Rust 1.3 is available
Version 1.3 of the Rust language has been released.
The announcement listed API stabilization and increased performance work as
the most notable changes. Specifically, there is a new
substring-matching algorithm, a faster zero-filling method
for initializing and resizing vectors, and speed-ups to the
Read::read_to_end function. The release
notes provide more detail. Also new in this release is the first
edition of a new Rust programming guide, the Rustinomicon.
Posted Sep 18, 2015 17:51 UTC (Fri)
by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)
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Glad to see that the breaking changes in this release are fairly esoteric and unlikely to be hit by many libraries (it was common in the pre-1.0 days that each new change would break a supermajority of packages, forcing everyone to stop work and submit patches to their respective upstreams). Also great to see the Duration API stabilized. Durations are almost a textbook example of the benefit of Rust's type system in preventing bugs, and this API in particular was very useful for network code.
Rust 1.3 is available