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+title: "Renaming the WASI target in Rust 1.71.0"
+author: Yoshua Wuyts
+---
+In Rust 1.71 the existing `wasm32-wasi` target will be renamed
+to `wasm32-wasi-preview1`. This matches the naming introduced in the [WASI
+Preview Framework][wpf], whose scheme has already been adopted by other
+language toolchains such as [Golang] and [Node.js]. It is expected that
+eventually WASI will eventually stabilize far enough that it will reach a 1.0
+status. By freeing up the `wasm32-wasi` target name now, it enables us to
+reintroduce it in the future as the target name for an eventual 1.0 stable WASI
+release.
+
+While we don’t have any immediate plans to deprecate the Preview 1 target, the
+reality is that most of the development of WASI in recent years has centered
+around WASI Preview 2 and [Wasm Components][components]. The expectation is that
+Preview 2 will eventually supplant Preview 1, and support across the WASI
+ecosystem will gradually wind down for Preview 1. By adopting “preview” in the
+target names, we can begin to more clearly communicate that the current WASI
+targets should be considered development snapshots, and will eventually be
+superseded.
+
+Work on adding a WASI Preview 2 target to the compiler is currently underway,
+but is not yet complete. We expect this to land in a future release of Rust. The
+target triple for this target will be `wasm32-wasi-preview2`.
+
+## Migrating Targets
+
+To upgrade to the new WASI target on Rust 1.71 nightly you can run the
+following commands using [rustup](https://rustup.rs):
+
+```bash
+$ rustup +nightly target remove wasm32-wasi
+$ rustup upgrade nightly
+$ rustup +nightly target add wasm32-wasi-preview1
+$ cargo build --target wasm32-wasi-preview1
+```
+
+Once beta and stable builds are available (expected in ~6 and ~12 weeks
+respectively) you should be able to replace the word `nightly` in the
+instructions with either `beta` or `stable`.
+
+[Golang]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/58141
+[Node.js]: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/v20-release-announce#progress-on-web-assembly-system-interface-wasi
+[wpf]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/main/wasi/2023/presentations/2023-02-09-gohman-wasi-roadmap.pdf
+[components]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phodPLY8zNE