Announcing Rust 1.96.0
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community 8
strategic 7
personal 7
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Rust release with new features; highly relevant to systems and infrastructure engineering.
Summary
Rust 1.96.0 stabilizes RFC 3550's new range types (e.g., core::range::Range) that implement IntoIterator and Copy, enabling storing slice accessors in Copy types without splitting start/end. It also adds assert_matches! and debug_assert_matches! macros (not in prelude to avoid collisions) and makes WebAssembly linking error on undefined symbols by default (removing --allow-undefined). Two security fixes address symlink extraction and URL normalization in third-party registries.