Language

• You can now use tuple structs and tuple enum variant's constructors in const contexts. e.g.

  pub struct Point(i32, i32); const ORIGIN: Point = { let constructor = Point; constructor(0, 0) };

• You can now mark structs, enums, and enum variants with the #[non_exhaustive] attribute to indicate that there may be variants or fields added in the future. For example this requires adding a wild-card branch (_ => {}) to any match statements on a non-exhaustive enum. (RFC 2008)

• You can now use function-like procedural macros in extern blocks and in type positions. e.g. type Generated = macro!();

• Function-like and attribute procedural macros can now emit macro_rules! items, so you can now have your macros generate macros.

• The meta pattern matcher in macro_rules! now correctly matches the modern attribute syntax. For example (#[$m:meta]) now matches #[attr], #[attr{tokens}], #[attr[tokens]], and #[attr(tokens)].

Compiler

• Added tier 3 support* for the thumbv7neon-unknown-linux-musleabihf target.
• Added tier 3 support for the aarch64-unknown-none-softfloat target.
• Added tier 3 support for the mips64-unknown-linux-muslabi64, and mips64el-unknown-linux-muslabi64 targets.

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

Libraries

• The is_power_of_two method on unsigned numeric types is now a const function.

Stabilized APIs

• BTreeMap::get_key_value
• HashMap::get_key_value
• Option::as_deref_mut
• Option::as_deref
• Option::flatten
• UdpSocket::peer_addr
• f32::to_be_bytes
• f32::to_le_bytes
• f32::to_ne_bytes
• f64::to_be_bytes
• f64::to_le_bytes
• f64::to_ne_bytes
• f32::from_be_bytes
• f32::from_le_bytes
• f32::from_ne_bytes
• f64::from_be_bytes
• f64::from_le_bytes
• f64::from_ne_bytes
• mem::take
• slice::repeat
• todo!

Cargo

• Cargo will now always display warnings, rather than only on fresh builds.
• Feature flags (except --all-features) passed to a virtual workspace will now produce an error. Previously these flags were ignored.
• You can now publish dev-dependencies without including a version.

Misc

• You can now specify the #[cfg(doctest)] attribute to include an item only when running documentation tests with rustdoc.

Compatibility Notes

• As previously announced, any previous NLL warnings in the 2015 edition are now hard errors.
• The include! macro will now warn if it failed to include the entire file. The include! macro unintentionally only includes the first expression in a file, and this can be unintuitive. This will become either a hard error in a future release, or the behavior may be fixed to include all expressions as expected.
• Using #[inline] on function prototypes and consts now emits a warning under unused_attribute lint. Using #[inline] anywhere else inside traits or extern blocks now correctly emits a hard error.