RHEA-2018:1280 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated rust-toolset-7 packages are now available as a part of Red Hat Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Description

Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency manager, the cargo-vendor plugin, and required libraries.

The rust-toolset-7 packages have been upgraded to version 1.25.0, which provides a number of enhancements and bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#1535141)

Rust Toolset is provided as a Technology Preview.

For details, see Using Rust Toolset linked from the References section. For information on scope of support, see the Technology Preview Features Support Scope document.

Users of rust-toolset-7 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server) 1 x86_64
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Workstation) 1 x86_64
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 s390x
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 ppc64
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1533848 - rust-toolset-7-rust-1.22.1-1 FTBFS on rhel7
• BZ - 1535137 - Rebase Rust for DevTools 2018.2
• BZ - 1535139 - Rebase Cargo for DevTools 2018.2
• BZ - 1535141 - Rebase rust-toolset-7 for DevTools 2018.2
• BZ - 1540329 - out-of-stack.rs testcase is failing in rust-toolset-7-rust-1.23.0-2.el7
• BZ - 1542677 - [regression] Internal testcases are failing in rust-toolset-7-cargo-0.24.0-1.el7

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_developer_tools/2018.2/html/using_rust_toolset/
• https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/