Add a schema version to the index.

crates/cargo-test-support/src/registry.rs

@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ pub struct Package {
     links: Option<String>,
     rust_version: Option<String>,
     cargo_features: Vec<String>,
+    v: Option<u32>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
@@ -401,6 +402,7 @@ impl Package {
             links: None,
             rust_version: None,
             cargo_features: Vec::new(),
+            v: None,
         }
     }
 
@@ -554,6 +556,14 @@ impl Package {
         self
     }
 
+    /// Sets the index schema version for this package.
+    ///
+    /// See [`cargo::sources::registry::RegistryPackage`] for more information.
+    pub fn schema_version(&mut self, version: u32) -> &mut Package {
+        self.v = Some(version);
+        self
+    }
+
     /// Creates the package and place it in the registry.
     ///
     /// This does not actually use Cargo's publishing system, but instead
@@ -599,7 +609,7 @@ impl Package {
         } else {
             serde_json::json!(self.name)
         };
-        let line = serde_json::json!({
+        let mut json = serde_json::json!({
             "name": name,
             "vers": self.vers,
             "deps": deps,
@@ -607,8 +617,11 @@ impl Package {
             "features": self.features,
             "yanked": self.yanked,
             "links": self.links,
-        })
+        });
-        .to_string();
+        if let Some(v) = self.v {
+            json["v"] = serde_json::json!(v);
+        }
+        let line = json.to_string();
 
         let file = match self.name.len() {
             1 => format!("1/{}", self.name),

crates/crates-io/lib.rs

@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ pub struct NewCrate {
     pub repository: Option<String>,
     pub badges: BTreeMap<String, BTreeMap<String, String>>,
     pub links: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub v: Option<u32>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Serialize)]

src/cargo/ops/registry.rs

@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ fn transmit(
             license_file: license_file.clone(),
             badges: badges.clone(),
             links: links.clone(),
+            v: None,
         },
         tarball,
     );

src/cargo/sources/registry/index.rs

@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ use crate::sources::registry::{RegistryData, RegistryPackage};
 use crate::util::interning::InternedString;
 use crate::util::paths;
 use crate::util::{internal, CargoResult, Config, Filesystem, ToSemver};
-use log::info;
+use anyhow::bail;
+use log::{debug, info};
 use semver::{Version, VersionReq};
 use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
 use std::fs;
@@ -233,6 +234,8 @@ enum MaybeIndexSummary {
 pub struct IndexSummary {
     pub summary: Summary,
     pub yanked: bool,
+    /// Schema version, see [`RegistryPackage`].
+    v: u32,
 }
 
 /// A representation of the cache on disk that Cargo maintains of summaries.
@@ -305,6 +308,7 @@ impl<'cfg> RegistryIndex<'cfg> {
         // minimize the amount of work being done here and parse as little as
         // necessary.
         let raw_data = &summaries.raw_data;
+        let max_version = 1;
         Ok(summaries
             .versions
             .iter_mut()
@@ -318,6 +322,19 @@ impl<'cfg> RegistryIndex<'cfg> {
                     }
                 },
             )
+            .filter(move |is| {
+                if is.v > max_version {
+                    debug!(
+                        "unsupported schema version {} ({} {})",
+                        is.v,
+                        is.summary.name(),
+                        is.summary.version()
+                    );
+                    false
+                } else {
+                    true
+                }
+            })
             .filter(move |is| {
                 is.summary
                     .unstable_gate(namespaced_features, weak_dep_features)
@@ -578,7 +595,14 @@ impl Summaries {
         // actually happens to verify that our cache is indeed fresh and
         // computes exactly the same value as before.
         if cfg!(debug_assertions) && cache_contents.is_some() {
-            assert_eq!(cache_bytes, cache_contents);
+            if cache_bytes != cache_contents {
+                panic!(
+                    "original cache contents:\n{:?}\n\
+                     does not equal new cache contents:\n{:?}\n",
+                    cache_contents.as_ref().map(|s| String::from_utf8_lossy(s)),
+                    cache_bytes.as_ref().map(|s| String::from_utf8_lossy(s)),
+                );
+            }
         }
 
