28] - Local Pin construction
  • Implementation comments
  • A fun hack
• [@13:56] - Default alloc error handler
  • Small allocs in panic handler probably ok
• [@18:24] - Stabilized APIs
  • impl From<bool> for f64
• [@19:06] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@19:15] - Stabilize UEFI extern
  • [@20:07] - cargo build --verbose
  • [@20:50] - home is a cargo crate
  • [@21:12] - Cargo.lock for workspace publish
  • [@21:35] - Make Context !Send and !Sync

[@24:24] - Rust 1.68.1

[@25:11] - Rust 1.68.2

• GitHub announcement

[@26:29] - Rust 1.69.0

• [@28:17] - Nice PR#42069
• [@29:50] - More cargo fix
• [@31:17] - No more debug info for build scripts
  • Nicholas Nethercote’s blog
• [@34:48] - Stabilized APIs
  • CStr::from_bytes_until_nul
• [@37:24] - Changelog deep-dive
  • [@37:28] - Unaligned references is a hard error now
  • [@38:28] - Deriving on packed structs
    • More detailed description
  • [@44:51] - Suggest cargo add
  • [@45:36] - Search for macros with !
  • [@46:10] - Compatibility notes
  • [@47:18] - Rust 0.1 release notes

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Aerocity

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Jon Gjengset

Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel