Binstall is a tool to fetch and install Rust-based executables as binaries. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for cargo install in most cases. Install it today with cargo install cargo-binstall, from the binaries below, or if you already have it, upgrade with cargo binstall cargo-binstall.

Features

• feat: Support --verbose --version/-vV (#627 #1182)
  that provides more information:

  cargo-binstall: 1.0.0
  build-date: 2023-07-18
  build-target: aarch64-apple-darwin
  build-features: default,fancy_no_backtrace,git,rustls,static,trust_dns,zstd_thin
  build-commit-hash: 39d8cfc07f2253080ce997e620406c2994dced25
  build-commit-date: 2023-07-18
  rustc-version: 1.71.0
  rustc-commit-hash: 8ede3aae28fe6e4d52b38157d7bfe0d3bceef225
  rustc-llvm-version: 16.0
  

• feat: Read --rate-limit from env BINSTALL_RATE_LIMIT as a fallback (#1196 #1201)

• Support --registry and more options from .cargo/config.toml (#885 #1195)
  Now we can take advantage of new argument --registry and
  env overrides:

  • CARGO_REGISTRIES_DEFAULT if --registry is not specified
  • CARGO_REGISTRIES_{registry_name}_INDEX for the registry index url

  We can also read from .cargo/config.toml for:

  • default registry and registries configurations
  • additional CA bundle http.cainfo

• feat: Support --index (#1168 #1184)

Optimization

• Use reflink_copy to speedup binary installation if atomic rename failed

• speedup git shallow cloning: Enable gix/max-performance (#1186)
  for targets:

  • x86_64-apple-darwin
  • aarch64-apple-darwin
  • x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  • x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

  which will use zlib-ng to speedup decompression and use assembly
  version for sha1 checksum calculation on supported CPU.

  Also enable feature zlib-ng on windows and

  • aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
  • aarch64-unknown-linux-musl

• Speedup prebuilt binary (#1188)

  This commit speeds it up by building all dependencies with -O3 in dev
  and release build, in release build we build everything with -O3.

Bugfix

• Fix binstalk_downloader::GhApiClient json deser error (#1193)
  When installing cargo-expand v1.0.59, I got an error message:

  Failed to parse http response body as Json: invalid type: null, expected a string at line
  1 column 90
  

• Fix GPL-3.0 license identifier (#1189 #1192)