Announcing Rust 1.0.0.alpha.2

Feb. 20, 2015 · Steve Klabnik

Today, we are happy to announce the release of Rust 1.0.0.alpha.2! Rust is a systems programming language pursuing the trifecta: safe, fast, and concurrent.

In accordance with our status report last week, this is a second alpha release, rather than a first beta release. The beta release will be six weeks from today, with the final coming six weeks after that.

We’ve managed to land almost all of the features previously expected for this cycle. The big headline here is that all major API revisions are finished: path and IO reform have landed. At this point, all modules shipping for 1.0 are in what we expect to be their final form, modulo minor tweaks during the alpha2 cycle. See the previous post for more details.

This coming release cycle is crucial to Rust, as this will be the last cycle that we recommend nightly builds for most users. Part of the way through the cycle, around March 9th, we expect to have all major functionality we expect in 1.0 marked as stable; we will fill in stability gaps between then and beta on March 31st. The beta release will fully introduce the "stable channel", which will not allow use of unstable features but will guarantee backwards-compatibility (after 1.0). Unstable features will only be available in nightly.

For more detail, please see the Release notes.

Thank you to all 201 contributors for this release:

  • Aaron Turon
  • Adam Roben
  • Adolfo Ochagavía
  • Ahmed Charles
  • Aidan Hobson Sayers
  • Akos Kiss
  • Alexander Bliskovsky
  • Alexander Korolkov
  • Alexander Light
  • Alex Crichton
  • Alexis
  • Alfie John
  • Andrea Canciani
  • Andrew Barchuk
  • Andrew Paseltiner
  • Ariel Ben-Yehuda
  • Armin Preiml
  • Artem
  • Barosl Lee
  • Benjamin Peterson
  • Ben S
  • Björn Steinbrink
  • blackbeam
  • Brian Anderson
  • Brian Leibig
  • caipre
  • Cam Jackson
  • Carl Lerche
  • Carol Nichols
  • Carter Hinsley
  • CarVac
  • Caspar Krieger
  • Chase Southwood
  • Chris Morgan
  • Chris Thorn
  • Chris Wong
  • Clifford Caoile
  • Corey Farwell
  • Corey Richardson
  • Daniel Griffen
  • Daniel Grunwald
  • Daniel Raloff
  • Daniil Smirnov
  • Dan Yang
  • David Creswick
  • Diggory Blake
  • Dominik Inführ
  • Duane Edwards
  • Duncan Regan
  • Dzmitry Malyshau
  • Earl St Sauver
  • Eduard Burtescu
  • Edward Wang
  • Elantsev Serj
  • emanueLczirai
  • Erick Rivas
  • Erick Tryzelaar
  • Eunji Jeong
  • Felix S. Klock II
  • Fenhl
  • Filip SzczepaÅ„ski
  • Flavio Percoco
  • Florian Hahn
  • Garrett Heel
  • Geoffrey Thomas
  • Greg Chapple
  • Guillaume Gomez
  • Guillaume Pinot
  • Henrik Schopmans
  • Hugo van der Wijst
  • Huon Wilson
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