The t-rustup team shares their roadmap for the upcoming rustup 1.30 release cycle. Key changes include refining implicit toolchain installation behavior — disabling it for rustup/rustup-init subcommands where it's unnecessary (while preserving it for proxy invocations like rustc and cargo), and removing the deprecated curl download backend in favor of reqwest with rustls. The native TLS backend will remain for now due to Linux packaging constraints. Upcoming work includes XDG paths support (a GSoC 2026 project), update notifications, signing and mirroring support, and toolchain name restrictions. Several longer-term focus areas like artifact signing, process safety, and enhanced concurrency remain stalled. Community contributions are welcomed.
