This release includes updates to a number of crates.

It includes major updates to the following:

• riddle 0.57.0
• windows 0.57.0
• windows-bindgen 0.57.0
• windows-core 0.57.0
• windows-implement 0.57.0
• windows-interface 0.57.0
• windows-metadata 0.57.0

It also includes minor updates to the following:

• windows-result 0.1.2
• windows-registry 0.1.2

This includes various improvements and fixes to code generation, compliance with new Rust warnings, COM authoring support helpers, and more.

This release also includes the first published version of the cppwinrt crate.

What's Changed

• Workflow improvements by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/2994
• Workflow improvements 2 by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/2998
• Workflow improvements 3 by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3000
• Workflow improvements 4 by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3001
• Add as_raw to windows-registry by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3003
• Add Linux smoke test by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3005
• Add non-windows support for PWSTR and PCWSTR by @tyilo in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3004
• Use generated E_POINTER constant in windows-core by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3008
• Use prebuilt gnullvm target by @mati865 in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3007
• Eliminate default features for JSON samples by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3012
• Add support for freeing handles automatically by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3013
• Addressing feedback on handle ownership by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3014
• Bump ejs from 3.1.9 to 3.1.10 in /web/features by @dependabot in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3017
• Reconfigure environment for GNU toolchain by @riverar in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3019
• Remove workaround for empty structs by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3016
• Derive Copy, Clone, and Debug for handles by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3015
• Fix for Clippy HSTRING interior mutability warnings in nightly by @riverar in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3021
• Handle new unexpected_cfgs warnings by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3022
• Update jsonschema requirement from 0.17 to 0.18 by @dependabot in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3023
• Add Ref and OutRef to enhance COM authoring support by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3025
• Simplify derefencing Ref interface parameters by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3027
• Add from_raw to windows-registry by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3034
• Simplify windows-registry readme by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3035
• Type name deferral in windows-metadata and windows-bindgen by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3039
• Streamline TypeName to support pattern matching by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3040
• Derive standard traits for structs by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3041
• Add missing MSRV workflows for newer lib crates by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3042
• Provide an explicit ComObject<T> type that represents a heap-allocated COM object by @sivadeilra in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3043
• bindgen/default: Improve formatting of the readme by @MarijnS95 in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3045
• Allow windows, windows_core (and several other crates) to be compiled and used in no_std environments. by @sivadeilra in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3047
• Add simple C++ test by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3046
• Fix soundness hole in ComObject by @sivadeilra in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3051
• Re-enable unexpected_cfgs by @ChrisDenton in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3050
• Add no-default-features yml workflow by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3053
• Fix alignment issue in windows-registry value iterator by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3052
• Dynamic casting to COM implementation by @sivadeilra in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3055
• Switch to windows-2022 hosted runners by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3056
• Add cppwinrt crate and sample by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3054
• Fix handling of COM interfaces with same method name by @sivadeilra in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3059
• Fix bug in COM interface chain support by @sivadeilra in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3060
• Fix Debug impls for COM interfaces by @sivadeilra in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3066
• Use default rustfmt config for most crates by @sivadeilra in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3064
• Check for null pointers in core IInspectable implementation by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3057
• Fix warnings from Rust 1.80.0 nightly by @sivadeilra in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3074
• Remove unused_qualifications entirely by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3078
• Optimize IUnknown identity checks by @sivadeilra in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3073
• Add WinRT noexcept support by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3070
• Release 0.57.0 by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3081

New Contributors

• @tyilo made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3004
• @sivadeilra made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3043

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/compare/0.56.0...0.57.0