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   Announcing a Maintainer in Residence: Scott Schafer for the Cargo team

   22 Sept 2026 · blog.rust-lang.org · Jakub Beránek

   At the end of August, we announced our first Maintainers in Residence, Rust Project contributors who are funded for their upstream contributions and maintenance work from the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (RFMF). Since then, the Rust Leadership Council has dedicated more funds from its Project…

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   GitHub Actions leaking secrets when Miri output is cached

   21 Sept 2026 · blog.rust-lang.org · Manish Goregaokar

   The Rust Security Response Team was notified that Miri stores all environment variables to target/ , allowing secrets to persist in caches. While not necessary a vulnerability in and of itself, when paired with GitHub Actions caching behavior, it is possible for this to expose secrets to PRs…

3. Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans

   17 Sept 2026 · blog.rust-lang.org · Adam Harvey

   We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting rust-lang members and owners of popular crates that is attempting to compromise devices and accounts in order to use them to publish malware. What we've seen A video call is set up for something positive — maybe for a job, maybe for a project…

4. Rust debugging survey 2026 results

   7 Sept 2026 · blog.rust-lang.org · Sam Kellam

   One of the biggest challenges Rust developers report in our annual surveys is a subpar debugging experience. So, back in February, we ran our first Rust Debugging Survey , in the hopes of identifying how Rust developers are using debuggers and what problems they are facing when doing so. We…

5. Announcing Rust 1.98.1

   3 Sept 2026 · blog.rust-lang.org · The Rust Release Team

   The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.98.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.98.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't…

6. Announcing rustup 1.29.1

   1 Sept 2026 · blog.rust-lang.org · The Rustup Team

   The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.1. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust , a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.1 The headlines of this release are: Concurrency in certain…

7. Announcing our first Maintainers in Residence

   26 Aug 2026 · blog.rust-lang.org · Lori Lorusso, Jakub Beránek

   We are very happy to announce the Rust Project's first round of Maintainers in Residence: Gen Li ( @rami3l ), Chris Denton ( @ChrisDenton ), Alejandra González ( @blyxyas ), León Liehr ( @fmease ), and Maintainer Grant recipients: Jason Newcomb ( @Jarcho ) and Jonas Böttiger ( @joboet ). These…

8. Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly

   21 Aug 2026 · blog.rust-lang.org · lcnr

   After nearly 4 years of active development, the next-generation trait solver is close to stabilization. We are enabling it by default on nightly to surface any remaining issues and plan to stabilize it in the next months. This is the largest single change to the Rust compiler since its initial…

9. Supply chain attack on arrayref

   20 Aug 2026 · blog.rust-lang.org · Manish Goregaokar

   What happened On 2026-08-20 at 7:15 UTC we got a report that the proc-macro1 crate was malicious. The Rust Security Response Team verified this to be the case: the crate had a build script that was downloading a malicious payload. This crate proc-macro1 and others like it ( proc-macro-en , aovine…

10. Announcing Rust 1.98.0

    20 Aug 2026 · blog.rust-lang.org · The Rust Release Team

    The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.98.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.98.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already…