Rust 1.41: what's new, what was stabilized

• [As previously announced 1.41 will be the last tier 1 release for 32-bit

Language

• [You can now pass type parameters to foreign items when implementing traits.][65879] E.g. You can now write impl<T> From<Foo> for Vec<T> {}.
• [You can now arbitrarily nest receiver types in the self position.][64325] E.g. you can now write fn foo(self: Box<Box<Self>>) {}. Previously only Self, &Self, &mut Self, Arc<Self>, Rc<Self>, and Box<Self> were allowed.
• [You can now use any valid identifier in a format_args macro.][66847] Previously identifiers starting with an underscore were not allowed.
• [Visibility modifiers (e.g. pub) are now syntactically allowed on trait items and enum variants.][66183] These are still rejected semantically, but can be seen and parsed by procedural macros and conditional compilation.
• [You can now define a Rust extern "C" function with Box<T> and use T* as the corresponding type on the C side.][62514] Please see the documentation for more information, including the important caveat about preferring to avoid Box<T> in Rust signatures for functions defined in C.

Compiler

• [Rustc will now warn if you have unused loop 'labels.][66325]
• [Removed support for the i686-unknown-dragonfly target.][67255]
• [Added tier 3 support\* for the riscv64gc-unknown-linux-gnu target.][66661]
• [You can now pass an arguments file passing the @path syntax to rustc.][66172] Note that the format differs somewhat from what is found in other tooling; please see the documentation for more information.
• [You can now provide --extern flag without a path, indicating that it is available from the search path or specified with an -L flag.][64882]

\* Refer to Rust's [platform support page][platform-support-doc] for more information on Rust's tiered platform support.

Libraries

• [The core::panic module is now stable.][66771] It was already stable through std.
• [NonZero* numerics now implement From<NonZero*> if it's a smaller integer width.][66277] E.g. NonZeroU16 now implements From<NonZeroU8>.
• [MaybeUninit<T> now implements fmt::Debug.][65013]

Stabilized APIs

• [Result::map_or]
• [Result::map_or_else]
• [std::rc::Weak::weak_count]
• [std::rc::Weak::strong_count]
• [std::sync::Weak::weak_count]
• [std::sync::Weak::strong_count]

Cargo

• [Cargo will now document all the private items for binary crates by default.][cargo/7593]
• [cargo-install will now reinstall the package if it detects that it is out of date.][cargo/7560]
• [Cargo.lock now uses a more git friendly format that should help to reduce merge conflicts.][cargo/7579]
• [You can now override specific dependencies's build settings][cargo/7591] E.g. [profile.dev.package.image] opt-level = 2 sets the image crate's optimisation level to 2 for debug builds. You can also use [profile.<profile>.build-override] to override build scripts and their dependencies.

Misc

• [You can now specify edition in documentation code blocks to compile the block for that edition.][66238] E.g. edition2018 tells rustdoc that the code sample should be compiled the 2018 edition of Rust.
• [You can now provide custom themes to rustdoc with --theme, and check the current theme with --check-theme.][54733]
• [You can use #[cfg(doc)] to compile an item when building documentation.][61351]

Compatibility Notes

• As previously announced 1.41 will be the last tier 1 release for 32-bit Apple targets. This means that the source code is still available to build, but the targets are no longer being tested and release binaries for those platforms will no longer be distributed by the Rust project. Please refer to the linked blog post for more information.

1.41.1 (Feb 27, 2020)

• Always check types of static items
• Always check lifetime bounds of Copy impls
• Fix miscompilation in callers of Layout::repeat
• [Rust 1.41.0 was announced as the last Rust release with tier 1 or tier 2 support for 32-bit Apple targets][apple-32bit-drop]. That announcement did not expect a patch release. 1.41.1 also includes release binaries for these targets.