Rust: crates.io: Dropping support for non-canonical downloads

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TL;DR

• We want to improve the reliability and performance of crate downloads.
• "Non-canonical downloads" (that use URLs containing hyphens or underscores where the crate published uses the opposite) are blocking these plans.
• On 2023-11-20 support for "non-canonical downloads" will be disabled.
• cargo users are unaffected.

What are "non-canonical downloads"?

The "non-canonical downloads" feature allows everyone to download the serde_derive crate from https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/serde_derive/1.0.189/download, but also from https://crates.i...

Get the full details here: crates.io: Dropping support for non-canonical downloads | Rust Blog