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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is zeroize, a crate to securely clear secrets from memory either manually or on drop, with both methods for your types being but one #[derive] away.

Thanks to Tally for the suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation

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If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

Updates from the Rust Project

339 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A mixed bag of a week. 2 of the 3 regressions are connected to changes to the query system that underlies incremental compilation. The third regression is still being investigated. For all three, the impact on cycle counts that are within our noise tolerance levels There were several small-ish improvements, though PR #104963 is worth calling out: a well-factored change to how we lower the AST into HIR that had a broad positive impact. One final note: the summary-opt max-rss seems to gone up by 1.5% over the past month (perf), via a gradual climb; just something to keep our eyes on going forward.

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: 8a09420a..9db224fc

See the full report for details.

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

  • No RFCs issued a call for testing this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

Final Comment Period

Every week, the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

RFCs

  • No RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

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Quote of the Week

To date, there have been zero memory safety vulnerabilities discovered in Android’s Rust code.

Jeffrey Vander Stoep on the google security team blog

Thanks to Anton Fetisov for the suggestion!

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This Week in Rust is edited by: nellshamrell, llogiq, cdmistman, ericseppanen, extrawurst, andrewpollack, U007D, kolharsam, joelmarcey, mariannegoldin, bennyvasquez.

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