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| title: "Announcing Rust 1.7" | ||
| author: The Rust Core Team | ||
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| The Rust team is happy to announce the latest version of Rust, 1.7. Rust is a | ||
| systems programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency. | ||
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| As always, you can [install Rust 1.7][install] from the appropriate page on our | ||
| website, and check out the [detailed release notes for 1.7][notes] on GitHub. | ||
| About 1300 patches were landed in this release. | ||
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| [install]: http://www.rust-lang.org/install.html | ||
| [notes]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-170-2016-03-03 | ||
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| ### What's in 1.7 stable | ||
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| This release contains a number of small refinements, one major feature, and | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. What is the major feature? :) Maybe we should just say something like: "This release is primarily about library stabilization. We stabilized approximately 40 new library functions and methods, including: blah blah blah. There are no new language features in this release, though we do have several things cooking for future releases." There was a problem hiding this comment. This is just a typo 😭 |
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| a change to [Crates.io](https://crates.io). | ||
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| #### New Language features | ||
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| ... there were none! While we have several things cooking for future releases, | ||
| the timeframe in which 1.7 included the holidays, which means less time for | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. not sure if we need an excuse here. Maybe just "for future releases, none of them landed for the 1.7 cutoff." |
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| commenting on GitHub and more time for spending with loved ones. | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. thought I do like talking about your sweet cuddly loved ones :) There was a problem hiding this comment. yeah, it just seemed like an interesting way to acknowledge the train model. We can always cut it. |
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| #### Library stabilizations | ||
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| About 40 library functions and methods are now stable in 1.7. Notable | ||
| improvements include: | ||
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| * The ability to customize `HashMap<K, V>`s and similar data structures with | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Maybe we can elaborate on this point a bit -- @alexcrichton, maybe you could write up a paragraph or two about how custom hashing works? There was a problem hiding this comment. In particular, this is a good opportunity to talk about how our hashing design differs from the simple story in e.g. Java, and what the implications are. There was a problem hiding this comment. Sure yeah, perhaps something like (wordsmithing always welcome): One of the largest APIs stabilized during the 1.7 cycle was support for custom hash algorithms in the standard library's To see this in action, you can check out the fnv crate on crates.io and create a extern crate fnv;
use std::collections::HashMap;
use std::hash::BuildHasherDefault;
use fnv::FnvHasher;
type MyHasher = BuildHasherDefault<FnvHasher>;
let mut map: HashMap<_, _, MyHasher> = HashMap::default();
map.insert(1, "Hello");
map.insert(2, ", world!");
println!("{:?}", map);Note that most of the time you don't even need to specify the hasher as type inference will take care of it, so |
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| a custom hashing function. | ||
| * `<[T]>::clone_from_slice()`, an efficient way to copy the data from one slice | ||
| and put it into another slice. | ||
