• Richer errors, differentiating exit codes, and more (#151)
  • Answering "no" to a confirmation prompt will exit with code 32;
  • An HTTP error is code 69;
  • A crate not found error is 76, and will direct you to lib.rs to search for a similarly-named crate if you so want;
  • and many more errors have gained more verbose descriptions, error codes, exit codes, and help text.
• Optimised (for size) cargo-binstall binaries (#149, #150)
• TAR + Zstd support (#148)
• CLI overrides for bin-dir, pkg-fmt, pkg-url (#147)
• We no longer fetch or use the local crates index, instead relying only on the crates.io API. (#128, #126)
  • Fixes spurious ssh/git failure (#63)
  • Removes dependency on OpenSSL, avoiding linking errors during the ongoing OpenSSL v3 transition. (#141)
  • Faster startup.
• Fix: if the latest version of a crate is yanked, we no longer use it (#122)
• Warning: when using the --version option, warn and re-prompt if the resolved version may not be the expected one (#116, #122, #125)
• Warning: when fetching from a non-HTTPS remote (#152).
  • Insecure downloads may become unsupported in the future!
  • If you have a non-HTTPS download URL in your manifest, please switch to an HTTPS one, or consider opening an issue if you have objections.
• New builds: (#143, #145)
  • Apple M1
  • Linux x86-64 (musl)
  • Linux ARM64 (musl)
  • Linux ARMv7 (musl)
  • 🗑️ Linux ARMv7 (gnu) support dropped
  • We now recommend using static musl builds over gnu libc ones