Changelog

Cargo 1.87 (2025-05-15)

ce948f46…HEAD

Added

Changed

• cargo-add: collapse large feature lists #15200

Fixed

• cargo-publish: Fix man page with malformed {{#options}} block #15191

Nightly only

• -Zscript: Handle more frontmatter parsing corner cases #15187

Documentation

Internal

Cargo 1.86 (2025-04-03)

d73d2caf…rust-1.86.0

Added

Changed

• ❗️ When merging, replace rather than combine configuration keys that refer to a program path and its arguments. #15066
  These keys include:
  • registry.credential-provider
  • registries.*.credential-provider
  • target.*.runner
  • host.runner
  • credential-alias.*
  • doc.browser
• ❗️ Error if both --package and --workspace are passed but the requested package is missing. This was previously silently ignored, which was considered a bug since missing packages should be reported. #15071
• Added warning when failing to update index cache. #15014
• Don’t use “did you mean” in errors. Be upfront about what the suggestion is. #15138
• Provide a better error message for invalid SSH URLs in dependency sources. #15185
• Suggest similar feature names when the package doesn’t have given features. #15133
• Print globs when workspace members can’t be found. #15093
• cargo-fix: Make --allow-dirty imply --allow-staged #15013
• cargo-login: hide the token argument from CLI help for the preparation of deprecation. #15057
• cargo-login: Don’t suggest cargo login when using incompatible credential providers. #15124
• cargo-package: improve the performance of VCS status check by matching certain path prefixes with pathspec. #14997

Fixed

• The rerun-if-env-changed build script instruction can now correctly detect changes in the [env] configuration table. #14756
• Force emitting warnings as warnings when learning Rust target info for an unsupported crate type. #15036
• cargo-package: Verify the VCS status of symlinks when they point to paths outside the current package root. #14981

Nightly only

• 🔥 -Z feature-unification: This new unstable flag enables the resolver.feature-unification configuration option to control how features are unified across a workspace. (RFC 3529) (docs) #15157
• cargo-util-schemas: Correct and update the JSON Schema #15000
• cargo-util-schemas: Fix the [lints] JSON Schema #15035
• cargo-util-schemas: Fix ‘metadata’ JSON Schema #15033
• cargo rustc --print: Setup cargo environment for cargo rustc --print. #15026
• -Zbuild-std: parse value as comma-separated list, also extends the behavior to build-std-features. #15065
• -Zgc: Make cache tracking resilient to unexpected files. #15147
• -Zscript: Consolidate creation of SourceId from manifest path #15172
• -Zscript: Integrate cargo-script logic into main parser #15168
• -Zscript: add cargo pkgid support for cargo-script #14961
• -Zpackage-workspace: Report all unpublishable packages #15070

Documentation

• Document that Cargo automatically registers variables used in the env! macro to trigger rebuilds since 1.46. #15062
• Move the changelog to The Cargo Book. #15119 #15123 #15142
• Note package.authors is deprecated. #15068
• Fix the wrong grammar of a Package Id Specification. #15049
• Fix the inverted logic about MSRV #15044
• cargo-metadata: Fix description of the "root" field. #15182
• cargo-package: note the lock file is always included. #15067
• contrib: Start guidelines for schema design. #15037

Internal

• Don’t use libc::LOCK_* on Solaris. #15143
• Clean up field -> env var handling. #15008
• Simplify SourceID Ord/Eq. #14980 #15103
• Add manual Hash impl for SourceKind and document the reason. #15029
• ci: allow Windows reserved names in CI #15135
• cargo-test-macro: Remove condition on RUSTUP_WINDOWS_PATH_ADD_BIN #15017
• resolver: Simplify backtrack #15150
• resolver: Small cleanups #15040
• test: Clean up shallow fetch tests #15002
• test: Fix https::self_signed_should_fail for macOS #15016
• test: Fix benchsuite issue with newer versions of git #15069
• test: Fix shared_std_dependency_rebuild running on Windows #15111
• test: Update tests to fix nightly errors #15110
• test: Remove unused -C link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld #15097
• test: Remove unsafe by using LazyLock #15096
• test: Remove unnecessary into conversions #15042
• test: Fix race condition in panic_abort_tests #15169
• Update deny.toml #15164
• Update dependencies. #14995 #14996 #14998 #15012 #15018 #15041 #15050 #15121 #15128 #15129 #15162 #15163 #15165 #15166

Cargo 1.85 (2025-02-20)

66221abd…rust-1.85.0

Added

• 🎉 Cargo now supports the 2024 edition. More information is available in the edition guide. #14828
• cargo-tree: The --depth flag now accepts workspace, which shows only dependencies that are members of the current workspace. #14928
• Build scripts now receive a new environment variable, CARGO_CFG_FEATURE, which contains each activated feature of the package being built. #14902
• perf: Dependency resolution is now faster due to a more efficient hash for ActivationsKey #14915

Changed

• ❗️ cargo-rustc: Trailing flags now have higher precedence. This behavior was nightly-only since 1.83 and is now stabilized. #14900
• ❗️ Cargo now uses a cross-platform hash algorithm from rustc-stable-hash. As a result, the hash part of paths to dependency caches (e.g., $CARGO_HOME/registry/index/index.crates.io-<hash>) will change. This will trigger re-downloads of registry indices and .crate tarballs, as well as re-cloning of Git dependencies. #14917
• Added a future-incompatibility warning for keywords in cfgs in Cargo.toml and Cargo configuration. cfgs with keywords like cfg(true) and cfg(false) were incorrectly accepted. For backward compatibility, support for raw identifiers has been introduced; for example, use cfg(r#true) instead. #14671
• Dependency resolution now provides richer error messages explaining why some versions were rejected, unmatched, or invalid.
  #14897 #14921 #14923 #14927
• cargo-doc: improve the error message when --opening a doc while no doc generated. #14969
• cargo-package: warn if symlinks checked out as plain text files #14994
• cargo-package: Shows dirty file paths relative to the Git working directory. #14968 #14970

Fixed

• Set GIT_DIR to ensure compatibility with bare repositories for net.git-fetch-with-cli=true. #14860
• Fixed workspace Cargo.toml modification didn’t invalidate build cache. #14973
• Prevented build caches from being discarded after changes to RUSTFLAGS. #14830 #14898
• cargo-add: Don’t select yanked versions when normalizing names. #14895
• cargo-fix: Migrate workspace dependencies to the 2024 edition also for virtual manifests. #14890
• cargo-package: Verify the VCS status of package.readme and package.license-file when they point to paths outside the current package root. #14966
• cargo-package: assure possibly blocking non-files (like FIFOs) won’t be picked up for publishing. #14977

Nightly only

• path-bases: Support bases in [patch]es in virtual manifests #14931
• unit-graph: Use the configured shell to print output. #14926
• -Zbuild-std: Check if the build target supports std by probing the metadata.std field in the target spec JSON. #14183 #14938 #14899
• -Zbuild-std: always link to std when testing proc-macros. #14850 #14861
• -Zbuild-std: clean up build-std tests #14943 #14933 #14896
• -Zbuild-std: Hash relative paths to std workspace instead of absolute paths. #14951
• -Zpackage-workspace: Allow dry-run of a non-bumped workspace. #14847
• -Zscript: Allow adding/removing dependencies from cargo scripts #14857
• -Zscript: Migrate cargo script manifests across editions #14864
• -Zscript: Don’t override the release profile. #14925
• -Ztrim-paths: Use Path::push to construct the remap-path-prefix flag. #14908

Documentation

• Clarify how cargo::metadata env var is selected. #14842
• cargo-info: Remove references to the default registry in cargo-info docs #14880
• contrib: add missing argument to Rustup Cargo workaround #14954
• SemVer: Add section on RPIT capturing #14849

Internal

• Add the test cfg as a well known cfg before of compiler change. #14963
• Enable triagebot merge conflict notifications #14972
• Limit release trigger to 0.* tags #14940
• Simplify SourceID Hash. #14800
• build-rs: Automatically emits rerun-if-env-changed when accessing environment variables Cargo sets for build script executions. #14911
• build-rs: Correctly refer to the item in assert #14913
• build-rs: Add the ‘error’ directive #14910
• build-rs: Remove meaningless ‘cargo_cfg_debug_assertions’ #14901
• cargo-package: split cargo_package to modules #14959 #14982
• cargo-test-support: requires attribute accepts string literals for cmds #14875
• cargo-test-support: Switch from ‘exec_with_output’ to ‘run’ #14848
• cargo-test-support: track caller for .crate file publish verification #14992
• test: Verify -Cmetadata directly, not through -Cextra-filename #14846
• test: ensure PGO works #14859 #14874 #14887
• Update dependencies. #14867 #14871 #14878 #14879 #14975

Cargo 1.84 (2025-01-09)

15fbd2f6…rust-1.84.0

Added

• 🎉 Stabilize resolver v3, a.k.a the MSRV-aware dependency resolver. The stabilization includes package.resolver = "3" in Cargo.toml, and the [resolver] table in Cargo configuration. (RFC 3537) (manifest docs) (config docs) #14639 #14662 #14711 #14725 #14748 #14753 #14754
• Added a new build script invocation cargo::error=MESSAGE to report error messages. (docs) #14743

Changed

• ❗️ cargo-publish: Always include Cargo.lock in published crates. Originally it was only included for packages that have executables or examples for use with cargo install. #14815
• Dependency resolver performance improvements, including shared caching, reduced iteration overhead, and removing redundant fetches and clones. #14663 #14690 #14692 #14694
• Deprecate cargo verify-project. #14736
• Add source replacement info when no matching package found during dependency resolving. #14715
• Hint for using crates-io when [patch.crates.io] found. #14700
• Normalize source paths of Cargo targets for better diagnostics. #14497 #14750
• Allow registries to omit empty/default fields in index metadata JSON. Due to backward compatibility, crates.io continues to emit them. #14838 #14839
• cargo-doc: display env vars in extra verbose mode. #14812
• cargo-fix: replace special-case handling of duplicate insert-only replacement. #14765 #14782
• cargo-remove: when a dependency is not found, try suggesting other dependencies with similar names. #14818
• git: skip unnecessary submodule validations for fresh checkouts on Git dependencies. #14605
• git: Enhanced the error message for fetching Git dependencies when refspec not found. #14806
• git: Pass --no-tags by default to git CLI when net.git-fetch-with-cli = true. #14688

Fixed

• Fixed old Cargos failing to read the newer format of dep-info in build caches. #14751 #14745
• Fixed rebuild detection not respecting changes in the [env] table. #14701 #14730
• cargo-fix: Added transactional semantics to rustfix to keep code fix in a valid state when multiple suggestions contain overlapping spans. #14747

Nightly only

• The unstable environment variable CARGO_RUSTC_CURRENT_DIR has been removed. #14799
• 🔥 Cargo now includes an experimental JSON Schema file for Cargo.toml in the source code. It helps external tools validate or auto-complete the schema of the manifest. (manifest.schema.json) #14683
• 🔥 Zroot-dir: A new unstable -Zroot-dir flag to configure the path from which rustc should be invoked. (docs) #14752
• 🔥 -Zwarnings: A new unstable feature to control how Cargo handles warnings via the build.warnings configuration field. (docs) #14388 #14827 #14836
• edition2024: Verify 2024 edition / resolver=3 doesn’t affect resolution #14724
• native-completions: Include descriptions in zsh #14726
• -Zbindeps: Fix panic when running cargo tree on a package with a cross compiled bindep #14593
• -Zbindeps: download targeted transitive deps of with artifact deps’ target platform #14723
• -Zbuild-std: Remove the requirement for --target. #14317
• -Zpackage-workspace: Support package selection options, such as --exclude, in cargo publish #14659
• -Zscript: Remove support for accepting Cargo.toml. #14670
• -Zscript: Change config paths to only check CARGO_HOME #14749
• -Zscript: Update the frontmatter parser for RFC 3503. #14792

Documentation

• Clarify the meaning of --tests and --benches flags. #14675
• Clarify tools should only interpret messages with a line starting with { as JSON. #14677
• Clarify what is and isn’t included by cargo package #14684
• Document official external commands: cargo-clippy, cargo-fmt, and cargo-miri. #14669 #14805
• Enhance documentation on environment variables #14676
• Simplify English used in documentations. #14825 #14829
• A new doc page for deprecated and removed commands. #14739
• cargo-test-support: Document Execs assertions based on port effort #14793

Internal

• 🎉 Migrate build-rs crate to the rust-lang/cargo repository as an intentional artifact of the Cargo team. #14786 #14817
• Enable transfer feature in triagebot #14777
• clone-on-write when needed for InternedString #14808
• ci: Switch CI from bors to merge queue #14718
• ci: make the lint-docs job required #14797
• ci: Check for clippy correctness #14796
• ci: Switch matchPackageNames to matchDepNames for renovate #14704
• fingerprint: Track the intent for each use of UnitHash #14826
• fingerprint: Add more metadata to rustc_fingerprint. #14761
• test: Migrate remaining snapshotting to snapbox #14642 #14760 #14781 #14785 #14790
• Update dependencies. #14668 #14705 #14762 #14766 #14772

Cargo 1.83 (2024-11-28)

8f40fc59…rust-1.83.0

Added

• --timings HTML output can now auto-switch between light and dark color schemes based on browser preference. #14588
• Introduced a new CARGO_MANIFEST_PATH environment variable, similar to CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR but pointing directly to the manifest file. #14404
• manifest: Added package.autolib, allowing [lib] auto-discovery to be disabled. #14591

Changed

• ❗️ Lockfile format v4 is now the default for creating/updating a lockfile. Rust toolchains 1.78+ support lockfile v4. For compatibility with earlier MSRV, consdier setting the package.rust-version to 1.82 or earlier. #14595
• ❗️ cargo-package: When using the --package flag, only the specified packages are packaged. Previously, the package in the current working directory was automatically selected for packaging. #14488
• cargo-publish: Now fails fast if the package version is already published. #14448
• Improved error messages for missing features. #14436
• Log details of rustc invocation failure if no errors are seen #14453
• Uplifted windows-gnullvm import libraries, aligning them with windows-gnu. #14451
• Suggest cargo info command in the cargo search result #14537
• Enhanced dependency update status messages, now displaying updates (compatible, incompatible, direct-dep) in different colors, along with messages and MSRVs. #14440 #14457 #14459 #14461 #14471 #14568
• The Locking status message no longer displays workspace members. #14445

Fixed

• Prevented duplicate library search environment variables when calling cargo recursively. #14464
• Don’t double-warn about $CARGO_HOME/config not having .toml extension. #14579
• Correct diagnostic count message when using --message-format json. #14598
• cargo-add: Perform fuzzy searches when translating package names #13765
• cargo-new: only auto-add new packages to the workspace relative to the manifest, rather than the current directory. #14505
• cargo-rustc: Fixed parsing of comma-separated values in the --crate-type flag. #14499
• cargo-vendor: trusts the crate version only when it originates from registries. This causes git dependencies to be re-vendored even if they haven’t changed. #14530
• cargo-publish: Downgrade version-exists error to warning on dry-run #14742 #14744

Nightly only

• ❗️ cargo-rustc: give trailing flags higher precedence on nightly. The nightly gate will be removed after a few releases. Please give feedback if it breaks any workflow. A temporary environment variable __CARGO_RUSTC_ORIG_ARGS_PRIO=1 is provided to opt-out of the behavior. #14587
• 🔥 cargo-install: a new --dry-run flag without actually installing binaries. #14280
• 🔥 native-completions: moves the handwritten shell completion scripts to Rust native, making it easier for us to add, extend, and test new completions. (docs) #14493 #14531 #14532 #14533 #14534 #14535 #14536 #14546 #14547 #14548 #14552 #14557 #14558 #14563 #14564 #14573 #14590 #14592 #14653 #14656
• 🔥 -Zchecksum-freshness: replace the use of file mtimes in cargo’s rebuild detection with a file checksum algorithm. This is most useful on systems with a poor mtime implementation, or in CI/CD. (docs) #14137
• cargo-update: Add matches_prerelease semantic #14305
• build-plan: document it as being deprecated. #14657
• edition2024: Remove implicit feature removal from 2024 edition. #14630
• lockfile-path: implies --locked on cargo install. #14556
• open-namespaces: Allow open namespaces in PackageIdSpecs #14467
• path-bases: cargo [add|remove|update] support #14427
• -Zmsrv-policy: determine the workspace’s MSRV by the most number of MSRVs within it. #14569
• -Zpackage-workspace: allows to publish multiple crates in a workspace, even if they have inter-dependencies. (docs) #14433 #14496
• -Zpublic-dependency: Include public/private dependency status in cargo metadata #14504
• -Zpublic-dependency: Don’t require MSRV bump #14507

Documentation

• 🎉 New chapter about the uses, support expectations, and management of package.rust-version a.k.a MSRV. (docs) #14619 #14636
• Clarify target.'cfg(...)' doesn’t respect cfg from build script #14312
• Clarify [[bin]] target auto-discovery can be src/main.rs and/or in src/bin/ #14515
• Disambiguate the use of ‘target’ in the feature resolver v2 doc. #14540
• Make --config <PATH> more prominent #14631
• Minor re-grouping of pages. #14620
• contrib: Update docs for how cargo is published #14539
• contrib: Declare support level for each crate in Cargo’s Charter / crate docs #14600
• contrib: Declare new Intentional Artifacts as ‘small’ changes #14599

Internal

• Cleanup duplicated check-cfg lint logic #14567
• Fix elided lifetime due to nightly rustc changes #14487
• Improved error reporting when a feature is not found in activated_features. #14647
• cargo-info: Use the shell.note to print the note #14554
• ci: bump CI tools #14503 #14628
• perf: zero-copy deserialization for compiler messages when possible #14608
• resolver: Add more SAT resolver tests #14583 #14614
• test: Migrated more tests to snapbox #14576 #14577
• Update dependencies. #14475 #14478 #14489 #14607 #14624 #14632

Cargo 1.82 (2024-10-17)

a2b58c3d…rust-1.82.0

Added

• 🎉 Added cargo info command for displaying information about a package. docs #14141 #14418 #14430

Changed

• ❗️ Doctest respects Cargo’s color options by passing --color to rustdoc invocations. #14425
• Improved error message for missing both [package] and [workspace] in Cargo.toml. #14261
• Enumerate all possible values of profile.*.debug for the error message. #14413

Fixed

• Use longhand gitoxide path-spec patterns. Previously the implementation used shorthand pathspecs, which could produce invalid syntax, for example, if the path to the manifest file contained a leading _ underscore #14380
• cargo-package: fix failures on bare commit git repo. #14359
• cargo-publish: Don’t strip non-dev features for renamed dependencies from the HTTP JSON body sent to the registry. The bug only affected third-party registries. #14325 #14327
• cargo-vendor: don’t copy source files of excluded Cargo targets when vendoring. #14367

Nightly only

• 🔥 lockfile-path: Added --lockfile-path flag that allows specifying a path to the lockfile other than the default path <workspace_root>/Cargo.lock. (docs) #14326 #14417 #14423 #14424
• 🔥 path-bases: Introduced a table of path “bases” in Cargo configuration files that can be used to prefix the paths of path dependencies and patch entries. (RFC 3529) (docs) #14360
• 🔥 -Zpackage-workspace: Enhanced the experience of cargo package --workspace when there are dependencies between crates in the workspace. Crates in a workspace are no longer required to publish to actual registries. This is a step toward supporting cargo publish --workspace. #13947 #14408 #14340
• cargo-update: Limit pre-release match semantics to use only on OptVersionReq::Req #14412
• edition2024: Revert “fix: Ensure dep/feature activates the dependency on 2024”. #14295
• update-breaking: Improved error message when update --breaking has an invalid spec #14279
• update-breaking: Don’t downgrade on prerelease VersionReq when updating with --breaking #14250
• -Zbuild-std: remove hack on creating virtual std workspace #14358 #14370
• -Zmsrv-policy: Adjust MSRV resolve config field name / values. The previous placeholder resolver.something-like-precedence is now renamed to resolver.incompatible-rust-versions. #14296
• -Zmsrv-policy: : Report when incompatible-rust-version packages are selected #14401
• -Ztarget-applies-to-host: Fixed passing of links-overrides with target-applies-to-host and an implicit target #14205
• -Ztarget-applies-to-host: -Cmetadata includes whether extra rustflags is same as host #14432
• -Ztrim-paths: rustdoc supports trim-paths for diagnostics #14389

Documentation

• Convert comments to doc comments for Workspace. #14397
• Fix MSRV indicator for workspace.package and workspace.dependencies. #14400
• FAQ: remove outdated Cargo offline usage section. #14336

Internal

• Enhanced cargo-test-support usability and documentation. #14266 #14268 #14269 #14270 #14272
• Made summary sync by using Arc instead of Rc #14260
• Used Rc instead of Arc for storing rustflags #14273
• Removed rustc probe for --check-cfg support #14302
• Renamed ‘resolved’ to ‘normalized’ for all manifest normalization related items. #14342
• cargo-util-schemas: Added TomlPackage::new, Default for TomlWorkspace #14271
• ci: Switch macos aarch64 to nightly #14382
• mdman: Normalize newlines when rendering options #14428
• perf: dont call wrap in a no-op source_id::with* #14318
• test: Migrated more tests to snapbox #14242 #14244 #14293 #14297 #14319 #14402 #14410
• test: don’t rely on absence of RUST_BACKTRACE #14441
• test: Use gmake on AIX #14323
• Updated to gix 0.64.0 #14332
• Updated to rusqlite 0.32.0 #14334
• Updated to windows-sys 0.59 #14335
• Update dependencies. #14299 #14303 #14324 #14329 #14331 #14391

