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Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Cargo crashes with hardend_malloc & how to configure not to? Open

C-bug S-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-lang/cargo#17487 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Tracking Issue for integration with `--jobs` options in rustc Open

A-jobserver C-tracking-issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-lang/cargo#17483 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Warn when a file is included from outside the cargo workspace Open

A-new-lint S-needs-design

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-lang/cargo#17482 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Allow Cargo patches without modifying `Cargo.lock` Open

A-lockfile A-patch C-feature-request S-needs-design

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rust-lang/cargo#17473 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Preserve feature metadata in packaged Cargo.toml Open

A-features C-bug S-triage Z-feature-metadata

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rust-lang/cargo#17472 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
no-op cargo build adds latency to binary relaunch on macOS Open

A-layout C-bug O-macos S-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rust-lang/cargo#17467 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Expose a subcommand/flag similar to `-Whelp` for Cargo lints Open

A-lints C-feature-request S-needs-design S-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rust-lang/cargo#17463 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 10, 2026
`cargo publish` fails with `os error 2` in GitLab CI due to missing submodules Open

A-git C-bug Command-publish S-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rust-lang/cargo#17460 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 9, 2026
`cargo` panics on crafted `Cargo.toml` with malformed git URL in profile package override Open

C-bug S-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

rust-lang/cargo#17459 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 9, 2026
`cargo install` from a directory-source-replaced registry fails for dependency-free crates Open

C-bug regression-from-stable-to-stable S-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

rust-lang/cargo#17458 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2026
OUT_DIR is also set when running the program Open

A-build-scripts A-environment-variables C-bug disposition-merge final-comment-period I-nominated-to-discuss regression-from-stable-to-stable T-cargo

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

rust-lang/cargo#17456 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Cross-workspace de-duplicate intermediate build artfiacts Open

A-caching C-enhancement S-needs-design

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-lang/cargo#17453 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2026
non_kebab_case_bins should be allow-by-default Open

A-lints C-bug S-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rust-lang/cargo#17449 · 9 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2026
shell completion for `--features` shows incorrect help when feature names overlap in workspace Open

A-completions C-bug S-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

rust-lang/cargo#17448 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Tracking Issue for feature-documentation Open

A-features A-manifest C-tracking-issue Z-feature-metadata

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-lang/cargo#17445 · 1 comment · 5 reactions · Opened Sep 6, 2026
write_atomic does not resolve chained symlinks Open

C-bug S-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rust-lang/cargo#17443 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Skip autofixes for certain lints Open

C-feature-request Command-fix S-needs-design

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

rust-lang/cargo#17442 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Give each artifact dependency declaration its own features Open

I-nominated-to-discuss Z-bindeps

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-lang/cargo#17440 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Support for early cutoff Open

A-rebuild-detection C-feature-request S-needs-design

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-lang/cargo#17439 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Link Cargo lint message to its lint doc Open

A-diagnostics C-bug S-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-lang/cargo#17438 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 4, 2026
cargo scripts cannot be run in release mode without workarounds Open

C-enhancement S-triage Z-script

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rust-lang/cargo#17423 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Path traversal via unvalidated registry-index package/dependency names: writes and deletes files outside `$CARGO_HOME` during resolution Open

A-registries

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rust-lang/cargo#17421 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Surface time spent outside of rustc in timings file Open

A-timings C-feature-request S-needs-design Z-build-analysis

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-lang/cargo#17409 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Specifying `-Zbuild-std -Zbuild-std-features` without a panic runtime broken after `nightly-2026-08-27` Open

C-bug S-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-lang/cargo#17404 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Lint if public dependency is not used in public API Open

A-crate-dependencies A-manifest A-new-lint S-blocked-external Z-public-dependency

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-lang/cargo#17395 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Cargo does not return tokens immediately after finishing a single job Open

A-jobserver C-bug S-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rust-lang/cargo#17391 · 5 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2026
`forced-target` does not work with `host-tuple` Open

C-bug S-needs-info Z-per-package-target

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rust-lang/cargo#17383 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Add capability to flatten dependency tree into a single directory for easier dependecy hack prevention Open

C-feature-request S-needs-info

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-lang/cargo#17380 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Enforce consistent order for [[patch.unused]] in Cargo.lock Open

A-lockfile C-bug S-needs-mentor

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-lang/cargo#17375 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Installing with the --bin flag removes unrelated orphaned bins Open

C-bug Command-install S-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

rust-lang/cargo#17372 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2026
-Zbuild-std=std fails on 16-bit targets due to proc_macro Open

C-bug S-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

rust-lang/cargo#17371 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Changing argfiles in rustflags doesn't trigger rebuild Open

A-rebuild-detection A-rustflags C-bug S-needs-design

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rust-lang/cargo#17369 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 16, 2026
rmeta file is not uplifted when -Zembed-metadata=no is used Open

C-bug S-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rust-lang/cargo#17359 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
`-j` should also set `--test-threads` Open

C-enhancement Command-test S-blocked-external

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

rust-lang/cargo#17357 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Rustflags from config file are not applied correctly with `--target` Open

C-bug S-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rust-lang/cargo#17355 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2026
`cargo tree -i <package>` don't require disambiguation when multiple versions are present in the dependency tree Open

C-feature-request Command-tree S-needs-design

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

rust-lang/cargo#17352 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Define `cargo metadata` dependency `name` as a logically optional library name Open

Command-metadata Z-bindeps

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rust-lang/cargo#17350 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
CARGO_FIX_MAX_RETRIES env var is missing from the docs Open

Command-fix

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 82/100

rust-lang/cargo#17342 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2026
`cargo check` fires when `rustc` lints use `-` instead of `_` on `beta` Open

A-lints-table C-feature-request S-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rust-lang/cargo#17341 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 8, 2026
cargo remove prints "Removing X" for dependencies that never get removed when the command fails Open

C-bug Command-remove S-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

rust-lang/cargo#17340 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2026
"cargo install" should be robust against `deny(warnings)` Open

A-git C-bug Command-install S-needs-design

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-lang/cargo#17339 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Tracking Issue for hint-min-opt-level Open

C-tracking-issue

rust-lang/cargo#17334 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 7, 2026
`cargo clean` accepts `--target` but ignores it without `--package` Open

C-bug Command-clean S-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rust-lang/cargo#17311 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Tracking usecases for getting intermediate build artifacts from build-dir Open

A-layout C-tracking-issue

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-lang/cargo#17287 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Allow different registries for push and pull when publishing workspaces Open

A-registries C-feature-request Command-publish S-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-lang/cargo#17282 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Remove rlibs as final artifacts Open

A-layout C-enhancement S-needs-design

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-lang/cargo#17278 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Default min-publish-age / cooldown value Open

Z-min-publish-age

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-lang/cargo#17254 · 14 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Inconsistent feature naming Open

A-new-lint S-blocked-external

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

rust-lang/cargo#17250 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Ability to check if a dependency is too new (missing enforcement part of `min-publish-age`) Open

A-dependency-resolution A-new-lint C-feature-request S-triage Z-min-publish-age

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-lang/cargo#17246 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Cargo should specify sort order of build metadata or reject an alternate registry providing crates that only differ in build metadata version Open

C-feature-request S-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rust-lang/cargo#17242 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 20, 2026

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