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The recent regression soundness issues last release were indicative of people not using the beta. Notice specially the last month or so of actively asking peop
by wokwokwok 8y ago
The recent regression soundness issues last release were indicative of people not using the beta.
Notice specially the last month or so of actively asking people to try the beta.
If it wasn’t a problem, that wouldn’t be happening.
- kibwen 8y agoCan you give an example of soundness regressions in the previous release? Neither the 1.29.1 release nor 1.29.2 are indicative of people not using the beta; the former concerned a potential security vulnerability in a stdlib API that had existed for several releases, and the latter concerned a runtime heisenbug that could neither be found by merely compiling with beta nor even reliably by running the code. > Notice specially the last month or so of actively asking people to try the beta. This is because for the last month the beta has represented the first release candidate for Rust 2018, which is more important than normal releases in all three of implementation scope, backwards compatibility concerns, and marketing potential.