# Subteam reports 2016-04-08 **URL:** \ **Category:** announcements\ **Created:** [April 8, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/subteam-reports-2016-04-08/3355 "2016-04-08T23:23:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alexcrichton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/alexcrichton/32/4501_2.png) [@alexcrichton](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/alexcrichton)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/subteam-reports-2016-04-08/3355/1 "2016-04-08T23:23:08Z")
### Lang [Full report](https://github.com/rust-lang/subteams/blob/master/lang/reports/2016-04-08.md) We decided to **accept** the following RFCs this week: - [RFC 1494](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1494): Amend RFC 550 with misc. follow set corrections - [RFC 1444](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1444): Untagged unions - [RFC 1513](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1513): Stabilize implementing panics as aborts - [RFC 1398](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1398): Allocators, take III We also placed the following RFCs into FCP: - [RFC 1429](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1429): feature gate extern fn methods - [RFC 1440](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1440): allow drop types in statics/constants - [RFC 1399](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1399): add `#[repr(pack = N)]` – nmatsakis ### Libs [Full report](https://github.com/rust-lang/subteams/blob/master/libs/reports/2016-04-08.md) This week marked the conclusion of the 1.9 release cycle final comment period (FCP). The libs team discussed the stabilization decisions for all issues, coming to the following conclusions: - [FCP Issue #27719](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27719): Tracking issue for `recover` stabilization - Stabilize with the names `catch_unwind`, `resume_unwind`, `AssertUnwindSafe`, and `UnwindSafe`. - [FCP Issue #27751](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27751): Tracking issue for `raw` stabilization - Deprecate the `Slice` type and the `Repr` trait - [FCP Issue #27754](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27754): Tracking issue for `str_char` stabilization - Stabilize the `is_char_boundary` method, deprecate `char_range_at`, `char_range_at_reverse`, `char_at`, `char_at_reverse`, and `slice_shift_char`. - [FCP Issue #27780](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27780): Tracking issue for `<*mut T, *const T>::{as_ref, as_mut_ref}` - Stabilize both methods with by-value `self` instead of by-reference - [FCP Issue #27784](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27784): Tracking issue for char encoding methods - Postpone stabilization of `encode_utf8` pending investigation into the performance of the two methods. - [FCP Issue #27809](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27809): Tracking issue for `make_ascii_{upper,lower}case` - Stabilize both methods as-is - [FCP Issue #27811](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27811): Tracking issue for `CommandExt::session_leader` - Deprecate in favor of `CommandExt::befor_exec` - [FCP Issue #27830](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27830): Tracking issue for UTF-16 decoding iterators - Stabilize functions as-is with a tweak to the error type in the iterator. - [FCP Issue #28050](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28050): Set recovery methods - Stabilize as-is - [FCP Issue #29453](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29453): Add Capacity/length methods for OsString - Stabilize as-is - [FCP Issue #29791](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29791): Tracking issue for getting `pthread_t` from `JoinHandle` - Stabilize as-is - [FCP Issue #29935](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29935): Tracking issue for `#[deprecated]` - Stabilize as-is - [FCP Issue #30014](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/30014): Tracking issue for OpenOptions expansion - Stabilize as-is - [FCP Issue #30752](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/30752): Tracking issue for `panic::propagate` - Stabilize with the name `resume_unwind` - [FCP Issue #31262](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/31262): `HashMap` and `HashSet` should provide a getter for their hashers - Stabilize as-is - [FCP Issue #31398](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/31398): Tracking issue for `CommandExt::{exec, before_exec}` - Stabilize the `exec` function - [FCP Issue #31405](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/31405): Tracking issue for `file_try_clone` - Stabilize as-is - [FCP Issue #31572](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/31572): Tracking issue for SocketAddr setters - Stabilize as-is - [FCP Issue #31755](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/31755): Tracking issue for `<[T]>::copy_from_slice` - Stabilize as-is - [FCP Issue #31756](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/31756): Tracking issue for `ptr::{read,write}_volatile` - Stabilize as-is More information about the relevant decision can be found on the issue and final comment as well. Stabilizations have all been applied in [rust-lang/rust#32804](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/32804) ### Tools [Full report](https://github.com/rust-lang/subteams/blob/master/tools/reports/2016-04-08.md) - [rustup](https://www.rustup.rs/), the successor to [multirust](https://github.com/brson/multirust), is now available for [beta testing](http://internals.rust-lang.org/t/beta-testing-rustup-rs/3316). Please feel free to leave feedback on the [internals thread](http://internals.rust-lang.org/t/beta-testing-rustup-rs/3316)! - Nightlies for the `i586-pc-windows-msvc` target [are now being produced](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/32593). - Nightly for the `aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu` target [are now being produced](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-buildbot/issues/85). - Top level overrides in Cargo [have landed](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/2385), allowing you to specify package overrides in `Cargo.toml` to work with other collaborators. - The following RFCs have been moved into their **final comment period** to be decided upon ~2 weeks from now: ### Compiler [Full report](https://github.com/rust-lang/subteams/blob/master/compiler/reports/2016-04-08.md) Quiet week. – nmatsakis ---
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