#Rust

Memory safety and performance are real wins, but a rewrite is one of the riskiest things an engineering team can do.

Rust 1.85.0 was released on February 20, 2025, stabilising the Rust 2024 edition, the largest edition to date, and adding async closures backed by new AsyncFn, AsyncFnMut and AsyncFnOnce traits. Here is what changed.

Rust 1.65.0 was released on November 3, 2022, stabilising generic associated types (GATs), a feature more than six years in the making, and adding let-else statements and break from labeled blocks. Here is what changed.

Rust 1.56.0 was released on October 21, 2021, stabilising the Rust 2021 edition with disjoint closure captures, by-value array iteration, an updated prelude, and version 2 of the Cargo feature resolver. Here is what changed.