rust-lang/rust
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Recent Releases
Rust 1.98.1
<a id="1.98.1"></a> - [rustc: fix miscompilation in generating vtables](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/161441)
Rust 1.98.0
<a id="1.98.0-Language"></a> ## Language - [Allow shortening lifetime of `&mut` when unsize-coercing, even in an invariant position.](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/149219) For example, you can now coerce a `Cell<&'long mut i32>` to a `Cell<&'short mut dyn Send>`. Such shortenings were alr...
Rust 1.97.1
<a id="1.97.1"></a> - [rustc: Fix miscompilation in LLVM optimization](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/159035) This backports an LLVM submodule bump to include the LLVM-side fix and a revert of the rustc change that is one known trigger for the bug. The rustc side revert should not be stri...
Rust 1.97.0
<a id="1.97.0-Language"></a> ## Language - [Consider `Result<T, Uninhabited>` and `ControlFlow<Uninhabited, T>` to be equivalent to `T` for must use lint](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/148214) - [Add allow-by-default `dead_code_pub_in_binary` lint for unused pub items in binary crates](ht...
Rust 1.96.1
<a id="1.96.1"></a> - [Cargo: fix timeout/retry behavior](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/17131) - [Cargo: apply patches for CVE-2025-15661, CVE-2026-55199, and CVE-2026-55200 to libssh2](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/17140) - [rustc: fix miscompilation in MIR optimization](https:...
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