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by estebank 848 days ago
Rust's backwards compatibility assurances explicitly mention that breaking changes to fix unsoundness are allowed. In practice the project would be careful to avoid breaking more than strictly necessary for a fix.

In the case of user code that isn't unsound but breaks with the changes to the compiler/language, that would be breaking backwards compatibility, in which case there might be a need to relegate the change to a new edition.