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Posts in 2026
Jan. 13 Infrastructure Team 2025 Q4 Recap and Q1 2026 Plan
Jan. 12 What is maintenance, anyway?
Jan. 7 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.93

Posts in 2025
Dec. 20 Rustup 1.29.0 beta: Call for Testing!
Dec. 19 December 2025 Project Director Update
Dec. 19 Program management update — End of 2025
Dec. 16 Please submit 2026 Project goal proposals
Dec. 10 Leadership Council update — December 2025
Dec. 4 Want to propose a 2026 Rust project goal? We are here to help!
Dec. 2 Late 2025 Project Director Update
Nov. 24 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.92
Nov. 19 Program management update — October 2025
Nov. 16 Infrastructure announcement Zulip channel
Oct. 28 Announcing seven new members of the compiler team
Oct. 22 What we learned with Clippy's feature freeze
Oct. 16 Renaming the default branch of rust-lang/rust
Oct. 16 Infrastructure Team 2025 Q3 Recap and Q4 Plan
Oct. 14 Program management update — September 2025
Oct. 1 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.90
Sept. 30 The next Rust All Hands
Sept. 23 Leadership Council September 2025 Representative Selections
Sept. 22 Variadic Generics Micro Survey
Sept. 11 Program management update — August 2025
Sept. 10 Leadership Council update — September 2025
Sept. 4 Crossing the streams: Project + Foundation
Aug. 26 Removing inactive members from our GitHub organizations
Aug. 20 Electing new Project Directors 2025
Aug. 15 Leadership Council September 2025 Representative Selections
Aug. 5 Program management update — July 2025
July 21 Sunsetting the rustwasm GitHub org
July 21 July 2025 Project Director Update
July 15 Call for Testing: Speeding up compilation with `hint-mostly-unused`
June 30 Program management update — June 2025
June 30 2025 Leadership Council Survey
June 23 Now accepting Project Goal proposals for 2025H2
June 21 Announcing the Clippy feature freeze
June 11 June 2025 Leadership Council Update
June 5 A glance at compiler team operations
May 30 Announcing five new members of the compiler team
May 29 Redesigning the Initial Bootstrap Sequence
Apr. 22 April 2025 Project Director Update
Apr. 13 This Month in Our Test Infra: March 2025 issue
Apr. 3 March 2025 Project Director Update
Mar. 26 Leadership Council March 2025 Representative Selections
Mar. 18 Hiring for Rust program management
Mar. 17 March 2025 Leadership Council Update
Mar. 11 This Month in Our Test Infra: January and February 2025
Mar. 5 Inferred const generic arguments: Call for Testing!
Feb. 27 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.86
Feb. 27 Relnotes PR and release blog post ping group
Feb. 24 February 2025 Project Director Update
Feb. 14 Leadership Council March 2025 Representative Selections
Jan. 30 January 2025 Project Director Update
Jan. 17 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.85
Jan. 10 This Month in Our Test Infra: December 2024

Posts in 2024
Dec. 17 December 2024 Project Director Update
Dec. 13 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.84
Dec. 9 This Month in Our Test Infra: November 2024
Dec. 9 December 2024 Leadership Council Update
Dec. 4 Rustc Trait System Refactor Initiative Update: Stabilizing `-Znext-solver=coherence`
Nov. 12 Announcing four new members of the compiler team
Nov. 4 This Month in Our Test Infra: October 2024
Nov. 4 Call for proposals: Rust 2025h1 project goals
Nov. 1 Re-organising the compiler team and recognising our team members
Oct. 31 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.83
Oct. 10 This Month in Our Test Infra: September 2024
Oct. 1 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.82
Sept. 27 Leadership Council September 2024 Representative Selections
Sept. 26 Return type notation MVP: Call for testing!
Sept. 6 September 2024 Leadership Council Update
Sept. 6 Electing New Project Directors 2024
Sept. 2 Save the Date: Rust All Hands 2025
Aug. 22 Embedded Working Group Community Micro Survey
Aug. 20 Leadership Council September Representative Selections
Aug. 15 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.81
Aug. 9 Async Closures MVP: Call for Testing!
Aug. 1 Welcome TC to the Rust language design team!
June 19 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.80
May 28 Welcome James Munns to the Leadership Council
May 14 May 2024 Leadership Council Update
May 9 Recap: Rust Leads Summit 2024
May 7 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.79
May 7 Rust Project Goals Submission Period
Apr. 12 Announcing lcnr as Types Team co-lead
Apr. 1 Leadership Council March Representative Selections
Mar. 27 1.77.1 pre-release testing
Mar. 26 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.78
Mar. 22 2024 Edition Update
Mar. 17 1.77.0 pre-release testing
Feb. 19 Leadership Council March Representative Selections
Feb. 13 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.77
Feb. 13 February 2024 Leadership Council Update
Feb. 13 Announcing Tyler Mandry as Lang Team co-lead
Feb. 4 1.76.0 pre-release testing
Jan. 3 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.76

