https://dev-radar.pages.dev/topics/rust/ Latest Rust headlines from Dev Radar en-us Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:39:46 GMT https://dev-radar.pages.dev/articles/2026/04/08/rust-foundation-update:-january-and-february-2026/ https://dev-radar.pages.dev/articles/2026/04/08/rust-foundation-update:-january-and-february-2026/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:40:10 GMT The Rust Foundation held its January and February 2026 meetings, marking significant progress in various areas. A new Infra Engineer, Ubiratan Soares, was hired with funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency, bringing fresh expertise to the team. The Foundation's staff attended EU O https://dev-radar.pages.dev/articles/2026/04/07/security-advisory-for-cargo:-vulnerability-in-tar-crate/ https://dev-radar.pages.dev/articles/2026/04/07/security-advisory-for-cargo:-vulnerability-in-tar-crate/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:07:45 GMT A security vulnerability, designated as CVE-2026-33056, has been identified in the tar crate, a third-party component used by Cargo. This vulnerability can be exploited by malicious crates to alter permissions on arbitrary directories during the build process. The Rust Security R https://dev-radar.pages.dev/articles/2026/04/07/docs.rs:-building-fewer-targets-by-default/ https://dev-radar.pages.dev/articles/2026/04/07/docs.rs:-building-fewer-targets-by-default/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:07:02 GMT On May 1, 2026, docs.rs will make a breaking change to its build behavior. Currently, if a crate does not define a targets list in its docs.rs metadata, docs.rs builds documentation for a default list of five targets. However, starting on May 1, 2026, docs.rs will instead build d https://dev-radar.pages.dev/articles/2026/04/07/changes-to-webassembly-targets-and-handling-undefined-symbols/ https://dev-radar.pages.dev/articles/2026/04/07/changes-to-webassembly-targets-and-handling-undefined-symbols/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:07:00 GMT Rust's WebAssembly targets are soon going to experience a change which has a risk of breaking existing projects. The --allow-undefined flag is being removed from wasm-ld, which will change how undefined symbols are handled in WebAssembly targets. This change may break existing pr