Sorry it is late; it has been on my blog and reddit, but I forgot to post it here. Content copied from http://cmr.github.io/blog/2013/09/07/this-week-in-rust/
-- Welcome to another *This Week in Rust*. # What's cooking in master? 65 pull requests were merged this week, and bors has had some idle time when there wasn't anything approved in the queue. ## Breaking changes - `std::os::glob` has been replaced with a [pure Rust version](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8914), for cross-platform and compatability reasons. - `std::str::from_bytes` has been [renamed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8997) to `std::str::from_utf8`, to be explicit about what it accepts. - Casting to bool with `as` is [no longer allowed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8980), and surrogate characters are no longer allowed in strings. - char is [no longer](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8974) treated as an integer type (meaning it can't be casted to/from them), which removes the ability for safe code to create invalid characters. - Opening a listening socket and actually listening on it [have been split](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8954). If you're jiggy with the jive, listen and accept are now separate operations. (*ed*: this used to say bind and accept wereseparate; thanks to ecr for the correction.) ## Additions - `let` var hygiene has [landed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9026). I'm sure this has cool implications, but I don't really know what they are. - An [`export_name` attribute](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8903) has been added to control what symbol name something is exported as (similar to `no_mangle`). - An `ExactSize` trait [has been added](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8884) to mark an iterator that always accurately reports its size in the `size_hint` method. - `ToStr` has been [implemented](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8960) for char and Ascii. - Safe accessors of `MutexArc` [have been implemented](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8966) - A bytes iterator [has been added](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8935) for newrt readers. - Stream is [automatically implemented](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8984) for types which implement Reader and Writer from newrt. - An `unreachable` macro [has been added](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8992) for better error reporting than a function could do. - newrt [can now do](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9000) simple DNS resolution. - strptime/strftime [now support](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9016) fractional seconds, out to tenths of a nanosecond. ## Changes etc - Name mangling [has been improved](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8875). - `rust_log.cpp` [has been converted](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8880) into pure Rust. - Debuginfo [now does closure capture](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8855) and very large structs. - A [bunch](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8947) [of](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8927) [repr](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8928) improvements landed. # Meeting There was no meteting this week listed on the wiki or that I saw. # Projects - [rust-nanomsg](https://github.com/glycerine/rust-nanomsg) - bindings to the nanomsg library. _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
