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This crate requires Rust 1.36.0 or later.
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## Platform Support
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This crate supports the same operating system or platform versions that the Rust standard library does, unless a
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[custom implementation](https://docs.rs/getrandom/latest/getrandom/#custom-implementations) is used instead.
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This means that as Rust drops support for old versions of operating systems (such as old Linux kernel versions, Android API levels, etc)
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in stable releases, `getrandom` may create new patch releases (`0.N.x`) that remove support for outdated platform versions.
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# License
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The `getrandom` library is distributed under either of

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