- Introduced numerous language and compiler enhancements, including const‑eval lint with exponential backoff, stabilized LoongArch64 inline‑asm, native WASM exceptions, NetBSD/aarch64 big‑endian support, tier‑3 loongarch64, forced static l...
- Extended the standard library with const‑stabilized CStr APIs, PartialOrd for Vecs across allocators, 128‑bit TypeId hashes, relaxed Sized bounds on I/O wrappers, clarified HashSet::insert behavior, and added guarantees for select‑nth an...
- Improved Cargo and Rustdoc: workspace Zdoctests now run from the package root, "default" keyword to reset build.jobs, whitespace as path separator in rustdoc, richer search result displays, and hard error for invalid Cargo feature names.
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Language: allow shortening lifetimes of &mut during unsize coercions and introduce new lints for invalid runtime symbols and c void return types.