Rust 1.31.0

Language

• 🎉 This version marks the release of the 2018 edition of Rust. 🎉
• New lifetime elision rules now allow for eliding lifetimes in functions and impl headers. E.g. impl<'a> Reader for BufReader<'a> {} can now be impl Reader for BufReader<'_> {}. Lifetimes are still required to be defined in structs.
• You can now define and use const functions. These are currently a strict minimal subset of the const fn RFC. Refer to the language reference for what exactly is available.
• You can now use tool lints, which allow you to scope lints from external tools using attributes. E.g. #[allow(clippy::filter_map)].
• #[no_mangle] and #[export_name] attributes can now be located anywhere in a crate, not just in exported functions.
• You can now use parentheses in pattern matches.

Compiler

• Updated musl to 1.1.20

Libraries

• You can now convert num::NonZero* types to their raw equivalents using the From trait. E.g. u8 now implements From<NonZeroU8>.
• You can now convert a &Option<T> into Option<&T> and &mut Option<T> into Option<&mut T> using the From trait.
• You can now multiply (*) a time::Duration by a u32.

Stabilized APIs

• slice::align_to
• slice::align_to_mut
• slice::chunks_exact
• slice::chunks_exact_mut
• slice::rchunks
• slice::rchunks_mut
• slice::rchunks_exact
• slice::rchunks_exact_mut
• Option::replace

Cargo

• Cargo will now download crates in parallel using HTTP/2.
• You can now rename packages in your Cargo.toml We have a guide on how to use the package key in your dependencies.