0.17.0 release

[sj6219]

A new release is required.
I'm developing a program in an arch64-pc-windows-msvc environment, and I need a new release to do that.

I don't know how to make the 'pregenerate' files, so I'd appreciate it if you could make it temporarily.

[melekes]

We're also interested in the new release (specifically this commit).

What's a timeline for 0.17? Anybody knows?

[thomaseizinger]

Perhaps another alpha release could be an option in case main is not yet ready for a new full release?

[briansmith]

I am burning down the list of things to do to release 0.17 now. I will merge in yet-unmerged BoringSSL changes, do the testing that isn't in GitHub Actions, and a few other things.

[briansmith]

The draft PR #1542 replaces all the AAarch64 feature detection logic that was added in 0.17 prereleases with the use of std::arch::is_aarch64_feature_detected. It reduces the amount of unsafe code a lot, improves support for lesser-used platforms, and also reduces the maintenance and testing burden for the 0.17 release substantially. I would appreciate people taking a look at that PR and testing it on their systems, especially to make sure the feature detection logic is working correctly for the target(s) you care about. Thanks!

[briansmith]

Oh, I left out the most important bit of PR #1542: It proposes increasing the MSRV to 1.60 for AAarch64 targets only; other targets would remain MSRV 1.57. I think this is a good trade-off as 1.60 was released over 6 months ago.

[briansmith]

It looks like both @awakecoding and @svenpaulsen managed to build the 0.16.x branch for Windows aarch64, and there are more people waiting for this. Do you think it could be wise to release a 0.16.21 patch version, maybe with a -prerelease tag? This way many people could apparently get unblocked.

This issue is about the 0.17 release. I filed issue #1551 about the 0.16.21 release to add aarch64-pc-windows-msvc support. Please discuss the 0.16.21 release there.

[jeff-hiner]

Adding a bump here, I need to depend on open_in_place_separate_tag in a fork of boringtun and it's not in 0.16... a pre-release alpha or beta on crates.io would help immensely if that's possible.

[ry]

Is there an ETA for 0.17 release?

[briansmith]

This is done!