1.96.0 #

• Released on: 28 May, 2026
• Branched from master on: 10 April, 2026

Language #

• Allow passing expr metavariable to cfg
• Always coerce never types in tuple expressions
• Avoid incorrect inference guidance of function arguments in rare cases
• Support s390x vector registers in inline assembly
• Allow using constants of type ManuallyDrop as patterns (fixing a regression introduced in 1.94.0)

Compiler #

• Enable link relaxation feature for LoongArch Linux targets
• Update riscv64gc-unknown-fuchsia baseline to RVA22 + vector

Libraries #

• Support iterating over ranges of NonZero integers
• refactor ‘valid for read/write’ definition: exclude null; add that as an exception on individual methods instead
• Fix SGX delayed host lookup via ToSocketAddr

Stabilized APIs #

• assert_matches!
• debug_assert_matches!
• From<T> for AssertUnwindSafe<T>
• From<T> for LazyCell<T, F>
• From<T> for LazyLock<T, F>
• core::range::RangeToInclusive
• core::range::RangeToInclusiveIter
• core::range::RangeFrom
• core::range::RangeFromIter
• core::range::Range
• core::range::RangeIter

Cargo #

• Allow a dependency to specify both a git repository and an alternate registry. Just like with crates.io, the git repository will be used locally, but the registry version will be used when published.
• Added target.'cfg(..)'.rustdocflags support in configuration.
• Fixed CVE-2026-5222 and CVE-2026-5223.

Rustdoc #

• Deprecation notes are now rendered like any other documentation. Previously they used the css white-space: pre-wrap; property and stripped any <p> elements from the rendered html, however this caused issues and unintuitive behavior. The new behavior should be more predictable, however some multi-line deprecation notes will now be rendered as as single lines. If this is undesirable, you can use the standard markdown method of forcing a linebreak, which is two spaces followed by a newline ("\n").
• Don’t emit rustdoc missing_doc_code_examples lint on impl items
• Separate methods and associated functions in sidebar

Compatibility Notes #

• Fix layout of #[repr(Int)] enums in some edge cases involving fields of uninhabited zero-sized types
• Prevent unsize-coercing into Pin<Foo> where Foo doesn’t implement Deref. Some such coercions were previously allowed, but produce a type with no useful public API.
• rustc: Stop passing --allow-undefined on wasm targets
• Gate the accidentally stabilized #![reexport_test_harness_main] attribute
• Error on return-position-impl-trait-in-traits whose types are too private
• Report the uninhabited_static lint in dependencies and make it deny-by-default
• Distributed builds now contain non-split debuginfo for windows-gnu This appears to improve the quality of backtraces. This change has no effect on the defaults for the output of rustc/cargo on these targets.
• Check const generic arguments are correctly typed in more positions
• Remove -Csoft-float
• Importing structs with ::{self [as name]}, e.g., struct S {}; use S::{self as Other};, is now no longer permitted because {self} imports require a module parent.
• For export_name, link_name, and link_section attributes, if multiple of the same attribute is present, the first one now takes precedence.
• Update the minimum external LLVM to 21
• On avr targets, C’s double type is 32-bit by default, so change c_double to f32 on avr targets to match. This is a breaking change, but necessary to make c_double match C’s double.
• BTreeMap::append() was optimized, which may now cause panics for types with incorrect Ord impls

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.

• JSON targets: aarch64 softfloat targets now have to have rustc_abi set to "softfloat"
• target specs: stricter checks for LLVM ABI values, and correlate that with cfg(target_abi)