         // Once we have our `cache_bytes` which represents the `Summaries` we're
@@ -659,19 +683,19 @@ impl<'a> SummariesCache<'a> {
             .split_first()
             .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::format_err!("malformed cache"))?;
         if *first_byte != CURRENT_CACHE_VERSION {
-            anyhow::bail!("looks like a different Cargo's cache, bailing out");
+            bail!("looks like a different Cargo's cache, bailing out");
         }
         let mut iter = split(rest, 0);
         if let Some(update) = iter.next() {
             if update != last_index_update.as_bytes() {
-                anyhow::bail!(
+                bail!(
                     "cache out of date: current index ({}) != cache ({})",
                     last_index_update,
                     str::from_utf8(update)?,
                 )
             }
         } else {
-            anyhow::bail!("malformed file");
+            bail!("malformed file");
         }
         let mut ret = SummariesCache::default();
         while let Some(version) = iter.next() {
@@ -749,7 +773,9 @@ impl IndexSummary {
             features,
             yanked,
             links,
+            v,
         } = serde_json::from_slice(line)?;
+        let v = v.unwrap_or(1);
         log::trace!("json parsed registry {}/{}", name, vers);
         let pkgid = PackageId::new(name, &vers, source_id)?;
         let deps = deps
@@ -761,6 +787,7 @@ impl IndexSummary {
         Ok(IndexSummary {
             summary,
             yanked: yanked.unwrap_or(false),
+            v,
         })
     }
 }

src/cargo/sources/registry/mod.rs

@@ -269,6 +269,24 @@ pub struct RegistryPackage<'a> {
     /// Added early 2018 (see <https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/4978>),
     /// can be `None` if published before then.
     links: Option<InternedString>,
+    /// The schema version for this entry.
+    ///
+    /// If this is None, it defaults to version 1. Entries with unknown
+    /// versions are ignored.
+    ///
+    /// This provides a method to safely introduce changes to index entries
+    /// and allow older versions of cargo to ignore newer entries it doesn't
+    /// understand. This is honored as of 1.51, so unfortunately older
+    /// versions will ignore it, and potentially misinterpret version 1 and
+    /// newer entries.
+    ///
+    /// The intent is that versions older than 1.51 will work with a
+    /// pre-existing `Cargo.lock`, but they may not correctly process `cargo
+    /// update` or build a lock from scratch. In that case, cargo may
+    /// incorrectly select a new package that uses a new index format. A
+    /// workaround is to downgrade any packages that are incompatible with the
+    /// `--precise` flag of `cargo update`.
+    v: Option<u32>,
 }
 
 #[test]

tests/testsuite/main.rs

@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ mod multitarget;
 mod net_config;
 mod new;
 mod offline;
+mod old_cargos;
 mod out_dir;
 mod owner;
 mod package;

tests/testsuite/registry.rs

@@ -2170,3 +2170,33 @@ fn package_lock_inside_package_is_overwritten() {
 
     assert_eq!(ok.metadata().unwrap().len(), 2);
 }
+
+#[cargo_test]
+fn ignores_unknown_index_version() {
+    // If the version field is not understood, it is ignored.
+    Package::new("bar", "1.0.0").publish();
+    Package::new("bar", "1.0.1").schema_version(9999).publish();
+
+    let p = project()
+        .file(
+            "Cargo.toml",
+            r#"
+                [package]
+                name = "foo"
+                version = "0.1.0"
+
+                [dependencies]
+                bar = "1.0"
+            "#,
+        )
+        .file("src/lib.rs", "")
+        .build();
+
+    p.cargo("tree")
+        .with_stdout(
+            "foo v0.1.0 [..]\n\
+             └── bar v1.0.0\n\
+            ",
+        )
+        .run();
+}