Release 1.52.1 is a small maintenance update with one user-facing fix. It also includes CI and release-process cleanup, but the only runtime change is the rollback of a regression in spawn_blocking.
Fixes
- Reverts
[#7757](https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/pull/7757)to fix a regression that could causespawn_blockingto hang. This restores the previous runtime behavior and addresses the hang seen in 1.52.0 (#8057).
Other notable changes
- CI now uses FreeBSD VM instead of Cirrus CI, and the GitHub Actions workflows were updated to newer tool versions (#8041, #8047).
- Dependabot is now used to keep GitHub Actions up to date,
taiki-e/cache-cargo-install-actionwas bumped from 1 to 3, andtrybuildexpectations were updated for rustc 1.95.0 (#8052, #8053, #8058).
Contributors
- @hawkw
- @mattiapitossi
- @Darksonn
- @martin-g
- @dependabot[bot]