The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.80.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.80.1 is as easy as:

rustup update stable

If you don't have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page on our website.

What's in 1.80.1

Rust 1.80.1 fixes two regressions that were recently reported.

Miscompilation when comparing floats

In addition to the existing optimizations performed by LLVM, rustc is growing its own set of optimizations. Rust 1.78.0 added a new one, implementing "jump threading" (merging together two adjacent branches that perform the same comparison).

The optimization was also enabled on branches checking for floating point equality, but it didn't implement the special rules needed for floats comparison (NaN != NaN and 0.0 == -0.0). This caused the optimization to miscompile code performing those checks.

Rust 1.80.1 addresses the problem by preventing the optimization from being applied to float comparisons, while retaining the optimization on other supported types.

False positives in the dead_code lint

Rust 1.80.0 contained refactorings to the dead_code lint. We received multiple reports that the new lint implementation produces false positives, so we are reverting the changes in Rust 1.80.1. We'll continue to experiment on how to improve the accuracy of dead_code in future releases.

Contributors to 1.80.1

Many people came together to create Rust 1.80.1. We couldn't have done it without all of you. Thanks!