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Starting with Rust 1.100.0, the compiler team will stop shipping host tools for two 32-bit Windows targets, leaving only the standard library and requiring cross-compilation.

Rust 1.99.0, released October 1, lets developers define C-ABI variadic functions in Rust, stabilizes raw-pointer size and alignment functions, and changes Cargo defaults.

Cloudflare cut hash points per server by 90% and shrank its hash-point struct by 25%, freeing over 100TB of RAM on its Pingora Backend Router.

Microsoft has elevated Rust to Tier-1 status alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript, and detailed a new compiler backend linking Rust to MSVC.

At RustConf in Montreal, Rust's programming manager outlined CPython's scaled-back plan to add an optional internal Rust API in Python 3.16, along with unresolved technical hurdles.

Git 2.56.0-rc1 adds new git refs subcommands and, via an amended 2.55 release note, confirms Rust will become a mandatory build dependency in Git 3.0.

The Rust Security Response Team disclosed and patched a Miri flaw that stored all environment variables in target/, letting cached CI output expose secrets to pull requests.

GitHub says it rewrote the Copilot agent runtime into more than 800,000 lines of Rust using its own Copilot coding agents, at a roughly $120,000 token cost.

The Rust security response working group and crates.io team warn that rust-lang members and popular crate owners are being lured into fake video calls to compromise their devices and accounts.

Rust's compiler team merged the long-pending stabilization of the never type (!), letting developers name it directly and aliasing Infallible to it.

Rustls's September 7 release turns on NIST-standardized ML-DSA post-quantum certificates by default for the aws-lc-rs provider, plus a KeyLogFile permissions fix and an ECH certificate-verification fix.

The ASF elevated Apache Iggy, a Rust-based message streaming platform, and Apache Sourcelume, an AI training-data provenance tool, out of its Incubator on August 27.