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What's cooking on master?

115 pull requests were merged in the last week, and 2 RFC PRs.

Now you can follow breaking changes as they happen!

Breaking Changes

Other Changes

New Contributors

Brendan Graetz

Carol (Nichols || Goulding)

critiqjo

Dominic van Berkel

Hech

Jan Bujak

J Bailey

jooert

Jordan Humphreys

Poga Po

sinkuu

Xuefeng Wu

Approved RFCs

New RFCs

Betawatch!

The current beta is rustc 1.0.0-beta.4 (850151a75 2015-04-30) .

There were 2 PRs this week landing backports to beta.

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Quote of the Week

"Ultimately, I think this all boils down to the fact that borrowck only cares about reachable values. A leaked value isn't reachable, therefore it doesn't matter that it had a lifetime associated with it and technically outlives that lifetime, since it's not reachable no undefined behavior can be invoked."

Insight from kballard on the safety of linking.

Thanks to Gankro for the tip. Submit your quotes for next week!.