Who contributed to Rust on September 28, 2026?

7 developers shipped this update, including bors, fmease, JonathanBrouwer, Kobzol, medzernik, renovate, and Turbo87.

What were the notable Rust updates?

Implement forced keywords (`k#`), Squash & Approve, and Apply approval labels eagerly when a PR is tentatively approved.

Sep 28, 2026

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Forced keywords land behind a feature gate

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:58 UTC on September 28, 2026 · About Rust · Composed from the cited sources · methodology

7 people shipped this

bors @bors 1 cited

fmease @fmease 1 cited

Kobzol @Kobzol 1 cited

medzernik @medzernik 1 cited

Turbo87 @Turbo87 1 cited

JonathanBrouwer @JonathanBrouwer

renovate @renovate

Rust's compiler gains a `k#ident` forced-keyword token and bors gains squash-and-approve, while crates.io unbreaks its API client CI.

Implement forced keywords (`k#`) rust-lang/rust

by fmease

fmease implemented forced keywords, a new token kind in Rust 2021 and later written `k#ident`, gated behind the unstable `forced_keywords` feature. Until it stabilizes, the syntax stays opt-in via a nightly feature flag.

Squash & Approve rust-lang/bors

by medzernik

bors picked up a Squash & Approve function that squashes a PR and approves the resulting commit, from medzernik's contribution mentored by Kobzol.

Apply approval labels eagerly when a PR is tentatively approved rust-lang/bors

by Kobzol

Kobzol's bors change applies approval labels eagerly when a PR is tentatively approved, closing the gap filed as bors issue 861.

openapi: Remove description-only `allOf` schemas rust-lang/crates.io

by Turbo87

Turbo87 removed description-only `allOf` schemas from the crates.io OpenAPI output. Utoipa 6 merges field comments into object schemas with `allOf`, which the generated client turned into `Record<string, never>` and rejected valid request and response shapes; this should fix the broken CI on `main`.

Update crate `calib-targets` rust-lang/crates.io-index

by bors

The crates.io index took routine crate updates for `calib-targets` and its `-print` and `-marker` variants, plus `rudb-qc-pipe` and `saddle-runtime`. The crates.io repo otherwise absorbed mechanical Renovate work: a full lock file refresh, `@percy/cli` to 1.32.11, and vite to 8.3.1.