Cargo 1.81 (2024-09-05)

34a6a87d…rust-1.81.0

Added

Changed

• ❗️ cargo-package: Disallow package.license-file and package.readme pointing to non-existent files during packaging. #13921
• ❗️ cargo-package: generated .cargo_vcs_info.json is always included, even when --allow-dirty is passed. #13960
• ❗️ Disallow passing --release/--debug flag along with the --profile flag. #13971
• ❗️ Remove lib.plugin key support in Cargo.toml. Rust plugin support has been deprecated for four years and was removed in 1.75.0. #13902 #14038
• Make the calculation of -Cmetadata for rustc consistent across platforms. #14107
• Emit a warning when edition is unset, even when MSRV is unset. #14110

Fixed

• Fix a proc-macro example from a dependency affecting feature resolution. #13892
• Don’t warn on duplicate packages from using ‘..’. #14234
• Don’t du on every git source load. #14252
• Don’t warn about unreferenced duplicate packages #14239
• cargo-publish: Don’t strip non-dev features for renamed dependencies from the HTTP JSON body sent to the registry. The bug only affected third-party registries. #14328
• cargo-vendor: don’t copy source files of excluded Cargo targets when vendoring. #14368

Nightly only

• 🔥 update-breaking: Add --breaking to cargo update, allowing upgrading dependencies to breaking versions. docs #13979 #14047 #14049
• --artifact-dir: Rename --out-dir to --artifact-dir. The --out-dir flag is kept for compatibility and may be removed when the feature gets stabilized. #13809
• edition2024: Ensure unused optional dependencies fire for shadowed dependencies. #14028
• edition2024: Address problems with implicit -> explicit feature migration #14018
• -Zcargo-lints: Add unknown_lints to lints list. #14024
• -Zcargo-lints: Add tooling to document lints. #14025
• -Zcargo-lints: Keep lints updated and sorted. #14030
• -Zconfig-include: Allow enabling config-include feature in config. #14196
• -Zpublic-dependency: remove some legacy public dependency code from the resolver #14090
• -Ztarget-applies-to-host: Pass rustflags to artifacts built with implicit targets when using target-applies-to-host #13900 #14201
• cargo-update: Track the behavior of --precise <prerelease>. #14013

Documentation

• Clarify CARGO_CFG_TARGET_FAMILY is multi-valued. #14165
• Document CARGO_CFG_TARGET_ABI #14164
• Document MSRV for each manifest field and build script invocations. #14224
• Remove duplicate strip section. #14146
• Update summary of Cargo configuration to include missing keys. #14145
• Update index of Cargo documentation. #14228
• Don’t mention non-existent workspace.badges field. #14042
• contrib: Suggest atomic commits with separate test commits. #14014
• contrib: Document how to write an RFC for Cargo. #14222
• contrib: Improve triage instructions #14052

Internal

• cargo-package: Change verification order during packaging. #14074
• ci: Add workflow to publish Cargo automatically #14202
• ci: bump CI tools #14062 #14257
• registry: Add local registry overlays. #13926
• registry: move get_source_id out of registry #14218
• resolver: Simplify checking for dependency cycles #14089
• rustfix: Add CodeFix::apply_solution and impl Clone #14092
• source: Clean up after PathSource/RecursivePathSource split #14169 #14231
• Remove the temporary __CARGO_GITOXIDE_DISABLE_LIST_FILES environment variable. #14036
• Simplify checking feature syntax #14106
• Dont make new constant InternedString in hot path #14211
• Use std::fs::absolute instead of reimplementing it #14075
• Remove unecessary feature activations from cargo. #14122 #14160
• Revert #13630 as rustc ignores -C strip on MSVC. #14061
• test: Allow unexpected_builtin_cfgs lint in user_specific_cfgs test #14153
• test: Add cargo_test to test-support prelude #14243
• test: migrate Cargo testsuite to snapbox. For the complete list of migration pull requests, see #14039
• Updated to gix 0.64.0 #14431
• Update dependencies. #13995 #13998 #14037 #14063 #14067 #14174 #14186 #14254

Cargo 1.80 (2024-07-25)

b60a1555…rust-1.80.0

Added

• 🎉 Stabilize -Zcheck-cfg! This by default enables rustc’s checking of conditional compilation at compile time, which verifies that the crate is correctly handling conditional compilation for different target platforms or features. Internally, cargo will be passing a new command line option --check-cfg to all rustc and rustdoc invocations.

  A new build script invocation cargo::rustc-check-cfg=CHECK_CFG is added along with this stabilization, as a way to add custom cfgs to the list of expected cfg names and values.

  If a build script is not an option for your package, Cargo provides a config [lints.rust.unexpected_cfgs.check-cfg] to add known custom cfgs statically.

  (RFC 3013) (docs) #13571 #13865 #13869 #13884 #13913 #13937 #13958

• 🎉 cargo-update: Allows --precise to specify a yanked version of a package, and will update the lockfile accordingly. #13974

Changed

• ❗️ manifest: Disallow [badges] to inherit from [workspace.package.badges]. This was considered a bug. Keep in mind that [badges] is effectively deprecated. #13788
• build-script: Suggest old syntax based on MSRV. #13874
• cargo-add: Avoid escaping double quotes by using string literals. #14006
• cargo-clean: Performance improvements for cleaning specific packages via -p flag. #13818
• cargo-new: Use i32 rather than usize as the “default integer” in library template. #13939
• cargo-package: Warn, rather than fail, if a Cargo target is excluded during packaging. #13713
• manifest: Warn, not error, on unsupported lint tool in the [lints] table. #13833
• perf: Avoid inferring when Cargo targets are known. #13849
• Populate git information when building Cargo from Rust’s source tarball. #13832
• Improve the error message when deserializing Cargo configuration from partial environment variables. #13956

Fixed

• resolver: Make path dependencies with the same name stay locked. #13572
• cargo-add: Preserve file permissions on Unix during write_atomic. #13898
• cargo-clean: Remove symlink directory on Windows. #13910
• cargo-fix: Don’t fix into the standard library. #13792
• cargo-fix: Support IPv6-only networks. #13907
• cargo-new: Don’t say we’re adding to a workspace when a regular package is in the root. #13987
• cargo-vendor: Silence the warning about forgetting the vendoring. #13886
• cargo-publish/cargo-vendor: Ensure targets in generated Cargo.toml are in a deterministic order. #13989 #14004
• cargo-credential-libsecret: Load libsecret by its SONAME, libsecret-1.so.0. #13927
• Don’t panic when an alias doesn’t include a subcommand. #13819
• Workaround copying file returning EAGAIN on ZFS on macOS. #13845
• Fetch specific commits even if the GitHub fast path fails. #13946 #13969
• Distinguish Cargo config from different environment variables that share the same prefix. #14000

Nightly only

• -Zcargo-lints: Don’t always inherit workspace lints. #13812
• -Zcargo-lints: Add a test to ensure cap-lints works. #13829
• -Zcargo-lints: Error when unstable lints are specified but not enabled. #13805
• -Zcargo-lints: Add cargo-lints to unstable docs. #13881
• -Zcargo-lints: Refactor cargo lint tests. #13880
• -Zcargo-lints: Remove ability to specify - in lint name. #13837
• -Zscript: Remove unstable rejected frontmatter syntax for cargo script. The only allowed frontmatter syntax now is ---. #13861 #13893
• -Zbindeps: Build only the specified artifact library when multiple types are available. #13842
• -Zmsrv-policy: Treat unset MSRV as compatible. #13791
• -Zgit/-Zgitoxide: Default configuration to be obtained from both environment variables and Cargo configuration. #13687
• -Zpublic-dependency: Don’t lose ‘public’ when inheriting a dependency. #13836
• edition2024: Disallow ignored default-features when inheriting. #13839
• edition2024: Validate crate-types/proc-macro for bin like other Cargo targets. #13841

Documentation

• cargo-package: Clarify no guarantee of VCS provenance. #13984
• cargo-metadata: Clarify dash replacement rule in Cargo target names. #13887
• config: Fix wrong type of rustc-flags in build script overrides. #13957
• resolver: Add README for resolver-tests. #13977
• contrib: Update UI example code in contributor guide. #13864
• Fix libcurl proxy documentation link. #13990
• Add missing CARGO_MAKEFLAGS env for plugins. #13872
• Include CircleCI reference in the Continuous Integration chapter. #13850

Internal

• ci: Don’t check cargo against beta channel. #13827
• test: Set safe.directory for git repo in apache container. #13920
• test: Silence warnings running embedded unittests. #13929
• test: Update test formatting due to nightly rustc changes. #13890 #13901 #13964
• test: Make git::use_the_cli test truly locale independent. #13935
• cargo-test-support: Transition direct assertions from cargo-test-support to snapbox. #13980
• cargo-test-support: Auto-redact elapsed time. #13973
• cargo-test-support: Clean up unnecessary uses of match_exact. #13879
• Split RecursivePathSource out of PathSource. #13993
• Adjust custom errors from cert-check due to libgit2 1.8 change. #13970
• Move diagnostic printing to Shell. #13813
• Update dependencies. #13834 #13840 #13948 #13963 #13976

Cargo 1.79 (2024-06-13)

2fe739fc…rust-1.79.0

Added

• 🎉 cargo add respects package.rust-version a.k.a. MSRV when adding new dependencies. The behavior can be overridden by specifying a version requirement, or passing the --ignore-rust-version flag. (RFC 3537) #13608
• A new Locking status message shows dependency changes on any command. For cargo update, it also tells you if any dependency version is outdated. #13561 #13647 #13651 #13657 #13759 #13764

Changed

• ❗️ RUSTC_WRAPPER, RUSTC_WORKSPACE_WRAPPER, and variables from the [env] table now also apply to the initial rustc -vV invocation Cargo uses for probing rustc information. #13659
• ❗️ Turns dependencies like foo = { optional = true } from version="*" dependencies with a warning into errors. This behavior has been considered a bug from the beginning. #13775
• ❗️ Replace dashes with underscores also if lib.name is inferred from package.name. This change aligns to the documented behavior. One caveat is that JSON messages emitted by Cargo, like via cargo metadata or --message-format=json, will start reporting underscore lib names. #12783
• Switch to gitoxide for listing files. This improves the performance of build script and cargo doc for computing cache freshness, as well as fixes some subtle bugs for cargo publish. #13592 #13696 #13704 #13777
• Warn on -Zlints being passed and no longer necessary. #13632
• Warn on unused workspace.dependencies keys on virtual workspaces. #13664
• Emit 1.77 build script syntax error only when msrv is incompatible. #13808
• Don’t warn on lints.rust.unexpected_cfgs.check-cfg. #13925
• cargo-init: don’t assign target.name in Cargo.toml if the value can be inferred. #13606
• cargo-package: normalize paths in Cargo.toml, including replacing \ with /. #13729
• cargo-test: recategorize cargo test’s --doc flag under “Target Selection”. #13756

Fixed

• Ensure --config net.git-fetch-with-cli=true is respected. #13992 #13997
• Dont panic when resolving an empty alias. #13613
• When using --target, the default debuginfo strip rule also applies. Note that on Windows MSVC Cargo no longer strips by default. #13618
• Don’t crash on Cargo.toml parse errors that point to multi-byte character #13780
• Don’t emit deprecation warning if one of .cargo/{config,config.toml} is a symlink to the other. #13793
• Follow HTTP redirections when checking if a repo on GitHub is up-to-date. #13718
• Bash completion fallback in nounset mode. #13686
• Rerun build script when rustflags changed and --target was passed. #13560
• Fix doc collision for lib/bin with a dash in the inferred name. #13640
• cargo-add: Maintain sorting of dependency features. #13682
• cargo-add: Preserve comments when updating simple deps #13655
• cargo-fix: dont apply same suggestion twice. #13728
• cargo-package: error when the package specified via --package cannot be found #13735
• credential-provider: trim newlines in tokens from stdin. #13770

Nightly only

• 🔥 cargo-update: allows --precise to specify a pre-release version of a package (RFC 3493) (docs) #13626
• RFC 3491: Unused dependencies cleanup #13778
• -Zcargo-lints: Add a basic linting system for Cargo. This is still under development and not available for general use. #13621 #13635 #13797 #13740 #13801 #13852 #13853
• 🔥 edition2024: Add default Edition2024 to resolver v3 (MSRV-aware resolver). #13785
• edition2024: Remove underscore field support in 2024. #13783 #13798 #13800 #13804
• edition2024: Error on [project] in Edition 2024 #13747
• -Zmsrv-policy: Respect ‘–ignore-rust-version’ #13738
• -Zmsrv-policy: Add --ignore-rust-version to update/generate-lockfile #13741 #13742
• -Zmsrv-policy: Put MSRV-aware resolver behind a config #13769
• -Zmsrv-policy: Error, rather than panic, on rust-version ‘x’ #13771
• -Zmsrv-policy: Fallback to ‘rustc -V’ for MSRV resolving. #13743
• -Zmsrv-policy: Add v3 resolver for MSRV-aware resolving #13776
• -Zmsrv-policy: Don’t respect MSRV for non-local installs #13790
• -Zmsrv-policy: Track when MSRV is explicitly set, either way #13732
• test: don’t compress test registry crates. #13744

Documentation

• Clarify --locked ensuring that Cargo uses dependency versions in lockfile #13665
• Clarify the precedence of RUSTC_WORKSPACE_WRAPPER and RUSTC_WRAPPER. #13648
• Clarify only in the root Cargo.toml the [workspace] section is allowed. #13753
• Clarify the differences between virtual and real manifests. #13794

Internal

• 🎉 New member crates cargo-test-support and cargo-test-macro! They are designed for testing Cargo itself, so no guarantee on any stability across versions. The crates.io publish of this crate is the same as other members crates. They follow Rust’s 6-week release process. #13418
• Fix publish script due to crates.io CDN change #13614
• Push diagnostic complexity on annotate-snippets #13619
• cargo-package: Simplify getting of published Manifest #13666
• ci: update macos images to macos-13 #13685
• manifest: Split out an explicit step to resolve Cargo.toml #13693
• manifest: Decouple target discovery from Target creation #13701
• manifest: Expose surce/spans for VirtualManifests #13603
• Update dependencies #13609 #13674 #13675 #13679 #13680 #13692 #13731 #13760 #13950

Cargo 1.78 (2024-05-02)

7bb7b539…rust-1.78.0

Added

• Stabilize global cache data tracking. The -Zgc flag is still unstable. This is only for Cargo to start data collection, so that when automatic gc is stabilized, it’s less likely to see cache misses. #13492 #13467
• Stabilize lockfile format v4. Lockfile v3 is still the default version. #12852
• Auto-detecting whether output can be rendered using non-ASCII Unicode characters. A configuration value term.unicode is added to control the behavior manually. docs #13337
• Support target.<triple>.rustdocflags in Cargo configuration. docs #13197

Changed

• cargo-add: Print a status when a dep feature is being created #13434
• cargo-add: improve the error message when adding a package from a replaced source. #13281
• cargo-doc: Collapse down Generated statuses without --verbose. #13557
• cargo-new: Print a ‘Creating’, rather than ‘Created’ status #13367
• cargo-new: Print a note, rather than a comment, for more information #13371
• cargo-new: Print a hint when adding members to workspace #13411
• cargo-test: Suggest -- for libtest arguments #13448
• cargo-update: Tell users when some dependencies are still behind latest. #13372
• Deprecate non-extension .cargo/config files. #13349
• Don’t print rustdoc command lines on failure by default #13387
• Respect package.rust-version when generating new lockfiles. #12861
• Send User-Agent: cargo/1.2.3 header when communicating with remote registries. Previously it was cargo 1.2.3, which didn’t follow the HTTP specifications. #13548
• Emit a warning when package.edition field is missing in Cargo.toml. #13499 #13504 #13505 #13533
• Emit warnings from parsing virtual manifests. #13589
• Mention the workspace root location in the error message when collecting workspace members. #13480
• Clarify the profile in use in Finished status message. #13422
• Switched more notes/warnings to lowercase. #13410
• Report all packages incompatible with package.rust-version., not just a random one. #13514

Fixed

• cargo-add: don’t add the new package to workspace.members if there is no existing workspace in Cargo.toml. #13391
• cargo-add: Fix markdown line break in cargo-add #13400
• cargo-run: use Package ID Spec match packages #13335
• cargo-doc: doctest searches native libs in build script outputs. #13490
• cargo-publish: strip also features from dev-dependencies from Cargo.toml to publish. #13518
• Don’t duplicate comments when editing TOML via cargo add/rm/init/new. #13402
• Fix confusing error messages for sparse index replaced source. #13433
• Respect CARGO_TERM_COLOR in ‘–list’ and ‘-Zhelp’. #13479
• Control colors of errors and help texts from clap through CARGO_TERM_COLOR. #13463
• Don’t panic on empty spans in Cargo.toml. #13375 #13376

Nightly only

• 🔥 cargo-update: allows --precise to specify a yanked version of a package #13333
• -Zcheck-cfg: Add docsrs cfg as a well known --check-cfg #13383
• -Zcheck-cfg: Silently ignore cargo::rustc-check-cfg to avoid MSRV annoyance when stabilizing -Zcheck-cfg. #13438
• -Zmsrv-policy: Fallback to rustc -v when no MSRV is set #13516
• -Zscript: Improve errors related to cargo script #13346
• -Zpanic-abort-tests: applies to doctests too #13388
• -Zpublic-dependency: supports enabling via the -Zpublic-dependency flag. #13340 #13556 #13547
• -Zpublic-dependency: test for packaging a public dependency #13536
• -Zrustdoc-map: Add all unit’s children recursively for doc.extern-map option #13481 #13544
• edition2024: Enable edition migration for 2024. #13429
• open-namespaces: basic support for open namespaces (RFC 3243) (docs) #13591

Documentation

• cargo-fetch: hide cargo-fetch recursive link in --offline man page. #13364
• cargo-install: --list option description starting with uppercase #13344
• cargo-vendor: clarify vendored sources as read-only and ways to modify them #13512
• build-script: clarification of build script metadata set via cargo::metadata=KEY=VALUE. #13436
• Clarify the version field in [package] is optional in Cargo.toml #13390
• Improve “Registry Authentication” docs #13351
• Improve “Specifying Dependencies” docs #13341
• Remove package.documentation from the “before publishing” list. #13398

Internal

• 🎉 Integrated tracing-chrome as a basic profiler for Cargo itself. docs #13399 #13551
• Updated to gix 0.58.0 #13380
• Updated to git2 0.18.2 #13412
• Updated to jobserver 0.1.28 #13419
• Updated to supports-hyperlinks 3.0.0 #13511
• Updated to rusqlite 0.31.0 #13510
• bump-check: use symmetric difference when comparing source code #13581
• bump-check: include rustfix and cargo-util-schemas #13421
• ci: enable m1 runner #13377
• ci: Ensure lockfile is respected during MSRV testing via cargo-hack. #13523
• cargo-util-schemas: Consistently compare MSRVs via RustVersion::is_compatible_with. #13537
• console: Use new fancy anstyle API #13368 #13562
• fingerprint: remove unnecessary Option in Freshness::Dirty #13361
• fingerprint: abstract std::fs away from on-disk index cache #13515
• mdman: Updated to pulldown-cmark 0.10.0 #13517
• refactor: Renamed Config to GlobalContext #13409 #13486 #13506
• refactor: Removed unused sysroot_host_libdir. #13468
• refactor: Expose source/spans to Manifest for emitting lints #13593
• refactor: Flatten manifest parsing #13589
• refactor: Make lockfile diffing/printing more reusable #13564
• test: Updated to snapbox 0.5.0 #13441
• test: Verify terminal styling via snapbox’s term-svg feature. #13461 #13465 #13520
• test: Ensure nonzero_exit_code test isn’t affected by developers RUST_BACKTRACE setting #13385
• test: Add tests for using worktrees. #13567
• test: Fix old_cargos tests #13435
• test: Fixed tests due to changes in rust-lang/rust. #13362 #13382 #13415 #13424 #13444 #13455 #13464 #13466 #13469
• test: disable lldb test as it requires privileges to run on macOS #13416

Cargo 1.77.1 (2024-03-28)

Fixed

• Debuginfo is no longer stripped by default for Windows MSVC targets. This caused an unexpected regression in 1.77.0 that broke backtraces. #13654

Cargo 1.77 (2024-03-21)

1a2666dd…rust-1.77.0

Added

• 🎉 Stabilize the package identifier format as Package ID Spec. This format can be used across most of the commands in Cargo, including the --package/-p flag, cargo pkgid, cargo metadata, and JSON messages from --message-format=json. #12914 #13202 #13311 #13298 #13322
• Add colors to -Zhelp console output #13269
• build script: Extend the build directive syntax with cargo::. #12201 #13212

Changed

• 🎉 Disabling debuginfo now implies strip = "debuginfo" (when strip is not set) to strip pre-existing debuginfo coming from the standard library, reducing the default size of release binaries considerably (from ~4.5 MiB down to ~450 KiB for helloworld on Linux x64). #13257
• Add rustc style errors for manifest parsing. #13172
• Deprecate rustc plugin support in cargo #13248
• cargo-vendor: Hold the mutate exclusive lock when vendoring. #12509
• crates-io: Set Content-Type: application/json only for requests with a body payload #13264

Fixed

• jobserver: inherit jobserver from env for all kinds of runner #12776
• build script: Set OUT_DIR for all units with build scripts #13204
• cargo-add: find the correct package with given features from Git repositories with multiple packages. #13213
• cargo-fix: always inherit the jobserver #13225
• cargo-fix: Call rustc fewer times to improve the performance. #13243
• cargo-new: only inherit workspace package table if the new package is a member #13261
• cargo-update: --precise accepts arbitrary git revisions #13250
• manifest: Provide unused key warnings for lints table #13262
• rustfix: Support inserting new lines. #13226

Nightly only

• 🔥 -Zgit: Implementation of shallow libgit2 fetches behind an unstable flag docs #13252
• 🔥 Add unstable --output-format option to cargo rustdoc, providing tools with a way to lean on rustdoc’s experimental JSON format. docs #12252 #13284 #13325
• -Zcheck-cfg: Rework --check-cfg generation comment #13195
• -Zcheck-cfg: Go back to passing an empty values() when no features are declared #13316
• -Zprecise-pre-release: the flag is added but not implemented yet. #13296 #13320
• -Zpublic-dependency: support publish package with a public field. #13245
• -Zpublic-dependency: help text of --public/--no-public flags for cargo add #13272
• -Zscript: Add prefix-char frontmatter syntax support #13247
• -Zscript: Add multiple experimental manifest syntaxes #13241
• -Ztrim-paths: remap common prefix only #13210

Documentation

• Added guidance on setting homepage in manifest #13293
• Clarified how custom subcommands are looked up. #13203
• Clarified why du function uses mutex #13273
• Highlighted “How to find features enabled on dependencies” #13305
• Delete sentence about parentheses being unsupported in license #13292
• resolver: clarify how pre-release version is handled in dependency resolution. #13286
• cargo-test: clarify the target selection of the test options. #13236
• cargo-install: clarify --path is the installation source not destination #13205
• contrib: Fix team HackMD links #13237
• contrib: Highlight the non-blocking feature gating technique #13307

Internal

• 🎉 New member crate cargo-util-schemas! This contains low-level Cargo schema types, focusing on serde and FromStr for use in reading files and parsing command-lines. Any logic for getting final semantics from these will likely need other tools to process, like cargo metadata. The crates.io publish of this crate is the same as other members crates. It follows Rust’s 6-week release process. #13178 #13185 #13186 #13209 #13267
• Updated to gix 0.57.1. #13230
• cargo-fix: Remove error-format special-case in cargo fix #13224
• cargo-credential: bump to 0.4.3 #13221
• mdman: updated to handlebars 5.0.0. #13168 #13249
• rustfix: remove useless clippy rules and fix a typo #13182
• ci: fix Dependabot’s MSRV auto-update #13265 #13324 #13268
• ci: Add dependency dashboard. #13255
• ci: update alpine docker tag to v3.19 #13228
• ci: Improve GitHub Actions CI config #13317
• resolver: do not panic when sorting empty summaries #13287

Cargo 1.76 (2024-02-08)

6790a512…rust-1.76.0

Added

• Added a Windows application manifest file to the built cargo.exe for windows msvc. #13131
  Notable changes:
  • States the compatibility with Windows versions 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and 11.
  • Sets the code page to UTF-8.
  • Enables long path awareness.
• Added color output for cargo --list. #12992
• cargo-add: --optional <dep> would create a <dep> = "dep:<dep>" feature. #13071
• Extends Package ID spec for unambiguous specs. docs #12933
  Specifically,
  • Supports git+ and path+ schemes.
  • Supports Git ref query strings, such as ?branch=dev or ?tag=1.69.0.

