# esp-hal 1.0.0 beta announcement

DevFeed: [esp-hal 1.0.0 beta announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/esp-hal-1-0-0-beta-announcement-13683.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.espressif.com/blog/2025/02/rust-esp-hal-beta/>)

Author: John Lee

Published: 2025-02-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Blog on Developer Portal](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-on-developer-portal.md>)

Topics: [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>), [Espressif](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/espressif.md>), [ESP-IDF](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/esp-idf.md>), [ESP32](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/esp32.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [esp-idf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/esp-idf.md>), [esp32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/esp32.md>), [espressif](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/espressif.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [riscv](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/riscv.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [sdk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdk.md>), [xtensa](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/xtensa.md>)

## AI overview

This release announcement presents esp-hal 1.0.0 beta as the first vendor-backed Rust SDK from Espressif. It describes the nearly six-year development path, including work on Rust support for Xtensa and ESP32, the growth of esp-rs, and the use of the Rust standard library with ESP-IDF.

## Source excerpt

We're excited to announce the release for , the first vendor-backed Rust SDK! This has been a nearly 6 year long process to get to this point, and we now feel we have a solid 1.0 strategy. Let us take you on the journey of how we got here. If you're just interested in what we're stabilizing today, click here to jump to it. Where It All Started# In 2019, I created the esp-rs organization, which laid dormant for some time.