The Rust Programming Language Blog

The Rust Programming Language Blog Posts in 2026 Aug. 4 Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly July 16 Announcing Rust 1.97.1 July 13 crates.io: development update July 9 Announcing Rust 1.97.0 June 30 Announcing Rust 1.96.1 June 25 The many journeys of learning Rust June 2 Launching the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund May 28 Announcing Rust 1.96.0 May 25 Security Advisory for Cargo (CVE-2026-5223) May 25 Security Advisory for Cargo (CVE-2026-5222) May 18 Project goals update — April 2026 (end of 2025H2) May 4 Rust is participating in Outreachy May 1 Raising the baseline for the `nvptx64-nvidia-cuda` target Apr. 30 Announcing Google Summer of Code 2026 selected projects Apr. 16 Announcing Rust 1.95.0 Apr. 4 docs.rs: building fewer targets by default Apr. 4 Changes to WebAssembly targets and handling undefined symbols Mar. 26 Announcing Rust 1.94.1 Mar. 21 Security advisory for Cargo Mar. 20 What we heard about Rust's challenges Mar. 13 Call for Testing: Build Dir Layout v2 Mar. 12 Announcing rustup 1.29.0 Mar. 5 Announcing Rust 1.94.0 Mar. 2 2025 State of Rust Survey Results Feb. 23 Rust debugging survey 2026 Feb. 19 Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2026 Feb. 13 crates.io: an update to the malicious crate notification policy Feb. 12 Announcing Rust 1.93.1 Jan. 22 Announcing Rust 1.93.0 Jan. 21 crates.io: development update Jan. 14 What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical? Jan. 5 Project goals update — December 2025 Posts in 2025 Dec. 19 What do people love about Rust? Dec. 16 Project goals update — November 2025 Dec. 11 Announcing Rust 1.92.0 Dec. 8 Making it easier to sponsor Rust contributors Dec. 5 crates.io: Malicious crates finch-rust and sha-rust Dec. 5 Updating Rust's Linux musl targets to 1.2.5 Dec. 3 Lessons learned from the Rust Vision Doc process Dec. 3 crates.io: Malicious crates evm-units and uniswap-utils Nov. 25 Interview with Jan David Nose Nov. 20 Switching to Rust's own mangling scheme on nightly Nov. 19 Project goals update — October 2025 Nov. 19 Project goals update — September 2025 Nov. 18 Google Summer of Code 2025 results Nov. 17 Launching the 2025 State of Rust Survey Nov. 10 Announcing Rust 1.91.1 Oct. 30 Announcing Rust 1.91.0 Oct. 28 Project goals for 2025H2 Oct. 16 docs.rs: changed default targets Oct. 15 Announcing the New Rust Project Directors Sept. 24 crates.io: Malicious crates faster_log and async_println Sept. 18 Announcing Rust 1.90.0 Sept. 12 crates.io phishing campaign Sept. 10 Rust compiler performance survey 2025 results Sept. 3 Welcoming the Rust Innovation Lab Sept. 1 Faster linking times with 1.90.0 stable on Linux using the LLD linker Aug. 19 Demoting x86_64-apple-darwin to Tier 2 with host tools Aug. 7 Announcing Rust 1.89.0 Aug. 5 Project goals update — July 2025 July 11 crates.io: development update July 3 Stabilizing naked functions June 26 Announcing Rust 1.88.0 June 20 May Project Goals Update June 16 Rust compiler performance survey 2025 May 26 Demoting i686-pc-windows-gnu to Tier 2 May 26 April Project Goals Update May 15 Announcing Rust 1.87.0 and ten years of Rust! May 8 Announcing Google Summer of Code 2025 selected projects May 5 Announcing rustup 1.28.2 Apr. 11 crates.io security incident: improperly stored session cookies Apr. 8 March Project Goals Update Apr. 4 Help us create a vision for Rust's future Apr. 4 C ABI Changes for `wasm32-unknown-unknown` Apr. 3 Announcing Rust 1.86.0 Mar. 26 Adopting the FLS Mar. 18 Announcing Rust 1.85.1 Mar. 4 Announcing rustup 1.28.1 Mar. 3 Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2025 Mar. 3 February Project Goals Update Mar. 2 Announcing Rustup 1.28.0 Feb. 20 Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024 Feb. 13 2024 State of Rust Survey Results Feb. 5 crates.io: development update Jan. 30 Announcing Rust 1.84.1 Jan. 23 December Project Goals Update Jan. 22 Rust 2024 in beta channel Jan. 9 Announcing Rust 1.84.0 Posts in 2024 Dec. 16 November