| * Various convenience methods on `Ipv4Addr` and `Ipv6Addr`, such as `is_loopback()`, | ||
| which returns `true` or `false` if the address is a loopback address according to | ||
| RFC 6890. | ||
| * Various improvements to `CString`, used for FFI. | ||
| * checked, saturated, and overflowing operations for various numeric types. | ||
| These aren’t counted in that ‘40’ number above, because there are a _lot_ of | ||
| them, but they all do the same thing. | ||
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| See the [detailed release notes][notes] for more. | ||
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| ### Contributors to 1.7 | ||
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| We had 144 individuals contribute to 1.7. Thank you so much! | ||
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| * Aaron Turon | ||
| * Adam Perry | ||
| * Adrian Heine | ||
| * Aidan Hobson Sayers | ||
| * Aleksey Kladov | ||
| * Alexander Lopatin | ||
| * Alex Burka | ||
| * Alex Crichton | ||
| * Ali Clark | ||
| * Amanieu d’Antras | ||
| * Andrea Bedini | ||
| * Andrea Canciani | ||
| * Andre Bogus | ||
| * Andrew Barchuk | ||
| * Andrew Paseltiner | ||
| * angelsl | ||
| * Anton Blanchard | ||
| * arcnmx | ||
| * Ariel Ben-Yehuda | ||
| * arthurprs | ||
| * ashleysommer | ||
| * Barosl Lee | ||
| * Benjamin Herr | ||
| * Björn Steinbrink | ||
| * bors | ||
| * Brandon W Maister | ||
| * Brian Anderson | ||
| * Brian Campbell | ||
| * Carlos E. Garcia | ||
| * Chad Shaffer | ||
| * Corey Farwell | ||
| * Daan Sprenkels | ||
| * Daniel Campbell | ||
| * Daniel Robertson | ||
| * Dave Hodder | ||
| * Dave Huseby | ||
| * dileepb | ||
| * Dirk Gadsden | ||
| * Eduard Burtescu | ||
| * Erick Tryzelaar | ||
| * est31 | ||
| * Evan | ||
| * Fabrice Desré | ||
| * fbergr | ||
| * Felix Gruber | ||
| * Felix S. Klock II | ||
| * Florian Hahn | ||
| * Geoff Catlin | ||
| * Geoffrey Thomas | ||
| * Georg Brandl | ||
| * ggomez | ||
| * Gleb Kozyrev | ||
| * Gökhan Karabulut | ||
| * Greg Chapple | ||
| * Guillaume Bonnet | ||
| * Guillaume Gomez | ||
| * Ivan Kozik | ||
| * Jack O’Connor | ||
| * Jeffrey Seyfried | ||
| * Johan Lorenzo | ||
| * Johannes Oertel | ||
| * John Hodge | ||
| * John Kåre Alsaker | ||
| * Jonas Schievink | ||
| * Jonathan Reem | ||
| * Jonathan S | ||
| * Jorge Aparicio | ||
| * Josh Stone | ||
| * Kamal Marhubi | ||
| * Katze | ||
| * Keith Yeung | ||
| * Kenneth Koski | ||
| * Kevin Stock | ||
| * Luke Jones | ||
| * Manish Goregaokar | ||
| * Marc Bowes | ||
| * Marvin Löbel | ||
| * Masood Malekghassemi | ||
| * Matt Brubeck | ||
| * Mátyás Mustoha | ||
| * Michael Huynh | ||
| * Michael Neumann | ||
| * Michael Woerister | ||
| * mitaa | ||
| * mopp | ||
| * Nathan Kleyn | ||
| * Nicholas Mazzuca | ||
| * Nick Cameron | ||
| * Nikita Baksalyar | ||
| * Niko Matsakis | ||
| * NODA, Kai | ||
| * nxnfufunezn | ||
| * Olaf Buddenhagen | ||
| * Oliver ‘ker’ Schneider | ||
| * Oliver Middleton | ||
| * Oliver Schneider | ||
| * Pascal Hertleif | ||
| * Paul Dicker | ||
| * Paul Smith | ||
| * Peter Atashian | ||
| * Peter Kolloch | ||
| * petevine | ||
| * Pierre Krieger | ||
| * Piotr Czarnecki | ||
| * Prayag Verma | ||
| * qpid | ||
| * Ravi Shankar | ||
| * Reeze Xia | ||
| * Richard Bradfield | ||
| * Robin Kruppe | ||
| * rphmeier | ||
| * Ruud van Asseldonk | ||
| * Ryan Thomas | ||
| * Sandeep Datta | ||
| * Scott Olson | ||
| * Scott Whittaker | ||
| * Sean Leffler | ||
| * Sean McArthur | ||
| * Sebastian Hahn | ||
| * Sebastian Wicki | ||
| * Sébastien Marie | ||
| * Seo Sanghyeon | ||
| * Sergey Veselkov | ||
| * Simonas Kazlauskas | ||
| * Simon Sapin | ||
| * Stepan Koltsov | ||
| * Stephan Hügel | ||
| * Steve Klabnik | ||
| * Steven Allen | ||
| * Steven Fackler | ||
| * Tamir Duberstein | ||
| * tgor | ||
| * Thomas Wickham | ||
| * Thomas Winwood | ||
| * Tobias Bucher | ||
| * Tomasz Miąsko | ||
| * tormol | ||
| * Tshepang Lekhonkhobe | ||
| * Ulrik Sverdrup | ||
| * Vadim Petrochenkov | ||
| * Vincent Esche | ||
| * Vlad Ureche | ||
| * Wangshan Lu | ||
| * Wesley Wiser | ||
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