I’m happy to announce that I’ve been granted permission to resume development on dist/cargo-dist, the easy-to-use binary packaging and distribution tool. As someone who uses dist a lot in my own projects, I’ve been hoping to be able to keep the project going and I hope this will be useful for other people as well.

I’ve just released version 0.28.1, a bugfix release based on the last stable version. This fixes the critical issues around GitHub Actions runners and also includes a number of other important bugfixes. Please give it a try and let me know how it goes!

I’m planning an 0.29.0 in the near future containing all of the improvements that originated in Astral’s forkm and longterm I’m planning to keep it going as long as there are people interested in using it. I’d like this to move forward in a community-supported model with members of the community contributing new features they’re interested in.

Got thoughts? Let me know on the issue tracker or on the official discord.