Rust: Announcing rustup 1.28.2

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The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.28.2. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

What's new in rustup 1.28.2

The headlines of this release are:

• The cURL download backend and the native-tls TLS backend are now officially deprecated and a warning will start to show up when they are used. pr#4277

  • While rustup predates reqwest and rustls, the rustup team has long wanted to standardize on an HTTP + TLS stack with more components in Rust, which should increase security, potentially improve performance, and simplify maintenance of the project. With the default download backend already switched to reqwest since 2019, the team thinks it is time to focus maintenance on the default stack powered by these two libraries.

  • For people who have set RUSTUP_USE_CURL=1 or RUSTUP_USE_RUSTLS=0 in their environment to work around issues with rustup, please try to unset these after upgrading to 1.28.2 and file an issue if you still encounter problems.

• The version of rustup can be pinned when installing via rustup-init.sh, and rustup self update can be used to upgrade/downgrade rustup 1.28.2+ to a given version. To do so, set the RUSTUP_VERSION environment variable to the desired version (for example 1.28.2). pr#4259

• rustup set auto-in...

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