Changed

• ❗️ Disallow [lints] in virtual workspaces as they are ignored and users likely meant [workspace.lints]. This was an oversight in the initial implementation (e.g. a [dependencies] produces the same error). #13155
• Disallow empty name in several places like package ID spec and cargo new. #13152
• Respect rust-lang/rust’s omit-git-hash option. #12968
• Displays error count with a number, even when there is only one error. #12484
• all-static feature now includes vendored-libgit2. #13134
• crates-io: Add support for other 2xx HTTP status codes when interacting with registries. #13158 #13160
• home: Replace SHGetFolderPathW with SHGetKnownFolderPath. #13173

Fixed

• Print rustc messages colored on wincon. #13140
• Fixed bash completion in directory with spaces. #13126
• Fixed uninstall a running binary failed on Windows. #13053 #13099
• Fixed the error message for duplicate links. #12973
• Fixed --quiet being used with nested subcommands. #12959
• Fixed panic when there is a cycle in dev-dependencies. #12977
• Don’t panic when failed to parse rustc commit-hash. #12963 #12965
• Don’t do git fetches when updating workspace members. #12975
• Avoid writing CACHEDIR.TAG if it already exists. #13132
• Accept ? in the --package flag if it’s a valid pkgid spec. #13315 #13318
• cargo-package: Only filter out target directory if it’s in the package root. #12944
• cargo-package: errors out when a build script doesn’t exist or is outside the package root. #12995
• cargo-credential-1password: Add missing --account argument to op signin command. #12985 #12986

Nightly only

• 🔥 The -Zgc flag enables garbage collection for deleting old, unused files in cargo’s cache. That is, downloaded source files and registry index under the CARGO_HOME directory. docs #12634 #12958 #12981 #13055
• 🔥 Added a new environment variable CARGO_RUSTC_CURRENT_DIR. This is a path that rustc is invoked from. docs #12996
• -Zcheck-cfg: Include declared list of features in fingerprint for -Zcheck-cfg. #13012
• -Zcheck-cfg: Fix --check-cfg invocations with zero features. #13011
• -Ztrim-paths: reorder --remap-path-prefix flags for -Zbuild-std. #13065
• -Ztrim-paths: explicitly remap current dir by using .. #13114
• -Ztrim-paths: exercise with real world debugger. #13091 #13118
• -Zpublic-dependency: Limit exported-private-dependencies lints to libraries. #13135
• -Zpublic-dependency: Disallow workspace-inheriting of dependency public status. #13125
• -Zpublic-dependency: Add --public for cargo add. #13046
• -Zpublic-dependency: Remove unused public-deps error handling #13036
• -Zmsrv-policy: Prefer MSRV, rather than ignore incompatible. #12950
• -Zmsrv-policy: De-prioritize no-rust-version in MSRV resolver. #13066
• -Zrustdoc-scrape-examples: Don’t filter on workspace members when scraping doc examples. #13077

Documentation

• Recommends a wider selection of libsecret-compatible password managers. #12993
• Clarified different targets has different sets of CARGO_CFG_* values. #13069
• Clarified [lints] table only affects local development of the current package. #12976
• Clarified cargo search can search in alternative registries. #12962
• Added common CI practices for verifying rust-version (MSRV) field. #13056
• Added a link to rustc lint levels doc. #12990
• Added a link to the packages lint table from the related workspace table #13057
• contrib: Add more resources to the contrib docs. #13008
• contrib: Update how that credential crates are published. #13006
• contrib: remove review capacity notice. #13070

Internal

• 🎉 Migrate rustfix crate to the rust-lang/cargo repository. #13005 #13042 #13047 #13048 #13050
• Updated to curl-sys 0.4.70, which corresponds to curl 8.4.0. #13147
• Updated to gix-index 0.27.1. #13148
• Updated to itertools 0.12.0. #13086
• Updated to rusqlite 0.30.0. #13087
• Updated to toml_edit 0.21.0. #13088
• Updated to windows-sys 0.52.0. #13089
• Updated to tracing 0.1.37 for being be compatible with rustc_log. #13239 #13242
• Re-enable flaky gitoxide auth tests thanks to update to gix-config. #13117 #13129 #13130
• Dogfood Cargo -Zlints table feature. #12178
• Refactored Cargo.toml parsing code in preparation of extracting an official schema API. #12954 #12960 #12961 #12971 #13000 #13021 #13080 #13097 #13123 #13128 #13154 #13166
• Use IndexSummary in query{_vec} functions. #12970
• ci: migrate renovate config #13106
• ci: Always update gix packages together #13093
• ci: Catch naive use of AtomicU64 early #12988
• xtask-bump-check: dont check home against beta/stable branches #13167
• cargo-test-support: Handle $message_type in JSON diagnostics #13016
• cargo-test-support: Add more options to registry test support. #13085
• cargo-test-support: Add features to the default Cargo.toml file #12997
• cargo-test-support: Fix clippy-wrapper test race condition. #12999
• test: Don’t rely on mtime to test changes #13143
• test: remove unnecessary packages and versions for optionals tests #13108
• test: Remove the deleted feature test_2018_feature from the test. #13156
• test: remove jobserver env var in some tests. #13072
• test: Fix a rustflags test using a wrong buildfile name #12987
• test: Fix some test output validation. #12982
• test: Ignore changing_spec_relearns_crate_types on windows-gnu #12972

Cargo 1.75 (2023-12-28)

59596f0f…rust-1.75.0

Added

• package.version field in Cargo.toml is now optional and defaults to 0.0.0. Packages without the package.version field cannot be published. #12786
• Links in --timings and cargo doc outputs are clickable on supported terminals, controllable through term.hyperlinks config value. #12889
• Print environment variables for build script executions with -vv. #12829
• cargo-new: add new packages to [workspace.members] automatically. #12779
• cargo-doc: print a new Generated status displaying the full path. #12859

Changed

• cargo-new: warn if crate name doesn’t follow snake_case or kebab-case. #12766
• cargo-install: clarify the arg <crate> to install is positional. #12841
• cargo-install: Suggest an alternative version on MSRV failure. #12798
• cargo-install: reports more detailed SemVer errors. #12924
• cargo-install: install only once if there are crates duplicated. #12868
• cargo-remove: Clarify flag behavior of different dependency kinds. #12823
• cargo-remove: suggest the dependency to remove exists only in the other section. #12865
• cargo-update: Do not call it “Downgrading” when difference is only build metadata. #12796
• Enhanced help text to clarify --test flag is for Cargo targets, not test functions. #12915
• Included package name/version in build script warnings. #12799
• Provide next steps for bad -Z flag. #12857
• Suggest cargo search when cargo-<command> cannot be found. #12840
• Do not allow empty feature name. #12928
• Added unsupported short flag suggestion for --target and --exclude flags. #12805
• Added unsupported short flag suggestion for --out-dir flag. #12755
• Added unsupported lowercase -z flag suggestion for -Z flag. #12788
• Added better suggestion for unsupported --path flag. #12811
• Added detailed message when target directory path is invalid. #12820

Fixed

• Fixed corruption when cargo was killed while writing to files. #12744
• cargo-add: Preserve more comments #12838
• cargo-fix: preserve jobserver file descriptors on rustc invocation. #12951
• cargo-remove: Preserve feature comments #12837
• Removed unnecessary backslash in timings HTML report when error happens. #12934
• Fixed error message that invalid a feature name can contain -. #12939
• When there’s a version of a dependency in the lockfile, Cargo would use that “exact” version, including the build metadata. #12772

Nightly only

• Added Edition2024 unstable feature. docs #12771
• 🔥 The -Ztrim-paths feature adds a new profile setting to control how paths are sanitized in the resulting binary. (RFC 3127) (docs) #12625 #12900 #12908
• -Zcheck-cfg: Adjusted for new rustc syntax and behavior. #12845
• -Zcheck-cfg: Remove outdated option to -Zcheck-cfg warnings. #12884
• public-dependency: Support public dependency configuration with workspace deps. #12817

Documentation

• profile: add missing strip info. #12754
• features: a note about the new limit on number of features. #12913
• crates-io: Add doc comment for NewCrate struct. #12782
• resolver: Highlight commands to answer dep resolution questions. #12903
• cargo-bench: --bench is passed in unconditionally to bench harnesses. #12850
• cargo-login: mention args after -- in manpage. #12832
• cargo-vendor: clarify config to use vendored source is printed to stdout #12893
• manifest: update to SPDX 2.3 license expression and 3.20 license list. #12827
• contrib: Policy on manifest editing #12836
• contrib: use AND search terms in mdbook search and fixed broken links. #12812 #12813 #12814
• contrib: Describe how to add a new package #12878
• contrib: Removed review capacity notice. #12842

Internal

• Updated to itertools 0.11.0. #12759
• Updated to cargo_metadata 0.18.0. #12758
• Updated to curl-sys 0.4.68, which corresponds to curl 8.4.0. #12808
• Updated to toml 0.8.2. #12760
• Updated to toml_edit 0.20.2. #12761
• Updated to gix to 0.55.2 #12906
• Disabled the custom_target::custom_bin_target test on windows-gnu. #12763
• Refactored Cargo.toml parsing code in preparation of extracting an official schema API. #12768 #12881 #12902 #12911 #12948
• Split out SemVer logic to its own module. #12926 #12940
• source: Prepare for new PackageIDSpec syntax #12938
• resolver: Consolidate logic in VersionPreferences #12930
• Make the SourceId::precise field an Enum. #12849
• shell: Write at once rather than in fragments. #12880
• Move up looking at index summary enum #12749 #12923
• Generate redirection HTML pages in CI for Cargo Contributor Guide. #12846
• Add new package cache lock modes. #12706
• Add regression test for issue 6915: features and transitive dev deps. #12907
• Auto-labeling when PR review state changes. #12856
• credential: include license files in all published crates. #12953
• credential: Filter cargo-credential-* dependencies by OS. #12949
• ci: bump cargo-semver-checks to 0.24.0 #12795
• ci: set and verify all MSRVs for Cargo’s crates automatically. #12767 #12654
• ci: use separate concurrency group for publishing Cargo Contributor Book. #12834 #12835
• ci: update actions/checkout action to v4 #12762
• cargo-search: improved the margin calculation for the output. #12890

Cargo 1.74 (2023-11-16)

80eca0e5…rust-1.74.0

Added

• 🎉 The [lints] table has been stabilized, allowing you to configure reporting levels for rustc and other tool lints in Cargo.toml. (RFC 3389) (docs) #12584 #12648
• 🎉 The unstable features credential-process and registry-auth have been stabilized. These features consolidate the way to authenticate with private registries. (RFC 2730) (RFC 3139) (docs) #12590 #12622 #12623 #12626 #12641 #12644 #12649 #12671 #12709
  Notable changes:
  • Introducing a new protocol for both external and built-in providers to store and retrieve credentials for registry authentication.
  • Adding the auth-required field in the registry index’s config.json, enabling authenticated sparse index, crate downloads, and search API.
  • For using alternative registries with authentication, a credential provider must be configured to avoid unknowingly storing unencrypted credentials on disk.
  • These settings can be configured in [registry] and [registries] tables.
• 🎉 --keep-going flag has been stabilized and is now available in each build command (except bench and test, which have --no-fail-fast instead). (docs) #12568
• Added --dry-run flag and summary line at the end for cargo clean. #12638
• Added a short alias -n for cli option --dry-run. #12660
• Added support for target.'cfg(..)'.linker. #12535
• Allowed incomplete versions when they are unambiguous for flags like --package. #12591 #12614 #12806

Changed

• ❗️ Changed how arrays in configuration are merged. The order was unspecified and now follows how other configuration types work for consistency. summary #12515
• ❗️ cargo-clean: error out if --doc is mixed with -p. #12637
• ❗ cargo-new / cargo-init no longer exclude Cargo.lock in VCS ignore files for libraries. #12382
• cargo-update: silently deprecate --aggressive in favor of the new --recursive. #12544
• cargo-update: -p/--package can be used as a positional argument. #12545 #12586
• cargo-install: suggest --git when the package name looks like a URL. #12575
• cargo-add: summarize the feature list when it’s too long. #12662 #12702
• Shell completion for --target uses rustup but falls back to rustc. #12606
• Help users know possible --target values. #12607
• Enhanced “registry index not found” error message. #12732
• Enhanced CLI help message of --explain. #12592
• Enhanced deserialization errors of untagged enums with serde-untagged. #12574 #12581
• Enhanced the error when mismatching prerelease version candidates. #12659
• Enhanced the suggestion on ambiguous Package ID spec. #12685
• Enhanced TOML parse errors to show the context. #12556
• Enhanced filesystem error by adding wrappers around std::fs::metadata. #12636
• Enhanced resolver version mismatch warning. #12573
• Use clap to suggest alternative argument for unsupported arguments. #12529 #12693 #12723
• Removed redundant information from cargo new/init --help output. #12594
• Console output and styling tweaks. #12578 #12655 #12593

Fixed

• Use full target spec for cargo rustc --print --target. #12743
• Copy PDBs also for EFI targets. #12688
• Fixed resolver behavior being independent of package order. #12602
• Fixed unnecessary clean up of profile.release.package."*" for cargo remove. #12624

Nightly only

• -Zasymmetric-token: Created dedicated unstable flag for asymmetric-token support. #12551
• -Zasymmetric-token: Improved logout message for asymmetric tokens. #12587
• -Zmsrv-policy: Very preliminary MSRV resolver support. #12560
• -Zscript: Hack in code fence support. #12681
• -Zbindeps: Support dependencies from registries. #12421

Documentation

• ❗ Policy change: Checking Cargo.lock into version control is now the default choice, even for libraries. Lockfile and CI integration documentations are also expanded. Policy docs, Lockfile docs, CI docs, #12382 #12630
• SemVer: Update documentation about removing optional dependencies. #12687
• Contrib: Add process for security responses. #12487
• cargo-publish: warn about upload timeout. #12733
• mdbook: use AND search when having multiple terms. #12548
• Established publish best practices #12745
• Clarify caret requirements. #12679
• Clarify how version works for git dependencies. #12270
• Clarify and differentiate defaults for split-debuginfo. #12680
• Added missing strip entries in dev and release profiles. #12748

Internal

• Updated to curl-sys 0.4.66, which corresponds to curl 8.3.0. #12718
• Updated to gitoxide 0.54.1. #12731
• Updated to git2 0.18.0, which corresponds to libgit2 1.7.1. #12580
• Updated to cargo_metadata 0.17.0. #12758
• Updated target-arch-aware crates to support mips r6 targets #12720
• publish.py: Remove obsolete sleep() calls. #12686
• Define {{command}} for use in src/doc/man/includes #12570
• Set tracing target network for networking messages. #12582
• cargo-test-support: Add with_stdout_unordered. #12635
• dep: Switch from termcolor to anstream. #12751
• Put Source trait under cargo::sources. #12527
• SourceId: merge name and alt_registry_key into one enum. #12675
• TomlManifest: fail when package_root is not a directory. #12722
• util: enhanced doc of network::retry doc. #12583
• refactor: Pull out cargo-add MSRV code for reuse #12553
• refactor(install): Move value parsing to clap #12547
• Fixed spurious errors with networking tests. #12726
• Use a more compact relative-time format for CARGO_LOG internal logging. #12542
• Use newer std API for cleaner code. #12559 #12604 #12615 #12631
• Buffer console status messages. #12727
• Use enum to describe index summaries to provide a richer information when summaries are not available for resolution. #12643
• Use shortest path for resolving the path from the given dependency up to the root. #12678
• Read/write the encoded cargo update --precise in the same place #12629
• Set MSRV for internal packages. #12381
• ci: Update Renovate schema #12741
• ci: Ignore patch version in MSRV #12716

Cargo 1.73 (2023-10-05)

45782b6b…rust-1.73.0

Added

• Print environment variables for cargo run/bench/test in extra verbose mode -vv. #12498
• Display package versions on Cargo timings graph. #12420

Changed

• ❗️ Cargo now bails out when using cargo:: in custom build scripts. This is a preparation for an upcoming change in build script invocations. #12332
• ❗️ cargo login no longer accept any token after the -- syntax. Arguments after -- are now reserved in the preparation of the new credential provider feature. This introduces a regression that overlooks the cargo login -- <token> support in previous versions. #12499
• Make Cargo --help easier to browse. #11905
• Prompt the use of --nocapture flag if cargo test process is terminated via a signal. #12463
• Preserve jobserver file descriptors on the rustc invocation for getting target information. #12447
• Clarify in --help that cargo test --all-targets excludes doctests. #12422
• Normalize cargo.toml to Cargo.toml on publish, and warn on other cases of Cargo.toml. #12399

Fixed

• Only skip mtime check on ~/.cargo/{git,registry}. #12369
• Fixed cargo doc --open crash on WSL2. #12373
• Fixed panic when enabling http.debug for certain strings. #12468
• Fixed cargo remove incorrectly removing used patches. #12454
• Fixed crate checksum lookup query should match on semver build metadata. #11447
• Fixed printing multiple warning messages for unused fields in [registries] table. #12439

Nightly only

• 🔥 The -Zcredential-process has been reimplemented with a clearer way to communicate with different credential providers. Several built-in providers are also added to Cargo. docs #12334 #12396 #12424 #12440 #12461 #12469 #12483 #12499 #12507 #12512 #12518 #12521 #12526
  Some notable changes:
  • Renamed credential-process to credential-provider in Cargo configurations.
  • New JSON protocol for communicating with external credential providers via stdin/stdout.
  • The GNOME Secert provider now dynamically loads libsecert.
  • The 1password provider is no longer built-in.
  • Changed the unstable key for asymmetric tokens from registry-auth to credential-process.
• ❗️ Removed --keep-going flag support from cargo test and cargo bench. #12478 #12492
• Fixed invalid package names generated by -Zscript. #12349
• -Zscript now errors out on unsupported commands — publish and package. #12350
• Encode URL params correctly for source ID in Cargo.lock. #12280
• Replaced invalid panic_unwind std feature with panic-unwind. #12364
• -Zlints: doctest extraction should respect [lints]. #12501

Documentation

• SemVer: Adding a section for changing the alignment, layout, or size of a well-defined type. #12169
• Use heading attributes to control the fragment. #12339
• Use “number” instead of “digit” when explaining Cargo’s use of semver. #12340
• contrib: Add some more detail about how publishing works. #12344
• Clarify “Package ID” and “Source ID” in cargo metadata are opaque strings. #12313
• Clarify that rerun-if-env-changed doesn’t monitor the environment variables it set for crates and build script. #12482
• Clarify that multiple versions that differ only in the metadata tag are disallowed on crates.io. #12335
• Clarify lto setting passing -Clinker-plugin-lto. #12407
• Added profile.strip to configuration and environment variable docs. #12337 #12408
• Added docs for artifact JSON debuginfo levels. #12376
• Added a notice for the backward compatible .cargo/credential file existence. #12479
• Raised the awareness of resolver = 2 used inside workspaces. #12388
• Replaced master branch by default branch in documentation. #12435

