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| author | Brian Anderson <banderson@mozilla.com> | 2015-07-30 14:27:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Brian Anderson <banderson@mozilla.com> | 2015-07-30 14:32:08 -0700 |
| commit | 4d218d924fb140b43e2a9e1c6cf29283c94a5f15 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d6de500baf02f1cf1c449ec5aa777b6a4bc3fe2 | |
| parent | 6edc994021a6bb1922ef77f62841f01a7bdf235d (diff) | |
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More 1.2 relnotes
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diff --git a/RELEASES.md b/RELEASES.md index db1c7380a78..0c495595511 100644 --- a/RELEASES.md +++ b/RELEASES.md @@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ Highlights jobs). It's not enabled by default, but will be "in the near future". It can be activated with the `-C codegen-units=N` flag to `rustc`. +* This is the first release with [experimental support for linking + with the MSVC linker and lib C on Windows (instead of using the GNU + variants via MinGW)][win]. It is yet recommended only for the most + intrepid Rusticians. +* Benchmark compilations are showing a 30% improvement in + bootstrapping over 1.1. Breaking Changes ---------------- @@ -31,6 +37,10 @@ Breaking Changes * [The `#[packed]` attribute is no longer silently accepted by the compiler][packed]. This attribute did nothing and code that mentioned it likely did not work as intended. +* Associated type defaults are [now behind the + `associated_type_defaults` feature gate][ad]. In 1.1 associated type + defaults *did not work*, but could be mentioned syntactically. As + such this breakage has minimal impact. Language -------- @@ -46,12 +56,11 @@ Libraries `LinkedList`, `VecDeque`, `EnumSet`, `BinaryHeap`, `VecMap`, `BTreeSet` and `BTreeMap`. [RFC][extend-rfc]. * The [`iter::once`] function returns an iterator that yields a single - element. -* The [`iter::empty`] function returns an iterator that yields no + element, and [`iter::empty`] returns an iterator that yields no elements. * The [`matches`] and [`rmatches`] methods on `str` return iterators over substring matches. -* [`Cell`] and [`RefCell`] both implement [`Eq`]. +* [`Cell`] and [`RefCell`] both implement `Eq`. * A number of methods for wrapping arithmetic are added to the integral types, [`wrapping_div`], [`wrapping_rem`], [`wrapping_neg`], [`wrapping_shl`], [`wrapping_shr`]. These are in @@ -144,6 +153,8 @@ Misc [dst]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0982-dst-coercion.md [parcodegen]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/26018 [packed]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/25541 +[ad]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/27382 +[win]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/25350 Version 1.1.0 (June 2015) ========================= |