microsoft/windows-rs 73

73

Repository: microsoft/windows-rs

Tag: 73

Published: 2026-02-17T16:28:37Z

Prerelease: no

Release notes: This release is only for the windows-metadata crate (0.60.0) and brings nine months worth of updates to the low-level metadata library for ECMA-335. This includes support for nested types (#3799), the ability to articulate and distinguish between mutable and immutable reference and pointer parameter types (#3865), support for union types (#3867), smarter indexing (#3612), and many other small improvements.

What's Changed

• Document --specific-deps option in windows-bindgen by @Copilot in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3854
• Add await sample by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3858
• Bump react-router and react-router-dom in /web/features by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3860
• Bump lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.17.23 in /web/features by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3862
• Add (incomplete) new windows-rdl crate by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3861
• Add interface method support for windows-rdl by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3865
• Add union support for windows-rdl by @riverar in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3867
• Add RDL syntax reference documentation by @riverar in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3868
• Add Owned::into_raw to relinquish ownership of an handle by @sylveon in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3869
• Add Win32/WinRT type system distinction for windows-rdl by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3871
• Add free (Win32) function support for windows-rdl by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3873
• Add pseudo-type support for windows-rdl by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3877
• Document windows-rdl function support by @riverar in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3874
• Reduce unnecessary CI runs for windows-rdl doc changes by @riverar in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3875
• Replace rand crate with BCryptGenRandom in dcomp sample by @riverar in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3883
• Add constant support for windows-rdl by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3882
• Remove Drop impl on VARIANT and PROPVARIANT by @riverar in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3886
• Consolidate value parsing for constants and enums in windows-rdl by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3885
• Update toml requirement from 0.9 to 1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3889
• Release 73 by @kennykerr in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3891

New Contributors

• @sylveon made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/3869

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/compare/72...73