Announcing Rust 1.65.0 (#1043)

* Add initial 1.65.0 announcement
* Add note about human rights in Iran

Discussed and wordsmithed in leadership chat.

Author: cuviper

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+title: "Announcing Rust 1.65.0"
+author: The Rust Release Team
+release: true
+---
+
+The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.65.0. Rust is a
+programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient
+software.
+
+---
+
+Before going into the details of the new Rust release, we'd like to draw
+attention to the tragic [death of Mahsa
+Amini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mahsa_Amini) and the death and
+violent suppression of many others, by the religious morality police of Iran.
+See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests> for more details. We
+stand in solidarity with the people in Iran struggling for human rights.
+
+---
+
+If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.65.0
+with:
+
+```console
+rustup update stable
+```
+
+If you don't have it already, you can [get
+`rustup`](https://www.rust-lang.org/install.html) from the appropriate page on
+our website, and check out the [detailed release notes for
+1.65.0](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1650-2022-11-03)
+on GitHub.
+
+If you'd like to help us out by testing future releases, you might consider
+updating locally to use the beta channel (`rustup default beta`) or the nightly
+channel (`rustup default nightly`). Please
+[report](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/new/choose) any bugs you
+might come across!
+
+## What's in 1.65.0 stable
+
+### Generic associated types (GATs)
+
+Lifetime, type, and const generics can now be defined on associated types, like so:
+
+```rust
+trait Foo {
+    type Bar<'x>;
+}
+```
+
+It's hard to put into few words just how useful these can be, so here are a
+few example traits, to get a sense of their power:
+
+```rust
+/// An `Iterator`-like trait that can borrow from `Self`
+trait LendingIterator {
+    type Item<'a> where Self: 'a;
+
+    fn next<'a>(&'a mut self) -> Option<Self::Item<'a>>;
+}
+
+/// Can be implemented over smart pointers, like `Rc` or `Arc`,
+/// in order to allow being generic over the pointer type
+trait PointerFamily {
+    type Pointer<T>: Deref<Target = T>;
+
+    fn new<T>(value: T) -> Self::Pointer<T>;
+}
+
+/// Allows borrowing an array of items. Useful for
+/// `NdArray`-like types that don't necessarily store
+/// data contiguously.
+trait BorrowArray<T> {
+    type Array<'x, const N: usize> where Self: 'x;
+
+    fn borrow_array<'a, const N: usize>(&'a self) -> Self::Array<'a, N>;
+}
+```
+
+As you can see, GATs are quite versatile and enable a number
+of patterns that are not currently able to be written. For more
+information, check out the post announcing the
+[push for stabilization](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/08/03/GATs-stabilization-push.html)
+published last year or the
+[stabilization announcement post](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/10/28/gats-stabilization.html)
+published last week. The former goes into a bit more depth
+of a couple of the examples above, while the latter talks
+about some of the known limitations of this stabilization.
+
+More in depth reading can be found in the associated types
+section of the [nightly reference](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/reference/items/associated-items.html#associated-types)
+or the [original RFC](https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1598-generic_associated_types.html) (which was initially opened over 6.5 years ago!).
+
+### `let`-`else` statements
+
+This introduces a new type of `let` statement with a refutable pattern and a
+diverging `else` block that executes when that pattern doesn't match.
+
+    let PATTERN: TYPE = EXPRESSION else {
+        DIVERGING_CODE;
+    };
+
+Normal `let` statements can only use _irrefutable_ patterns, statically known
+to always match. That pattern is often just a single variable binding, but may
+also unpack compound types like structs, tuples, and arrays. However, that was
+not usable for conditional matches, like pulling out a variant of an enum --
+until now! With `let`-`else`, a refutable pattern can match and bind variables
+in the surrounding scope like a normal `let`, or else diverge (e.g. `break`,
+`return`, `panic!`) when the pattern doesn't match.
+
+```rust
+fn get_count_item(s: &str) -> (u64, &str) {
+    let mut it = s.split(' ');
+    let (Some(count_str), Some(item)) = (it.next(), it.next()) else {
+        panic!("Can't segment count item pair: '{s}'");
+    };
+    let Ok(count) = u64::from_str(count_str) else {
+        panic!("Can't parse integer: '{count_str}'");
