Rust 1.20.0

Language

• Associated constants are now stabilised.
• A lot of macro bugs are now fixed.

Compiler

• Struct fields are now properly coerced to the expected field type.
• Enabled wasm LLVM backend WASM can now be built with the wasm32-experimental-emscripten target.
• Changed some of the error messages to be more helpful.
• Add support for RELRO(RELocation Read-Only) for platforms that support it.
• rustc now reports the total number of errors on compilation failure previously this was only the number of errors in the pass that failed.
• Expansion in rustc has been sped up 29x.
• added msp430-none-elf target.
• rustc will now suggest one-argument enum variant to fix type mismatch when applicable
• Fixes backtraces on Redox
• rustc now identifies different versions of same crate when absolute paths of different types match in an error message.

Libraries

• Relaxed Debug constraints on {HashMap,BTreeMap}::{Keys,Values}.
• Impl PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Debug, Hash for unsized tuples.
• Impl fmt::{Display, Debug} for Ref, RefMut, MutexGuard, RwLockReadGuard, RwLockWriteGuard
• Impl Clone for DefaultHasher.
• Impl Sync for SyncSender.
• Impl FromStr for char
• Fixed how {f32, f64}::{is_sign_negative, is_sign_positive} handles NaN.
• allow messages in the unimplemented!() macro. ie. unimplemented!("Waiting for 1.21 to be stable")
• pub(restricted) is now supported in the thread_local! macro.
• Upgrade to Unicode 10.0.0
• Reimplemented {f32, f64}::{min, max} in Rust instead of using CMath.
• Skip the main thread's manual stack guard on Linux
• Iterator::nth for ops::{Range, RangeFrom} is now done in O(1) time
• #[repr(align(N))] attribute max number is now 2^31 - 1. This was previously 2^15.
• {OsStr, Path}::Display now avoids allocations where possible

Stabilized APIs

• CStr::into_c_string
• CString::as_c_str
• CString::into_boxed_c_str
• Chain::get_mut
• Chain::get_ref
• Chain::into_inner
• Option::get_or_insert_with
• Option::get_or_insert
• OsStr::into_os_string
• OsString::into_boxed_os_str
• Take::get_mut
• Take::get_ref
• Utf8Error::error_len
• char::EscapeDebug
• char::escape_debug
• compile_error!
• f32::from_bits
• f32::to_bits
• f64::from_bits
• f64::to_bits
• mem::ManuallyDrop
• slice::sort_unstable_by_key
• slice::sort_unstable_by
• slice::sort_unstable
• str::from_boxed_utf8_unchecked
• str::as_bytes_mut
• str::as_bytes_mut
• str::from_utf8_mut
• str::from_utf8_unchecked_mut
• str::get_mut
• str::get_unchecked_mut
• str::get_unchecked
• str::get
• str::into_boxed_bytes

Cargo

• Cargo API token location moved from ~/.cargo/config to ~/.cargo/credentials.
• Cargo will now build main.rs binaries that are in sub-directories of src/bin. ie. Having src/bin/server/main.rs and src/bin/client/main.rs generates target/debug/server and target/debug/client
• You can now specify version of a binary when installed through cargo install using --vers.
• Added --no-fail-fast flag to cargo to run all benchmarks regardless of failure.
• Changed the convention around which file is the crate root.
• The include/exclude property in Cargo.toml now accepts gitignore paths instead of glob patterns. Glob patterns are now deprecated.

Compatibility Notes

• Functions with 'static in their return types will now not be as usable as if they were using lifetime parameters instead.
• The reimplementation of {f32, f64}::is_sign_{negative, positive} now takes the sign of NaN into account where previously didn't.