Rust: Increasing the minimum supported Apple platform versions

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As of Rust 1.74 (to be released on November 16th, 2023), the minimum version of Apple's platforms (iOS, macOS, and tvOS) that the Rust toolchain supports will be increased to newer minimums. These changes affect both the Rust compiler itself (rustc), other host tooling, and most importantly, the standard library and any binaries produced that use it. With these changes in place, any binaries produced will stop loading on older versions or exhibit other, unspecified, behavior.

The new minimum versions are now:

• macOS: 10.12 Sierra (First released 2016)
• iOS: 10 (First released 2016)
• tvOS: 10 (First released 2016)

If your application does not target or support macOS 10.7-10.11 or iOS 7-9 already these changes most likely do not affect you.

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