- Added extensive new language and library features such as generics specialization, cross‑crate function inlining, operator overloading, region pointers, classes, new loop constructs, and new modules (future, iter, arena, libuv).
- Improved compilation and runtime stability with FreeBSD x86_64 port, compilation model enhancements, scheduling and threading fixes, faster message‑passing, explicit schedulers, and Helgrind‑clean C callbacks.
- Updated documentation and tooling, introduced new doc features and glob export syntax, and performed a large cleanup of libstd and libcore.
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Language: allow shortening lifetimes of &mut during unsize coercions and introduce new lints for invalid runtime symbols and c void return types.