1.76.0

Language

• Document Rust ABI compatibility between various types
• Also: guarantee that char and u32 are ABI-compatible
• Add lint ambiguous_wide_pointer_comparisons that supersedes clippy::vtable_address_comparisons

Compiler

• Lint pinned #[must_use] pointers (in particular, Box<T> where T is #[must_use]) in unused_must_use.
• Soundness fix: fix computing the offset of an unsized field in a packed struct
• Soundness fix: fix dynamic size/align computation logic for packed types with dyn Trait tail
• Add $message_type field to distinguish json diagnostic outputs
• Enable Rust to use the EHCont security feature of Windows
• Add tier 3 {x86_64,i686}-win7-windows-msvc targets
• Add tier 3 aarch64-apple-watchos target
• Add tier 3 arm64e-apple-ios & arm64e-apple-darwin targets

Refer to Rust's platform support page for more information on Rust's tiered platform support.

Libraries

• Add a column number to dbg!()
• Add std::hash::{DefaultHasher, RandomState} exports
• Fix rounding issue with exponents in fmt
• Add T: ?Sized to RwLockReadGuard and RwLockWriteGuard's Debug impls.
• Windows: Allow File::create to work on hidden files

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

Cargo

See Cargo release notes.

Rustdoc

• Don't merge cfg and doc(cfg) attributes for re-exports
• rustdoc: allow resizing the sidebar / hiding the top bar
• rustdoc-search: add support for traits and associated types
• rustdoc: Add highlighting for comments in items declaration

Compatibility Notes

• Add allow-by-default lint for unit bindings This is expected to be upgraded to a warning by default in a future Rust release. Some macros emit bindings with type () with user-provided spans, which means that this lint will warn for user code.
• Remove x86_64-sun-solaris target.
• Remove asmjs-unknown-emscripten target
• Report errors in jobserver inherited through environment variables This may warn on benign problems too.
• Update the minimum external LLVM to 16.
• Improve print_tts This change can break some naive manual parsing of token trees in proc macro code which expect a particular structure after .to_string(), rather than just arbitrary Rust code.
• Make IMPLIED_BOUNDS_ENTAILMENT into a hard error from a lint
• Vec's allocation behavior was changed when collecting some iterators Allocation behavior is currently not specified, nevertheless changes can be surprising. See impl FromIterator for Vec for more details.
• Properly reject default on free const items