Draft release notes for 1.92

[cuviper]

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Version 1.92.0 (2025-12-11)

Language

• Document MaybeUninit representation and validity
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• Allow &raw [mut | const] for union field in safe code
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• prefer item bounds of associated over where-bounds for auto-traits and Sized
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• Do not materialise X in [X; 0] when X is unsizing a const
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• Support combining #[track_caller] and #[no_mangle] (requires every declaration specifying #[track_caller] as well)
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• Make never type lints deny-by-default
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• Allow specifying multiple bounds for same associated item, except in trait objects
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• Slightly strengthen higher-ranked region handling in coherence
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• The unused_must_use lint no longer warns on Result<(), Uninhabited> (for instance, Result<(), !>), or ControlFlow<Uninhabited, ()>. This avoids having to check for an error that can never happen. unused_must_use: Don't warn on Result<(), Uninhabited> or ControlFlow<Uninhabited, ()>
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Compiler

• Make mips64el-unknown-linux-muslabi64 link dynamically
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• Remove current code for embedding command-line args in PDB
  Command-line information is typically not needed by debugging tools, and the removed code
  was causing problems for incremental builds even on targets that don't use PDB debuginfo.
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Platform Support

Refer to Rust's platform support page
for more information on Rust's tiered platform support.

Libraries

• Specialize Iterator::eq{_by} for TrustedLen iterators
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• core: simplify Extend for tuples
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• Added details to Debug for EncodeWide.
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• Stabilize new_zeroed_alloc
• implement Extend<{Group, Literal, Punct, Ident}> for TokenStream
• iter::Repeat::last and count will now panic, rather than looping infinitely.
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Stabilized APIs

• NonZero<u{N}>::div_ceil
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• Location::file_as_c_str
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• RwLockWriteGuard::downgrade
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• btree_map::Entry::insert_entry
• btree_map::VacantEntry::insert_entry
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These previously stable APIs are now stable in const contexts:

• <[_]>::rotate_left
• <[_]>::rotate_right
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Cargo

Rustdoc

• If a trait item appears in rustdoc search, hide the corresponding impl items. Previously a search for "last" would show both Iterator::last as well as impl methods like std::vec::IntoIter::last. Now these impl methods will be hidden, freeing up space for inherent methods like BTreeSet::last.
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• Relax rules for identifiers in search. Previously you could only search for identifiers that were valid in rust code, now searches only need to be valid as part of an identifier. For example, you can now perform a search that starts with a digit.
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Compatibility Notes

• Fix backtraces with -C panic=abort on Linux by generating unwind tables by default. Build with -C force-unwind-tables=no to keep omitting unwind tables.
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• Port #[macro_export] to the new attribute parsing infrastructure
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• Update the minimum external LLVM to 20
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• Prevent downstream impl DerefMut for Pin<LocalType>
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• Don't apply temporary lifetime extension rules to non-extended super let
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Internal Changes

These changes do not affect any public interfaces of Rust, but they represent
significant improvements to the performance or internals of rustc and related
tools.

Other

[cuviper]

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[rustbot]

Hi relnotes-interest-group, this issue/PR could use some help in reviewing /
adjusting release notes. Could you take a look if available? Thanks <3

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