1.52.0 #

• Released on: 6 May, 2021
• Branched from master on: 19 March, 2021

Language #

• Added the unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn lint, which checks whether the unsafe code in an unsafe fn is wrapped in a unsafe block. This lint is allowed by default, and may become a warning or hard error in a future edition.
• You can now cast mutable references to arrays to a pointer of the same type as the element.

Compiler #

• Upgraded the default LLVM to LLVM 12.

Added tier 3* support for the following targets.

• s390x-unknown-linux-musl
• riscv32gc-unknown-linux-musl & riscv64gc-unknown-linux-musl
• powerpc-unknown-openbsd

* Refer to Rust’s [platform support page][platform-support-doc] for more information on Rust’s tiered platform support.

Libraries #

• OsString now implements Extend and FromIterator.
• cmp::Reverse now has #[repr(transparent)] representation.
• Arc<impl Error> now implements error::Error.
• All integer division and remainder operations are now const.

Stabilised APIs #

• Arguments::as_str
• char::MAX
• char::REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER
• char::UNICODE_VERSION
• char::decode_utf16
• char::from_digit
• char::from_u32_unchecked
• char::from_u32
• slice::partition_point
• str::rsplit_once
• str::split_once

The following previously stable APIs are now const.

• char::len_utf8
• char::len_utf16
• char::to_ascii_uppercase
• char::to_ascii_lowercase
• char::eq_ignore_ascii_case
• u8::to_ascii_uppercase
• u8::to_ascii_lowercase
• u8::eq_ignore_ascii_case

Rustdoc #

• Rustdoc lints are now treated as a tool lint, meaning that lints are now prefixed with rustdoc:: (e.g. #[warn(rustdoc::broken_intra_doc_links)]). Using the old style is still allowed, and will become a warning in a future release.
• Rustdoc now supports argument files.
• Rustdoc now generates smart punctuation for documentation.
• You can now use “task lists” in Rustdoc Markdown. E.g.

  - [x] Complete
  - [ ] Todo
  

Misc #

• You can now pass multiple filters to tests. E.g. cargo test -- foo bar will run all tests that match foo and bar.
• Rustup now distributes PDB symbols for the std library on Windows, allowing you to see std symbols when debugging.

Internal Only #

These changes provide no direct user facing benefits, but represent significant improvements to the internals and overall performance of rustc and related tools.

• Check the result cache before the DepGraph when ensuring queries
• Try fast_reject::simplify_type in coherence before doing full check
• Only store a LocalDefId in some HIR nodes
• Store HIR attributes in a side table

Compatibility Notes #

• Cargo build scripts are now forbidden from setting RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP.
• Removed support for the x86_64-rumprun-netbsd target.
• Deprecated the x86_64-sun-solaris target in favor of x86_64-pc-solaris.
• Rustdoc now only accepts ,, , and \t as delimiters for specifying languages in code blocks.
• Rustc now catches more cases of pub_use_of_private_extern_crate
• Changes in how proc macros handle whitespace may lead to panics when used with older proc-macro-hack versions. A cargo update should be sufficient to fix this in all cases.
• Turn #[derive] into a regular macro attribute