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A slightly faster slimmer curl
Daniel Stenberg describes recent curl and libcurl work that trims binary size and improves performance: removing unused code paths, tighter defaults, and build-time options that make curl slightly faster and leaner without changing its familiar CLI behavior.
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The Creusot team announces version 0.14.0 of their formal verification tool for Rust, highlighting selected new features for contracts and proofs and pointing to the full changelog for the release.
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Crystal 1.22.0 ships 251 changes from 33 contributors: standard streams now exit on EPIPE like SIGPIPE, revamped DWARF parsing, a native event loop on all targets, LLVM 23 and 24 support, aarch64-linux promoted to Tier 1, and Process.fork removed.
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Thanks to 227 contributors, 817 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.20 release on crates.io!
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Zig 0.17.0 release notes: five months of work from 206 contributors across 925 commits—language, standard library, and toolchain changes on the roadmap toward 1.0.
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New in llama.cpp: Decision Models
Text Classification • 0.1B • Updated • 297 • 4 Community Article /v1/systemone endpoint. You send a state (text, JSON, a screenshot) and typed questions.
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The Rust team announces Rust 1.99.0 with the usual rustup upgrade path and release notes covering language, library, and tooling changes.
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Effect 4.0 rebuilds the TypeScript effect system from the ground up: zero-dependency core, ~5× smaller bundles, ~6.4× concurrent throughput, 86% less memory per fiber, and a long-term support policy through at least 2029.
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HydraFusion in VS Code and the GitHub Copilot app
The HydraFusion research preview is now available in Visual Studio Code and the GitHub Copilot app, expanding beyond Copilot CLI. HydraFusion appears in the model picker, but rather than being…
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We are thrilled to announce the latest release of Gitea v28.0.0. Gitea drops the historical 1. prefix from its version numbers, so this release is 28.0.0 rather than 1.28.0. Highlights include audit logging, bot accounts, HTTPS deploy tokens, user impersonation for administrators, codeowner approval rules, diff file filters, and an Actions queue view. See the changelog for everything else.
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The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
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Linebender ships fearless_simd 1.0: safe Rust SIMD that covers autovectorization, portable abstractions, and intrinsics access—reflecting on design goals after eight years from the original prototype.
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C3 0.8.4 The last renamingParameter reflection, stack probing, iOS support, and stdlib streams—plus what may be the final keyword renames.
Release notes for C3 0.8.4: expanded parameter reflection and contracts, configurable stack probing/protection, iOS targeting, new collection and stream utilities, and a round of keyword renames the author expects to be the last.
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Dropping Swift entirely from our Bevy iOS crates
Rustunit explains dropping Swift from Bevy iOS crates in favor of objc2—why the Swift glue went away, what the new crates look like, and what it means for Bevy-on-iOS maintainers.
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