We are excited to welcome Dongpo Liu and Ross Sullivan to the Cargo team!

Dongpo has contributed to the Rust Project for years across different teams. He has been an important bridge between Cargo and other Rust teams and has brought insights and fresh ideas from across the Project. Dongpo also integrated cargo info from an external experiment into Cargo as a built-in command. That fulfilled a feature request that was nearly ten years old! He is also a kind and thoughtful reviewer. He always gives careful feedback and takes the time to help contributors. Fun fact: Dongpo joined the team in December 2024, but we never publicly announced it!

Ross is brave and a deep thinker. In his first Cargo contributions, he jumped straight into one of Cargo's hardest topics: build artifact management and caching. He has shepherded the new build directory layout through design, implementation, and extensive community testing. This work lays a great foundation for cross-workspace caching and many other future optimizations. He is now leading the 2026 Project Goal for cross-workspace caching! Ross also always takes responsibility for his work. He responds quickly in discussions, fixes regressions, and helps unblock other teams. We are very glad to have him on the team.

At the same time, Eric Huss has stepped down from the Cargo team. He contributed to the Rust Project for nearly a decade and served as a Cargo team lead for more than seven years. Eric's fingerprints can be found across basically every part of Cargo. He was our go-to person whenever we needed to understand the history of Cargo. In fact, his work reached far beyond Cargo. He maintained mdBook and books such as the Rust Reference and the Rustonomicon. He also helped lead the Edition work and represented the Dev tools team on the Leadership Council. Cargo and the Rust Project are much better because of him. Thank you, Eric!

With Eric stepping down, the Cargo team has selected Jacob Finkelman and Weihang Lo as its new co-leads. Together, they will coordinate the team and support Cargo contributors. We look forward to this next chapter for the Cargo team.