Posts in 2023
Dec. 22 Rustc Trait System Refactor Initiative Update: A call for testing
Dec. 21 1.75.0 pre-release testing
Dec. 5 1.74.1 pre-release testing
Nov. 15 Our Vision for the Rust Specification
Nov. 13 November 2023 Leadership Council Update
Nov. 13 1.74.0 pre-release testing
Oct. 23 Generators are dead, long live coroutines, generators are back
Oct. 6 Polonius update
Oct. 3 1.73.0 pre-release testing
Sept. 22 Announcing the Project Director Nominees
Sept. 14 1.72.1 pre-release testing
Sept. 8 Leadership change in the Rust Infrastructure Team
Sept. 4 Keeping Rust projects secure with cargo-audit 0.18: performance, compatibility and security improvements
Sept. 1 crates.io Postmortem: User Uploaded Malware
Aug. 29 Leadership Council Membership Changes
Aug. 25 Seeking help for initial Leadership Council initiatives
Aug. 24 Cargo changes how arrays in config are merged
Aug. 21 1.72.0 pre-release testing
Aug. 2 Rotating Rust compiler team leadership
Aug. 1 1.71.1 pre-release testing
July 25 July 2023 Leadership Council Update
July 21 crates.io Postmortem: Broken Crate Downloads
July 17 Rustc Trait System Refactor Initiative Update
July 10 1.71.0 pre-release testing
May 29 1.70.0 pre-release testing
May 9 API token scopes
May 3 Stabilizing async fn in traits in 2023
May 1 Postmortem Analysis in Cargo
Apr. 17 1.69.0 pre-release testing
Apr. 12 A note on the Trademark Policy Draft
Apr. 6 Welcome Arlo and Scott to the Cargo Team
Mar. 27 1.68.2 pre-release testing
Mar. 20 1.68.1 pre-release testing
Mar. 6 1.68.0 pre-release testing
Feb. 23 Keyword Generics Progress Report: February 2023
Feb. 22 Governance Reform RFC Announcement
Feb. 14 Welcome Tyler Mandry to the Rust language team!
Feb. 14 Language team advisors
Feb. 10 Rust Compiler February 2023 Steering Cycle
Feb. 8 DNS Outage on 2023-01-25
Feb. 7 1.67.1 pre-release testing
Jan. 30 Help test Cargo's new index protocol
Jan. 25 1.67.0 pre-release testing
Jan. 24 Diversifying our Content Delivery Networks

Posts in 2022
Dec. 12 1.66.0 pre-release testing
Nov. 29 Please welcome The 8472 to the Library team
Nov. 17 Async fn in trait MVP comes to nightly
Oct. 31 1.65.0 pre-release testing
Oct. 6 Governance Update
Sept. 29 Announcing the Rust Style Team
Sept. 23 Rust Compiler Early October 2022 Steering Cycle
Sept. 19 1.64.0 pre-release testing
Aug. 16 Contribute to the diagnostic translation effort!
Aug. 10 Please welcome Dan to Library Contributors
Aug. 9 1.63.0 pre-release testing
Aug. 8 Rust Compiler Midyear Report for 2022
July 27 Announcing the Keyword Generics Initiative
July 16 1.62.1 pre-release testing
July 13 Changes at the Clippy Team
June 28 1.62.0 pre-release testing
June 21 2021 Annual Survey Report
June 3 Rust Compiler June 2022 Steering Cycle
May 26 Concluding the events of last November
May 19 Governance Update
May 16 1.61.0 pre-release testing
May 10 CTCFT 2022-05-16 Agenda
Apr. 20 Rust Library Team Aspirations
Apr. 19 Imposter Syndrome
Apr. 18 Please welcome Thom and Chris to Library Contributors
Apr. 15 Rust Compiler April 2022 Steering Cycle
Apr. 12 CTCFT 2022-04-18 Agenda
Apr. 6 Lang team April update
Apr. 4 Rust Lang Roadmap for 2024
Apr. 4 1.60.0 pre-release testing
Mar. 31 Changes at the Cargo Team
Mar. 16 CTCFT 2022-03-21 Agenda
Mar. 11 Rust Compiler March 2022 Steering Cycle
Mar. 9 Lang team March update
Feb. 22 Rust Compiler Ambitions for 2022
Feb. 22 1.59.0 pre-release testing
Feb. 18 Lang team February update
Feb. 17 Rust Compiler February 2022 Steering Cycle
Feb. 11 CTCFT 2022-02-21 Agenda
Feb. 3 Async Rust in 2022
Jan. 18 Rust Compiler January 2022 Steering Cycle
Jan. 11 1.58.0 pre-release testing