project goals update Dec. 5 Launching the 2024 State of Rust Survey Nov. 28 Announcing Rust 1.83.0 Nov. 27 Rust 2024 call for testing Nov. 26 The wasm32-wasip2 Target Has Reached Tier 2 Support Nov. 7 Google Summer of Code 2024 results Nov. 7 gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust Nov. 6 Next Steps on the Rust Trademark Policy Oct. 31 October project goals update Oct. 17 Announcing Rust 1.82.0 Sept. 24 WebAssembly targets: change in default target-features Sept. 23 September Project Goals Update Sept. 5 Changes to `impl Trait` in Rust 2024 Sept. 5 Announcing Rust 1.81.0 Sept. 4 Security advisory for the standard library (CVE-2024-43402) Aug. 26 2024 Leadership Council Survey Aug. 12 Rust Project goals for 2024 Aug. 8 Announcing Rust 1.80.1 July 29 crates.io: development update July 25 Announcing Rust 1.80.0 June 26 Types Team Update and Roadmap June 13 Announcing Rust 1.79.0 May 17 Faster linking times on nightly on Linux using `rust-lld` May 7 Rust participates in OSPP 2024 May 6 Automatic checking of cfgs at compile-time May 6 Announcing Rustup 1.27.1 May 2 Announcing Rust 1.78.0 May 1 Announcing Google Summer of Code 2024 selected projects Apr. 9 Changes to Rust's WASI targets Apr. 9 Security advisory for the standard library (CVE-2024-24576) Apr. 9 Announcing Rust 1.77.2 Mar. 30 Changes to `u128`/`i128` layout in 1.77 and 1.78 Mar. 28 Announcing Rust 1.77.1 Mar. 21 Announcing Rust 1.77.0 Mar. 11 crates.io: Download changes Mar. 11 Announcing Rustup 1.27.0 Feb. 28 Clippy: Deprecating `feature = "cargo-clippy"` Feb. 26 Updated baseline standards for Windows targets Feb. 21 Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2024 Feb. 19 2023 Annual Rust Survey Results Feb. 8 Announcing Rust 1.76.0 Feb. 6 crates.io: API status code changes Posts in 2023 Dec. 28 Announcing Rust 1.75.0 Dec. 21 Announcing `async fn` and return-position `impl Trait` in traits Dec. 18 Launching the 2023 State of Rust Survey Dec. 15 A Call for Proposals for the Rust 2024 Edition Dec. 11 Cargo cache cleaning Dec. 7 Announcing Rust 1.74.1 Nov. 16 Announcing Rust 1.74.0 Nov. 9 Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly Oct. 27 crates.io: Dropping support for non-canonical downloads Oct. 26 A tale of broken badges and 23,000 features Oct. 19 Announcing the New Rust Project Directors Oct. 5 Announcing Rust 1.73.0 Sept. 25 Increasing the minimum supported Apple platform versions Sept. 22 crates.io Policy Update RFC Sept. 19 Announcing Rust 1.72.1 Aug. 30 Electing New Project Directors Aug. 29 Change in Guidance on Committing Lockfiles Aug. 24 Announcing Rust 1.72.0 Aug. 7 2022 Annual Rust Survey Results Aug. 3 Security advisory for Cargo (CVE-2023-38497) Aug. 3 Announcing Rust 1.71.1 July 13 Announcing Rust 1.71.0 July 5 Announcing regex 1.9 July 1 Rustfmt support for let-else statements June 23 Improved API tokens for crates.io June 20 Introducing the Rust Leadership Council June 1 Announcing Rust 1.70.0 May 29 On the RustConf keynote May 9 Updating Rust's Linux musl targets Apr. 25 Announcing Rustup 1.26.0 Apr. 20 Announcing Rust 1.69.0 Mar. 28 Announcing Rust 1.68.2 Mar. 23 Announcing Rust 1.68.1 Mar. 9 Announcing Rust 1.68.0 Feb. 9 Announcing Rust 1.67.1 Feb. 1 Announcing Rustup 1.25.2 Jan. 26 Announcing Rust 1.67.0 Jan. 20 Officially announcing the types team Jan. 10 Security advisory for Cargo (CVE-2022-46176) Jan. 10 Announcing Rust 1.66.1 Jan. 9 Updating the Android NDK in Rust 1.68 Posts in 2022 Dec. 15 Announcing Rust 1.66.0 Dec. 5 Launching the 2022 State of Rust Survey Nov. 3 Announcing Rust 1.65.0 Oct. 28 Generic associated types to be stable in Rust 1.65 Sept. 22 Announcing Rust 1.64.0 Sept. 15 Const Eval (Un)Safety Rules Sept. 14 Security advisories for Cargo (CVE-2022-36113, CVE-2022-36114) Aug. 11 Announcing Rust 1.63.0 Aug. 5 Non-lexical lifetimes (NLL) fully stable Aug. 1 Increasing the glibc and Linux kernel requirements July 19 Announcing Rust 1.62.1 July 12 Changes in the Core Team July 12 Announcing Rustup 1.25.1 July 11 Announcing Rustup 1.25.0 July 