Among the innovations:
- It is allowed to refer to variants of enum through type aliases (type aliases), for example through Self.
- cargo vendor is now included in the standard distribution.
- With the cargo vendor, you can explicitly download and use a complete copy of all source codes for all dependencies. This is useful for companies with mono-repositories that would like to store and analyze all source code used in their software.
- const_: support.
- Support for Profile Guided Optimization.
- #[repr(align(N))] support for better control over alignment in structures.
- Changes in the standard library.
- Changes in clippy
- Microsoft and Amazon became sponsors of Rust, providing a cloud infrastructure for building and testing Rust.
Source: linux.org.ru