Internal

• Updated to criterion 0.5.1. #12338
• Updated to curl-sys 0.4.65, which corresponds to curl 8.2.1. #12406
• Updated to indexmap v2. #12368
• Updated to miow 0.6.0, which drops old versions of windows-sys. #12453
• ci: automatically test new packages by using --workspace. #12342
• ci: automatically update dependencies monthly with Renovate. #12341 #12466
• ci: rewrote xtask-bump-check for respecting semver by adopting cargo-semver-checks. #12395 #12513 #12508
• Rearranged and renamed test directories #12397 #12398
• Migrated from log to tracing. #12458 #12488
• Track --help output in tests. #11912
• Cleaned up and shared package metadata within workspace. #12352
• crates-io: expose HTTP headers and Error type. #12310
• For cargo update, caught CLI flags conflict between --aggressive and --precise in clap. #12428
• Several fixes for either making Cargo testsuite pass on nightly or in rust-lang/rust. #12413 #12416 #12429 #12450 #12491 #12500

Cargo 1.72 (2023-08-24)

64fb38c9…rust-1.72.0

Added

• ❗ Enable -Zdoctest-in-workspace by default. When running each documentation test, the working directory is set to the root directory of the package the test belongs to. docs #12221 #12288
• Add support of the “default” keyword to reset previously set build.jobs parallelism back to the default. #12222

Changed

• 🚨 CVE-2023-40030: Malicious dependencies can inject arbitrary JavaScript into cargo-generated timing reports. To mitigate this, feature name validation check is now turned into a hard error. The warning was added in Rust 1.49. These extended characters aren’t allowed on crates.io, so this should only impact users of other registries, or people who don’t publish to a registry. #12291
• Cargo now warns when an edition 2021 package is in a virtual workspace and workspace.resolver is not set. It is recommended to set the resolver version for workspaces explicitly. #10910
• Set IBM AIX shared libraries search path to LIBPATH. #11968
• Don’t pass -C debuginfo=0 to rustc as it is the default value. #12022 #12205
• Added a message on reusing previous temporary path on cargo install failures. #12231
• Added a message when rustup override shorthand is put in a wrong position. #12226
• Respect scp-like URL as much as possible when fetching nested submodules. #12359 #12411

Fixed

• cargo clean uses remove_dir_all as a fallback to resolve race conditions. #11442
• Reduced the chance Cargo re-formats the user’s [features] table. #12191
• Fixed nested Git submodules not able to fetch. #12244

Nightly only

• 🔥 The -Zscript is an experimental feature to add unstable support for single-file packages in Cargo, so we can explore the design and resolve questions with an implementation to collect feedback on. (eRFC 3424) docs #12245 #12255 #12258 #12262 #12268 #12269 #12281 #12282 #12283 #12284 #12287 #12289 #12303 #12305 #12308
• Automatically inherit workspace lints when running cargo new/cargo init. #12174
• Removed -Zjobserver-per-rustc again. #12285
• Added .toml file extension restriction for -Zconfig-include. #12298
• Added -Znext-lockfile-bump to prepare for the next lockfile bump. #12279 #12302

Documentation

• Added a description of Cargo.lock conflicts in the Cargo FAQ. #12185
• Added a small note about indexes ignoring SemVer build metadata. #12206
• Added doc comments for types and friends in cargo::sources module. #12192 #12239 #12247
• Added more documentation for Source download functions. #12319
• Added READMEs for the credential helpers. #12322
• Fixed version requirement example in Dependency Resolution. #12267
• Clarify the default behavior of cargo-install. #12276
• Clarify the use of “default” branch instead of main by default. #12251
• Provide guidance on version requirements. #12323

Internal

• Updated to gix 0.45 for multi-round pack negotiations. #12236
• Updated to curl-sys 0.4.63, which corresponds to curl 8.1.2. #12218
• Updated to openssl 0.10.55. #12300
• Updated several dependencies. #12261
• Removed unused features from windows-sys dependency. #12176
• Refactored compiler invocations. #12211
• Refactored git and registry sources, and registry data. #12203 #12197 #12240 #12248
• Lexicographically order -Z flags. #12182 #12223 #12224
• Several Cargo’s own test infra improvements and speed-ups. #12184 #12188 #12189 #12194 #12199
• Migrated print-ban from test to clippy #12246
• Switched to OnceLock for interning uses. #12217
• Removed a unnecessary .clone. #12213
• Don’t try to compile cargo-credential-gnome-secret on non-Linux platforms. #12321
• Use macro to remove duplication of workspace inheritable fields getters. #12317
• Extracted and rearranged registry API items to their own modules. #12290
• Show a better error when container tests fail. #12264

Cargo 1.71.1 (2023-08-03)

Fixed

• 🚨 CVE-2023-38497: Cargo 1.71.1 or later respects umask when extracting crate archives. It also purges the caches it tries to access if they were generated by older Cargo versions.

Cargo 1.71 (2023-07-13)

84b7041f…rust-1.71.0

Added

• Allowed named debuginfo options in Cargo.toml. docs #11958
• Added workspace_default_members to the output of cargo metadata. #11978
• Automatically inherit workspace fields when running cargo new/cargo init. #12069

Changed

• ❗ Optimized the usage under rustup. When Cargo detects it will run rustc pointing a rustup proxy, it’ll try bypassing the proxy and use the underlying binary directly. There are assumptions around the interaction with rustup and RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN. However, it’s not expected to affect normal users. #11917
• ❗ When querying a package, Cargo tries only the original name, all hyphens, and all underscores to handle misspellings. Previously, Cargo tried each combination of hyphens and underscores, causing excessive requests to crates.io. #12083
• ❗ Disallow RUSTUP_HOME and RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN in the [env] configuration table. This is considered to be not a use case Cargo would like to support, since it will likely cause problems or lead to confusion. #12101 #12107
• Better error message when getting an empty dependency table in Cargo.toml. #11997
• Better error message when empty dependency was specified in Cargo.toml. #12001
• --help text is now wrapping for readability on narrow screens. #12013
• Tweaked the order of arguments in --help text to clarify role of --bin. #12157
• rust-version is included in cargo publish requests to registries. #12041

Fixed

• Corrected the bug report URL for cargo clippy --fix. #11882
• Cargo now applies [env] to rust invocations for target info discovery. #12029
• Fixed tokens not redacted in http debug when using HTTP/2. #12095
• Fixed -C debuginfo not passed in some situation, leading to build cache miss. #12165
• Fixed the ambiguity when cargo install found packages with the same name. The ambiguity happened in a situation like a package depending on old versions of itself. #12015
• Fixed a false positive that cargo package checks for conflict files. #12135
• Fixed dep/feat syntax not working when co-exist with dep: syntax, and trying to enable features of an optional dependency. #12130
• Fixed cargo tree not handling the output with -e no-proc-macro correctly. #12044
• Warn instead of error in cargo package on empty readme or license-file in Cargo.toml. #12036
• Fixed when an HTTP proxy is in use and the Cargo executable links to a certain version of system libcurl, CURL connections might fail. Affected libcurl versions: 7.87.0, 7.88.0, 7.88.1. #12234 #12242

Nightly only

• 🔥 The -Zgitoxide feature now supports shallow clones and fetches for dependencies and registry indexes. docs #11840
• 🔥 The -Zlints feature enables configuring lints rules in Cargo.toml docs #12148 #12168
• The -Zbuild-std breakage of missing features in nightly-2023-05-04 has been fixed in nightly-2023-05-05. #12088
• Recompile on profile rustflags changes. #11981
• Added -Zmsrv-policy feature flag placeholder. #12043
• cargo add now considers rust-version when selecting packages with -Zmsrv-policy. #12078

Documentation

• Added Cargo team charter. docs #12010
• SemVer: Adding #[non_exhaustive] on existing items is a breaking change. #10877
• SemVer: It is not a breaking change to make an unsafe function safe. #12116
• SemVer: changing MSRV is generally a minor change. #12122
• Clarify when and how to cargo yank. #11862
• Clarify that crates.io doesn’t link to docs.rs right away. #12146
• Clarify documentation around test target setting. #12032
• Specify rust_version in Index format. #12040
• Specify msg in owner-remove registry API response. #12068
• Added more documentation for artifact-dependencies. #12110
• Added doc comments for Source and build script for cargo-the-library. #12133 #12153 #12159
• Several typo and broken link fixes. #12018 #12020 #12049 #12067 #12073 #12143
• home: clarify the behavior on each platform #12047

Internal

• Updated to linux-raw-sys 0.3.2 #11998
• Updated to git2 0.17.1, which corresponds to libgit2 1.6.4. #12096
• Updated to windows-sys 0.48.0 #12021
• Updated to libc 0.2.144 #12014 #12098
• Updated to openssl-src 111.25.3+1.1.1t #12005
• Updated to home 0.5.5 #12037
• Enabled feature Win32_System_Console feature since it is used. #12016
• Cargo is now a Cargo workspace. We dogfood ourselves finally! #11851 #11994 #11996 #12024 #12025 #12057
• 🔥 A new, straightforward issue labels system for Cargo contributors. docs #11995 #12002 #12003
• Allow win/mac credential managers to build on all platforms. #11993 #12027
• Use openssl only on non-Windows platforms. #11979
• Use restricted Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm to provide typo suggestions. #11963
• Added a new xtask cargo build-man. #12048
• Added a new xtask cargo stale-label. #12051
• Added a new xtask cargo unpublished. #12039 #12045 #12085
• CI: check if any version bump needed for member crates. #12126
• Fixed some test infra issues. #11976 #12026 #12055 #12117

Cargo 1.70 (2023-06-01)

9880b408…rust-1.70.0

Added

• 🎉 Added cargo logout command for removing an API token from the registry locally. docs #11919 #11950
• Added --ignore-rust-version flag to cargo install. #11859
• The CARGO_PKG_README environment variable is now set to the path to the README file when compiling a crate. #11645
• Cargo now displays richer information of Cargo target failed to compile. #11636

Changed

• 🎉 The sparse protocol is now the default protocol for crates.io! (RFC 2789) (docs) #11791 #11783
• ❗ cargo login and cargo logout now uses the registry specified in registry.default. This was an unintentional regression. #11949
• cargo update accurately shows Downgrading status when downgrading dependencies. #11839
• Added more information to HTTP errors to help with debugging. #11878
• Added delays to network retries in Cargo. #11881
• Refined cargo publish message when waiting for a publish complete. #11713
• Better error message when cargo install from a git repository but found multiple packages. #11835

Fixed

• Removed duplicates of possible values in --charset option of cargo tree. #11785
• Fixed CARGO_CFG_ vars for configs defined both with and without value. #11790
• Broke endless loop on cyclic features in added dependency in cargo add. #11805
• Don’t panic when [patch] involved in dependency resolution results in a conflict. #11770
• Fixed credential token format validation. #11951
• Added the missing token format validation on publish. #11952
• Fixed case mismatches when looking up env vars in the Config snapshot. #11824
• cargo new generates the correct .hgignore aligning semantics with other VCS ignore files. #11855
• Stopped doing unnecessary fuzzy registry index queries. This significantly reduces the amount of HTTP requests to remote registries for crates containing - or _ in their names. #11936 #11937

Nightly only

• Added -Zdirect-minimal-versions. This behaves like -Zminimal-versions but only for direct dependencies. (docs) #11688
• Added -Zgitoxide which switches all git fetch operation in Cargo to use gitoxide crate. This is still an MVP but could improve the performance up to 2 times. (docs) #11448 #11800 #11822 #11830
• Removed -Zjobserver-per-rustc. Its rustc counterpart never got landed. #11764

Documentation

• Cleaned-up unstable documentation. #11793
• Enhanced the documentation of timing report with graphs. #11798
• Clarified requirements about the state of the registry index after publish. #11926
• Clarified docs on -C that it appears before the command. #11947
• Clarified working directory behaviour for cargo test, cargo bench and cargo run. #11901
• Fixed the doc of registries.name.index configuration. #11880
• Notice for potential unexpected shell expansions in help text of cargo-add. #11826
• Updated external-tools JSON docs. #11918
• Call out the differences between the index JSON and the API or metadata. #11927
• Consistently use @ when mentioning pkgid format. #11956
• Enhanced Cargo Contributor Guide. #11825 #11842 #11869 #11876
• Moved a part of Cargo Contributor Guide to Cargo API documentation. docs #11809 #11841 #11850 #11870
• Cargo team now arranges office hours! #11903

Internal

• Switched to sha2 crate for SHA256 calculation. #11795 #11807
• Switched benchsuite to the index archive. #11933
• Updated to base64 0.21.0. #11796
• Updated to curl-sys 0.4.61, which corresponds to curl 8.0.1. #11871
• Updated to proptest 1.1.0. #11886
• Updated to git2 0.17.0, which corresponds to libgit2 1.6.3. #11928
• Updated to clap 4.2. #11904
• Integrated cargo-deny in Cargo its own CI pipeline. #11761
• Made non-blocking IO calls more robust. #11624
• Dropped derive feature from serde in cargo-platform. #11915
• Replaced std::fs::canonicalize with a more robust try_canonicalize. #11866
• Enabled clippy warning on disallowed_methods for std::env::var and friends. #11828

Cargo 1.69 (2023-04-20)

985d561f…rust-1.69.0

Added

• Cargo now suggests cargo fix or cargo clippy --fix when compilation warnings are auto-fixable. #11558
• Cargo now suggests cargo add if you try to install a library crate. #11410
• Cargo now sets the CARGO_BIN_NAME environment variable also for binary examples. #11705

Changed

• ❗ When default-features is set to false of a workspace dependency, and an inherited dependency of a member has default-features = true, Cargo will enable default features of that dependency. #11409
• ❗ Deny CARGO_HOME in [env] configuration table. Cargo itself doesn’t pick up this value, but recursive calls to cargo would, which was not intended. #11644
• ❗ Debuginfo for build dependencies is now off if not explicitly set. This is expected to improve the overall build time. #11252
• Cargo now emits errors on invalid alphanumeric characters in a registry token. #11600
• cargo add now checks only the order of [dependencies] without considering [dependencies.*]. #11612
• Cargo now respects the new jobserver IPC style in GNU Make 4.4, by updating its dependency jobserver. #11767
• cargo install now reports required features when no binary meets its requirements. #11647

Fixed

• Uplifted .dwp DWARF package file next to the executable for debuggers to locate them. #11572
• Fixed build scripts triggering recompiles when a rerun-if-changed points to a directory whose mtime is not preserved by the filesystem. #11613
• Fixed panics when using dependencies from [workspace.dependencies] for [patch]. This usage is not supposed to be supported. #11565 #11630
• Fixed cargo report saving the same future-incompat reports multiple times. #11648
• Fixed the incorrect inference of a directory ending with .rs as a file. #11678
• Fixed .cargo-ok file being truncated wrongly, preventing from using a dependency. #11665 #11724

Nightly only

• -Zrustdoc-scrape-example must fail with bad build script. #11694
• Updated 1password credential manager integration to the version 2 CLI. #11692
• Emit an error message for transitive artifact dependencies with targets the package doesn’t directly interact with. #11643
• Added -C flag for changing current dir before build starts. #10952

Documentation

• Clarified the difference between CARGO_CRATE_NAME and CARGO_PKG_NAME. #11576
• Added links to the Target section of the glossary for occurrences of target triple. #11603
• Described how the current resolver sometimes duplicates dependencies. #11604
• Added a note about verifying your email address on crates.io. #11620
• Mention current default value in publish.timeout docs. #11652
• More doc comments for cargo::core::compiler modules. #11669 #11703 #11711 #11758
• Added more guidance on how to implement unstable features. #11675
• Fixed unstable chapter layout for codegen-backend. #11676
• Add a link to LTO doc. #11701
• Added documentation for the configuration discovery of cargo install to the man pages #11763
• Documented -F flag as an alias for --features in cargo add. #11774

Internal

• Disable network SSH tests on Windows. #11610
• Made some blocking tests non-blocking. #11650
• Deny warnings in CI, not locally. #11699
• Re-export cargo_new::NewProjectKind as public. #11700
• Made dependencies in alphabetical order. #11719
• Switched some tests from build to check. #11725
• Consolidated how Cargo reads environments variables internally. #11727 #11754
• Fixed tests with nondeterministic ordering #11766
• Added a test to verify the intermediate artifacts persist in the temp directory. #11771
• Updated cross test instructions for aarch64-apple-darwin. #11663
• Updated to toml v0.6 and toml_edit v0.18 for TOML manipulations. #11618
• Updated to clap v4.1.3. #11619
• Replaced winapi with windows-sys crate for Windows bindings. #11656
• Reused url crate for percent encoding instead of percent-encoding. #11750
• Cargo contributors can benefit from smart punctuations when writing documentations, e.g., --- is auto-converted into an em dash. (docs) #11646 #11715
• Cargo’s CI pipeline now covers macOS on nightly. #11712
• Re-enabled some clippy lints in Cargo itself. #11722
• Enabled sparse protocol in Cargo’s CI. #11632
• Pull requests in Cargo now get autolabelled for label A-* and Command-*. #11664 #11679

Cargo 1.68.2 (2023-03-28)

115f3455…rust-1.68.0

• Updated the GitHub RSA SSH host key bundled within cargo. The key was rotated by GitHub on 2023-03-24 after the old one leaked. #11883
• Added support for SSH known hosts marker @revoked. #11635
• Marked the old GitHub RSA host key as revoked. This will prevent Cargo from accepting the leaked key even when trusted by the system. #11889

Cargo 1.68 (2023-03-09)

f6e737b1…rust-1.68.0

Added

• 🎉 The new “sparse” protocol has been stabilized. It should provide a significant performance improvement when accessing crates.io. (RFC 2789) (docs) #11224 #11480 #11733 #11756
• 🎉 home crate is now a subcrate in rust-lang/cargo repository. Welcome! #11359 #11481
• Long diagnostic messages now can be truncated to be more readable. #11494
• Shows the progress of crates.io index update even when net.git-fetch-with-cli enabled. #11579
• cargo build --verbose tells you more about why it recompiles. #11407
• Cargo’s file locking mechanism now supports Solaris by using fcntl. #11439 #11474
• Added a new SemVer compatibility rule explaining the expectations around diagnostic lints #11596
• cargo vendor generates a different source replacement entry for each revision from the same git repository. #10690
• Cargo contributors can relabel issues via triagebot. doc #11498
• Cargo contributors can write tests in containers. #11583

Changed

• Cargo now by default saves credentials to .cargo/credentials.toml. If .cargo/credentials exists, writes to it for backward compatibility reasons. #11533
• To prevent sensitive data from being logged, Cargo introduces a new wrapper type internally. #11545
• Several documentation improvements. #11475 #11504 #11516 #11517 #11568 #11586 #11592

Fixed

• ❗ cargo package and cargo publish now respects workspace’s Cargo.lock. This is an expected behavior but previously got overlooked. #11477
• Fixed cargo vendor failing on resolving git dependencies inherited from a workspace. #11414
• cargo install can now correctly install root package when workspace.default-members is specified. #11067
• Fixed panic on target specific dependency errors. #11541
• Shows --help if there is no man page for a subcommand. #11473
• Setting target.cfg(…).rustflags shouldn’t erase build.rustdocflags. #11323
• Unsupported profile.split-debuginfo options are now ignored, which previously made Cargo fail to compile on certain platforms. #11347 #11633
• Don’t panic in Windows headless session with really long file names. #11759

Nightly only

• Implemented a initial support of asymmetric token authentication for registries. (RFC 3231) (docs) #10771
• Do not error for auth-required: true without -Z sparse-registry #11661
• Supports codegen-backend and rustflags in profiles in config file. #11562
• Suggests cargo clippy --fix when warnings/errors could be fixed with clippy. #11399
• Fixed artifact deps not working when target field specified coexists with optional = true. #11434
• Make Cargo distinguish Units with and without artifact targets. #11478
• cargo metadata supports artifact dependencies. #11550
• Allows builds of some crate to fail during optional doc-scraping. #11450
• Add warning if potentially-scrapable examples are skipped due to dev-dependencies. #11503
• Don’t scrape examples from library targets by default. #11499
• Fixed examples of proc-macro crates being scraped for examples. #11497

Cargo 1.67 (2023-01-26)

7e484fc1…rust-1.67.0

Added

• cargo remove now cleans up the referenced dependency of the root workspace manifest, profile, patch, and replace sections after a successful removal of a dependency. #11194 #11242 #11351
• cargo package and cargo publish now report total and compressed crate size after packaging. #11270

Changed

• ❗ Cargo now reuses the value of $CARGO if it’s already set in the environment, and forwards the value when executing external subcommands and build scripts. #11285
• ❗ Cargo now emits an error when running cargo update --precise without a -p flag. #11349
• ❗ Cargo now emits an error if there are multiple registries in the configuration with the same index URL. #10592
• Cargo now is aware of compression ratio when extracting crate files. This relaxes the hard size limit introduced in 1.64.0 to mitigate zip bomb attack. #11337
• Cargo now errors out when cargo fix on a git repo with uncommitted changes. #11400
• Cargo now warns when cargo tree -i <spec> cannot find any package. #11377
• Cargo now warns when running cargo new/init and PATH env separator is in the project path. #11318
• Better error messages when multiple packages were found and cargo add/remove gets confused. #11186 #11375
• A better error message when cargo init but existing ignore files aren’t UTF-8. #11321
• A better error message for cargo install .. #11401
• A better warning when the same file path found in multiple build targets. #11299
• Updated the internal HTTP library libcurl with various fixes and updates. #11307 #11326

Fixed

• Fixed cargo clean for removing fingerprints and build script artifacts of only the requested package #10621
• Fixed cargo install --index not working when config registry.default is set. #11302
• Fixed git2 safe-directory accidentally disabled when no network configuration was found. #11366
• Migrate from crate atty to resolve potential soundness issue. #11420
• Cleans stale git temp files left when libgit2 indexing is interrupted. #11308

Nightly only

• Suggests cargo fix when some compilation warnings/errors can be auto-fixed. #10989 #11368
• Changed rustdoc-scrape-examples to be a target-level configuration. #10343 #11425 #11430 #11445
• Propagates change of artifact bin dependency to its parent fingerprint. #11353
• Fixed wait-for-publish to work with sparse registry. #11356 #11327 #11388
• Stores the sparse+ prefix in the SourceId for sparse registries #11387 #11403
• Implemented alternative registry authentication support. (RFC 3139) (docs) #10592
• Added documentation of config option registries.crates-io.protocol. #11350

Cargo 1.66.1 (2023-01-10)

Fixed

• 🚨 CVE-2022-46176: Added validation of SSH host keys for git URLs. See the docs for more information on how to configure the known host keys.

