Looking Back at the Changes That Rust 1.77.1 Brought In

About this episode

This episode discusses the changes introduced in the Rust 1.77.1 release.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/looking-back-at-the-changes-that-rust-1771-brought-in . The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.77.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficiently Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming . You can also check exclusive content about #rust , #rustlang , #rust-1.77.1 , #rust-update , #rust-changes , #rust-1.77.1-changes , #rust-debuginfo , #rust-cargo , and more. This story was written by: @Rust . Learn more about this writer by checking @Rust's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Rust 1.77.1 therefore disables the new Cargo behavior on Windows for targets that use MSVC. There are no changes for other targets. We plan to eventually re-enable debuginfo stripping in release mode in a later Rust release.

Topics covered

• Rust programming
• software updates
• technology changes
• programming languages
• Cargo behavior

Keywords

• Rust
• Rust 1.77.1
• Cargo
• programming
• software updates
• Rust changes
• Rust debuginfo

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HackerNoon

Products: Rust, Cargo

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