From 8f1573a5853898dbb8196b287c670e79d4c4705b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Rousskov Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:51:53 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Release notes for 1.76 --- RELEASES.md | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 93 insertions(+) diff --git a/RELEASES.md b/RELEASES.md index 3fb74b52292..038a83cde84 100644 --- a/RELEASES.md +++ b/RELEASES.md @@ -1,3 +1,96 @@ +Version 1.76.0 (2024-02-08) +========================== + + + +Language +-------- +- [Document Rust ABI compatibility between various types](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/115476/) +- [Also: guarantee that char and u32 are ABI-compatible](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118032/) +- [Warn against ambiguous wide pointer comparisons](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117758/) + + + +Compiler +-------- +- [Lint pinned `#[must_use]` pointers (in particular, `Box` where `T` is `#[must_use]`) in `unused_must_use`.](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118054/) +- [Soundness fix: fix computing the offset of an unsized field in a packed struct](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118540/) +- [Soundness fix: fix dynamic size/align computation logic for packed types with dyn Trait tail](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118538/) +- [Add `$message_type` field to distinguish json diagnostic outputs](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/115691/) +- [Enable Rust to use the EHCont security feature of Windows](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118013/) +- [Add tier 3 {x86_64,i686}-win7-windows-msvc targets](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118150/) +- [Add tier 3 aarch64-apple-watchos target](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/119074/) +- [Add tier 3 arm64e-apple-ios & arm64e-apple-darwin targets](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/115526/) + +Refer to Rust's [platform support page][platform-support-doc] +for more information on Rust's tiered platform support. + + + +Libraries +--------- +- [Add a column number to `dbg!()`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/114962/) +- [Add `std::hash::{DefaultHasher, RandomState}` exports](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/115694/) +- [Fix rounding issue with exponents in fmt](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/116301/) +- [Add T: ?Sized to `RwLockReadGuard` and `RwLockWriteGuard`'s Debug impls.](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117138/) +- [Windows: Allow `File::create` to work on hidden files](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/116438/) + + + +Stabilized APIs +--------------- + +- [`Arc::unwrap_or_clone`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/sync/struct.Arc.html#method.unwrap_or_clone) +- [`Rc::unwrap_or_clone`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/rc/struct.Rc.html#method.unwrap_or_clone) +- [`Result::inspect`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/result/enum.Result.html#method.inspect) +- [`Result::inspect_err`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/result/enum.Result.html#method.inspect_err) +- [`Option::inspect`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.inspect) +- [`type_name_of_val`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/any/fn.type_name_of_val.html) +- [`std::hash::{DefaultHasher, RandomState}`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/hash/index.html#structs) + These were previously available only through `std::collections::hash_map`. +- [`ptr::{from_ref, from_mut}`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/ptr/fn.from_ref.html) +- [`ptr::addr_eq`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/ptr/fn.addr_eq.html) + + + +Cargo +----- + +See [Cargo release notes](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#cargo-176-2024-02-08). + + + +Rustdoc +------- + +- [Don't merge cfg and doc(cfg) attributes for re-exports](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/113091/) +- [rustdoc: allow resizing the sidebar / hiding the top bar](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/115660/) +- [rustdoc-search: add support for traits and associated types](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/116085/) +- [rustdoc: Add highlighting for comments in items declaration](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117869/) + + + +Compatibility Notes +------------------- +- [Add allow-by-default lint for unit bindings](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/112380/) + This is expected to be upgraded to a warning by default in a future Rust + release. Some macros emit bindings with type `()` with user-provided spans, + which means that this lint will warn for user code. +- [Remove x86_64-sun-solaris target.](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118091/) +- [Remove asmjs-unknown-emscripten target](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117338/) +- [Report errors in jobserver inherited through environment variables](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/113730/) + This [may warn](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/120515) on benign problems too. +- [Update the minimum external LLVM to 16.](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117947/) +- [Improve `print_tts`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/114571/) + This change can break some naive manual parsing of token trees in proc macro + code which expect a particular structure after `.to_string()`, rather than just arbitrary Rust code. +- [Make `IMPLIED_BOUNDS_ENTAILMENT` into a hard error from a lint](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117984/) +- [Vec's allocation behavior was changed when collecting some iterators](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/110353) + Allocation behavior is currently not specified, nevertheless changes can be surprising. + See [`impl FromIterator for Vec`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#impl-FromIterator%3CT%3E-for-Vec%3CT%3E) + for more details. +- [Properly reject `default` on free const items](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117818/) + Version 1.75.0 (2023-12-28) ==========================