Cargo 1.66 (2022-12-15)

08250398…rust-1.66.0

Added

• 🎉 Added cargo remove command for removing dependencies from Cargo.toml. docs #11059 #11099 #11193 #11204 #11227
• Added support for git dependencies having git submodules with relative paths. #11106
• Cargo now sends requests with a Accept-Encoding header to registries. #11292
• Cargo now forwards non-UTF8 arguments to external subcommands. #11118

Changed

• ❗ Disambiguate source replacements from various angles. RFC-3289 #10907
  • When the crates-io source is replaced, the user is required to specify which registry to use with --registry <NAME> when performing an API operation.
  • Publishing to source-replaced crates.io is no longer permitted using the crates.io token (registry.token).
  • In source replacement, the replace-with key can reference the name of an alternative registry in the [registries] table.
• ❗ cargo publish now blocks until it sees the published package in the index. #11062 #11210 #11216 #11255
• Cargo now uses the clap v4 library for command-line argument parsing. #11116 #11119 #11159 #11190 #11239 #11280
• Cargo now only warns on a user-defined alias shadowing an external command. #11170
• Several documentation improvements. #10770 #10938 #11082 #11093 #11157 #11185 #11207 #11219 #11240 #11241 #11282

Fixed

• ❗ Config file loaded via cargo --config <file> now takes priority over environment variables. This is a documented behaviour but the old implementation accidentally got it wrong. #11077
• ❗ Cargo collects rustflags in target.cfg(…).rustflags more correctly and warns if that’s not enough for convergence. #11114
• Final artifacts not removed by linker should be removed before a compilation gets started. #11122
• cargo add now reports unknown features in a more discoverable manner. #11098
• Cargo now reports command aliasing failure with more error contexts. #11087
• A better error message when cargo login prompt receives empty input. #11145
• A better error message for fields with wrong types where workspace inheritance is supported. #11113
• A better error message when mixing feature syntax dep: with /. #11172
• A better error message when publishing but package.publish is false in the manifest. #11280

Nightly only

• Added new config option publish.timeout behind -Zpublish-timeout. docs #11230
• Added retry support to sparse registries. #11069
• Fixed sparse registry lockfile urls containing registry+sparse+. #11177
• Add new config option registries.crates-io.protocol for controlling crates.io protocol. #11215
• Removed sparse+ prefix for index.crates.io. #11247
• Fixed publishing with a dependency on a sparse registry. #11268
• Fixed confusing error messages when using -Zsparse-registry. #11283
• Fixed 410 gone response handling for sparse registries. #11286

Cargo 1.65 (2022-11-03)

4fd148c4…rust-1.65.0

Added

• External subcommands can now inherit jobserver file descriptors from Cargo. #10511
• Added an API documentation for private items in cargo-the-library. See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/cargo. #11019

Changed

• Cargo now stops adding its bin path to PATH if it’s already there. #11023
• Improved the performance of Cargo build scheduling by sorting the queue of pending jobs. #11032
• Improved the performance fetching git dependencies from GitHub even when using a partial hash in the rev field. #10807
• Cargo now uses git2 v0.15 and libgit2-sys v0.14, which bring several compatibility fixes with git’s new behaviors. #11004
• Registry index files are cached in a more granular way based on content hash. #11044
• Cargo now uses the standard library’s std::thread::scope instead of the crossbeam crate for spawning scoped threads. #10977
• Cargo now uses the standard library’s available_parallelism instead of the num_cpus crate for determining the default parallelism. #10969
• Cargo now guides you how to solve it when seeing an error message of rust-version requirement not satisfied. #10891
• Cargo now tells you more about possible causes and how to fix it when a subcommand cannot be found. #10924
• Cargo now lists available target names when a given Cargo target cannot be found. #10999
• cargo update now warns if --precise is given without --package flag. This will become a hard error after a transition period. #10988 #11011
• cargo bench and cargo test now report a more precise test execution error right after a test fails. #11028
• cargo add now tells you for which version the features are added. #11075
• Call out that non-ASCII crate names are not supported by Rust anymore. #11017
• Enhanced the error message when in the manifest a field is expected to be an array but a string is used. #10944

Fixed

• Removed the restriction on file locking supports on platforms other than Linux. #10975
• Fixed incorrect OS detection by bumping os_info to 3.5.0. #10943
• Scanning the package directory now ignores errors from broken but excluded symlink files. #11008
• Fixed deadlock when build scripts are waiting for input on stdin. #11257

Nightly

• Progress indicator for sparse registries becomes more straightforward. #11068

Cargo 1.64 (2022-09-22)

a5e08c47…rust-1.64.0

Added

• 🎉 Packages can now inherit settings from the workspace so that the settings can be centralized in one place. See workspace.package and workspace.dependencies for more details on how to define these common settings. #10859
• Added the --crate-type flag to cargo rustc to override the crate type. #10838
• Cargo commands can now accept multiple --target flags to build for multiple targets at once, and the build.target config option may now take an array of multiple targets. #10766
• The --jobs argument can now take a negative number to count backwards from the max CPUs. #10844

Changed

• Bash completion of cargo install --path now supports path completion. #10798
• Significantly improved the performance fetching git dependencies from GitHub when using a hash in the rev field. #10079
• Published packages will now include the resolver setting from the workspace to ensure that they use the same resolver when used in isolation. #10911 #10961 #10970
• cargo add will now update Cargo.lock. #10902
• The path in the config output of cargo vendor now translates backslashes to forward slashes so that the settings should work across platforms. #10668
• The workspace.default-members setting now allows a value of "." in a non-virtual workspace to refer to the root package. #10784

Fixed

• 🚨 CVE-2022-36113: Extracting malicious crates can corrupt arbitrary files. #11089 #11088
• 🚨 CVE-2022-36114: Extracting malicious crates can fill the file system. #11089 #11088
• The os output in cargo --version --verbose now supports more platforms. #10802
• Cached git checkouts will now be rebuilt if they are corrupted. This may happen when using net.git-fetch-with-cli and interrupting the clone process. #10829
• Fixed panic in cargo add --offline. #10817

Nightly only

• Fixed deserialization of unstable check-cfg in config.toml. #10799

Cargo 1.63 (2022-08-11)

3f052d8e…rust-1.63.0

Added

• 🎉 Added the --config CLI option to pass config options directly on the CLI. #10755
• The CARGO_PKG_RUST_VERSION environment variable is now set when compiling a crate if the manifest has the rust-version field set. #10713

Changed

• A warning is emitted when encountering multiple packages with the same name in a git dependency. This will ignore packages with publish=false. #10701 #10767
• Change tracking now uses the contents of a .json target spec file instead of its path. This should help avoid rebuilds if the path changes. #10746
• Git dependencies with a submodule configured with the update=none strategy in .gitmodules is now honored, and the submodule will not be fetched. #10717
• Crate files now use a more recent date (Jul 23, 2006 instead of Nov 29, 1973) for deterministic behavior. #10720
• The initial template used for cargo new now includes a slightly more realistic test structure that has use super::*; in the test module. #10706
• Updated the internal HTTP library libcurl with various small fixes and updates. #10696

Fixed

• Fix zsh completions for cargo add and cargo locate-project #10810 #10811
• Fixed -p being ignored with cargo publish in the root of a virtual workspace. Some additional checks were also added to generate an error if multiple packages were selected (previously it would pick the first one). #10677
• The human-readable executable name is no longer displayed for cargo test when using JSON output. #10691

Nightly only

• Added -Zcheck-cfg=output to support build-scripts declaring their supported set of cfg values with cargo:rustc-check-cfg. #10539
• -Z sparse-registry now uses https://index.crates.io/ when accessing crates-io. #10725
• Fixed formatting of .workspace key in cargo add for workspace inheritance. #10705
• Sparse HTTP registry URLs must now end with a /. #10698
• Fixed issue with cargo add and workspace inheritance of the default-features key. #10685

Cargo 1.62 (2022-06-30)

1ef1e0a1…rust-1.62.0

Added

• 🎉 Added the cargo add command for adding dependencies to Cargo.toml from the command-line. docs #10472 #10577 #10578
• Package ID specs now support name@version syntax in addition to the previous name:version to align with the behavior in cargo add and other tools. cargo install and cargo yank also now support this syntax so the version does not need to passed as a separate flag. #10582 #10650 #10597
• Added the CLI option -F as an alias of --features. #10576
• The git and registry directories in Cargo’s home directory (usually ~/.cargo) are now marked as cache directories so that they are not included in backups or content indexing (on Windows). #10553
• Added the --version flag to cargo yank to replace the --vers flag to be consistent with cargo install. #10575
• Added automatic @ argfile support, which will use “response files” if the command-line to rustc exceeds the operating system’s limit. #10546
• cargo clean now has a progress bar (if it takes longer than half a second). #10236

Changed

• cargo install no longer generates an error if no binaries were found to install (such as missing required features). #10508
• cargo test now passes --target to rustdoc if the specified target is the same as the host target. #10594
• cargo doc now automatically passes -Arustdoc::private-intra-doc-links when documenting a binary (which automatically includes --document-private-items). The private-intra-doc-links lint is only relevant when not documenting private items, which doesn’t apply to binaries. #10142
• The length of the short git hash in the cargo --version output is now fixed to 9 characters. Previously the length was inconsistent between different platforms. #10579
• Attempting to publish a package with a Cargo.toml.orig file will now result in an error. The filename would otherwise conflict with the automatically-generated file. #10551

Fixed

• The build.dep-info-basedir configuration setting now properly supports the use of .. in the path to refer to a parent directory. #10281
• Fixed regression in automatic detection of the default number of CPUs to use on systems using cgroups v1. #10737 #10739

Nightly only

• cargo fetch now works with -Zbuild-std to fetch the standard library’s dependencies. #10129
• Added support for workspace inheritance. docs #10584 #10568 #10565 #10564 #10563 #10606 #10548 #10538
• Added -Zcheck-cfg which adds various forms of validating cfg expressions for unknown names and values. docs #10486 #10566
• The --config CLI option no longer allows setting a registry token. #10580
• Fixed issues with proc-macros and -Z rustdoc-scrape-examples. #10549 #10533

Cargo 1.61 (2022-05-19)

ea2a21c9…rust-1.61.0

Added

Changed

• cargo test --no-run will now display the path to the test executables. #10346
• cargo tree --duplicates no longer reports dependencies that are shared between the host and the target as duplicates. #10466
• Updated to the 1.4.2 release of libgit2 which brings in several fixes #10442 #10479
• cargo vendor no longer allows multiple values for --sync, you must pass multiple --sync flags instead. #10448
• Warnings are now issued for manifest keys that have mixed both underscore and dash variants (such as specifying both proc_macro and proc-macro) #10316
• Cargo now uses the standard library’s available_parallelism instead of the num_cpus crate for determining the default parallelism. #10427
• cargo search terms are now highlighted. #10425

Fixed

• Paths passed to VCS tools like hg are now added after -- to avoid conflict with VCS flags. #10483
• Fixed the http.timeout configuration value to actually work. #10456
• Fixed issues with cargo rustc --crate-type not working in some situations. #10388

Nightly only

• Added -Z check-cfg-features to enable compile-time checking of features #10408
• Added -Z bindeps to support binary artifact dependencies (RFC-3028) #9992
• -Z multitarget is now supported in the build.target config value with an array. #10473
• Added --keep-going flag which will continue compilation even if one crate fails to compile. #10383
• Start work on inheriting manifest values in a workspace. #10497 #10517
• Added support for sparse HTTP registries. #10470 #10064
• Fixed panic when artifact target is used for [target.'cfg(<target>)'.dependencies] #10433
• Fixed host flags to pass to build scripts (-Z target-applies-to-host) #10395
• Added -Z check-cfg-features support for rustdoc #10428

Cargo 1.60 (2022-04-07)

358e79fe…rust-1.60.0

Added

• 🎉 Added the dep: prefix in the [features] table to refer to an optional dependency. This allows creating feature names with the same name as a dependency, and allows for “hiding” optional dependencies so that they do not implicitly expose a feature name. docs #10269
• 🎉 Added the dep-name?/feature-name syntax to the [features] table to only enable the feature feature-name if the optional dependency dep-name is already enabled by some other feature. docs #10269
• 🎉 Added --timings option to generate an HTML report about build timing, concurrency, and CPU use. docs #10245
• Added the "v" and "features2" fields to the registry index. The "v" field provides a method for compatibility with future changes to the index. docs #10269
• Added bash completion for cargo clippy #10347
• Added bash completion for cargo report #10295
• Added support to build scripts for rustc-link-arg-tests, rustc-link-arg-examples, and rustc-link-arg-benches. docs #10274

Changed

• Cargo now uses the clap 3 library for command-line argument parsing. #10265
• The build.pipelining config option is now deprecated, pipelining will now always be enabled. #10258
• cargo new will now generate a .gitignore which only ignores Cargo.lock in the root of the repo, instead of any directory. #10379
• Improved startup time of bash completion. #10365
• The --features flag is now honored when used with the --all-features flag, which allows enabling features from other packages. #10337
• Cargo now uses a different TOML parser. This should not introduce any user-visible changes. This paves the way to support format-preserving programmatic modification of TOML files for supporting cargo add and other future enhancements. #10086
• Setting a library to emit both a dylib and cdylib is now an error, as this combination is not supported. #10243
• cargo --list now includes the help command. #10300

Fixed

• Fixed running cargo doc on examples with dev-dependencies. #10341
• Fixed cargo install --path for a path that is relative to a directory outside of the workspace in the current directory. #10335
• cargo test TEST_FILTER should no longer build binaries that are explicitly disabled with test = false. #10305
• Fixed regression with term.verbose without term.quiet, and vice versa. #10429 #10436

Nightly only

• Added rustflags option to a profile definition. #10217
• Changed --config to only support dotted keys. #10176
• Fixed profile rustflags not being gated in profile overrides. #10411 #10413

Cargo 1.59 (2022-02-24)

7f08ace4…rust-1.59.0

Added

• 🎉 The strip option can now be specified in a profile to specify the behavior for removing symbols and debug information from binaries. docs #10088 #10376
• 🎉 Added future incompatible reporting. This provides reporting for when a future change in rustc may cause a package or any of its dependencies to stop building. docs #10165
• SSH authentication on Windows now supports ssh-agent. docs #10248
• Added term.quiet configuration option to enable the --quiet behavior from a config file. docs #10152
• Added -r CLI option as an alias for --release. #10133

Changed

• Scanning the package directory should now be resilient to errors, such as filesystem loops or access issues. #10188 #10214 #10286
• cargo help <alias> will now show the target of the alias. #10193
• Removed the deprecated --host CLI option. #10145 #10327
• Cargo should now report its version to always be in sync with rustc. #10178
• Added EOPNOTSUPP to ignored file locking errors, which is relevant to BSD operating systems. #10157

Fixed

• macOS: Fixed an issue where running an executable would sporadically be killed by the kernel (likely starting in macOS 12). #10196
• Fixed so that the doc=false setting is honored in the [lib] definition of a dependency. #10201 #10324
• The "executable" field in the JSON option was incorrectly including the path to index.html when documenting a binary. It is now null. #10171
• Documenting a binary now waits for the package library to finish documenting before starting. This fixes some race conditions if the binary has intra-doc links to the library. #10172
• Fixed panic when displaying help text to a closed pipe. #10164

Nightly only

• Added the --crate-type flag to cargo rustc. #10093

Cargo 1.58 (2022-01-13)

b2e52d7c…rust-1.58.0

Added

• Added rust_version field to package data in cargo metadata. #9967
• Added --message-format option to cargo install. #10107

Changed

• A warning is now shown when an alias shadows an external command. #10082
• Updated curl to 7.80.0. #10040 #10106

Fixed

• Doctests now include rustc-link-args from build scripts. #9916
• Fixed cargo tree entering an infinite loop with cyclical dev-dependencies. Fixed an edge case where the resolver would fail to handle a cyclical dev-dependency with a feature. #10103
• Fixed cargo clean -p when the directory path contains glob characters. #10072
• Fixed debug builds of cargo which could panic when downloading a crate when the server has a redirect with a non-empty body. #10048

Nightly only

• Make future-incompat-report output more user-friendly. #9953
• Added support to scrape code examples from the examples directory to be included in the documentation. docs #9525 #10037 #10017
• Fixed cargo report future-incompatibilities to check stdout if it supports color. #10024

Cargo 1.57 (2021-12-02)

18751dd3…rust-1.57.0

Added

• 🎉 Added custom named profiles. This also changes the test and bench profiles to inherit their settings from dev and release, and Cargo will now only use a single profile during a given command instead of using different profiles for dependencies and cargo-targets. docs #9943
• The rev option for a git dependency now supports git references that start with refs/. An example where this can be used is to depend on a pull request from a service like GitHub before it is merged. #9859
• Added path_in_vcs field to the .cargo_vcs_info.json file. docs #9866

Changed

• ❗ RUSTFLAGS is no longer set for build scripts. This change was made in 1.55, but the release notes did not highlight this change. Build scripts should use CARGO_ENCODED_RUSTFLAGS instead. See the documentation for more details.
• The cargo version command now includes some extra information. #9968
• Updated libgit2 to 1.3 which brings in a number of fixes and changes to git handling. #9963 #9988
• Shell completions now include shorthand b/r/c/d subcommands. #9951
• cargo update --precise now allows specifying a version without semver metadata (stuff after + in the version number). #9945
• zsh completions now complete --example names. #9939
• The progress bar now differentiates when building unittests. #9934
• Some backwards-compatibility support for invalid TOML syntax has been removed. #9932
• Reverted the change from 1.55 that triggered an error for dependency specifications that did not include any fields. #9911

Fixed

• Removed a log message (from CARGO_LOG) that may leak tokens. #9873
• cargo fix will now avoid writing fixes to the global registry cache. #9938
• Fixed -Z help CLI option when used with a shorthand alias (b/c/r/d). #9933

Nightly only

Cargo 1.56 (2021-10-21)

cebef295…rust-1.56.0

Added

• 🎉 Cargo now supports the 2021 edition. More information may be found in the edition guide. #9800
• 🎉 Added the rust-version field to Cargo.toml to specify the minimum supported Rust version, and the --ignore-rust-version command line option to override it. #9732
• Added the [env] table to config files to specify environment variables to set. docs #9411
• [patch] tables may now be specified in config files. docs #9839
• cargo doc now supports the --example and --examples flags. #9808
• 🎉 Build scripts can now pass additional linker arguments for binaries or all linkable targets. docs #9557
• Added support for the -p flag for cargo publish to publish a specific package in a workspace. cargo package also now supports -p and --workspace. #9559
• Added documentation about third-party registries. #9830
• Added the {sha256-checksum} placeholder for URLs in a registry config.json. docs #9801
• Added a warning when a dependency does not have a library. #9771

Changed

• Doc tests now support the -q flag to show terse test output. #9730
• features used in a [replace] table now issues a warning, as they are ignored. #9681
• Changed so that only wasm32-unknown-emscripten executables are built without a hash in the filename. Previously it was all wasm32 targets. Additionally, all apple binaries are now built with a hash in the filename. This allows multiple copies to be cached at once, and matches the behavior on other platforms (except msvc). #9653
• cargo new now generates an example that doesn’t generate a warning with clippy. #9796
• cargo fix --edition now only applies edition-specific lints. #9846
• Improve resolver message to include dependency requirements. #9827
• cargo fix now has more debug logging available with the CARGO_LOG environment variable. #9831
• Changed cargo fix --edition to emit a warning when on the latest stable edition when running on stable instead of generating an error. #9792
• cargo install will now determine all of the packages to install before starting the installation, which should help with reporting errors without partially installing. #9793
• The resolver report for cargo fix --edition now includes differences for dev-dependencies. #9803
• cargo fix will now show better diagnostics for abnormal errors from rustc. #9799
• Entries in cargo --list are now deduplicated. #9773
• Aliases are now included in cargo --list. #9764

Fixed

• Fixed panic with build-std of a proc-macro. #9834
• Fixed running cargo recursively from proc-macros while running cargo fix. #9818
• Return an error instead of a stack overflow for command alias loops. #9791
• Updated to curl 7.79.1, which will hopefully fix intermittent http2 errors. #9937

