Language

• Error on as casts of enums with #[non_exhaustive] variants
• Stabilize let else
• Stabilize generic associated types (GATs)
• Add lints let_underscore_drop and let_underscore_lock from Clippy
• Stabilize breaking from arbitrary labeled blocks ("label-break-value")
• Uninitialized integers, floats, and raw pointers are now considered immediate UB. Usage of MaybeUninit is the correct way to work with uninitialized memory.
• Stabilize raw-dylib for Windows x86_64, aarch64, and thumbv7a
• Do not allow Drop impl on foreign ADTs

Compiler

• Stabilize -Csplit-debuginfo on Linux
• Use niche-filling optimization even when multiple variants have data
• Associated type projections are now verified to be well-formed prior to resolving the underlying type
• Stringify non-shorthand visibility correctly
• Normalize struct field types when unsizing
• Update to LLVM 15
• Fix aarch64 call abi to correctly zeroext when needed
• debuginfo: Generalize C++-like encoding for enums
• Add special_module_name lint
• Add support for generating unique profraw files by default when using -C instrument-coverage
• Allow dynamic linking for iOS/tvOS targets

New targets:

• Add armv4t-none-eabi as a tier 3 target
• Add powerpc64-unknown-openbsd and riscv64-unknown-openbsd as tier 3 targets
  • Refer to Rust's platform support page for more information on Rust's tiered platform support.

Libraries

• Don't generate PartialEq::ne in derive(PartialEq)
• Windows RNG: Use BCRYPT_RNG_ALG_HANDLE by default
• Forbid mixing System with direct system allocator calls
• Document no support for writing to non-blocking stdio/stderr
• std::layout::Layout size must not overflow isize::MAX when rounded up to align This also changes the safety conditions on Layout::from_size_align_unchecked.

Stabilized APIs

• std::backtrace::Backtrace
• Bound::as_ref
• std::io::read_to_string
• <*const T>::cast_mut
• <*mut T>::cast_const

These APIs are now stable in const contexts:

• <*const T>::offset_from
• <*mut T>::offset_from

Cargo

• Apply GitHub fast path even for partial hashes
• Do not add home bin path to PATH if it's already there
• Take priority into account within the pending queue. This slightly optimizes job scheduling by Cargo, with typically small improvements on larger crate graph builds.

Compatibility Notes

• std::layout::Layout size must not overflow isize::MAX when rounded up to align. This also changes the safety conditions on Layout::from_size_align_unchecked.
• PollFn now only implements Unpin if the closure is Unpin. This is a possible breaking change if users were relying on the blanket unpin implementation. See discussion on the PR for details of why this change was made.
• Drop ExactSizeIterator impl from std::char::EscapeAscii This is a backwards-incompatible change to the standard library's surface area, but is unlikely to affect real world usage.
• Do not consider a single repeated lifetime eligible for elision in the return type This behavior was unintentionally changed in 1.64.0, and this release reverts that change by making this an error again.
• Reenable disabled early syntax gates as future-incompatibility lints
• Update the minimum external LLVM to 13
• Don't duplicate file descriptors into stdio fds
• Sunset RLS
• Deny usage of #![cfg_attr(..., crate_type = ...)] to set the crate type This strengthens the forward compatibility lint deprecated_cfg_attr_crate_type_name to deny.
• llvm-has-rust-patches allows setting the build system to treat the LLVM as having Rust-specific patches This option may need to be set for distributions that are building Rust with a patched LLVM via llvm-config, not the built-in LLVM.
• Combining three or more languages (e.g. Objective C, C++ and Rust) into one binary may hit linker limitations when using lld. For more information, see issue 102754.

Internal Changes

These changes do not affect any public interfaces of Rust, but they represent significant improvements to the performance or internals of rustc and related tools.

• Add x.sh and x.ps1 shell scripts
• compiletest: use target cfg instead of hard-coded tables
• Use object instead of LLVM for reading bitcode from rlibs
• Enable MIR inlining for optimized compilations This provides a 3-10% improvement in compiletimes for real world crates. See perf results.