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@@ -54,13 +54,17 @@ If you have any external modules as dependencies (e.g. `extern crate
libc;`), you MUST declare them in your crate's `lib.rs` and NOT in any
other module.
- Dependencies
---------------
+ Dependencies and versions
+---------------------------
In general, we use modules from only the Rust standard library
whenever possible. We will review including external crates on a
case-by-case basis.
+Currently, Tor requires that you use the latest stable Rust version. At
+some point in the future, we will freeze on a given stable Rust version,
+to ensure backward compatibility with stable distributions that ship it.
+
Documentation
---------------