Nightly only

• Added [future-incompat-report] config section. #9774
• Fixed value-after-table error with custom named profiles. #9789
• Added the different-binary-name feature to support specifying a non-rust-identifier for a binary name. docs #9627
• Added a profile option to select the codegen backend. docs #9118

Cargo 1.55 (2021-09-09)

aa8b0929…rust-1.55.0

Added

• The package definition in cargo metadata now includes the "default_run" field from the manifest. #9550
• ❗ Build scripts now have access to the following environment variables: RUSTC_WRAPPER, RUSTC_WORKSPACE_WRAPPER, CARGO_ENCODED_RUSTFLAGS. RUSTFLAGS is no longer set for build scripts; they should use CARGO_ENCODED_RUSTFLAGS instead. docs #9601
• Added cargo d as an alias for cargo doc. #9680
• Added {lib} to the cargo tree --format option to display the library name of a package. #9663
• Added members_mut method to the Workspace API. #9547

Changed

• If a build command does not match any targets when using the --all-targets, --bins, --tests, --examples, or --benches flags, a warning is now displayed to inform you that there were no matching targets. #9549
• The way cargo init detects whether or not existing source files represent a binary or library has been changed to respect the command-line flags instead of trying to guess which type it is. #9522
• Registry names are now displayed instead of registry URLs when possible. #9632
• Duplicate compiler diagnostics are no longer shown. This can often happen with cargo test which builds multiple copies of the same code in parallel. This also updates the warning summary to provide more context. #9675
• The output for warnings or errors is now improved to be leaner, cleaner, and show more context. #9655
• Network send errors are now treated as “spurious” which means they will be retried. #9695
• Git keys (branch, tag, rev) on a non-git dependency are now an error. Additionally, specifying both git and path is now an error. #9689
• Specifying a dependency without any keys is now an error. #9686
• The resolver now prefers to use [patch] table entries of dependencies when possible. #9639
• Package name typo errors in dependencies are now displayed aligned with the original to help make it easier to see the difference. #9665
• Windows platforms may now warn on environment variables that have the wrong case. #9654
• features used in a [patch] table now issues a warning, as they are ignored. #9666
• The target directory is now excluded from content indexing on Windows. #9635
• When Cargo.toml is not found, the error message now detects if it was misnamed with a lowercase c to suggest the correct form. #9607
• Building diesel with the new resolver displays a compatibility notice. #9602
• Updated the opener dependency, which handles opening a web browser, which includes several changes, such as new behavior when run on WSL, and using the system xdg-open on Linux. #9583
• Updated to libcurl 7.78. #9809 #9810

Fixed

• Fixed dep-info files including non-local build script paths. #9596
• Handle “jobs = 0” case in cargo config files #9584
• Implement warning for ignored trailing arguments after -- #9561
• Fixed rustc/rustdoc config values to be config-relative. #9566
• cargo fix now supports rustc’s suggestions with multiple spans. #9567
• cargo fix now fixes each target serially instead of in parallel to avoid problems with fixing the same file concurrently. #9677
• Changes to the target linker config value now trigger a rebuild. #9647
• Git unstaged deleted files are now ignored when using the --allow-dirty flag with cargo publish or cargo package. #9645

Nightly only

• Enabled support for cargo fix --edition for 2021. #9588
• Several changes to named profiles. #9685
• Extended instructions on what to do when running cargo fix --edition on the 2021 edition. #9694
• Multiple updates to error messages using nightly features to help better explain the situation. #9657
• Adjusted the edition 2021 resolver diff report. #9649
• Fixed error using cargo doc --open with doc.extern-map. #9531
• Unified weak and namespaced features. #9574
• Various updates to future-incompatible reporting. #9606
• [env] environment variables are not allowed to set vars set by Cargo. #9579

Cargo 1.54 (2021-07-29)

4369396c…rust-1.54.0

Added

• Fetching from a git repository (such as the crates.io index) now displays the network transfer rate. #9395
• Added --prune option for cargo tree to limit what is displayed. #9520
• Added --depth option for cargo tree to limit what is displayed. #9499
• Added cargo tree -e no-proc-macro to hide procedural macro dependencies. #9488
• Added doc.browser config option to set which browser to open with cargo doc --open. #9473
• Added CARGO_TARGET_TMPDIR environment variable set for integration tests & benches. This provides a temporary or “scratch” directory in the target directory for tests and benches to use. #9375

Changed

• --features CLI flags now provide typo suggestions with the new feature resolver. #9420
• Cargo now uses a new parser for SemVer versions. This should behave mostly the same as before with some minor exceptions where invalid syntax for version requirements is now rejected. #9508
• Mtime handling of .crate published packages has changed slightly to avoid mtime values of 0. This was causing problems with lldb which refused to read those files. #9517
• Improved performance of git status check in cargo package. #9478
• cargo new with fossil now places the ignore settings in the new repository instead of using fossil settings to set them globally. This also includes several other cleanups to make it more consistent with other VCS configurations. #9469
• rustc-cdylib-link-arg applying transitively displays a warning that this was not intended, and may be an error in the future. #9563

Fixed

• Fixed package.exclude in Cargo.toml using inverted exclusions (!somefile) when not in a git repository or when vendoring a dependency. #9186
• Dep-info files now adjust build script rerun-if-changed paths to be absolute paths. #9421
• Fixed a bug when with resolver = “1” non-virtual package was allowing unknown features. #9437
• Fixed an issue with the index cache mishandling versions that only differed in build metadata (such as 110.0.0 and 110.0.0+1.1.0f). #9476
• Fixed cargo install with a semver metadata version. #9467

Nightly only

• Added report subcommand, and changed cargo describe-future-incompatibilitie to cargo report future-incompatibilities. #9438
• Added a [host] table to the config files to be able to set build flags for host target. Also added target-applies-to-host to control how the [target] tables behave. #9322
• Added some validation to build script rustc-link-arg-* instructions to return an error if the target doesn’t exist. #9523
• Added cargo:rustc-link-arg-bin instruction for build scripts. #9486

Cargo 1.53 (2021-06-17)

90691f2b…rust-1.53.0

Added

Changed

• 🔥 Cargo now supports git repositories where the default HEAD branch is not “master”. This also includes a switch to the version 3 Cargo.lock format which can handle default branches correctly. #9133 #9397 #9384 #9392
• 🔥 macOS targets now default to unpacked split-debuginfo. #9298
• ❗ The authors field is no longer included in Cargo.toml for new projects. #9282
• cargo update may now work with the --offline flag. #9279
• cargo doc will now erase the doc directory when switching between different toolchain versions. There are shared, unversioned files (such as the search index) that can become broken when using different versions. #8640 #9404
• Improved error messages when path dependency/workspace member is missing. #9368

Fixed

• Fixed cargo doc detecting if the documentation needs to be rebuilt when changing some settings such as features. #9419
• cargo doc now deletes the output directory for the package before running rustdoc to clear out any stale files. #9419
• Fixed the -C metadata value to always include all information for all builds. Previously, in some situations, the hash only included the package name and version. This fixes some issues, such as incremental builds with split-debuginfo on macOS corrupting the incremental cache in some cases. #9418
• Fixed man pages not working on Windows if man is in PATH. #9378
• The rustc cache is now aware of RUSTC_WRAPPER and RUSTC_WORKSPACE_WRAPPER. #9348
• Track the CARGO environment variable in the rebuild fingerprint if the code uses env!("CARGO"). #9363

Nightly only

• Fixed config includes not working. #9299
• Emit note when --future-incompat-report had nothing to report. #9263
• Error messages for nightly features flags (like -Z and cargo-features) now provides more information. #9290
• Added the ability to set the target for an individual package in Cargo.toml. docs #9030
• Fixed build-std updating the index on every build. #9393
• -Z help now displays all the -Z options. #9369
• Added -Zallow-features to specify which nightly features are allowed to be used. #9283
• Added cargo config subcommand. #9302

Cargo 1.52 (2021-05-06)

34170fcd…rust-1.52.0

Added

• Added the "manifest_path" field to JSON messages for a package. #9022 #9247

Changed

• Build scripts are now forbidden from setting RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP on stable. #9181 #9385
• crates.io now supports SPDX 3.11 licenses. #9209
• An error is now reported if CARGO_TARGET_DIR is an empty string. #8939
• Doc tests now pass the --message-format flag into the test so that the “short” format can now be used for doc tests. #9128
• cargo test now prints a clearer indicator of which target is currently running. #9195
• The CARGO_TARGET_<TRIPLE> environment variable will now issue a warning if it is using lowercase letters. #9169

Fixed

• Fixed publication of packages with metadata and resolver fields in Cargo.toml. #9300 #9304
• Fixed logic for determining prefer-dynamic for a dylib which differed in a workspace vs a single package. #9252
• Fixed an issue where exclusive target-specific dependencies that overlapped across dependency kinds (like regular and build-dependencies) would incorrectly include the dependencies in both. #9255
• Fixed panic with certain styles of Package IDs when passed to the -p flag. #9188
• When running cargo with output not going to a TTY, and with the progress bar and color force-enabled, the output will now correctly clear the progress line. #9231
• Error instead of panic when JSON may contain non-utf8 paths. #9226
• Fixed a hang that can happen on broken stderr. #9201
• Fixed thin-local LTO not being disabled correctly when lto=off is set. #9182

Nightly only

• The strip profile option now supports true and false values. #9153
• cargo fix --edition now displays a report when switching to 2021 if the new resolver changes features. #9268
• Added [patch] table support in .cargo/config files. #9204
• Added cargo describe-future-incompatibilities for generating a report on dependencies that contain future-incompatible warnings. #8825
• Added easier support for testing the 2021 edition. #9184
• Switch the default resolver to “2” in the 2021 edition. #9184
• cargo fix --edition now supports 2021. #9184
• Added --print flag to cargo rustc to pass along to rustc to display information from rustc. #9002
• Added -Zdoctest-in-workspace for changing the directory where doctests are run versus where they are compiled. #9105
• Added support for an [env] section in .cargo/config.toml to set environment variables when running cargo. #9175
• Added a schema field and features2 field to the index. #9161
• Changes to JSON spec targets will now trigger a rebuild. #9223

Cargo 1.51 (2021-03-25)

75d5d8cf…rust-1.51.0

Added

• 🔥 Added the split-debuginfo profile option. docs #9112
• Added the path field to cargo metadata for the package dependencies list to show the path for “path” dependencies. #8994
• 🔥 Added a new feature resolver, and new CLI feature flag behavior. See the new features and resolver documentation for the resolver = "2" option. See the CLI and resolver 2 CLI options for the new CLI behavior. And, finally, see RFC 2957 for a detailed look at what has changed. #8997

Changed

• cargo install --locked now emits a warning if Cargo.lock is not found. #9108
• Unknown or ambiguous package IDs passed on the command-line now display suggestions for the correct package ID. #9095
• Slightly optimize cargo vendor #8937 #9131 #9132

Fixed

• Fixed environment variables and cfg settings emitted by a build script that are set for cargo test and cargo run when the build script runs multiple times during the same build session. #9122
• Fixed a panic with cargo doc and the new feature resolver. This also introduces some heuristics to try to avoid path collisions with rustdoc by only documenting one variant of a package if there are multiple (such as multiple versions, or the same package shared for host and target platforms). #9077
• Fixed a bug in Cargo’s cyclic dep graph detection that caused a stack overflow. #9075
• Fixed build script links environment variables (DEP_*) not showing up for testing packages in some cases. #9065
• Fixed features being selected in a nondeterministic way for a specific scenario when building an entire workspace with all targets with a proc-macro in the workspace with resolver="2". #9059
• Fixed to use http.proxy setting in ~/.gitconfig. #8986
• Fixed –feature pkg/feat for V1 resolver for non-member. #9275 #9277
• Fixed panic in cargo doc when there are colliding output filenames in a workspace. #9276 #9277
• Fixed cargo install from exiting with success if one of several packages did not install successfully. #9185 #9196
• Fix panic with doc collision orphan. #9142 #9196

Nightly only

• Removed the publish-lockfile unstable feature, it was stabilized without the need for an explicit flag 1.5 years ago. #9092
• Added better diagnostics, help messages, and documentation for nightly features (such as those passed with the -Z flag, or specified with cargo-features in Cargo.toml). #9092
• Added support for Rust edition 2021. #8922
• Added support for the rust-version field in project metadata. #8037
• Added a schema field to the index. #9161 #9196

Cargo 1.50 (2021-02-11)

8662ab42…rust-1.50.0

Added

• Added the doc field to cargo metadata, which indicates if a target is documented. #8869
• Added RUSTC_WORKSPACE_WRAPPER, an alternate RUSTC wrapper that only runs for the local workspace packages, and caches its artifacts independently of non-wrapped builds. #8976
• Added --workspace to cargo update to update only the workspace members, and not their dependencies. This is particularly useful if you update the version in Cargo.toml and want to update Cargo.lock without running any other commands. #8725

Changed

• .crate files uploaded to a registry are now built with reproducible settings, so that the same .crate file created on different machines should be identical. #8864
• Git dependencies that specify more than one of branch, tag, or rev are now rejected. #8984
• The rerun-if-changed build script directive can now point to a directory, in which case Cargo will check if any file in that directory changes. #8973
• If Cargo cannot determine the username or email address, cargo new will no longer fail, and instead create an empty authors list. #8912
• The progress bar width has been reduced to provide more room to display the crates currently being built. #8892
• cargo new will now support includeIf directives in .gitconfig to match the correct directory when determining the username and email address. #8886

Fixed

• Fixed cargo metadata and cargo tree to only download packages for the requested target. #8987
• Updated libgit2, which brings in many fixes, particularly fixing a zlib error that occasionally appeared on 32-bit systems. #8998
• Fixed stack overflow with a circular dev-dependency that uses the links field. #8969
• Fixed cargo publish failing on some filesystems, particularly 9p on WSL2. #8950

Nightly only

• Allow resolver="1" to specify the original feature resolution behavior. #8857
• Added -Z extra-link-arg which adds the cargo:rustc-link-arg-bins and cargo:rustc-link-arg build script options. docs #8441
• Implemented external credential process support, and added cargo logout. (RFC 2730) (docs) #8934
• Fix panic with -Zbuild-std and no roots. #8942
• Set docs.rs as the default extern-map for crates.io #8877

Cargo 1.49 (2020-12-31)

75615f8e…rust-1.49.0

Added

• Added homepage and documentation fields to cargo metadata. #8744
• Added the CARGO_PRIMARY_PACKAGE environment variable which is set when running rustc if the package is one of the “root” packages selected on the command line. #8758
• Added support for Unix-style glob patterns for package and target selection flags on the command-line (such as -p 'serde*' or --test '*'). #8752

Changed

• Computed LTO flags are now included in the filename metadata hash so that changes in LTO settings will independently cache build artifacts instead of overwriting previous ones. This prevents rebuilds in some situations such as switching between cargo build and cargo test in some circumstances. #8755
• cargo tree now displays (proc-macro) next to proc-macro packages. #8765
• Added a warning that the allowed characters for a feature name have been restricted to letters, digits, _, -, and + to accommodate future syntax changes. This is still a superset of the allowed syntax on crates.io, which requires ASCII. This is intended to be changed to an error in the future. #8814
• -p without a value will now print a list of workspace package names. #8808
• Add period to allowed feature name characters. #8932 #8943

Fixed

• Fixed building a library with both “dylib” and “rlib” crate types with LTO enabled. #8754
• Fixed paths in Cargo’s dep-info files. #8819
• Fixed inconsistent source IDs in cargo metadata for git dependencies that explicitly specify branch="master". #8824
• Fixed re-extracting dependencies which contained a .cargo-ok file. #8835

Nightly only

• Fixed a panic with cargo doc -Zfeatures=itarget in some situations. #8777
• New implementation for namespaced features, using the syntax dep:serde. docs #8799
• Added support for “weak” dependency features, using the syntax dep_name?/feat_name, which will enable a feature for a dependency without also enabling the dependency. #8818
• Fixed the new feature resolver downloading extra dependencies that weren’t strictly necessary. #8823

Cargo 1.48 (2020-11-19)

51b66125…rust-1.48.0

Added

• Added term.progress configuration option to control when and how the progress bar is displayed. docs #8165
• Added --message-format plain option to cargo locate-project to display the project location without JSON to make it easier to use in a script. #8707
• Added --workspace option to cargo locate-project to display the path to the workspace manifest. #8712
• A new contributor guide has been added for contributing to Cargo itself. This is published at https://rust-lang.github.io/cargo/contrib/. #8715
• Zsh --target completion will now complete with the built-in rustc targets. #8740

Changed

Fixed

• Fixed cargo new creating a fossil repository to properly ignore the target directory. #8671
• Don’t show warnings about the workspace in the current directory when using cargo install of a remote package. #8681
• Automatically reinitialize the index when an “Object not found” error is encountered in the git repository. #8735
• Updated libgit2, which brings in several fixes for git repository handling. #8778 #8780

Nightly only

• Fixed cargo install so that it will ignore the [unstable] table in local config files. #8656
• Fixed nondeterministic behavior of the new feature resolver. #8701
• Fixed running cargo test on a proc-macro with the new feature resolver under a specific combination of circumstances. #8742

Cargo 1.47 (2020-10-08)

4f74d9b2…rust-1.47.0

Added

• cargo doc will now include the package’s version in the left sidebar. #8509
• Added the test field to cargo metadata targets. #8478
• Cargo’s man pages are now displayed via the cargo help command (such as cargo help build). #8456 #8577
• Added new documentation chapters on how dependency resolution works and SemVer compatibility, along with suggestions on how to version your project and work with dependencies. #8609

Changed

• The comments added to .gitignore when it is modified have been tweaked to add some spacing. #8476
• cargo metadata output should now be sorted to be deterministic. #8489
• By default, build scripts and proc-macros are now built with opt-level=0 and the default codegen units, even in release mode. #8500
• workspace.default-members is now filtered by workspace.exclude. #8485
• workspace.members globs now ignore non-directory paths. #8511
• git zlib errors now trigger a retry. #8520
• “http” class git errors now trigger a retry. #8553
• git dependencies now override the core.autocrlf git configuration value to ensure they behave consistently across platforms, particularly when vendoring git dependencies on Windows. #8523
• If Cargo.lock needs to be updated, then it will be automatically transitioned to the new V2 format. This format removes the [metadata] table, and should be easier to merge changes in source control systems. This format was introduced in 1.38, and made the default for new projects in 1.41. #8554
• Added preparation for support of git repositories with a non-“master” default branch. Actual support will arrive in a future version. This introduces some warnings:
  • Warn if a git dependency does not specify a branch, and the default branch on the repository is not “master”. In the future, Cargo will fetch the default branch. In this scenario, the branch should be explicitly specified.
  • Warn if a workspace has multiple dependencies to the same git repository, one without a branch and one with branch="master". Dependencies should all use one form or the other. #8522
• Warnings are now issued if a required-features entry lists a feature that does not exist. #7950
• Built-in aliases are now included in cargo --list. #8542
• cargo install with a specific version that has been yanked will now display an error message that it has been yanked, instead of “could not find”. #8565
• cargo publish with a package that has the publish field set to a single registry, and no --registry flag has been given, will now publish to that registry instead of generating an error. #8571

Fixed

• Fixed issue where if a project directory was moved, and one of the build scripts did not use the rerun-if-changed directive, then that build script was being rebuilt when it shouldn’t. #8497
• Console colors should now work on Windows 7 and 8. #8540
• The CARGO_TARGET_{triplet}_RUNNER environment variable will now correctly override the config file instead of trying to merge the commands. #8629
• Fixed LTO with doctests. #8657 #8658

Nightly only

• Added support for -Z terminal-width which tells rustc the width of the terminal so that it can format diagnostics better. docs #8427
• Added ability to configure -Z unstable flags in config files via the [unstable] table. docs #8393
• Added -Z build-std-features flag to set features for the standard library. docs #8490

Cargo 1.46 (2020-08-27)

9fcb8c1d…rust-1.46.0

Added

• The dl key in config.json of a registry index now supports the replacement markers {prefix} and {lowerprefix} to allow spreading crates across directories similar to how the index itself is structured. docs #8267
• Added new environment variables that are set during compilation:
  • CARGO_CRATE_NAME: The name of the crate being built.
  • CARGO_BIN_NAME: The name of the executable binary (if this is a binary crate).
  • CARGO_PKG_LICENSE: The license field from the manifest.
  • CARGO_PKG_LICENSE_FILE: The license-file field from the manifest. #8270 #8325 #8387
• If the value for readme is not specified in Cargo.toml, it is now automatically inferred from the existence of a file named README, README.md, or README.txt. This can be suppressed by setting readme = false. #8277
• cargo install now supports the --index flag to install directly from an index. #8344
• Added the metadata table to the workspace definition in Cargo.toml. This can be used for arbitrary data similar to the package.metadata table. #8323
• Added the --target-dir flag to cargo install to set the target directory. #8391
• Changes to environment variables used by the env! or option_env! macros are now automatically detected to trigger a rebuild. #8421
• The target directory now includes the CACHEDIR.TAG file which is used by some tools to exclude the directory from backups. #8378
• Added docs about rustup’s +toolchain syntax. #8455

Changed

• A warning is now displayed if a git dependency includes a # fragment in the URL. This was potentially confusing because Cargo itself displays git URLs with this syntax, but it does not have any meaning outside of the Cargo.lock file, and would not work properly. #8297
• Various optimizations and fixes for bitcode embedding and LTO. #8349
• Reduced the amount of data fetched for git dependencies. If Cargo knows the branch or tag to fetch, it will now only fetch that branch or tag instead of all branches and tags. #8363
• Enhanced git fetch error messages. #8409
• .crate files are now generated with GNU tar format instead of UStar, which supports longer file names. #8453

