meson, cargo: require Rust 1.83.0

Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250908105005.2119297-4-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
index 8671c3be9c..0160d3adb8 100644
--- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
+++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
@@ -118,14 +118,15 @@ Rust build dependencies
   include bindgen or have an older version, it is recommended to install
   a newer version using ``cargo install bindgen-cli``.
 
-  QEMU requires Rust 1.77.0.  This is available on all supported platforms
-  with one exception, namely the ``mips64el`` architecture on Debian bookworm.
-  For all other architectures, Debian bookworm provides a new-enough Rust
-  compiler in the ``rustc-web`` package.
-
-  Also, on Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 this requires the ``rustc-1.77``
-  (or newer) package.  The path to ``rustc`` and ``rustdoc`` must be
-  provided manually to the configure script.
+  QEMU requires Rust 1.83.0.  This is available on all supported platforms
+  with two exception: Ubuntu LTS releases 22.04 and 24.04, and the
+  ``mips64el`` architecture on Debian bookworm.  For all other
+  architectures, Debian bookworm provides a new-enough Rust compiler
+  in the ``rustc-web`` package.
+
+  It is expected that in the future Ubuntu will provide updated packages
+  like the existing ``rustc-1.82`` package.  The path to ``rustc`` and
+  ``rustdoc`` will have to be provided manually to the configure script.
 
   Some distros prefer to avoid vendored crate sources, and instead use
   local sources from e.g. ``/usr/share/cargo/registry``.  QEMU includes a