v1.3.0

Binstall is a tool to fetch and install Rust-based executables as binaries. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for cargo install in most cases. Install it today with cargo install cargo-binstall, from the binaries below, or if you already have it, upgrade with cargo binstall cargo-binstall.

In this release:

Features

• Use crates.io sparse index by default for efficiency (#1295 #1310 #1314)
• Handle Ctrl+C and cancellation via signal during git cloning (#1288)

BugFixes

• Fix QUIC endpoint error: Bump reqwest to v0.11.19 (#1292 #1308)
• Use global rate-limit for crates.io registry use
• Error more clearly if packages don't contain a required binary (#1298)

v1.2.1

Binstall is a tool to fetch and install Rust-based executables as binaries. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for cargo install in most cases. Install it today with cargo install cargo-binstall, from the binaries below, or if you already have it, upgrade with cargo binstall cargo-binstall.

Bugfixes

• Fix fallback to x86_64h-apple-darwin on aarch64-apple-darwin: Now it only fallbacks if arch -arch x86_64h /usr/bin/true success since Rosetta 2 doesn't support AVX yet (#1277 #1278)
• Fix our universal-apple-darwin pre-built listed below for pre-haswell Intel CPUs (#1277 #1279)
• Fix our installation script and the action on MacOS: Since it users our universal binary by default and the GHA MacOS runner uses pre-haswell Intel CPU, it will fail due to bad cpu type (#1277 #1279)

v1.2.0

Binstall is a tool to fetch and install Rust-based executables as binaries. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for cargo install in most cases. Install it today with cargo install cargo-binstall, from the binaries below, or if you already have it, upgrade with cargo binstall cargo-binstall.

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In this release:

• We now verify checksum integrity of the crate metadata downloaded from registries (#1183, #1260)

• Pre-built binaries below now support HTTP/3. When building from source, you can use the http3 feature and the --cfg reqwest_unstable rustflag to opt-in to HTTP/3 support as well. (#1261)

• We've added out-of-the-box support for more variants of monorepos (#1244, #1245)

• We now support passing a workspace to --manifest-path (#1246)

  Previously we would load the root Cargo.toml and treat it as the manifest for the crate, which did not work as expected for workspaces.

• We now provide x86_64h-apple-darwin (Intel Haswell architecture tuning) pre-built binaries, for higher performance on macOS! Universal builds are also improved. (#1228, #1234, #1238)

• And of course we support installing binaries for the x86_64h-apple-darwin target. (#1233)

• Finally, we have a new, minimal GitHub Action: - uses: cargo-bins/cargo-binstall@main will install the latest cargo-binstall and do nothing else. (#1269, contributed by @smallstepman)

Bugfixes:

• We've fixed issues that resulted in your terminals getting flooded with too many 429 responses. (#1229, #1231, with thanks to @CAD97, @halostatue, and @0atman)
• We are now case-insensitive when reading the CARGO_REGISTRIES_{registry_name}_INDEX environment variables (#1258)
• The installation scripts had a few bugs:
  • On macOS, it would fail if you had the stock bash (#1254, #1263)
  • It would show a spurious warning if $CARGO_HOME/bin was already in $PATH (#1239, contributed by @tyilo)
  • It would fail if CARGO_HOME didn't exist (#1241, contributed by @gifnksm)

Thank you!

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install-cargo-binstall-1.0.0

Install cargo-binstall by adding the following line to your CI:

  - uses: cargo-bins/cargo-binstall@main

v1.1.2

Binstall is a tool to fetch and install Rust-based executables as binaries. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for cargo install in most cases. Install it today with cargo install cargo-binstall, from the binaries below, or if you already have it, upgrade with cargo binstall cargo-binstall.

Bugfix

• Fix failure to send quickinstall report (#1222 #1224)

v1.1.1

Binstall is a tool to fetch and install Rust-based executables as binaries. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for cargo install in most cases. Install it today with cargo install cargo-binstall, from the binaries below, or if you already have it, upgrade with cargo binstall cargo-binstall.

In this release:

• Fixed loading .cargo/config.toml (#1216 #1217)

v1.1.0

Binstall is a tool to fetch and install Rust-based executables as binaries. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for cargo install in most cases. Install it today with cargo install cargo-binstall, from the binaries below, or if you already have it, upgrade with cargo binstall cargo-binstall.

