🥜 Rust 1.68 — 1.72 In A Nutshell
Improved cargo performance, better Some handling, Rustdoc improvements and infinite execution handling make the last half year fruitful for Rust programming language
The last version of Rust I was reporting was 1.67.0. It was at the end of January 2023. August 2023 is about to end, so let’s check what happens during last six months.
During that time there were several releases. Main lines was 1.68, 1.69, 1.70, 1.71 and 1.72 released on August, 24, 2023.
Sparse Registry Stabilized
Now crate index is downloaded only for your dependency tree rather than downloading info about all crates, meaning better performance.
The performance improvement for clients should be especially noticeable in CI environments, particularly if no local cache of the index exists.
On the server side, the HTTP protocol is much simpler to cache on a CDN, which improves scalability and reduces server load. Due to this caching, crate updates may take an extra minute to appear in the index.
With Rust 1.68 sparse registry became stabilized.
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