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New crates in this release

• The windows-services crate provides a simple and safe way to implement Windows services in Rust (#3599).
• The windows-threading crate provides simple, safe, and efficient access to the Windows threading support (#3595).

Major version updates to existing crates

• The windows-metadata crate is a low-level metadata library for ECMA-335, providing both a reader and writer for the ECMA-335 metadata format (#3560) used by .NET, WinRT, and more recently the Win32 metadata. It is technically a brand new implementation but reuses the older crate name from my first attempt at a metadata parser in Rust. The emphasis is on low-level. While it is easy to use, the metadata format is intended for tools to use internally. This implementation is very fast and scalable.

Minor version updates to existing crates

• The windows-bindgen crate has been updated to use the new windows-threading crate for parallelism to improve reliability and reduce dependencies (#3588, #3595).
• The windows-future crate now uses the new windows-threading crate for parallelism (#3595).
• The windows-registry crate adds support for key rename (#3567).
• The windows-core, windows-result, and windows-strings crates no longer require the windows_debugger_visualizer option to enable natvis support (#3586).

What's Changed

• Mark stale issues and pull requests by @kennykerr in #3550
• Fix circular dependency by @kennykerr in #3549
• Fix semver compatibility issue by @kennykerr in #3554
• Low-level metadata library for ECMA-335 by @kennykerr in #3560
• Add fast indexing support to windows-ecma335 by @kennykerr in #3562
• Derive Hash for Type in windows_registry by @allan2 in #3564
• Add key rename support to the windows-registry crate by @kennykerr in #3567
• Collapse internal config/writer structures inside windows-bindgen by @kennykerr in #3569
• Add Windows on Arm test coverage by @riverar in #3577
• Remove extra call of message() in Error formatting by @CrazyboyQCD in #3579
• Clarify contributing guide by @kennykerr in #3584
• Fix nightly clippy warnings by @kennykerr in #3585
• Remove windows_debugger_visualizer as cfg option by @kennykerr in #3586
• Remove MacOS testing by @kennykerr in #3587
• Remove rayon dependency by @kennykerr in #3588
• Adds a Windows service example by @kennykerr in #3590
• Introduce the dedicated windows-threading crate by @kennykerr in #3595
• Restrict allow to bindings in windows-threading crate by @kennykerr in #3597
• Introduce the dedicated windows-services crate by @kennykerr in #3599
• Fix typos by @kennykerr in #3600
• Rename windows-ecma335 to windows-metadata by @kennykerr in #3601
• Release 64 by @kennykerr in #3603

New Contributors

• @allan2 made their first contribution in #3564
• @CrazyboyQCD made their first contribution in #3579

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