The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.76.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.76.0 with: $ rustup update stable $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page on our website, and check out the detailed release notes for 1.76.0. get get rustup detailed release notes for 1.76.0 detailed release notes for 1.76.0 If you'd like to help us out by testing future releases, you might consider updating locally to use the beta channel (rustup default beta) or the nightly channel (rustup default nightly). Please report any bugs you might come across! rustup default beta rustup default nightly report report What's in 1.76.0 stable This release is relatively minor, but as always, even incremental improvements lead to a greater whole. A few of those changes are highlighted in this post, and others may yet fill more niche needs. ABI compatibility updates A new ABI Compatibility section in the function pointer documentation describes what it means for function signatures to be ABI-compatible. A large part of that is the compatibility of argument types and return types, with a list of those that are currently considered compatible in Rust. For the most part, this documentation is not adding any new guarantees, only describing the existing state of compatibility. ABI Compatibility ABI Compatibility The one new addition is that it is now guaranteed that char and u32 are ABI compatible. They have always had the same size and alignment, but now they are considered equivalent even in function call ABI, consistent with the documentation above. char u32 Type names from references For debugging purposes, any::type_name::<T>() has been available since Rust 1.38 to return a string description of the type T, but that requires an explicit type parameter. It is not always easy to specify that type, especially for unnameable types like closures or for opaque return types. The new any::type_name_of_val(&T) offers a way to get a descriptive name from any reference to a type. any::type_name::<T>() T any::type_name_of_val(&T) fn get_iter() -> impl Iterator<Item = i32> {
    [1, 2, 3].into_iter()
}

fn main() {
    let iter = get_iter();
    let iter_name = std::any::type_name_of_val(&iter);
    let sum: i32 = iter.sum();
    println!("The sum of the `{iter_name}` is {sum}.");
} fn get_iter() -> impl Iterator<Item = i32> {
    [1, 2, 3].into_iter()
}

fn main() {
    let iter = get_iter();
    let iter_name = std::any::type_name_of_val(&iter);
    let sum: i32 = iter.sum();
    println!("The sum of the `{iter_name}` is {sum}.");
} This currently prints: The sum of the `core::array::iter::IntoIter<i32, 3>` is 6. The sum of the `core::array::iter::IntoIter<i32, 3>` is 6. Stabilized APIs Arc::unwrap_or_clone
Rc::unwrap_or_clone
Result::inspect
Result::inspect_err
Option::inspect
type_name_of_val
std::hash::{DefaultHasher, RandomState} These were previously available only through std::collections::hash_map.
ptr::{from_ref, from_mut}
ptr::addr_eq Arc::unwrap_or_clone Arc::unwrap_or_clone Rc::unwrap_or_clone Rc::unwrap_or_clone Result::inspect Result::inspect Result::inspect_err Result::inspect_err Option::inspect Option::inspect type_name_of_val type_name_of_val std::hash::{DefaultHasher, RandomState} These were previously available only through std::collections::hash_map. std::hash::{DefaultHasher, RandomState} std::collections::hash_map ptr::{from_ref, from_mut} ptr::{from_ref, from_mut} ptr::addr_eq ptr::addr_eq Other changes Check out everything that changed in Rust, Cargo, and Clippy. Rust Rust Cargo Cargo Clippy Clippy Contributors to 1.76.0 Many people came together to create Rust 1.76.0. We couldn't have done it without all of you. Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! The Rust Release Team Also published here here Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash Jeremy Bishop Unsplash

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