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Rust 1.1 stable

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+title: "Rust 1.1 stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp"
+author: The Rust Core Team
+---
+
+We're happy to announce the completion of the first release cycle after Rust
+1.0: today we are [releasing][install] Rust 1.1 stable, as well as 1.2 beta.
+
+Read on for details the releases, as well as some exciting new developments
+within the Rust community.
+
+[install]: http://www.rust-lang.org/install.html
+
+### What's in 1.1 Stable
+
+One of the highest priorities for Rust after its 1.0 has been improving compile
+times. Thanks to the hard work of a number of contributors, Rust 1.1 stable
+provides a **32% improvement** in compilation time over Rust 1.0 (as measured by
+bootstrapping).
+
+Another major focus has been improving error messages throughout the
+compiler. Again thanks to a number of contributors, a large portion of compiler
+errors now include extended explanations accessible using the `--explain` flag.
+
+Beyond these improvements, the 1.1 release includes a number of important new
+features:
+
+* *New `std::fs` APIs*. This release stabilizes a
+  [large set of extensions](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1044) to the
+  filesystem APIs, making it possible, for example, to compile Cargo on stable Rust.
+* *MUSL support*. It's
+  [now possible](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24777) to target
+  [MUSL](http://www.musl-libc.org/) on Linux. Binaries built this way are
+  statically linked and have zero dependencies. Nightlies are on the way.
+* *`cargo rustc`*. It's now possible to build a Cargo package while passing
+  arbitrary flags to the final `rustc` invocation.
+
+More detail is available in the [release notes][rn].
+
+[rn]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md#version-110-june-2015
+
+### What's in 1.2 Beta
+
+Performance improvements didn't stop with 1.1 stable. Benchmark compilations are
+showing an **additional 30%** improvement from 1.1 stable to 1.2 beta; Cargo's
+main crate compiles 18% faster.
+
+In addition, [parallel codegen](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/26018) is
+working again, and can substantially speed up large builds in debug mode; it
+gets another 33% speedup on bootstrapping on a 4 core machine. It's not yet on
+by default, but will be in the near future.
+
+Cargo has also seen some performance improvements, including a 10x speedup on
+large "no-op" builds (from 5s to 0.5s on Servo), and shared target directories
+that cache dependencies across multiple packages.
+
+In addition to all of this, 1.2 beta includes our first support for MSVC
+(Microsoft Visual C): the compiler is able to bootstrap, and we have preliminary
+nightlies targeting the platform. This is a big step for our Windows support,
+making it much easier to link Rust code against code built using the native
+toolchain. Unwinding is not yet available -- code aborts on panic -- but the
+implementation is otherwise complete, and all rust-lang crates are now testing
+on MSVC as a first-tier platform.
+
+Rust 1.2 stable will be released six weeks from now, together with 1.3 beta.
+
+### Community news
+
+In addition to the above technical work, there's some exciting news within the
+Rust community.
+
+In the past few weeks, we've [formed a new subteam][community] explicitly
+devoted to supporting the Rust community. The team will have a number of
+responsibilities, including aggregating resources for meetups and other events,
+supporting diversity in the community through leadership in outreach, policies,
+and awareness-raising, and working with our early production users and the core
+team to help guide prioritization.
+
+In addition, we'll soon be holding the first official Rust conference:
+[RustCamp](http://rustcamp.com/), on August 1, 2015, in Berkeley, CA, USA. We've
+received a number of excellent talk submissions, and are expecting a great
+program.