Fixed

• Fixed a rare situation where an update to Cargo.lock failed once, but then subsequent runs allowed it proceed. #8274
• Removed assertion that Windows dylibs must have a .dll extension. Some custom JSON spec targets may change the extension. #8310
• Updated libgit2, which brings in a fix for zlib errors for some remote git servers like googlesource.com. #8320
• Fixed the GitHub fast-path check for up-to-date git dependencies on non-master branches. #8363
• Fixed issue when enabling a feature with pkg/feature syntax, and pkg is an optional dependency, but also a dev-dependency, and the dev-dependency appears before the optional normal dependency in the registry summary, then the optional dependency would not get activated. #8395
• Fixed clean -p deleting the build directory if there is a test named build. #8398
• Fixed indentation of multi-line Cargo error messages. #8409
• Fixed issue where the automatic inclusion of the --document-private-items flag for rustdoc would override any flags passed to the cargo rustdoc command. #8449
• Cargo will now include a version in the hash of the fingerprint directories to support backwards-incompatible changes to the fingerprint structure. #8473 #8488

Nightly only

• Added -Zrustdoc-map feature which provides external mappings for rustdoc (such as https://docs.rs/ links). docs #8287
• Fixed feature calculation when a proc-macro is declared in Cargo.toml with an underscore (like proc_macro = true). #8319
• Added support for setting -Clinker with -Zdoctest-xcompile. #8359
• Fixed setting the strip profile field in config files. #8454

Cargo 1.45 (2020-07-16)

ebda5065e…rust-1.45.0

Added

Changed

• Changed official documentation to recommend .cargo/config.toml filenames (with the .toml extension). .toml extension support was added in 1.39. #8121

• The registry.index config value is no longer allowed (it has been deprecated for 4 years). #7973

• An error is generated if both --index and --registry are passed (previously --index was silently ignored). #7973

• The registry.token config value is no longer used with the --index flag. This is intended to avoid potentially leaking the crates.io token to another registry. #7973

• Added a warning if registry.token is used with source replacement. It is intended this will be an error in future versions. #7973

• Windows GNU targets now copy .dll.a import library files for DLL crate types to the output directory. #8141

• Dylibs for all dependencies are now unconditionally copied to the output directory. Some obscure scenarios can cause an old dylib to be referenced between builds, and this ensures that all the latest copies are used. #8139

• package.exclude can now match directory names. If a directory is specified, the entire directory will be excluded, and Cargo will not attempt to inspect it further. Previously Cargo would try to check every file in the directory which could cause problems if the directory contained unreadable files. #8095

• When packaging with cargo publish or cargo package, Cargo can use git to guide its decision on which files to include. Previously this git-based logic required a Cargo.toml file to exist at the root of the repository. This is no longer required, so Cargo will now use git-based guidance even if there is not a Cargo.toml in the root of the repository. #8095

• While unpacking a crate on Windows, if it fails to write a file because the file is a reserved Windows filename (like “aux.rs”), Cargo will display an extra message to explain why it failed. #8136

• Failures to set mtime on files are now ignored. Some filesystems did not support this. #8185

• Certain classes of git errors will now recommend enabling net.git-fetch-with-cli. #8166

• When doing an LTO build, Cargo will now instruct rustc not to perform codegen when possible. This may result in a faster build and use less disk space. Additionally, for non-LTO builds, Cargo will instruct rustc to not embed LLVM bitcode in libraries, which should decrease their size. #8192 #8226 #8254

• The implementation for cargo clean -p has been rewritten so that it can more accurately remove the files for a specific package. #8210

• The way Cargo computes the outputs from a build has been rewritten to be more complete and accurate. Newly tracked files will be displayed in JSON messages, and may be uplifted to the output directory in some cases. Some of the changes from this are:

  • .exp export files on Windows MSVC dynamic libraries are now tracked.
  • Proc-macros on Windows track import/export files.
  • All targets (like tests, etc.) that generate separate debug files (pdb/dSYM) are tracked.
  • Added .map files for wasm32-unknown-emscripten.
  • macOS dSYM directories are tracked for all dynamic libraries (dylib/cdylib/proc-macro) and for build scripts.

  There are a variety of other changes as a consequence of this:

  • Binary examples on Windows MSVC with a hyphen will now show up twice in the examples directory (foo_bar.exe and foo-bar.exe). Previously Cargo just renamed the file instead of hard-linking it.
  • Example libraries now follow the same rules for hyphen/underscore translation as normal libs (they will now use underscores).

  #8210

• Cargo attempts to scrub any secrets from the debug log for HTTP debugging. #8222

• Context has been added to many of Cargo’s filesystem operations, so that error messages now provide more information, such as the path that caused the problem. #8232

• Several commands now ignore the error if stdout or stderr is closed while it is running. For example cargo install --list | grep -q cargo-fuzz would previously sometimes panic because grep -q may close stdout before the command finishes. Regular builds continue to fail if stdout or stderr is closed, matching the behavior of many other build systems. #8236

• If cargo install is given an exact version, like --version=1.2.3, it will now avoid updating the index if that version is already installed, and exit quickly indicating it is already installed. #8022

• Changes to the [patch] section will now attempt to automatically update Cargo.lock to the new version. It should now also provide better error messages for the rare cases where it is unable to automatically update. #8248

Fixed

• Fixed copying Windows .pdb files to the output directory when the filename contained dashes. #8123
• Fixed error where Cargo would fail when scanning if a package is inside a git repository when any of its ancestor paths is a symlink. #8186
• Fixed cargo update with an unused [patch] so that it does not get stuck and refuse to update. #8243
• Fixed a situation where Cargo would hang if stderr is closed, and the compiler generated a large number of messages. #8247
• Fixed backtraces on macOS not showing filenames or line numbers. As a consequence of this, binary executables on apple targets do not include a hash in the filename in Cargo’s cache. This means Cargo can only track one copy, so if you switch features or rustc versions, Cargo will need to rebuild the executable. #8329 #8335
• Fixed fingerprinting when using lld on Windows with a dylib. Cargo was erroneously thinking the dylib was never fresh. #8290 #8335

Nightly only

• Fixed passing the full path for --target to rustdoc when using JSON spec targets. #8094
• -Cembed-bitcode=no renamed to -Cbitcode-in-rlib=no #8134
• Added new resolver field to Cargo.toml to opt-in to the new feature resolver. #8129
• -Zbuild-std no longer treats std dependencies as “local”. This means that it won’t use incremental compilation for those dependencies, removes them from dep-info files, and caps lints at “allow”. #8177
• Added -Zmultitarget which allows multiple --target flags to build the same thing for multiple targets at once. docs #8167
• Added strip option to the profile to remove symbols and debug information. docs #8246
• Fixed panic with cargo tree --target=all -Zfeatures=all. #8269

Cargo 1.44 (2020-06-04)

bda50510…rust-1.44.0

Added

• 🔥 Added the cargo tree command. docs #8062
• Added warnings if a package has Windows-restricted filenames (like nul, con, aux, prn, etc.). #7959
• Added a "build-finished" JSON message when compilation is complete so that tools can detect when they can stop listening for JSON messages with commands like cargo run or cargo test. #8069

Changed

• Valid package names are now restricted to Unicode XID identifiers. This is mostly the same as before, except package names cannot start with a number or -. #7959
• cargo new and init will warn or reject additional package names (reserved Windows names, reserved Cargo directories, non-ASCII names, conflicting std names like core, etc.). #7959
• Tests are no longer hard-linked into the output directory (target/debug/). This ensures tools will have access to debug symbols and execute tests in the same way as Cargo. Tools should use JSON messages to discover the path to the executable. #7965
• Updating git submodules now displays an “Updating” message for each submodule. #7989
• File modification times are now preserved when extracting a .crate file. This reverses the change made in 1.40 where the mtime was not preserved. #7935
• Build script warnings are now displayed separately when the build script fails. #8017
• Removed the git-checkout subcommand. #8040
• The progress bar is now enabled for all unix platforms. Previously it was only Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD. #8054
• Artifacts generated by pre-release versions of rustc now share the same filenames. This means that changing nightly versions will not leave stale files in the build directory. #8073
• Invalid package names are rejected when using renamed dependencies. #8090
• Added a certain class of HTTP2 errors as “spurious” that will get retried. #8102
• Allow cargo package --list to succeed, even if there are other validation errors (such as Cargo.lock generation problem, or missing dependencies). #8175 #8215

Fixed

• Cargo no longer buffers excessive amounts of compiler output in memory. #7838
• Symbolic links in git repositories now work on Windows. #7996
• Fixed an issue where profile.dev was not loaded from a config file with cargo test when the dev profile was not defined in Cargo.toml. #8012
• When a binary is built as an implicit dependency of an integration test, it now checks dep_name/feature_name syntax in required-features correctly. #8020
• Fixed an issue where Cargo would not detect that an executable (such as an integration test) needs to be rebuilt when the previous build was interrupted with Ctrl-C. #8087
• Protect against some (unknown) situations where Cargo could panic when the system monotonic clock doesn’t appear to be monotonic. #8114
• Fixed panic with cargo clean -p if the package has a build script. #8216

Nightly only

• Fixed panic with new feature resolver and required-features. #7962
• Added RUSTC_WORKSPACE_WRAPPER environment variable, which provides a way to wrap rustc for workspace members only, and affects the filename hash so that artifacts produced by the wrapper are cached separately. This usage can be seen on nightly clippy with cargo clippy -Zunstable-options. #7533
• Added --unit-graph CLI option to display Cargo’s internal dependency graph as JSON. #7977
• Changed -Zbuild_dep to -Zhost_dep, and added proc-macros to the feature decoupling logic. #8003 #8028
• Fixed so that --crate-version is not automatically passed when the flag is found in RUSTDOCFLAGS. #8014
• Fixed panic with -Zfeatures=dev_dep and check --profile=test. #8027
• Fixed panic with -Zfeatures=itarget with certain host dependencies. #8048
• Added support for -Cembed-bitcode=no, which provides a performance boost and disk-space usage reduction for non-LTO builds. #8066
• -Zpackage-features has been extended with several changes intended to make it easier to select features on the command-line in a workspace. #8074

Cargo 1.43 (2020-04-23)

9d32b7b0…rust-1.43.0

Added

• 🔥 Profiles may now be specified in config files (and environment variables). docs #7823
• ❗ Added CARGO_BIN_EXE_<name> environment variable when building integration tests. This variable contains the path to any [[bin]] targets in the package. Integration tests should use the env! macro to determine the path to a binary to execute. docs #7697

Changed

• cargo install --git now honors workspaces in a git repository. This allows workspace settings, like [patch], [replace], or [profile] to be used. #7768
• cargo new will now run rustfmt on the new files to pick up rustfmt settings like tab_spaces so that the new file matches the user’s preferred indentation settings. #7827
• Environment variables printed with “very verbose” output (-vv) are now consistently sorted. #7877
• Debug logging for fingerprint rebuild-detection now includes more information. #7888 #7890 #7952
• Added warning during publish if the license-file doesn’t exist. #7905
• The license-file file is automatically included during publish, even if it is not explicitly listed in the include list or is in a location outside of the root of the package. #7905
• CARGO_CFG_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS and CARGO_CFG_PROC_MACRO are no longer set when running a build script. These were inadvertently set in the past, but had no meaning as they were always true. Additionally, cfg(proc-macro) is no longer supported in a target expression. #7943 #7970

Fixed

• Global command-line flags now work with aliases (like cargo -v b). #7837
• Required-features using dependency syntax (like renamed_dep/feat_name) now handle renamed dependencies correctly. #7855
• Fixed a rare situation where if a build script is run multiple times during the same build, Cargo will now keep the results separate instead of losing the output of the first execution. #7857
• Fixed incorrect interpretation of environment variable CARGO_TARGET_*_RUNNER=true as a boolean. Also improved related env var error messages. #7891
• Updated internal libgit2 library, bringing various fixes to git support. #7939
• cargo package / cargo publish should no longer buffer the entire contents of each file in memory. #7946
• Ignore more invalid Cargo.toml files in a git dependency. Cargo currently walks the entire repo to find the requested package. Certain invalid manifests were already skipped, and now it should skip all of them. #7947

Nightly only

• Added build.out-dir config variable to set the output directory. #7810
• Added -Zjobserver-per-rustc feature to support improved performance for parallel rustc. #7731
• Fixed filename collision with build-std and crates like cc. #7860
• -Ztimings will now save its report even if there is an error. #7872
• Updated --config command-line flag to support taking a path to a config file to load. #7901
• Added new feature resolver. #7820
• Rustdoc docs now automatically include the version of the package in the side bar (requires -Z crate-versions flag). #7903

Cargo 1.42 (2020-03-12)

0bf7aafe…rust-1.42.0

Added

• Added documentation on git authentication. #7658
• Bitbucket Pipeline badges are now supported on crates.io. #7663
• cargo vendor now accepts the --versioned-dirs option to force it to always include the version number in each package’s directory name. #7631
• The proc_macro crate is now automatically added to the extern prelude for proc-macro packages. This means that extern crate proc_macro; is no longer necessary for proc-macros. #7700

Changed

• Emit a warning if debug_assertions, test, proc_macro, or feature= is used in a cfg() expression. #7660
• Large update to the Cargo documentation, adding new chapters on Cargo targets, workspaces, and features. #7733
• Windows: .lib DLL import libraries are now copied next to the dll for all Windows MSVC targets. Previously it was only supported for pc-windows-msvc. This adds DLL support for uwp-windows-msvc targets. #7758
• The ar field in the [target] configuration is no longer read. It has been ignored for over 4 years. #7763
• Bash completion file simplified and updated for latest changes. #7789
• Credentials are only loaded when needed, instead of every Cargo command. #7774

Fixed

• Removed --offline empty index check, which was a false positive in some cases. #7655
• Files and directories starting with a . can now be included in a package by adding it to the include list. #7680
• Fixed cargo login removing alternative registry tokens when previous entries existed in the credentials file. #7708
• Fixed cargo vendor from panicking when used with alternative registries. #7718
• Fixed incorrect explanation in the fingerprint debug log message. #7749
• A [source] that is defined multiple times will now result in an error. Previously it was randomly picking a source, which could cause non-deterministic behavior. #7751
• dep_kinds in cargo metadata are now de-duplicated. #7756
• Fixed packaging where Cargo.lock was listed in .gitignore in a subdirectory inside a git repository. Previously it was assuming Cargo.lock was at the root of the repo. #7779
• Partial file transfer errors will now cause an automatic retry. #7788
• Linux: Fixed panic if CPU iowait stat decreases. #7803
• Fixed using the wrong sysroot for detecting host compiler settings when --sysroot is passed in via RUSTFLAGS. #7798

Nightly only

• build-std now uses --extern instead of --sysroot to find sysroot packages. #7699
• Added --config command-line option to set config settings. #7649
• Added include config setting which allows including another config file. #7649
• Profiles in config files now support any named profile. Previously it was limited to dev/release. #7750

Cargo 1.41 (2020-01-30)

5da4b4d4…rust-1.41.0

Added

• 🔥 Cargo now uses a new Cargo.lock file format. This new format should support easier merges in source control systems. Projects using the old format will continue to use the old format, only new Cargo.lock files will use the new format. #7579
• 🔥 cargo install will now upgrade already installed packages instead of failing. #7560
• 🔥 Profile overrides have been added. This allows overriding profiles for individual dependencies or build scripts. See the documentation for more. #7591
• Added new documentation for build scripts. #7565
• Added documentation for Cargo’s JSON output. #7595
• Significant expansion of config and environment variable documentation. #7650
• Add back support for BROWSER environment variable for cargo doc --open. #7576
• Added kind and platform for dependencies in cargo metadata. #7132
• The OUT_DIR value is now included in the build-script-executed JSON message. #7622

Changed

• cargo doc will now document private items in binaries by default. #7593
• Subcommand typo suggestions now include aliases. #7486
• Tweak how the “already existing…” comment is added to .gitignore. #7570
• Ignore cargo login text from copy/paste in token. #7588
• Windows: Ignore errors for locking files when not supported by the filesystem. #7602
• Remove **/*.rs.bk from .gitignore. #7647

Fixed

• Fix unused warnings for some keys in the build config section. #7575
• Linux: Don’t panic when parsing /proc/stat. #7580
• Don’t show canonical path in cargo vendor. #7629

Nightly only

Cargo 1.40 (2019-12-19)

1c6ec66d…5da4b4d4

Added

• Added http.ssl-version config option to control the version of TLS, along with min/max versions. #7308
• 🔥 Compiler warnings are now cached on disk. If a build generates warnings, re-running the build will now re-display the warnings. #7450
• Added --filter-platform option to cargo metadata to narrow the nodes shown in the resolver graph to only packages included for the given target triple. #7376

Changed

• Cargo’s “platform” cfg parsing has been extracted into a separate crate named cargo-platform. #7375
• Dependencies extracted into Cargo’s cache no longer preserve mtimes to reduce syscall overhead. #7465
• Windows: EXE files no longer include a metadata hash in the filename. This helps with debuggers correlating the filename with the PDB file. #7400
• Wasm32: .wasm files are no longer treated as an “executable”, allowing cargo test and cargo run to work properly with the generated .js file. #7476
• crates.io now supports SPDX 3.6 licenses. #7481
• Improved cyclic dependency error message. #7470
• Bare cargo clean no longer locks the package cache. #7502
• cargo publish now allows dev-dependencies without a version key to be published. A git or path-only dev-dependency will be removed from the package manifest before uploading. #7333
• --features and --no-default-features in the root of a virtual workspace will now generate an error instead of being ignored. #7507
• Generated files (like Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock) in a package archive now have their timestamp set to the current time instead of the epoch. #7523
• The -Z flag parser is now more strict, rejecting more invalid syntax. #7531

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where if a package had an include field, and Cargo.lock in .gitignore, and a binary or example target, and the Cargo.lock exists in the current project, it would fail to publish complaining the Cargo.lock was dirty. #7448
• Fixed a panic in a particular combination of [patch] entries. #7452
• Windows: Better error message when cargo test or rustc crashes in an abnormal way, such as a signal or seg fault. #7535

Nightly only

• The mtime-on-use feature may now be enabled via the unstable.mtime_on_use config option. #7411
• Added support for named profiles. #6989
• Added -Zpanic-abort-tests to allow building and running tests with the “abort” panic strategy. #7460
• Changed build-std to use --sysroot. #7421
• Various fixes and enhancements to -Ztimings. #7395 #7398 #7397 #7403 #7428 #7429
• Profile overrides have renamed the syntax to be [profile.dev.package.NAME]. #7504
• Fixed warnings for unused profile overrides in a workspace. #7536

Cargo 1.39 (2019-11-07)

e853aa97…1c6ec66d

Added

• Config files may now use the .toml filename extension. #7295
• The --workspace flag has been added as an alias for --all to help avoid confusion about the meaning of “all”. #7241
• The publish field has been added to cargo metadata. #7354

Changed

• Display more information if parsing the output from rustc fails. #7236
• TOML errors now show the column number. #7248
• cargo vendor no longer deletes files in the vendor directory that starts with a .. #7242
• cargo fetch will now show manifest warnings. #7243
• cargo publish will now check git submodules if they contain any uncommitted changes. #7245
• In a build script, cargo:rustc-flags now allows -l and -L flags without spaces. #7257
• When cargo install replaces an older version of a package it will now delete any installed binaries that are no longer present in the newly installed version. #7246
• A git dependency may now also specify a version key when published. The git value will be stripped from the uploaded crate, matching the behavior of path dependencies. #7237
• The behavior of workspace default-members has changed. The default-members now only applies when running Cargo in the root of the workspace. Previously it would always apply regardless of which directory Cargo is running in. #7270
• libgit2 updated pulling in all upstream changes. #7275
• Bump home dependency for locating home directories. #7277
• zsh completions have been updated. #7296
• SSL connect errors are now retried. #7318
• The jobserver has been changed to acquire N tokens (instead of N-1), and then immediately acquires the extra token. This was changed to accommodate the cc crate on Windows to allow it to release its implicit token. #7344
• The scheduling algorithm for choosing which crate to build next has been changed. It now chooses the crate with the greatest number of transitive crates waiting on it. Previously it used a maximum topological depth. #7390
• RUSTFLAGS are no longer incorporated in the metadata and filename hash, reversing the change from 1.33 that added it. This means that any change to RUSTFLAGS will cause a recompile, and will not affect symbol munging. #7459

Fixed

• Git dependencies with submodules with shorthand SSH URLs (like git@github.com/user/repo.git) should now work. #7238
• Handle broken symlinks when creating .dSYM symlinks on macOS. #7268
• Fixed issues with multiple versions of the same crate in a [patch] table. #7303
• Fixed issue with custom target .json files where a substring of the name matches an unsupported crate type (like “bin”). #7363
• Fixed issues with generating documentation for proc-macro crate types. #7159
• Fixed hang if Cargo panics within a build thread. #7366
• Fixed rebuild detection if a build.rs script issues different rerun-if directives between builds. Cargo was erroneously causing a rebuild after the change. #7373
• Properly handle canonical URLs for [patch] table entries, preventing the patch from working after the first time it is used. #7368
• Fixed an issue where integration tests were waiting for the package binary to finish building before starting their own build. They now may build concurrently. #7394
• Fixed accidental change in the previous release on how --features a b flag is interpreted, restoring the original behavior where this is interpreted as --features a along with the argument b passed to the command. To pass multiple features, use quotes around the features to pass multiple features like --features "a b", or use commas, or use multiple --features flags. #7419

