Rust 1.43.0

Language

• Fixed using binary operations with &{number} (e.g. &1.0) not having the type inferred correctly.
• Attributes such as #[cfg()] can now be used on if expressions.

Syntax only changes

• Allow type Foo: Ord syntactically.
• Fuse associated and extern items up to defaultness.
• Syntactically allow self in all fn contexts.
• Merge fn syntax + cleanup item parsing.
• item macro fragments can be interpolated into traits, impls, and extern blocks. For example, you may now write:

  macro_rules! mac_trait {
      ($i:item) => {
          trait T { $i }
      }
  }
  mac_trait! {
      fn foo() {}
  }

These are still rejected semantically, so you will likely receive an error but these changes can be seen and parsed by macros and conditional compilation.

Compiler

• You can now pass multiple lint flags to rustc to override the previous flags. For example; rustc -D unused -A unused-variables denies everything in the unused lint group except unused-variables which is explicitly allowed. However, passing rustc -A unused-variables -D unused denies everything in the unused lint group including unused-variables since the allow flag is specified before the deny flag (and therefore overridden).
• rustc will now prefer your system MinGW libraries over its bundled libraries if they are available on windows-gnu.
• rustc now buffers errors/warnings printed in JSON.

Libraries

• Arc<[T; N]>, Box<[T; N]>, and Rc<[T; N]>, now implement TryFrom<Arc<[T]>>,TryFrom<Box<[T]>>, and TryFrom<Rc<[T]>> respectively. Note These conversions are only available when N is 0..=32.
• You can now use associated constants on floats and integers directly, rather than having to import the module. e.g. You can now write u32::MAX or f32::NAN with no imports.
• u8::is_ascii is now const.
• String now implements AsMut<str>.
• Added the primitive module to std and core. This module reexports Rust's primitive types. This is mainly useful in macros where you want avoid these types being shadowed.
• Relaxed some of the trait bounds on HashMap and HashSet.
• string::FromUtf8Error now implements Clone + Eq.

Stabilized APIs

• Once::is_completed
• f32::LOG10_2
• f32::LOG2_10
• f64::LOG10_2
• f64::LOG2_10
• iter::once_with

Cargo

• You can now set config [profile]s in your .cargo/config, or through your environment.
• Cargo will now set CARGO_BIN_EXE_<name> pointing to a binary's executable path when running integration tests or benchmarks. <name> is the name of your binary as-is e.g. If you wanted the executable path for a binary named my-programyou would use env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_my-program").

Misc

• Certain checks in the const_err lint were deemed unrelated to const evaluation, and have been moved to the unconditional_panic and arithmetic_overflow lints.

Compatibility Notes

• Having trailing syntax in the assert! macro is now a hard error. This has been a warning since 1.36.0.
• Fixed Self not having the correctly inferred type. This incorrectly led to some instances being accepted, and now correctly emits a hard error.

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.

• All components are now built with opt-level=3 instead of 2.
• Improved how rustc generates drop code.
• Improved performance from #[inline]-ing certain hot functions.
• traits: preallocate 2 Vecs of known initial size
• Avoid exponential behaviour when relating types
• Skip Drop terminators for enum variants without drop glue
• Improve performance of coherence checks
• Deduplicate types in the generator witness
• Invert control in struct_lint_level.