Status of `1.78.0.0`/`1.79.0.0`?

[dimpolo]

Don't mean to hurry anyone, just wondering, what is the status of a 1.78.0.0 release?

[SergioGasquez]

We are having some issues building Windows artifacts, thats why it is still as prerelease (https://github.com/esp-rs/rust-build/releases/tag/v1.78.0.0). If you are not in Windows, you can espup update -v 1.78.0.0 and update your toolchain

[georgik]

Windows MSVC has problem with mixing /MT and /MD when building LLD, still not solved.

Windows GNU is available, problem was with Defender shutting down the build, when job was started under CI system
user.

[SergioGasquez]

Update on the 1.78.0.0 and 1.79.0.0 releases:

• 1.78.0.0 won't be promoted as latest and will be skipped
• 1.79.0.0 is ready and safe to use for all the targets but x86_64-pc-windows-msvc. We will try to build this target artifacts, so the release can be marked as latest

Also, upcoming releases should not have this issue anymore as it was solved in rust-lang/rust#126701

[MabezDev]

Sorry about the delay, MSVC toolchain has been a bit troublesome in the last few releases. I've just promoted the 1.79.0.0 to the latest release.