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Posts in 2026
Sept. 8 Welcome Dongpo and Ross to the Cargo team
Sept. 2 1.98.1 pre-release testing
Aug. 31 Program management in July–August 2026
Aug. 28 Electing new Project Directors 2026
Aug. 19 Rust Function Overloading - Call for Experimentation
Aug. 19 1.98.0 pre-release testing
Aug. 18 Experiment in reducing target directory size on nightly
Aug. 18 Leadership Council September 2026 Representative Selections
Aug. 17 June 2026 Project Director Update
Aug. 10 Call for testing: Restricting trait implementability and field mutability
Aug. 5 rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
Aug. 4 Funding team progress update — July 2026
July 31 All Hands 2026 retrospective
July 15 Infrastructure Team 2026 Q2 Recap and Q3 Plan
July 15 1.97.1 pre-release testing
July 14 Rustup 1.29.1 beta: call for testing!
July 14 Program management update — June 2026
July 7 Maintainer spotlight: Gen Li (@rami3l)
July 7 1.97.0 pre-release testing
July 6 Together for a healthier Clippy
July 6 Leadership Council update — June 2026
July 3 Rustup update: our plans for the 1.30 release cycle
July 1 April & May 2026 Project Director Update
June 27 1.96.1 pre-release testing
June 11 Program management update — May 2026
June 4 How Josh helps Rust manage code across multiple repositories
June 3 Maintainer spotlight: Tiffany Pek Yuan (@tiif)
May 26 1.96.0 pre-release testing
May 13 Program management update — April 2026
May 4 March 2026 Project Director Update
Apr. 17 crates.io: Help test our new web frontend
Apr. 14 Infrastructure Team 2026 Q1 Recap and Q2 Plan
Apr. 9 Program management update — March 2026
Apr. 6 Leadership Council update — March 2026
Mar. 27 Program management update — February 2026
Mar. 25 January & February 2026 Project Director Update
Feb. 18 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.94
Feb. 13 Leadership Council March 2026 Representative Selections
Feb. 11 Program management update — January 2026
Feb. 9 January 2026 Project Director Update
Feb. 3 First look at 2026 Project goals
Jan. 27 2025 Rust Foundation Annual Report Project Director Update
Jan. 13 Infrastructure Team 2025 Q4 Recap and Q1 2026 Plan
Jan. 12 What is maintenance, anyway?
Jan. 7 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.93

Posts in 2025
Dec. 20 Rustup 1.29.0 beta: Call for Testing!
Dec. 19 December 2025 Project Director Update
Dec. 19 Program management update — End of 2025
Dec. 16 Please submit 2026 Project goal proposals
Dec. 10 Leadership Council update — December 2025
Dec. 4 Want to propose a 2026 Rust project goal? We are here to help!
Dec. 2 Late 2025 Project Director Update
Nov. 24 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.92
Nov. 19 Program management update — October 2025
Nov. 16 Infrastructure announcement Zulip channel
Oct. 28 Announcing seven new members of the compiler team
Oct. 22 What we learned with Clippy's feature freeze
Oct. 16 Renaming the default branch of rust-lang/rust
Oct. 16 Infrastructure Team 2025 Q3 Recap and Q4 Plan
Oct. 14 Program management update — September 2025
Oct. 1 This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.90
Sept. 30 The next Rust All Hands
Sept. 23 Leadership Council September 2025 Representative Selections
Sept. 22 Variadic Generics Micro Survey
Sept. 11 Program management update — August 2025
Sept. 10 Leadership Council update — September 2025
Sept. 4 Crossing the streams: Project + Foundation
Aug. 26 Removing inactive members from our GitHub organizations
Aug. 20 Electing new Project Directors 2025
Aug. 15 Leadership Council September 2025 Representative Selections
Aug. 5 Program management update — July 2025
July 21 Sunsetting the rustwasm GitHub org
July 21 July 2025 Project Director Update
July 15 Call for Testing: Speeding up compilation with `hint-mostly-unused`
June 30 Program management update — June 2025
June 30 2025 Leadership Council Survey
June 23 Now accepting Project Goal proposals for 2025H2
June 21 Announcing the Clippy feature freeze
June 11 June 2025 Leadership Council Update
June 5 A glance at compiler team operations
May 30 Announcing five new members of the compiler team
May 29 Redesigning the Initial Bootstrap Sequence
Apr. 22 April 2025 Project Director Update
Apr. 13 This Month in Our Test Infra: March 2025 issue