Draft release notes for 1.87

[BoxyUwU]

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Version 1.87.0 (2025-05-15)

Language

• Stabilize asm_goto feature
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• Allow parsing open beginning ranges after unary operators
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• Don't require method impls for methods with Self: Sized bounds in impls for unsized types
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• Stabilize feature(precise_capturing_in_traits) allowing use<...> bounds on return position impl Trait in traits
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Compiler

• x86: make SSE2 required for i686 targets and use it to pass SIMD types
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Platform Support

Refer to Rust's platform support page
for more information on Rust's tiered platform support.

Libraries

• Stabilize the anonymous pipe API
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• Add support for unbounded left/right shift operations
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• Print pointer metadata in Debug impl of raw pointers
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• Vec::with_capacity guarantees it allocates with the amount requested, even if Vec::capacity returns a different number.
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• Most std::arch intrinsics which don't take pointer arguments can now be called from safe code if the caller has the appropriate target features already enabled (mark x86 intrinsics as safe stdarch#1714, mark arm intrinsics as safe stdarch#1716, mark riscv intrinsics as safe stdarch#1717)
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• Undeprecate env::home_dir
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• Denote ControlFlow as #[must_use]
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• Macros such as assert_eq! and vec! now support const {...} expressions
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Stabilized APIs

• Vec::extract_if
• vec::ExtractIf
• LinkedList::extract_if
• linked_list::ExtractIf
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• <[T]>::split_off
• <[T]>::split_off_mut
• <[T]>::split_off_first
• <[T]>::split_off_first_mut
• <[T]>::split_off_last
• <[T]>::split_off_last_mut
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• String::extend_from_within
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• os_str::Display
• OsString::display
• OsStr::display
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• io::pipe
• io::PipeReader
• io::PipeWriter
• impl From<PipeReader> for OwnedHandle
• impl From<PipeWriter> for OwnedHandle
• impl From<PipeReader> for Stdio
• impl From<PipeWriter> for Stdio
• impl From<PipeReader> for OwnedFd
• impl From<PipeWriter> for OwnedFd
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• Box<MaybeUninit<T>>::write
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• impl TryFrom<Vec<u8>> for String
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These APIs are now stable in const contexts:

• <*const T>::offset_from_unsigned
• <*const T>::byte_offset_from_unsigned
• <*mut T>::offset_from_unsigned
• <*mut T>::byte_offset_from_unsigned
• NonNull::offset_from_unsigned
• NonNull::byte_offset_from_unsigned
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• <uN>::cast_signed
• NonZero::<uN>::cast_signed.
• <iN>::cast_signed.
• NonZero::<iN>::cast_unsigned.
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• <uN>::is_multiple_of
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• <uN>::unbounded_shl
• <uN>::unbounded_shr
• <iN>::unbounded_shl
• <iN>::unbounded_shr
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• <str>::from_utf8
• <str>::from_utf8_mut
• <str>::from_utf8_unchecked
• <str>::from_utf8_unchecked_mut
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• <[T]>::copy_from_slice
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• SocketAddr::set_ip
• SocketAddr::set_port,
• SocketAddrV4::set_ip
• SocketAddrV4::set_port,
• SocketAddrV6::set_ip
• SocketAddrV6::set_port
• SocketAddrV6::set_flowinfo
• SocketAddrV6::set_scope_id
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• char::is_digit
• char::is_whitespace
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• <iN>:midpoint
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• <[[T; N]]>::as_flattened
• <[[T; N]]>::as_flattened_mut
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• <str>::from_utf8_mut
• core::str::from_utf8_mut
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• String::into_bytes
• String::as_str
• String::capacity
• String::as_bytes
• String::len
• String::is_empty
• String::as_mut_str
• String::as_mut_vec
• Vec::as_ptr
• Vec::as_slice
• Vec::capacity
• Vec::len
• Vec::is_empty
• Vec::as_mut_slice
• Vec::as_mut_ptr
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Cargo

• Add terminal integration via ANSI OSC 9;4 sequences
• chore: bump openssl to v3
• feat(package): add --exclude-lockfile flag

Rustdoc

Compatibility Notes

• Rust now raises an error for macro invocations inside the #![crate_name] attribute
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• Unstable fields are now always considered to be inhabited
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• Macros ??? may ?? break now ??? due to ranges and unary operators ??? idk ?
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• Make Debug impl of raw pointers print metadata if present
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• Warn against function pointers using unsupported ABI strings in dependencies
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• Associated types on dyn types are no longer deduplicated
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• Forbid attributes on .. inside of struct patterns (let Struct { #[attribute] .. }) =
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• Make ptr_cast_add_auto_to_object lint into hard error
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• Many std::arch intrinsics are now safe to call in some contexts, there may now be new unused_unsafe warnings in existing codebases.
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• Limit width and precision formatting options to 16 bits on all targets
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• Turn order dependent trait objects future incompat warning into a hard error
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• Denote ControlFlow as #[must_use]
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• Remove i586-pc-windows-msvc target
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• Windows: The standard library no longer links advapi32, except on win7. Code such as C libraries that were relying on this assumption may need to explicitly link advapi32.
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• Remove NtPat, NtMeta, and NtPath
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• expand: Leave traces when expanding cfg attributes
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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.

• Update to LLVM 20
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Other

[BoxyUwU]

@rustbot ping relnotes-interest-group

[rustbot]

Hi relnotes-interest-group, this issue/PR could use some help in reviewing /
adjusting release notes. Could you take a look if available? Thanks <3

cc @alex-semenyuk @jieyouxu @joshtriplett @Kobzol @lcnr @traviscross

[elizabethdwyer255]

The link to

• <str>::from_utf8_unchecked

under "These APIs are now stable in const contexts:" needs to be fixed. Currently it's written as

• [<str>::from_utf8_unchecked](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.str.html#method.from_utf8_unchecked]

i.e. the final parenthesis is accidentally written as a square bracket.