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Nov 5, 2026
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  • bad page layout for certain crates- left panel text goes off the top of the screen
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    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 58/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3650 · 2 comments ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2026-0374: `basic-toml` is unmaintained
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 47/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3624 · 1 comment ·

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  • Switching dark/light themes is slow
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3567 · 4 comments ·

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  • `/releases/search` shows an incorrect recent date for an old crate release
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3536 · 3 comments ·

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  • re-add logging build output for cli/toolchain-update builds
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3410 ·

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  • Find a better alternative to run untrusted code
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3389 · 3 comments ·

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  • Inconsistent redirect behaviors for platform-specific items
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    S-needs-design

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3329 · 2 comments ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2026-0104: Reachable panic in certificate revocation list parsing
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3309 ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2026-0099: Name constraints were accepted for certificates asserting a wildcard name
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3298 ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2026-0098: Name constraints for URI names were incorrectly accepted
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3297 ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2026-0049: CRLs not considered authorative by Distribution Point due to faulty matching logic
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3263 ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2026-0049: CRLs not considered authorative by Distribution Point due to faulty matching logic
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3264 ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2026-0048: CRL Distribution Point Scope Check Logic Error in AWS-LC
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3261 ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2026-0044: AWS-LC X.509 Name Constraints Bypass via Wildcard/Unicode CN
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3262 ·

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  • gracefully shut down builder process
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    A-builds E-medium P-medium

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3251 ·

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  • support crate authors in checking if docs work in their CI setup.
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3202 ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2025-0141: Bincode is unmaintained
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3122 · 2 comments ·

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  • Feature Request: Build repos from git and add an API to do so
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3118 · 3 comments ·

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  • structured build priorities
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    rust-lang/docs.rs#3098 · 1 assignee ·

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  • provide help & links for some build errors
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3093 · 1 comment ·

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  • add security.txt
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#3056 · 3 comments ·

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  • Dependency Dashboard
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2946 · 2 reactions ·

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  • Improve GUI test runner
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2908 ·

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  • generate OpenGraph image for pages
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2861 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Eagerly queue up failed builds from old rustdoc versions when rustdoc is updated
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    A-builds P-low S-needs-design

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2825 ·

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  • WIP template on docs.rs for new crates in the queue
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    A-frontend E-easy P-low

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2762 · 4 comments ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2025-0007: *ring* is unmaintained
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2741 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Can `cargo expand` be made available in the standard build environment?
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2724 · 1 comment ·

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  • "previous page" button never present in search results
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    A-frontend C-bug E-easy

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2711 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • show used build image in about/builds view
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    A-backend E-easy mentor

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2612 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Feature request: inject syntax highlighting for TOML into crate docs
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2577 · 5 comments ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2024-0320: yaml-rust is unmaintained.
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2469 · 1 comment ·

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  • Tracking Issue for Packages as (optional) namespaces
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2457 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Surface warnings to users
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    E-medium

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2434 · 3 comments ·

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  • Copy crate name, version with feature flags?
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2407 · 2 comments ·

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  • `rustdoc-args` is ignored for proc_macro crates
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    A-builds C-bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2374 · 4 comments ·

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  • calloop not found
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2359 · 4 comments ·

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  • Crates which use a specific rustc version fail to build
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    A-builds E-medium S-needs-design

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2358 · 5 comments ·

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  • group queued releases in build-queue page
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    A-backend A-builds E-easy

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2328 · 3 comments ·

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  • web-server: add compression
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    A-backend E-easy mentor

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2271 · 7 comments ·

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  • Feature request: search recent failures
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    A-frontend E-easy E-medium

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2245 · 3 comments ·

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  • grouping targets in the target list
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    A-frontend E-easy S-needs-design

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2171 · 1 comment ·

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  • Differentiate the documentation pages for new users.
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    A-frontend A-newcomer-roadblock

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2135 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Jittery list rendering when moving mouse up and down recent releases
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    A-frontend C-bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2055 · 3 comments ·

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  • potential wrong mime types in our storage
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2050 ·

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  • nav bar outline won't disappear when 'help' overlay is enabled
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    A-frontend C-bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2045 · 1 comment ·

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  • Crate's docs.rs page irritatingly empty
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#2019 · 3 comments ·

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  • Topbar menu includes links for all past versions of a crate
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    rust-lang/docs.rs#1999 · 17 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • rustdoc referenced `search.js` and `settings.js` not via `static-root-path`
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#1979 · 9 comments ·

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  • Docs not built on target platform, causing failures
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rust-lang/docs.rs#1957 · 13 comments ·

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