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The stable release is every 6 weeks, i.e. once in a month and a half. Only the newest version at the time is supported. The qualified Ferrocene toolchain has "
by GolDDranks 2y ago
The stable release is every 6 weeks, i.e. once in a month and a half. Only the newest version at the time is supported.
The qualified Ferrocene toolchain has "2 years of patch releases for select versions", so they have 2-year LTS releases, but that's a paid support plan.
Overall, the Rust community hasn't felt much need for official LTS releases.
- daghamm 2y agoSerious question: Can you really call it stable if it is updated every 6 weeks?
- GolDDranks 2y agoEqually serious answer: yes, if it doesn't break backwards compatibilty between the updates. This is what the Rust project means by stable. You can update and your code will continue building. (There's a bunch of documented caveats though.) Rust has been stable in this sense since 1.0, almost ten years. Of course, you might have different semantics for "stable". Some seem to mean "rarely updating" or "each update is small" by that. In the latter sense, too, Rust has becoming stabler over the last few years. In the "rarely updating" sense, Rust is not going to change course. Frequent, time-based releases have demonstrably made the progress smoother, and in a sense, "stabler", as in, more predictable and bug-free.