Posts in 2021
Dec. 17 Follow-up on the moderation issue
Nov. 30 1.57.0 pre-release testing
Nov. 25 In response to the moderation team resignation
Nov. 15 Please welcome The 8472 and Ashley Mannix to Library Contributors
Oct. 18 1.56.0 pre-release testing
Oct. 8 Lang team October update
Sept. 7 1.55.0 pre-release testing
Sept. 6 Splitting the const generics features
Aug. 4 Lang team August update
July 30 Rust Compiler August Steering Cycle
July 26 1.54.0 pre-release testing
July 12 Lang team July update
July 2 Rust Compiler July Steering Cycle
July 1 What the Error Handling Project Group is Working Towards
June 23 Rust Compiler June Steering Cycle
June 15 Please welcome Boxy, LÊo Lanteri Thauvin and the8472 to compiler-contributors
June 15 1.53.0 pre-release testing
May 4 Core Team Update: May 2021
May 4 1.52.0 pre-release testing
Apr. 28 Rustup 1.24.0 release incident report for 2021-04-27
Apr. 26 Congrats to compiler team member Aaron Hill
Apr. 20 Jacob Hoffman-Andrews joins the Rustdoc team
Apr. 17 Lang team April update
Apr. 15 Rust Compiler April Steering Cycle
Apr. 3 Core Team updates
Mar. 23 1.51.0 pre-release testing
Mar. 4 Planning the Rust 2021 Edition
Mar. 3 Lang team March update
Feb. 15 March Sprint for rustc: Shrink Memory Usage
Feb. 9 1.50.0 pre-release testing
Feb. 3 Lang team February update
Feb. 1 Welcoming David Wood to compiler team and Jack Huey to compiler-contributors
Jan. 26 Rust & the case of the disappearing stack frames
Jan. 19 Changes to the Rustdoc team
Jan. 15 Rustdoc performance improvements

Posts in 2020
Dec. 29 1.49.0 pre-release testing
Dec. 28 Please welcome cjgillot and Nadrieril to compiler-contributors
Dec. 14 Changes to Rust compiler team
Nov. 23 What the Error Handling Project Group is Working On
Nov. 16 1.48.0 pre-release testing
Nov. 15 Using rustc_codegen_cranelift for debug builds
Nov. 12 Source-based code coverage in nightly
Nov. 11 Exploring PGO for the Rust compiler
Oct. 23 Core team membership changes
Oct. 16 Lang team Backlog Bonanza and Project Proposals
Oct. 7 1.47.0 second pre-release testing
Oct. 6 1.47.0 pre-release testing
Sept. 29 Announcing the Portable SIMD Project Group
Sept. 18 Announcing the Error Handling Project Group
Sept. 17 Intra-doc links close to stabilization
Aug. 30 Changes to x.py defaults
Aug. 28 Upcoming compiler-team design meetings
Aug. 24 1.46.0 pre-release testing
July 29 Lang team design meeting: well-formedness and type aliases
July 29 Lang team design meeting: minimal const generics
July 27 Opening up the Core Team agenda
July 27 1.45.1 prerelease testing
July 23 Rust's CI is moving to GitHub Actions
July 17 Traits working group 2020 sprint 3 summary
July 9 Lang team design meeting: path to membership
July 8 Lang team design meeting update
July 2 Ownership of the standard library implementation
June 29 Disk space and LTO improvements
June 9 Announcing the Windows and ARM notification groups
June 8 Upcoming compiler-team design meetings
June 8 New inline assembly syntax available in nightly
May 27 2020 Contributor Survey
May 26 A retrospective on the 2018 rust-lang.org redesign
May 21 Governance Working Group Update: Meeting 21 May 2020
May 18 Traits working group 2020 sprint 2 summary
May 8 Lang Team meetings moving to new time slots
Apr. 23 Governance Working Group Update: Meeting 23 April 2020
Apr. 14 Governance Working Group Update: Meeting 09 April 2020
Apr. 10 Upcoming compiler-team design meetings
Apr. 10 April Lang Team Design Meetings
Apr. 7 Update on the GitHub Actions evaluation
Mar. 28 Traits working group 2020 sprint 1 summary
Mar. 27 Goodbye, docs team
Mar. 26 rustc-dev-guide Overview
Mar. 19 Resolving Rust's forward progress guarantees
Mar. 18 All Hands Retrospective
Mar. 17 Governance Working Group Update: Meeting 12 March 2020
Mar. 13 Upcoming compiler-team design meetings
Mar. 13 This Week in Rust is looking for a new maintainer.
Mar. 13 The rustc-guide is now rustc-dev-guide
Mar. 11 March Lang Team Design Meetings
Mar. 4 Recent and future pattern matching improvements
Feb. 27 Pietro Albini has joined the core team
Feb. 27 Announcing the first FFI-unwind project design meeting
Feb. 27 Governance Working Group Update: Meeting 27 February 2020
Feb. 26 crates.io incident report for 2020-02-20
Feb. 25 Intro to rustc's self profiler
Feb. 20 Please welcome jtgeibel as crates.io team co-lead!
Feb. 14 Upcoming compiler-team design meetings
Feb. 11 Governance Working Group Update: Meeting 11 February 2020
Feb. 7 2020-02-06 Compiler Team Triage Meeting
Feb. 6 Announcing the Cleanup Crew ICE-breaker group
Jan. 24 Upcoming compiler-team design meetings
Jan. 24 February Lang Team Design Meetings
Jan. 23 cargo-audit v0.11: Introducing the `fix` feature, yanked crate detection, and more
Jan. 14 Governance Working Group Update: Meeting 14 January 2020
Jan. 10 Lang Team Design Meetings
Jan. 10 Cargo in 2020

