- Added many new stable APIs (Windows/Unix OpenOptionsExt, panic hook accessors, Weak::new, compare_exchange for atomics, extensive Unix socket types, and a new crate type `cdylib` for non‑Rust hosts).
- Enhanced Cargo with profile.panic option (abort/unwind), force flag and parallel installs, improved docs commands (cargo test doc, cargo explain, cargo doc lib/bin), and better error handling in build scripts.
- Implemented numerous library improvements: default implementations for many types, Ord for Cell/RefCell, deprecation of float abs, fallback for HashMap random seed, performance boosts in type checking, HashMap creation, and iterator find...