Features

• feat: Support --verbose --version/-vV (#627 #1182)
  that provides more information:

  cargo-binstall: 1.0.0
  build-date: 2023-07-18
  build-target: aarch64-apple-darwin
  build-features: default,fancy_no_backtrace,git,rustls,static,trust_dns,zstd_thin
  build-commit-hash: 39d8cfc07f2253080ce997e620406c2994dced25
  build-commit-date: 2023-07-18
  rustc-version: 1.71.0
  rustc-commit-hash: 8ede3aae28fe6e4d52b38157d7bfe0d3bceef225
  rustc-llvm-version: 16.0
  

• feat: Read --rate-limit from env BINSTALL_RATE_LIMIT as a fallback (#1196 #1201)

• Support --registry and more options from .cargo/config.toml (#885 #1195)
  Now we can take advantage of new argument --registry and
  env overrides:

  • CARGO_REGISTRIES_DEFAULT if --registry is not specified
  • CARGO_REGISTRIES_{registry_name}_INDEX for the registry index url

  We can also read from .cargo/config.toml for:

  • default registry and registries configurations
  • additional CA bundle http.cainfo

• feat: Support --index (#1168 #1184)

Optimization

• Use reflink_copy to speedup binary installation if atomic rename failed

• speedup git shallow cloning: Enable gix/max-performance (#1186)
  for targets:

  • x86_64-apple-darwin
  • aarch64-apple-darwin
  • x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  • x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

  which will use zlib-ng to speedup decompression and use assembly
  version for sha1 checksum calculation on supported CPU.

  Also enable feature zlib-ng on windows and

  • aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
  • aarch64-unknown-linux-musl

• Speedup prebuilt binary (#1188)

  This commit speeds it up by building all dependencies with -O3 in dev
  and release build, in release build we build everything with -O3.

Bugfix

• Fix binstalk_downloader::GhApiClient json deser error (#1193)
  When installing cargo-expand v1.0.59, I got an error message:

  Failed to parse http response body as Json: invalid type: null, expected a string at line
  1 column 90
  

• Fix GPL-3.0 license identifier (#1189 #1192)

v1.0.0

Binstall is a tool to fetch and install Rust-based executables as binaries. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for cargo install in most cases. Install it today with cargo install cargo-binstall, from the binaries below, or if you already have it, upgrade with cargo binstall cargo-binstall.

We're very happy to announce this 1.0 release! 🎉
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In this release:

• Support install directly from git repository using --git (#3 #1162)
• Add new option --no-track to not update manifests when installing (#1111)
• Add fallback targets to windows (#642 #650)
  • We attempt to detect if some targets other than the native/host one are runnable on your system and make those eligible for being downloaded if matching builds are available (and builds for the host target are not).
  • The fallback logic is a bit convoluted to explain in one sentence, but essentially: x86 builds on x64 hosts, ARM32 builds on (some) ARM64 hosts, x86/x64 builds on (some) ARM64 hosts.
• Show license and source in long help (#1149)
  • A reminder that Binstall and the binstalk library are GPL!

Other changes:

• GhApiClient: Fallback to unauthorized mode if auth token is invalid (#850 #1121)
• Use GraphQL API if GitHub token is provided (#868 #1124)
• Add more variables for you to use in templates (#775 #1160):
  • target-family (e.g. windows, linux)
  • target-arch (e.g. x86_64, aarch64)
  • target-libc (e.g. gnu, musl)
  • target-vendor (e.g. apple, unknown)

v0.23.1

Binstall is a tool to fetch and install Rust-based executables as binaries. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for cargo install in most cases. Install it today with cargo install cargo-binstall, from the binaries below, or if you already have it, upgrade with cargo binstall cargo-binstall.

In this release:

• Fixed yanked dependencies error (#1019 #1028 #1040 #1085)
• Add one-liner for installing cargo-binstall on Linux/MacOS (#1073 #1074)
• Optimize fetching from https://crates.io when user requested a specific version instead of a range (#1089)
• Change binstalk-downloader license to "Apache-2.0 OR MIT" (#542)

v0.23.0

Binstall is a tool to fetch and install Rust-based executables as binaries. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for cargo install in most cases. Install it today with cargo install cargo-binstall, from the binaries below, or if you already have it, upgrade with cargo binstall cargo-binstall.

In this release:

• Support (some) crates which specify a subdirectory in their repository path (with GitHub and GitLab hosts). This also makes available a new subcrate variable in the pkg-url template. (#838 #991)
• Template engine changes from tiny-template to leon, a new crate from this very project! There's no outward changes here, except that template parsing and rendering is a lot faster.

Other changes:

• Pretty print $CARGO_HOME/.crates.toml manifest to match cargo behaviour. If you check that file in or like to manually review it, that will help. (#970 #984)
• Support GitHub fine-grained personal access tokens. (#957)
• Only check for extension .exe in pkg-url if target is Windows. (#851 #933)
• We now detect malformed pkg-url/pkg-fmt templates earlier. (#851 #933)