Version 1.69.0 (2023-04-20)

Language

• Deriving built-in traits on packed structs works with Copy fields.
• Stabilize the cmpxchg16b target feature on x86 and x86_64.
• Improve analysis of trait bounds for associated types.
• Allow associated types to be used as union fields.
• Allow Self: Autotrait bounds on dyn-safe trait methods.
• Treat str as containing [u8] for auto trait purposes.

Compiler

• Upgrade *-pc-windows-gnu on CI to mingw-w64 v10 and GCC 12.2.
• Rework min_choice algorithm of member constraints.
• Support true and false as boolean flags in compiler arguments.
• Default repr(C) enums to c_int size.

Libraries

• Implement the unstable DispatchFromDyn for cell types, allowing downstream experimentation with custom method receivers.
• Document that fmt::Arguments::as_str() may return Some(_) in more cases after optimization, subject to change.
• Implement AsFd and AsRawFd for Rc.

Stabilized APIs

• CStr::from_bytes_until_nul
• core::ffi::FromBytesUntilNulError

These APIs are now stable in const contexts:

• SocketAddr::new
• SocketAddr::ip
• SocketAddr::port
• SocketAddr::is_ipv4
• SocketAddr::is_ipv6
• SocketAddrV4::new
• SocketAddrV4::ip
• SocketAddrV4::port
• SocketAddrV6::new
• SocketAddrV6::ip
• SocketAddrV6::port
• SocketAddrV6::flowinfo
• SocketAddrV6::scope_id

Cargo

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

Rustdoc

• Vertically compact trait bound formatting.
• Only include stable lints in rustdoc::all group.
• Compute maximum Levenshtein distance based on the query.
• Remove inconsistently-present sidebar tooltips.
• Search by macro when query ends with !.

Compatibility Notes

• The rust-analysis component from rustup now only contains a warning placeholder. This was primarily intended for RLS, and the corresponding -Zsave-analysis flag has been removed from the compiler as well.
• Unaligned references to packed fields are now a hard error. This has been a warning since 1.53, and denied by default with a future-compatibility warning since 1.62.
• Update the minimum external LLVM to 14.
• Cargo now emits errors on invalid characters in a registry token.
• 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.
• Cargo denies CARGO_HOME in the [env] configuration table. Cargo itself doesn't pick up this value, but recursive calls to cargo would, which was not intended.
• Debuginfo for build dependencies is now off if not explicitly set. This is expected to improve the overall build time.
• The Rust distribution no longer always includes rustdoc If tools = [...] is set in config.toml, we will respect a missing rustdoc in that list. By default rustdoc remains included. To retain the prior behavior explicitly add "rustdoc" to the list.

Internal Changes

These changes do not affect any public interfaces of Rust, but they represent significant improvements to the performance or internals of rustc and related tools.

• Move format_args!() into AST (and expand it during AST lowering)