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Announcing our first Maintainers in Residence

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

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A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers

Samuel Yeboah, Francesco Di Chiara and Mingliang LiuToday, Netflix runs two Flink autoscalers. That is exactly one more than we want. We built the first one in-house years ago, when there was no mature option suited to our platform. The second came from the Apache Flink community, and it can scale w

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Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly

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 relea

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Supply chain attack on arrayref

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, aro

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Announcing Rust 1.98.0

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, yo

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Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly

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 ve

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Announcing Rust 1.97.1

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

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crates.io: development update

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 cra

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