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+title: "Announcing Rust 1.77.1"
+author: The Rust Release Team
+release: true
+---
+
+The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.77.1. Rust is a
+programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and
+efficient software.
+
+If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust
+1.77.1 is as easy as:
+
+```
+rustup update stable
+```
+
+If you don't have it already, you can [get `rustup`][rustup] from the
+appropriate page on our website.
+
+[rustup]: https://www.rust-lang.org/install.html
+
+## What's in 1.77.1
+
+Cargo enabled [stripping of debuginfo in release builds by default](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/13257)
+in Rust 1.77.0. However, due to a pre-existing issue, debuginfo stripping does not [behave](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/122857) in the expected way on Windows with the MSVC toolchain.
+
+Rust 1.77.1 therefore [disables](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/13630) the new Cargo behavior on Windows for
+targets that use MSVC. There are no changes for other targets. We plan to eventually re-enable debuginfo stripping in
+release mode in a later Rust release.
+
+### Contributors to 1.77.1
+
+Many people came together to create Rust 1.77.1. We couldn't have done it
+without all of you. [Thanks!](https://thanks.rust-lang.org/rust/1.77.1/)