What's New in Rust 1.68 and 1.69

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Jon and Ben discuss the highlights of the 1.68 and 1.69 releases of Rust.

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Timestamps & referenced resources

[@01:30] - Rust 1.68

[@01:32] - Cargo’s sparse protocol
[@09:28] - Local Pin construction
- Implementation comments
- A fun hack
[@13:56] - Default alloc error handler
- Small allocs in panic handler probably ok
[@18:24] - Stabilized APIs
- impl From for f64
[@19:06] - Changelog deep-dive
- [@19:15] - Stabilize UEFI extern
- [@20:07] - cargo build --verbose
- [@20:50] - home is a cargo crate
- [@21:12] - Cargo.lock for workspace publish
- [@21:35] - Make Context !Send and !Sync

[@24:24] - Rust 1.68.1

[@25:11] - Rust 1.68.2

GitHub announcement

[@26:29] - Rust 1.69.0

[@28:17] - Nice PR#42069
[@29:50] - More cargo fix
[@31:17] - No more debug info for build scripts
- Nicholas Nethercote’s blog
[@34:48] - Stabilized APIs
- CStr::from_bytes_until_nul
[@37:24] - Changelog deep-dive
- [@37:28] - Unaligned references is a hard error now
- [@38:28] - Deriving on packed structs
  - More detailed description
- [@44:51] - Suggest cargo add
- [@45:36] - Search for macros with !
- [@46:10] - Compatibility notes
- [@47:18] - Rust 0.1 release notes

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Hosts: Jon Gjengset and Ben Striegel

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