Rust Project Goals

Done in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-forge/pull/852.

I posted a "year in review" for cargo-semver-checks here: https://predr.ag/blog/cargo-semver-checks-2025-year-in-review/

It has a section on how I think we should move forward in 2026 and beyond: https://predr.ag/blog/cargo-semver-checks-2025-year-in-review/#the-path-forward-for-2026-and-beyond

Google Summer of Code 2025 is complete + finally some movement on cross-crate linting! 🚀

Key developments

• Two students had a successful conclusion of Google Summer of Code working on cargo-semver-checks — find more details here!
• rustdoc JSON now includes rlib information, following the design for cross-crate rustdoc JSON info created at RustWeek 2025: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/149043
• A cargo issue was discovered that prevents this rlib info from being used; it's currently being triaged: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/16291
• Once that's resolved, we'll have enough here for a basic prototype. Getting features right in dependencies will likely require more work due to having many more cargo-related edge cases.

Opened stabilization PR but we have blockers I didn't hear of, so stabilization will be postponed until then.