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crates.io: Trusted Publishing

crates.io is the Rust ecosystem's equivalent of PyPI. Inspired by PyPI's GitHub integration (see my TIL, I use this for dozens of my packages now) they've added a similar feature:

Trusted Publishing eliminates the need for GitHub Actions secrets when publishing crates from your CI/CD pipeline. Instead of managing API tokens, you can now configure which GitHub repository you trust directly on crates.io.

They're missing one feature that PyPI has: on PyPI you can create a "pending publisher" for your first release. crates.io currently requires the first release to be manual:

To get started with Trusted Publishing, you'll need to publish your first release manually. After that, you can set up trusted publishing for future releases.

Via @charliermarsh

Tags: github, packaging, pypi, rust

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