+
+[community]: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-community-subteam/2248
+
+### Contributors to 1.1
+
+As with every release, 1.1 stable is the result of work from an amazing and
+active community. Thanks to the 168 contributors to this release:
+
+- Aaron Gallagher
+- Aaron Turon
+- Abhishek Chanda
+- Adolfo Ochagavía
+- Alex Burka
+- Alex Crichton
+- Alexander Polakov
+- Alexis Beingessner
+- Andreas Tolfsen
+- Andrei Oprea
+- Andrew Paseltiner
+- Andrew Straw
+- Andrzej Janik
+- Aram Visser
+- Ariel Ben-Yehuda
+- Avdi Grimm
+- Barosl Lee
+- Ben Gesoff
+- Björn Steinbrink
+- Brad King
+- Brendan Graetz
+- Brian Anderson
+- Brian Campbell
+- Carol Nichols
+- Chris Morgan
+- Chris Wong
+- Clark Gaebel
+- Cole Reynolds
+- Colin Walters
+- Conrad Kleinespel
+- Corey Farwell
+- David Reid
+- Diggory Hardy
+- Dominic van Berkel
+- Don Petersen
+- Eduard Burtescu
+- Eli Friedman
+- Erick Tryzelaar
+- Felix S. Klock II
+- Florian Hahn
+- Florian Hartwig
+- Franziska Hinkelmann
+- FuGangqiang
+- Garming Sam
+- Geoffrey Thomas
+- Geoffry Song
+- Graydon Hoare
+- Guillaume Gomez
+- Hech
+- Heejong Ahn
+- Hika Hibariya
+- Huon Wilson
+- Isaac Ge
+- J Bailey
+- Jake Goulding
+- James Perry
+- Jan Andersson
+- Jan Bujak
+- Jan-Erik Rediger
+- Jannis Redmann
+- Jason Yeo
+- Johann
+- Johann Hofmann
+- Johannes Oertel
+- John Gallagher
+- John Van Enk
+- Jordan Humphreys
+- Joseph Crail
+- Kang Seonghoon
+- Kelvin Ly
+- Kevin Ballard
+- Kevin Mehall
+- Krzysztof Drewniak
+- Lee Aronson
+- Lee Jeffery
+- Liigo Zhuang
+- Luke Gallagher
+- Luqman Aden
+- Manish Goregaokar
+- Marin Atanasov Nikolov
+- Mathieu Rochette
+- Mathijs van de Nes
+- Matt Brubeck
+- Michael Park
+- Michael Rosenberg
+- Michael Sproul
+- Michael Wu
+- Michał Czardybon
+- Mike Boutin
+- Mike Sampson
+- Ms2ger
+- Nelo Onyiah
+- Nicholas
+- Nicholas Mazzuca
+- Nick Cameron
+- Nick Hamann
+- Nick Platt
+- Niko Matsakis
+- Oliver Schneider
+- P1start
+- Pascal Hertleif
+- Paul Banks
+- Paul Faria
+- Paul Quint
+- Pete Hunt
+- Peter Marheine
+- Philip Munksgaard
+- Piotr Czarnecki
+- Poga Po
+- Przemysław Wesołek
+- Ralph Giles
+- Raphael Speyer
+- Ricardo Martins
+- Richo Healey
+- Rob Young
+- Robin Kruppe
+- Robin Stocker
+- Rory O’Kane
+- Ruud van Asseldonk
+- Ryan Prichard
+- Sean Bowe
+- Sean McArthur
+- Sean Patrick Santos
+- Shmuale Mark
+- Simon Kern
+- Simon Sapin
+- Simonas Kazlauskas
+- Sindre Johansen
+- Skyler
+- Steve Klabnik
+- Steven Allen
+- Steven Fackler
+- Swaroop C H
+- Sébastien Marie
+- Tamir Duberstein
+- Theo Belaire
+- Thomas Jespersen
+- Tincan
+- Ting-Yu Lin
+- Tobias Bucher
+- Toni Cárdenas
+- Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
+- Ulrik Sverdrup
+- Vadim Chugunov
+- Valerii Hiora
+- Wangshan Lu
+- Wei-Ming Yang
+- Wojciech Ogrodowczyk
+- Xuefeng Wu
+- York Xiang
+- Young Wu
+- bors
+- critiqjo
+- diwic
+- gareins
+- inrustwetrust
+- jooert
+- klutzy
+- kwantam
+- leunggamciu
+- mdinger
+- nwin
+- parir
+- pez
+- robertfoss
+- sinkuu
+- tynopex
+- らいどっと