The Rust Project has been building up a good history of participating in various open-source mentorship programs, including Google Summer of Code for three years (including this year) and previously OSPP. We're happy to announce that this year we are also participating in Out...
The nvptx64-nvidia-cuda target is a compilation target for NVIDIA GPUs. When using this target, the final output is PTX. Two version choices shape that output: a GPU architecture (for example, sm_70, sm_80, …), which determines which GPUs can run the PTX, and a PTX ISA vers...
As previously announced, the Rust Project is participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026. GSoC is a global program organized by Google that is designed to bring new contributors to the world of open source. A few months ago, we published a list of GSoC project ideas, a...
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.95.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.95.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you d...
Building fewer targets by default On 2026-05-01, docs.rs will make a breaking change to its build behavior. Today, if a crate does not define a targets list in its docs.rs metadata, docs.rs builds documentation for a default list of five targets. Starting on 2026-05-01, docs....
Rust's WebAssembly targets are soon going to experience a change which has a risk of breaking existing projects, and this post is intended to notify users of this upcoming change, explain what it is, and how to handle it. Specifically, all WebAssembly targets in Rust have bee...
The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.94.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.94.1 is as easy as: rustup update ...
The Rust Security Response Team was notified of a vulnerability in the third-party crate tar, used by Cargo to extract packages during a build. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-33056, allows a malicious crate to change the permissions on arbitrary directories on the fil...