What's New in Rust 1.70 and 1.71

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Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.70 and 1.71 releases of Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@01:20] - Rust 1.70

[@01:22] - Cargo’s sparse protocol by default
[@03:47] - OnceCell and OnceLock
[@10:56] - IsTerminal
[@12:49] - Named debug levels
[@14:57] - Enforced stability in the test CLI
[@16:45] - Stabilized APIs
[@24:30] - Changelog deep-dive
- [@24:42] - Use SipHash-1-3 instead of 2-4
- [@26:06] - Alignment debug checks for pointer derefs
- [@27:04] - Relaxed ordering for asm! operands
- [@27:53] - -Zgitoxide
- [@28:21] - -Zdirect-minimal-versions

[@29:16] - Rust 1.71.0

[@29:25] - C-unwind ABI
- RFC
- Unwinding by default?
[@36:59] - Debugger visualization attributes
- Detailed documentation
[@37:36] - raw-dylib linking
- Windows linking docs
- What is ordinal linking
[@38:15] - Upgrade to musl 1.2
[@39:42] - Const-initialized thread locals
[@41:14] - Changelog deep-dive
- [@41:40] - Uplift drop_ref clippy lints
- [@42:39] - Allow some recursive panics
- [@43:57] - Optimize cargo under rustup
- [@45:38] - Avoid excessive registry lookups
- [@46:28] - Include rust-version in publish
- [@47:02] - Document more semver rules

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Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

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What's New in Rust 1.70 and 1.71

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