On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 1:53 AM Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]> wrote: > > As proposed in the past in e.g. LPC 2025 and the Maintainers Summit [1], > we are going to follow Debian Stable's Rust versions as our minimum > supported version. > > Debian Trixie was released with a Rust 1.85.0 toolchain [2], which it > still uses to this day [3] (i.e. no update to Rust 1.85.1). > > Debian Trixie was released with `bindgen` 0.71.1, which it also still > uses to this day [4]. > > Debian Trixie's release happened on 2025-08-09 [5], which means that a > fair amount of time has passed since its release for kernel developers > to upgrade. > > Thus bump the minimum to the new versions, i.e. > > - Rust: 1.78.0 -> 1.85.0 > - bindgen: 0.65.1 -> 0.71.1 > > There are a few main parts to the series, in this order: > > - A few cleanups that can be performed before the bumps. > - The Rust bump (and its cleanups). > - The `bindgen` bump (and its cleanups). > - Documentation updates. > - The `cfi_encoding` patch, added here, which needs the bump. > - The per-version flags support and a Clippy cleanup on top. > > Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/ [1] > Link: > https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-new.en.html#desktops-and-well-known-packages > [2] > Link: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/rustc [3] > Link: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/bindgen [4] > Link: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/ [5]
Applied series to `rust-next` -- thanks everyone! Let's see if we find any issue in -next. (If someone wants to give tags today, then I am happy to pick them up) Cheers, Miguel