Nightly only

• Basic support for building the standard library directly from Cargo has been added. (docs) #7216
• Added -Ztimings feature to generate an HTML report on the time spent on individual compilation steps. This also may output completion steps on the console and JSON data. (docs) #7311
• Added ability to cross-compile doctests. (docs) #6892

Cargo 1.38 (2019-09-26)

4c1fa54d…23ef9a4e

Added

• 🔥 Cargo build pipelining has been enabled by default to leverage more idle CPU parallelism during builds. #7143
• The --message-format option to Cargo can now be specified multiple times and accepts a comma-separated list of values. In addition to the previous values it also now accepts json-diagnostic-short and json-diagnostic-rendered-ansi which configures the output coming from rustc in json message mode. #7214
• Cirrus CI badges are now supported on crates.io. #7119
• A new format for Cargo.lock has been introduced. This new format is intended to avoid source-control merge conflicts more often, and to generally make it safer to merge changes. This new format is not enabled at this time, though Cargo will use it if it sees it. At some point in the future, it is intended that this will become the default. #7070
• Progress bar support added for FreeBSD. #7222

Changed

• The -q flag will no longer suppress the root error message for an error from Cargo itself. #7116
• The Cargo Book is now published with mdbook 0.3 providing a number of formatting fixes and improvements. #7140
• The --features command-line flag can now be specified multiple times. The list of features from all the flags are joined together. #7084
• Package include/exclude glob-vs-gitignore warnings have been removed. Packages may now use gitignore-style matching without producing any warnings. #7170
• Cargo now shows the command and output when parsing rustc output fails when querying rustc for information like cfg values. #7185
• cargo package/cargo publish now allows a symbolic link to a git submodule to include that submodule. #6817
• Improved the error message when a version requirement does not match any versions, but there are pre-release versions available. #7191

Fixed

• Fixed using the wrong directory when updating git repositories when using the git-fetch-with-cli config option, and the GIT_DIR environment variable is set. This may happen when running cargo from git callbacks. #7082
• Fixed dep-info files being overwritten for targets that have separate debug outputs. For example, binaries on -apple- targets with .dSYM directories would overwrite the .d file. #7057
• Fix [patch] table not preserving “one major version per source” rule. #7118
• Ignore --remap-path-prefix flags for the metadata hash in the cargo rustc command. This was causing the remap settings to inadvertently affect symbol names. #7134
• Fixed cycle detection in [patch] dependencies. #7174
• Fixed cargo new leaving behind a symlink on Windows when core.symlinks git config is true. Also adds a number of fixes and updates from upstream libgit2. #7176
• macOS: Fixed setting the flag to mark the target directory to be excluded from backups. #7192
• Fixed cargo fix panicking under some situations involving multi-byte characters. #7221

Nightly only

• Added cargo fix --clippy which will apply machine-applicable fixes from Clippy. #7069
• Added -Z binary-dep-depinfo flag to add change tracking for binary dependencies like the standard library. #7137 #7219
• cargo clippy-preview will always run, even if no changes have been made. #7157
• Fixed exponential blowup when using CARGO_BUILD_PIPELINING. #7062
• Fixed passing args to clippy in cargo clippy-preview. #7162

Cargo 1.37 (2019-08-15)

c4fcfb72…9edd0891

Added

• Added doctest field to cargo metadata to determine if a target’s documentation is tested. #6953 #6965
• 🔥 The cargo vendor command is now built-in to Cargo. This command may be used to create a local copy of the sources of all dependencies. #6869
• 🔥 The “publish lockfile” feature is now stable. This feature will automatically include the Cargo.lock file when a package is published if it contains a binary executable target. By default, Cargo will ignore Cargo.lock when installing a package. To force Cargo to use the Cargo.lock file included in the published package, use cargo install --locked. This may be useful to ensure that cargo install consistently reproduces the same result. It may also be useful when a semver-incompatible change is accidentally published to a dependency, providing a way to fall back to a version that is known to work. #7026
• 🔥 The default-run feature has been stabilized. This feature allows you to specify which binary executable to run by default with cargo run when a package includes multiple binaries. Set the default-run key in the [package] table in Cargo.toml to the name of the binary to use by default. #7056

Changed

• cargo package now verifies that build scripts do not create empty directories. #6973
• A warning is now issued if cargo doc generates duplicate outputs, which causes files to be randomly stomped on. This may happen for a variety of reasons (renamed dependencies, multiple versions of the same package, packages with renamed libraries, etc.). This is a known bug, which needs more work to handle correctly. #6998
• Enabling a dependency’s feature with --features foo/bar will no longer compile the current crate with the foo feature if foo is not an optional dependency. #7010
• If --remap-path-prefix is passed via RUSTFLAGS, it will no longer affect the filename metadata hash. #6966
• libgit2 has been updated to 0.28.2, which Cargo uses to access git repositories. This brings in hundreds of changes and fixes since it was last updated in November. #7018
• Cargo now supports absolute paths in the dep-info files generated by rustc. This is laying the groundwork for tracking binaries, such as libstd, for rebuild detection. (Note: this contains a known bug.) #7030

Fixed

• Fixed how zsh completions fetch the list of commands. #6956
• “+ debuginfo” is no longer printed in the build summary when debug is set to 0. #6971
• Fixed cargo doc with an example configured with doc = true to document correctly. #7023
• Don’t fail if a read-only lock cannot be acquired in CARGO_HOME. This helps when CARGO_HOME doesn’t exist, but --locked is used which means CARGO_HOME is not needed. #7149
• Reverted a change in 1.35 which released jobserver tokens when Cargo blocked on a lock file. It caused a deadlock in some situations. #7204

Nightly only

• Added compiler message caching. The -Z cache-messages flag makes cargo cache the compiler output so that future runs can redisplay previous warnings. #6933
• -Z mtime-on-use no longer touches intermediate artifacts. #7050

Cargo 1.36 (2019-07-04)

6f3e9c36…c4fcfb72

Added

• Added more detailed documentation on target auto-discovery. #6898
• 🔥 Stabilize the --offline flag which allows using cargo without a network connection. #6934 #6871

Changed

• publish = ["crates-io"] may be added to the manifest to restrict publishing to crates.io only. #6838
• macOS: Only include the default paths if DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH is not set. Also, remove /lib from the default set. #6856
• cargo publish will now exit early if the login token is not available. #6854
• HTTP/2 stream errors are now considered “spurious” and will cause a retry. #6861
• Setting a feature on a dependency where that feature points to a required dependency is now an error. Previously it was a warning. #6860
• The registry.index config value now supports relative file: URLs. #6873
• macOS: The .dSYM directory is now symbolically linked next to example binaries without the metadata hash so that debuggers can find it. #6891
• The default Cargo.toml template for now projects now includes a comment providing a link to the documentation. #6881
• Some improvements to the wording of the crate download summary. #6916 #6920
• ✨ Changed RUST_LOG environment variable to CARGO_LOG so that user code that uses the log crate will not display cargo’s debug output. #6918
• Cargo.toml is now always included when packaging, even if it is not listed in package.include. #6925
• Package include/exclude values now use gitignore patterns instead of glob patterns. #6924
• Provide a better error message when crates.io times out. Also improve error messages with other HTTP response codes. #6936

Performance

• Resolver performance improvements for some cases. #6853
• Optimized how cargo reads the index JSON files by caching the results. #6880 #6912 #6940
• Various performance improvements. #6867

Fixed

• More carefully track the on-disk fingerprint information for dependencies. This can help in some rare cases where the build is interrupted and restarted. #6832
• cargo run now correctly passes non-UTF8 arguments to the child process. #6849
• Fixed bash completion to run on bash 3.2, the stock version in macOS. #6905
• Various fixes and improvements to zsh completion. #6926 #6929
• Fix cargo update ignoring -p arguments if the Cargo.lock file was missing. #6904

Nightly only

• Added -Z install-upgrade feature to track details about installed crates and to update them if they are out-of-date. #6798
• Added the public-dependency feature which allows tracking public versus private dependencies. #6772
• Added build pipelining via the build.pipelining config option (CARGO_BUILD_PIPELINING env var). #6883
• The publish-lockfile feature has had some significant changes. The default is now true, the Cargo.lock will always be published for binary crates. The Cargo.lock is now regenerated during publishing. cargo install now ignores the Cargo.lock file by default, and requires --locked to use the lock file. Warnings have been added if yanked dependencies are detected. #6840

Cargo 1.35 (2019-05-23)

6789d8a0…6f3e9c36

Added

• Added the rustc-cdylib-link-arg key for build scripts to specify linker arguments for cdylib crates. #6298

Changed

• When passing a test filter, such as cargo test foo, don’t build examples (unless they set test = true). #6683
• Forward the --quiet flag from cargo test to the libtest harness so that tests are actually quiet. #6358
• The verification step in cargo package that checks if any files are modified is now stricter. It uses a hash of the contents instead of checking filesystem mtimes. It also checks all files in the package. #6740
• Jobserver tokens are now released whenever Cargo blocks on a file lock. #6748
• Issue a warning for a previous bug in the TOML parser that allowed multiple table headers with the same name. #6761
• Removed the CARGO_PKG_* environment variables from the metadata hash and added them to the fingerprint instead. This means that when these values change, stale artifacts are not left behind. Also added the “repository” value to the fingerprint. #6785
• cargo metadata no longer shows a null field for a dependency without a library in resolve.nodes.deps. The dependency is no longer shown. #6534
• cargo new will no longer include an email address in the authors field if it is set to the empty string. #6802
• cargo doc --open now works when documenting multiple packages. #6803
• cargo install --path P now loads the .cargo/config file from the directory P. #6805
• Using semver metadata in a version requirement (such as 1.0.0+1234) now issues a warning that it is ignored. #6806
• cargo install now rejects certain combinations of flags where some flags would have been ignored. #6801
• Resolver performance improvements for some cases. #6776

Fixed

• Fixed running separate commands (such as cargo build then cargo test) where the second command could use stale results from a build script. #6720
• Fixed cargo fix not working properly if a .gitignore file that matched the root package directory. #6767
• Fixed accidentally compiling a lib multiple times if panic=unwind was set in a profile. #6781
• Paths to JSON files in build.target config value are now canonicalized to fix building dependencies. #6778
• Fixed re-running a build script if its compilation was interrupted (such as if it is killed). #6782
• Fixed cargo new initializing a fossil repo. #6792
• Fixed supporting updating a git repo that has a force push when using the git-fetch-with-cli feature. git-fetch-with-cli also shows more error information now when it fails. #6800
• --example binaries built for the WASM target are fixed to no longer include a metadata hash in the filename, and are correctly emitted in the compiler-artifact JSON message. #6812

Nightly only

• cargo clippy-preview is now a built-in cargo command. #6759
• The build-override profile setting now includes proc-macros and their dependencies. #6811
• Optional and target dependencies now work better with -Z offline. #6814

Cargo 1.34 (2019-04-11)

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Added

• 🔥 Stabilized support for alternate registries. #6654
• Added documentation on using builds.sr.ht Continuous Integration with Cargo. #6565
• Cargo.lock now includes a comment at the top that it is @generated. #6548
• Azure DevOps badges are now supported. #6264
• Added a warning if --exclude flag specifies an unknown package. #6679

Changed

• cargo test --doc --no-run doesn’t do anything, so it now displays an error to that effect. #6628
• Various updates to bash completion: add missing options and commands, support libtest completions, use rustup for --target completion, fallback to filename completion, fix editing the command line. #6644
• Publishing a crate with a [patch] section no longer generates an error. The [patch] section is removed from the manifest before publishing. #6535
• build.incremental = true config value is now treated the same as CARGO_INCREMENTAL=1, previously it was ignored. #6688
• Errors from a registry are now always displayed regardless of the HTTP response code. #6771

Fixed

• Fixed bash completion for cargo run --example. #6578
• Fixed a race condition when using a local registry and running multiple cargo commands at the same time that build the same crate. #6591
• Fixed some flickering and excessive updates of the progress bar. #6615
• Fixed a hang when using a git credential helper that returns incorrect credentials. #6681
• Fixed resolving yanked crates with a local registry. #6750

Nightly only

• Added -Z mtime-on-use flag to cause the mtime to be updated on the filesystem when a crate is used. This is intended to be able to track stale artifacts in the future for cleaning up unused files. #6477 #6573
• Added experimental -Z dual-proc-macros to build proc macros for both the host and the target. #6547

Cargo 1.33 (2019-02-28)

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Added

• compiler-artifact JSON messages now include an "executable" key which includes the path to the executable that was built. #6363
• The man pages have been rewritten, and are now published with the web documentation. #6405
• cargo login now displays a confirmation after saving the token. #6466
• A warning is now emitted if a [patch] entry does not match any package. #6470
• cargo metadata now includes the links key for a package. #6480
• “Very verbose” output with -vv now displays the environment variables that cargo sets when it runs a process. #6492
• --example, --bin, --bench, or --test without an argument now lists the available targets for those options. #6505
• Windows: If a process fails with an extended status exit code, a human-readable name for the code is now displayed. #6532
• Added --features, --no-default-features, and --all-features flags to the cargo package and cargo publish commands to use the given features when verifying the package. #6453

Changed

• If cargo fix fails to compile the fixed code, the rustc errors are now displayed on the console. #6419
• Hide the --host flag from cargo login, it is unused. #6466
• Build script fingerprints now include the rustc version. #6473
• macOS: Switched to setting DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH instead of DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. #6355
• RUSTFLAGS is now included in the metadata hash, meaning that changing the flags will not overwrite previously built files. #6503
• When updating the crate graph, unrelated yanked crates were erroneously removed. They are now kept at their original version if possible. This was causing unrelated packages to be downgraded during cargo update -p somecrate. #5702
• TOML files now support the 0.5 TOML syntax.

Fixed

• cargo fix will now ignore suggestions that modify multiple files. #6402
• cargo fix will now only fix one target at a time, to deal with targets which share the same source files. #6434
• Fixed bash completion showing the list of cargo commands. #6461
• cargo init will now avoid creating duplicate entries in .gitignore files. #6521
• Builds now attempt to detect if a file is modified in the middle of a compilation, allowing you to build again and pick up the new changes. This is done by keeping track of when the compilation starts not when it finishes. Also, #5919 was reverted, meaning that cargo does not treat equal filesystem mtimes as requiring a rebuild. #6484

Nightly only

• Allow using registry names in [patch] tables instead of just URLs. #6456
• cargo metadata added the registry key for dependencies. #6500
• Registry names are now restricted to the same style as package names (alphanumeric, - and _ characters). #6469
• cargo login now displays the /me URL from the registry config. #6466
• cargo login --registry=NAME now supports interactive input for the token. #6466
• Registries may now elide the api key from config.json to indicate they do not support API access. #6466
• Fixed panic when using --message-format=json with metabuild. #6432
• Fixed detection of publishing to crates.io when using alternate registries. #6525

Cargo 1.32 (2019-01-17)

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Added

• Registries may now display warnings after a successful publish. #6303
• Added a glossary to the documentation. #6321
• Added the alias c for cargo check. #6218

Changed

• 🔥 HTTP/2 multiplexing is now enabled by default. The http.multiplexing config value may be used to disable it. #6271
• Use ANSI escape sequences to clear lines instead of spaces. #6233
• Disable git templates when checking out git dependencies, which can cause problems. #6252
• Include the --update-head-ok git flag when using the net.git-fetch-with-cli option. This can help prevent failures when fetching some repositories. #6250
• When extracting a crate during the verification step of cargo package, the filesystem mtimes are no longer set, which was failing on some rare filesystems. #6257
• crate-type = ["proc-macro"] is now treated the same as proc-macro = true in Cargo.toml. #6256
• An error is raised if dependencies, features, target, or badges is set in a virtual workspace. Warnings are displayed if replace or patch is used in a workspace member. #6276
• Improved performance of the resolver in some cases. #6283 #6366
• .rmeta files are no longer hard-linked into the base target directory (target/debug). #6292
• A warning is issued if multiple targets are built with the same output filenames. #6308
• When using cargo build (without --release) benchmarks are now built using the “test” profile instead of “bench”. This makes it easier to debug benchmarks, and avoids confusing behavior. #6309
• User aliases may now override built-in aliases (b, r, t, and c). #6259
• Setting autobins=false now disables auto-discovery of inferred targets. #6329
• cargo verify-project will now fail on stable if the project uses unstable features. #6326
• Platform targets with an internal . within the name are now allowed. #6255
• cargo clean --release now only deletes the release directory. #6349

Fixed

• Avoid adding extra angle brackets in email address for cargo new. #6243
• The progress bar is disabled if the CI environment variable is set. #6281
• Avoid retaining all rustc output in memory. #6289
• If JSON parsing fails, and rustc exits nonzero, don’t lose the parse failure message. #6290
• Fixed renaming a project directory with build scripts. #6328
• Fixed cargo run --example NAME to work correctly if the example sets crate_type = ["bin"]. #6330
• Fixed issue with cargo package git discovery being too aggressive. The --allow-dirty now completely disables the git repo checks. #6280
• Fixed build change tracking for [patch] deps which resulted in cargo build rebuilding when it shouldn’t. #6493

Nightly only

• Allow usernames in registry URLs. #6242
• Added "compile_mode" key to the build-plan JSON structure to be able to distinguish running a custom build script versus compiling the build script. #6331
• --out-dir no longer copies over build scripts. #6300

Cargo 1.31 (2018-12-06)

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Added

• 🔥 Stabilized support for the 2018 edition. #5984 #5989
• 🔥 Added the ability to rename dependencies in Cargo.toml. #6319
• 🔥 Added support for HTTP/2 pipelining and multiplexing. Set the http.multiplexing config value to enable. #6005
• Added http.debug configuration value to debug HTTP connections. Use CARGO_HTTP_DEBUG=true RUST_LOG=cargo::ops::registry cargo build to display the debug information. #6166
• CARGO_PKG_REPOSITORY environment variable is set with the repository value from Cargo.toml when building . #6096

Changed

• cargo test --doc now rejects other flags instead of ignoring them. #6037
• cargo install ignores ~/.cargo/config. #6026
• cargo version --verbose is now the same as cargo -vV. #6076
• Comments at the top of Cargo.lock are now preserved. #6181
• When building in “very verbose” mode (cargo build -vv), build script output is prefixed with the package name and version, such as [foo 0.0.1]. #6164
• If cargo fix --broken-code fails to compile after fixes have been applied, the files are no longer reverted and are left in their broken state. #6316

Fixed

• Windows: Pass Ctrl-C to the process with cargo run. #6004
• macOS: Fix bash completion. #6038
• Support arbitrary toolchain names when completing +toolchain in bash completion. #6038
• Fixed edge cases in the resolver, when backtracking on failed dependencies. #5988
• Fixed cargo test --all-targets running lib tests three times. #6039
• Fixed publishing renamed dependencies to crates.io. #5993
• Fixed cargo install on a git repo with multiple binaries. #6060
• Fixed deeply nested JSON emitted by rustc being lost. #6081
• Windows: Fix locking msys terminals to 60 characters. #6122
• Fixed renamed dependencies with dashes. #6140
• Fixed linking against the wrong dylib when the dylib existed in both target/debug and target/debug/deps. #6167
• Fixed some unnecessary recompiles when panic=abort is used. #6170

Nightly only

• Added --registry flag to cargo install. #6128
• Added registry.default configuration value to specify the default registry to use if --registry flag is not passed. #6135
• Added --registry flag to cargo new and cargo init. #6135

Cargo 1.30 (2018-10-25)

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Added

• 🔥 Added an animated progress bar shows progress during building. #5995
• Added resolve.nodes.deps key to cargo metadata, which includes more information about resolved dependencies, and properly handles renamed dependencies. #5871
• When creating a package, provide more detail with -v when failing to discover if files are dirty in a git repository. Also fix a problem with discovery on Windows. #5858
• Filters like --bin, --test, --example, --bench, or --lib can be used in a workspace without selecting a specific package. #5873
• cargo run can be used in a workspace without selecting a specific package. #5877
• cargo doc --message-format=json now outputs JSON messages from rustdoc. #5878
• Added --message-format=short to show one-line messages. #5879
• Added .cargo_vcs_info.json file to .crate packages that captures the current git hash. #5886
• Added net.git-fetch-with-cli configuration option to use the git executable to fetch repositories instead of using the built-in libgit2 library. #5914
• Added required-features to cargo metadata. #5902
• cargo uninstall within a package will now uninstall that package. #5927
• Added --allow-staged flag to cargo fix to allow it to run if files are staged in git. #5943
• Added net.low-speed-limit config value, and also honor net.timeout for http operations. #5957
• Added --edition flag to cargo new. #5984
• Temporarily stabilized 2018 edition support for the duration of the beta. #5984 #5989
• Added support for target.'cfg(…)'.runner config value to specify the run/test/bench runner for targets that use config expressions. #5959

Changed

• Windows: cargo run will not kill child processes when the main process exits. #5887
• Switched to the opener crate to open a web browser with cargo doc --open. This should more reliably select the system-preferred browser on all platforms. #5888
• Equal file mtimes now cause a target to be rebuilt. Previously only if files were strictly newer than the last build would it cause a rebuild. #5919
• Ignore build.target config value when running cargo install. #5874
• Ignore RUSTC_WRAPPER for cargo fix. #5983
• Ignore empty RUSTC_WRAPPER. #5985

Fixed

• Fixed error when creating a package with an edition field in Cargo.toml. #5908
• More consistently use relative paths for path dependencies in a workspace. #5935
• cargo fix now always runs, even if it was run previously. #5944
• Windows: Attempt to more reliably detect terminal width. msys-based terminals are forced to 60 characters wide. #6010
• Allow multiple target flags with cargo doc --document-private-items. 6022

Nightly only

• Added metabuild. #5628