Posts in 2019
Dec. 23 Formatting the compiler tree
Dec. 20 An Update from WG-Learning
Dec. 20 2019-12-17 Infrastructure Team Meeting
Dec. 20 Governance Working Group Update: Meeting 17 December 2019
Dec. 19 Congrats to compiler team members matthewjasper and wesleywiser
Dec. 18 Bisecting Rust Compiler Regressions with cargo-bisect-rustc
Dec. 11 2019-12-10 Infrastructure Team Meeting
Dec. 10 Governance Working Group Update
Dec. 9 Announcing the Docs.rs Team
Dec. 4 2019-11-18 IDE team meeting
Dec. 3 Governance Working Group Update
Dec. 2 Constant propagation is now on by default in nightly
Nov. 25 `if` and `match` in constants on nightly rust
Nov. 22 Upcoming compiler-team design meetings
Nov. 22 2019-11-14 and 2019-11-21 Lang Team Triage Meetings
Nov. 19 2019-11-19 Infrastructure Team Meeting
Nov. 19 2019-11-14 Compiler Team Triage Meeting
Nov. 18 2019-11-12 Infrastructure Team Meeting
Nov. 14 Evaluating GitHub Actions
Nov. 13 Governance WG Call For Participation
Nov. 11 2019-11-07 Compiler Team Triage Meeting
Nov. 7 2019-10-31 Compiler Team Triage Meeting
Nov. 6 2019-11-05 Infrastructure Team Meeting
Nov. 4 Clippy is removing its plugin interface
Oct. 30 2019-10-24 Compiler Team Triage Meeting
Oct. 29 2019-10-29 Infrastructure Team Meeting
Oct. 28 The Rustc Dev Guide Working Group - An Introduction
Oct. 25 Planning meeting update
Oct. 24 Please welcome pnkfelix as compiler team co-lead!
Oct. 24 docs.rs outage postmortem
Oct. 22 2019-10-22 Infrastructure Team Meeting
Oct. 22 Announcing the LLVM ICE-breaker group
Oct. 21 2019-10-17 Compiler Team Triage Meeting
Oct. 17 Please welcome ecstatic-morse to compiler-contributors
Oct. 15 2019-10-10 Infrastructure Team Meeting
Oct. 15 2019-10-10 Compiler Team Triage Meeting
Oct. 11 2019-10-10 Lang Team Triage Meeting
Oct. 11 Improving async-await's "Future is not Send" diagnostic
Oct. 7 Async Foundations Update: Time for polish!
Oct. 3 Keeping Rust projects secure with cargo-audit 0.9: dependency trees, core advisories, unmaintained crates
Sept. 25 Welcome to the Inside Rust blog!