+    };
+    (count, item)
+}
+assert_eq!(get_count_item("3 chairs"), (3, "chairs"));
+```
+
+The scope of name bindings is the main thing that makes this different from
+`match` or `if let`-`else` expressions. You could previously approximate these
+patterns with an unfortunate bit of repetition and an outer `let`:
+
+```rust
+    let (count_str, item) = match (it.next(), it.next()) {
+        (Some(count_str), Some(item)) => (count_str, item),
+        _ => panic!("Can't segment count item pair: '{s}'"),
+    };
+    let count = if let Ok(count) = u64::from_str(count_str) {
+        count
+    } else {
+        panic!("Can't parse integer: '{count_str}'");
+    };
+```
+
+### `break` from labeled blocks
+
+Plain block expressions can now be labeled as a `break` target, terminating
+that block early. This may sound a little like a `goto` statement, but it's not
+an arbitrary jump, only from within a block to its end. This was already
+possible with `loop` blocks, and you may have seen people write loops that
+always execute only once, just to get a labeled `break`.
+
+Now there's a language feature specifically for that! Labeled `break` may also
+include an expression value, just as with loops, letting a multi-statement
+block have an early "return" value.
+
+```rust
+let result = 'block: {
+    do_thing();
+    if condition_not_met() {
+        break 'block 1;
+    }
+    do_next_thing();
+    if condition_not_met() {
+        break 'block 2;
+    }
+    do_last_thing();
+    3
+};
+```
+
+### Splitting Linux debuginfo
+
+Back in Rust 1.51, the compiler team added support for [split debug
+information](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/03/25/Rust-1.51.0.html#splitting-debug-information)
+on macOS, and now this option is stable for use on Linux as well.
+
+- `-Csplit-debuginfo=unpacked` will split debuginfo out into multiple `.dwo`
+  DWARF object files.
+- `-Csplit-debuginfo=packed` will produce a single `.dwp` DWARF package
+  alongside your output binary with all the debuginfo packaged together.
+- `-Csplit-debuginfo=off` is still the default behavior, which includes DWARF
+  data in `.debug_*` ELF sections of the objects and final binary.
+
+Split DWARF lets the linker avoid processing the debuginfo (because it isn't in
+the object files being linked anymore), which can speed up link times!
+
+Other targets now also accept `-Csplit-debuginfo` as a stable option with their
+platform-specific default value, but specifying other values is still unstable.
+
+### Stabilized APIs
+
+The following methods and trait implementations are now stabilized:
+
+- [`std::backtrace::Backtrace`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/backtrace/struct.Backtrace.html)
+- [`Bound::as_ref`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/ops/enum.Bound.html#method.as_ref)
+- [`std::io::read_to_string`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/io/fn.read_to_string.html)
+- [`<*const T>::cast_mut`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.pointer.html#method.cast_mut)
+- [`<*mut T>::cast_const`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.pointer.html#method.cast_const)
+
+Of particular note, the `Backtrace` API allows capturing a stack backtrace at
+any time, using the same platform-specific implementation that usually serves
+panic backtraces. This may be useful for adding runtime context to error types,
+for example.
+
+These APIs are now usable in const contexts:
+
+- [`<*const T>::offset_from`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.pointer.html#method.offset_from)
+- [`<*mut T>::offset_from`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.pointer.html#method.offset_from)
+
+### Compatibility notes
+
+- As the final step of the [RLS
+  deprecation](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/07/01/RLS-deprecation.html),
+  this release has replaced RLS with a small LSP server showing a deprecation
+  warning, advising users to migrate to `rust-analyzer`.
+
+### Other changes
+
+There are other changes in the Rust 1.65 release, including:
+
+- MIR inlining is now enabled for optimized compilations. This provides a 3-10%
+  improvement in compiletimes for real world crates.
+- When scheduling builds, Cargo now sorts the queue of pending jobs to improve performance.
+
+Check out everything that changed in
+[Rust](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1650-2022-11-03),
+[Cargo](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#cargo-165-2022-11-03),
+and [Clippy](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#rust-165).
+
+### Contributors to 1.65.0
+
+Many people came together to create Rust 1.65.0.
+We couldn't have done it without all of you.
+[Thanks!](https://thanks.rust-lang.org/rust/1.65.0/)