Rust 1.34 Introduces Alternative Registries for Non-Public Crates

The most significant feature in Cargo 1.34 is support for using alternative cargo registries, which could be a game changer in enterprise environments. Additionally, this release also include support for ? in documentation tests, and several improvements to the standard library.

Security Landscape of the Docker Ecosystem and Best Practices

As part of its annual State of Open Source Security Report, security firm Snyk issued a specific report focusing on Docker security that shows vulnerabilities in container images are widespread. InfoQ has spoken with Liran Tal, Snyk developer advocate.

Rust Evolution in 2019 Will Aim for Maturity

This year’s roadmap for Rust was the result of an open call for blog posts from the community to set out major priorities for the language development throughout 2019, including reshaping the governance model, bringing to light new language features, and improving the compiler.

GitHub Package Registry Integrates Source Code and Packages

GitHub launched a limited beta of its new Package Registry, aiming to simplify publishing public or private packages under the same user interface as source code. GitHub Package Registry supports npm, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, and Docker images, and support for more package management tools is already on its roadmap.

Microsoft Open-Sources Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithm Powering Bing

Microsoft’s latest contribution to open source, Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG), is an implementation of the approximate nearest neighbor search (NNS) algorithm that is used in Microsoft Bing search engine.