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+Title: This Week in Rust 27
+Date: 2013-12-16 16:14
+Category: This Week in Rust
+
+Hello and welcome to another issue of *This Week in Rust*! It's late this week
+because bors was having some issues which bounced every pull request, and it's
+no fun writing about nothing.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+# What's cooking on master?
+
+61 PRs were merged this week.
+
+## Breaking Changes
+
+- The first part of the `box` changes [has
+landed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10929). `box` is a keyword, and
+in an expression is now synonymous with `~` (ie, it allocates an owned box).
+- `std::vec::raw` [has seen some
+cleanup](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10984).
+- Link meta attributes [have been
+replaced](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10593) with a `pkgid`.  rustdoc
+[also now requires](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10948) a `pkgid`
+attribute, rather than the deprecated link meta.
+- Some fairly obscure import syntax [has been
+changed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10808). `use {foo, bar}` is now
+permitted, and the old `use foo, bar` is not.
+- `Cell` [has been removed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10791).
+`RefCell` supersedes it.
+- Attempting to implement private traits [no longer
+works](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10862).
+- The coherence `-Z` flag [has been
+removed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10909).
+- The `self` lifetime [is now
+illegal](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10897), like the rest of the
+keywords. Now, lifetime parameters are truly only identifiers.
+
+## Other changes
+
+- A dead code warning [has been
+implemented](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10477). This is pretty
+awesome and will do things like warn for test functions that are accidentally
+never marked `#[test]` and so are never called. Some bugs in it were
+[also](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10870)
+[fixed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10994).
+- The benchmark runner [now
+handles](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10952) slow benchmarks.
+Previously, it wouldn't run a benchmark that took more than 1ms. Now, it will!
+- The `shootout-fasta` benchmark [has been
+rewritten](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10933). It's about 10x faster,
+and looks nicer.
+- Stepping through / breaking on function calls [no longer goes through the
+function prelude](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10966).
+- The vector `move_iter` [has been made
+faster](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10995).
+- A single [`#[inline]`](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10918)  has made
+`vec::from_elem` 20x faster
+- `Buffer` [now has an iterator over its
+lines](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10856). The gotcha is that the
+newlines are included in the yielded strings.
+- Struct pattern shorthand [has been
+improved](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10833) by allowing ref/mut,
+like `let Foo { mut x, .. } = some_foo`, rather than the previous `let Foo {
+x: mut x, .. } = some_foo`.
+- LTO (link time optimization) [has been
+implemented](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10812).  Rejoice.
+- All landing pads (and thus unwinding!) [can now be
+omitted](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10916) when doing LTO.
+- `std::io::util` [has been added](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10895)
+with:
+	- `LimitReader` that will only read `n` bytes from another reader
+	- `NullWriter` that ignores everything written to it
+	- `NullReader` that is always EOF
+	- `ZeroReader` which returns all zeroes,
+	- `MultiWriter` which will replicate a written buffer to many writers
+	- `ChainedReader` which reads readers in order to completion
+	- `TeeReader` which will write to a Writer while reading
+	- a `copy` function which copies the full contents of a reader into a writer.
+- Windows application manifests [are now
+embedded](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10878), so we don't get
+special cased.
+- A `--dep-info` flag [has been
+added](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10698) which is like `-MMD` to C
+compilers.
+- `&mut` underneath `&` can [now be
+frozen](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10787).
+- `PortReader` and `ChanWriter` [have been
+implemented](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10823).
+- Some more random distributions [have been
+implemented](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10859).
+- We [now use](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10874) LLVM's integrated
+assembler on Windows.
+
+## New contributors
+
+- Cadence Marseille
+- Edward Z. Yang
+- Erik Price
+- Fabrice Desré
+- Jan Niklas Hasse
+- Richard Diamond
+
+# Meeting
+
+The [weekly
+meeting](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Meeting-weekly-2013-12-10)
+discussed `enum mod`, using types to drive inference (rather than attributes
+like `#[no_send]` etc), a formal grammar, unwinding, and some various PRs (all
+mentioned above).
+
+# This Week in Servo
+Servo is a web browser engine written in Rust and is one of the primary test
+cases for the Rust language.
+
+We landed 29 PRs this week.
+
+## Notable additions
+- Patrick Walton landed a number of changes to layout to avoid going back to
+the DOM for properties to make layout's access to the DOM more opaque. He also
+cleaned up a significant number of regressions and added a huge number of ref
+tests.
+- Keegan McAllister made content tests work in headless mode in
+[#1382](https://github.com/mozilla/servo/pull/1382).
+- Daniel Glazman added namespace info to elements in
+[#1358](https://github.com/mozilla/servo/pull/1358).
+- Daniel Hedlund added support for leading font metrics on Linux
+[#1352](https://github.com/mozilla/servo/pull/1352).
+
+## Meetings
+This week's
+[meeting](https://github.com/mozilla/servo/wiki/Meeting-2013-12-09) discussed
+an upcoming Servo workweek in SF on January 20th. We also discussed the Rust
+version update and some general team frustration at a large number of
+regressions lately, primarily caused by the need to disable some of our
+automated testing due to instability (particularly at shutdown). This week of
+work saw many of those issues fixed.
+
+# Announcements, etc
+
+- [FAQ Cheatsheet](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-FAQ-Cheatsheet) -
+A cookbook-style cheatsheet of how to do simple things, based on IRC FAQs.
+- [Building Rust Code - Current
+Issues](http://metajack.im/2013/12/11/building-rust-code--current-issues/)
+- [Building Rust Code - Using
+Make](http://metajack.im/2013/12/12/building-rust-code--using-make/)
+- [A Rust port of kissdb](https://github.com/pirapira/kissdb-rust)
+- [Reddit
+discussion](http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1syapv/implement_the_new_box_syntax_for_unique_pointers/)
+of the `box` change.