1 RLS Deprecation June 30 Announcing Rust 1.62.0 June 28 Announcing The RustConf PostConf UnConf June 22 Call for testing: Cargo sparse-registry May 19 Announcing Rust 1.61.0 May 10 Security advisory: malicious crate rustdecimal Apr. 7 Announcing Rust 1.60.0 Mar. 8 Security advisory for the regex crate (CVE-2022-24713) Feb. 24 Announcing Rust 1.59.0 Feb. 21 rust-analyzer joins the Rust organization! Feb. 15 Rust Survey 2021 Results Feb. 14 Crates.io Index Snapshot Branches Moving Jan. 31 Changes in the Core Team Jan. 20 Security advisory for the standard library (CVE-2022-21658) Jan. 20 Announcing Rust 1.58.1 Jan. 13 Announcing Rust 1.58.0 Posts in 2021 Dec. 8 Launching the 2021 State of Rust Survey Dec. 2 Announcing Rust 1.57.0 Nov. 1 Security advisory for rustc (CVE-2021-42574) Nov. 1 Announcing Rust 1.56.1 Oct. 21 Announcing Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021 Sept. 27 Core team membership updates Sept. 9 Announcing Rust 1.55.0 Aug. 3 The push for GATs stabilization July 29 Announcing Rust 1.54.0 July 21 Rust 2021 public testing period June 17 Announcing Rust 1.53.0 June 8 Announcing Rustup 1.24.3 May 17 Announcing Rustup 1.24.2 May 15 Six Years of Rust May 11 The Plan for the Rust 2021 Edition May 10 Announcing Rust 1.52.1 May 6 Announcing Rust 1.52.0 Apr. 29 Announcing Rustup 1.24.1 Apr. 27 Announcing Rustup 1.24.0 Apr. 14 Brainstorming Async Rust's Shiny Future Mar. 25 Announcing Rust 1.51.0 Mar. 18 Building a shared vision for Async Rust Feb. 26 Const generics MVP hits beta! Feb. 11 Announcing Rust 1.50.0 Jan. 4 mdBook security advisory Posts in 2020 Dec. 31 Announcing Rust 1.49.0 Dec. 16 Rust Survey 2020 Results Dec. 14 Next steps for the Foundation Conversation Dec. 11 Launching the Lock Poisoning Survey Dec. 7 The Foundation Conversation Nov. 27 Announcing Rustup 1.23.0 Nov. 19 Announcing Rust 1.48.0 Oct. 20 Marking issues as regressions Oct. 8 Announcing Rust 1.47.0 Sept. 21 Call for 2021 Roadmap Blogs Ending Soon Sept. 14 A call for contributors from the WG-prioritization team Sept. 10 Launching the 2020 State of Rust Survey Sept. 3 Planning the 2021 Roadmap Aug. 27 Announcing Rust 1.46.0 Aug. 18 Laying the foundation for Rust's future Aug. 3 Announcing Rust 1.45.2 July 30 Announcing Rust 1.45.1 July 16 Announcing Rust 1.45.0 July 14 crates.io security advisory July 8 Announcing Rustup 1.22.1 July 6 Announcing Rustup 1.22.0 June 18 Announcing Rust 1.44.1 June 10 2020 Event Lineup - Update June 4 Announcing Rust 1.44.0 May 15 Five Years of Rust May 7 Announcing Rust 1.43.1 Apr. 23 Announcing Rust 1.43.0 Apr. 17 Rust Survey 2019 Results Mar. 15 docs.rs now allows you to choose your build targets Mar. 12 Announcing Rust 1.42.0 Mar. 10 The 2020 RustConf CFP is Now Open! Feb. 27 Announcing Rust 1.41.1 Jan. 31 The 2020 Rust Event Lineup Jan. 30 Announcing Rust 1.41.0 Jan. 3 Reducing support for 32-bit Apple targets Posts in 2019 Dec. 19 Announcing Rust 1.40.0 Dec. 3 Launching the 2019 State of Rust Survey Nov. 7 Announcing Rust 1.39.0 Nov. 7 Async-await on stable Rust! Nov. 1 Completing the transition to the new borrow checker Oct. 29 A call for blogs 2020 Oct. 15 Announcing Rustup 1.20.0 Oct. 3 Announcing the Inside Rust blog Sept. 30 Security advisory for Cargo Sept. 30 Async-await hits beta! Sept. 26 Announcing Rust 1.38.0 Sept. 18 Upcoming docs.rs changes Aug. 15 Announcing Rust 1.37.0 July 4 Announcing Rust 1.36.0 June 3 The Governance WG is going public May 23 Announcing Rust 1.35.0 May 20 The 2019 Rust Event Lineup May 15 4 years of Rust May 14 Announcing Rust 1.34.2 May 13 Security advisory for the standard library Apr. 26 Mozilla IRC Sunset and the Rust Channel Apr. 25 Announcing Rust 1.34.1 Apr. 23 Rust's 2019 roadmap Apr. 11 Announcing Rust 1.34.0 Feb. 28 Announcing Rust 1.33.0 Feb. 22 Changes in the core team Jan. 17 Announcing Rust 1.32.0 Posts in 2018 Dec. 21 Procedural Macros in Rust 2018 Dec. 20 Announcing Rust 1.31.1 Dec. 17 Tools in the 2018 edition Dec. 6 A call for Rust 2019 Roadmap blog posts Dec. 6 Announcing Rust 1.31 and Rus…