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🆕🆕🆕🦀 In the last few weeks, #rustlang 1.68.0, 1.68.1 and 1.68.2 have been released!

Here's a thread with some of the highlights of Rust 1.68. 🧵

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blog.rust-lang.org/2023/03/09/…

in reply to Mara

Cargo 1.68 adds a new, much faster, "sparse" protocol for fetching info from crates.io. It is opt-in today, but the plan is to make it the default in 1.70.

Enable it with an environment variable or in .cargo/config:

[registries.crates-io]
protocol = "sparse"

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