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The Rust toolchain installer

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Indexed issues: 394
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Merged PRs (30d): 46

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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394 open issues indexed

Simplify toolchain type hierarchy Open

enhancement

rust-lang/rustup#5092 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Concurrent proxy startup can delete the active self-updater and remove rustup Open

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

rust-lang/rustup#5076 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Config `rust-analyzer` to use the new formatting style Open

enhancement

rust-lang/rustup#5069 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 11, 2026
(Windows) "The system cannot find the file specified. (os error 2)" when running `rustup doc` in a non-ANSI path Open

bug dependencies not-rustup O-windows

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

rust-lang/rustup#5035 · 18 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Add dynamic completions for target names in `rustup target` sub-command Open

enhancement

rust-lang/rustup#5032 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Proposal: special toolchain names referring to particular override levels Open

enhancement

rust-lang/rustup#5025 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
[MSYS2] Allow default host triple to be overridden by an environment variable Open

enhancement

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

rust-lang/rustup#5024 · 21 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Provide a built-in way for rustup to adapt to a CI environment Open

enhancement

rust-lang/rustup#5011 · 20 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Flaky has_local in rustup-init.sh Open

bug

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

rust-lang/rustup#5009 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Trace and strip ssl algo/feature into the minimal features that rustup use. Open

enhancement

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

rust-lang/rustup#5007 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Add shared toolchain directories Open

enhancement

rust-lang/rustup#4967 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Rustup installs required toolchain when cargo-completion called Open

bug

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

rust-lang/rustup#4959 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Tracking: `settings.toml` and its stability guarantees Open

enhancement

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

rust-lang/rustup#4944 · 10 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2026
component manifest paths can escape the toolchain install prefix Open

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

rust-lang/rustup#4943 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2026
rustup warns about its own environment? ("warning: default toolchain implicitly overridden") Open

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

rust-lang/rustup#4936 · 19 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2026
Add a facility to rustup to show how its variables are currently set. Open

enhancement

rust-lang/rustup#4919 · 16 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 21, 2026
Linux toolchain unpack leaves bin/* without execute permission (644) Open

incomplete question

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

rust-lang/rustup#4900 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Please publish binaries to GitHub Releases too Open

question

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

rust-lang/rustup#4893 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 5, 2026
Rustup not installed at [location] with different CARGO_HOME and RUSTUP_HOME Open

incomplete question

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

rust-lang/rustup#4892 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 4, 2026
rustup-init.exe x86_64-pc-windows-gnu flagged as virus Open

not-rustup question

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

rust-lang/rustup#4891 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 4, 2026
Build `rustup` pre-built binaries with `cargo-auditable` Open

enhancement

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

rust-lang/rustup#4883 · Opened May 28, 2026
Hope to improve the error messages and Improve error-handling abilities of rustup Open

enhancement incomplete

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

rust-lang/rustup#4863 · 5 comments · Opened May 22, 2026
document visual studio 2026 Open

E-easy enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

rust-lang/rustup#4858 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 15, 2026
suite::cli_self_upd::as_rustup_setup test failure Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-lang/rustup#4779 · Opened Mar 26, 2026
unable to run updater on `rustup self update` Open

bug

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

rust-lang/rustup#4777 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 26, 2026
Install script should put rust path in ~/.zprofile on macOS Open

bug

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

rust-lang/rustup#4772 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2026
Test on FreeBSD is failing due to `tar entry kind 'GNUSparse' is not supported` Open

bug dependencies forwarded

rust-lang/rustup#4751 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 15, 2026
Make the interaction between `MultiProgress` and other lines below it more robust Open

A-concurrency enhancement incomplete

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

rust-lang/rustup#4737 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2026
New parallel download + install can easily leave a partially installed toolchain when downloads are interrupted Open

A-concurrency

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rust-lang/rustup#4724 · 11 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Feb 19, 2026
Make ~/.cargo/env more robust by always prepending the ~/.cargo.bin path Open

enhancement

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

rust-lang/rustup#4723 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 16, 2026
Win11 min MSVC prerequisites rustup handbook not enough to make rustup-init.exe detect MSVC Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rust-lang/rustup#4699 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2026
Setting RUSTUP_HOME and CARGO_HOME before running rustup installation does not work in Windows Open

bug

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

rust-lang/rustup#4687 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 24, 2026
Call for Testing - broadening the reach? Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-lang/rustup#4666 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 31, 2025
Tracking: Deduplicate toolchains, components and/or artifacts Open

E-mentor enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

rust-lang/rustup#4663 · 12 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Dec 30, 2025
Installation script writes malformed PATH line with ^M in ~/.zshenv Open

bug incomplete

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-lang/rustup#4655 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 21, 2025
Check disk free space ahead of time when updating toolchains Open

enhancement

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

rust-lang/rustup#4653 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 20, 2025
failed to set permissions on `rustup self update` Open

bug incomplete

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

rust-lang/rustup#4648 · 6 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2025
Support virtual toolchains to "mix and match" components Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

rust-lang/rustup#4636 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 10, 2025
Support installing third-party tier-3 target support with rustup Open

enhancement

rust-lang/rustup#4635 · 17 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 9, 2025
Find out a way to upload arbitrary hotfixes to the user guide Open

enhancement

rust-lang/rustup#4615 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 21, 2025
Add nushell completion support Open

enhancement

rust-lang/rustup#4603 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 18, 2025
Allow choosing installation folder in Windows-native way Open

enhancement O-windows

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

rust-lang/rustup#4580 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 2, 2025
rustup update did not update certain components properly Open

bug

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

rust-lang/rustup#4577 · 13 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2025
Sign the rustup install script Open

enhancement

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

rust-lang/rustup#4576 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 29, 2025
`rustup +nightly run cargo` seems like it could work but doesn't Open

enhancement

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

rust-lang/rustup#4564 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 24, 2025
Provide assistance in uninstalling unused toolchains, i.e. toolchain garbage collection Open

enhancement

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

rust-lang/rustup#4548 · 7 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Oct 18, 2025
Cargo from `rustup which` is broken Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-lang/rustup#4537 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 16, 2025
Rustup Pull-Through Cache Open

enhancement

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

rust-lang/rustup#4527 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2025
Make message about rust-toolchain.toml a warning Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

rust-lang/rustup#4504 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 28, 2025
Stop setting CARGO_HOME on Cargo Open

enhancement

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

rust-lang/rustup#4502 · 12 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Sep 28, 2025

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