The 1.15.1 release was quite troublesome. Aside from the embarrasing bugs we had to actually fix, we made several mistakes during the release that, while ultimately not creating much end-user disruption, were stressful to deal with and created a lot of risk.  I’ve taken notes here about what happened to try to capture it while it’s fresh. But they are not so organized.  Most of the release tasks were done by me or @alexcrichton, with input from the core team.  Problems  Retagged 1.15.1 three tim...

A while ago, I built a system-tray application in Rust to notify me of
new e-mail called buzz. It was working
fine, but every now and again, it would fail to connect to the mail
server on boot if it started before my network connection was up. Sounds
easy enough to fix, so I just added a loop around my connect
(even made it have exponential backoff!) and considered the issue dealt
with.