chore: release

[leon-xd]

🤖 New release

• wdk-build: 0.4.0 -> 0.5.0 (✓ API compatible changes)
• wdk-macros: 0.4.0 -> 0.5.0
• wdk-sys: 0.4.0 -> 0.5.0 (✓ API compatible changes)
• wdk: 0.3.1 -> 0.4.0 (✓ API compatible changes)
• wdk-alloc: 0.3.1 -> 0.4.0 (✓ API compatible changes)
• wdk-panic: 0.3.1 -> 0.4.0 (✓ API compatible changes)

Changelog

wdk-build

0.5.0 - 2025-10-17

Added

• enhance error handling with IoError and IoErrorMetadata for improved std::io::Error diagnostics for fs errors (#480)
• add color to cargo wdk and cargo make argument forwarding (#519)
• enhance debug tracing in bindgen and config modules (#455)
• enhance cargo metadata parsing to respect config.toml (#451)
• (ci) install and use nuget packages in CI workflows (#406)
• add cargo-wdk cargo extension (#306)
• make emit_check_cfg_settings function public (#352)

Fixed

• use latest version of ucx in the WDKContent as default (#411)
• improve error reporting when no wdk-build package is found (#339)

Other

• [breaking] bump to Rust 2024 Edition (#430)
• use std::path::absolute instead of canonicalize + strip_extended_path_prefix (#462)
• Bump tracing-subscriber from 0.3.19 to 0.3.20 (#492)
• enforce typo checking (#452)
• update crate references for consistency in documentation (#440)
• improve cargo-wdk tests (#429)

wdk-macros

0.5.0 - 2025-10-17

Added

• add cargo-wdk cargo extension (#306)

Other

• [breaking] bump to Rust 2024 Edition (#430)
• enforce typo checking (#452)
• update crate references for consistency in documentation (#440)

wdk-sys

0.5.0 - 2025-10-17

Added

• enhance error handling with IoError and IoErrorMetadata for improved std::io::Error diagnostics for fs errors (#480)
• add cargo-wdk cargo extension (#306)

Fixed

• use latest version of ucx in the WDKContent as default (#411)
• allow unnecessary_transmutes lint for bindgen-generated types.rs (#350)

Other

• [breaking] bump to Rust 2024 Edition (#430)
• improve logging for build action (#495)
• enforce typo checking (#452)
• Add stubs for __CxxFrameHandler4 and __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 (#438)

wdk

0.4.0 - 2025-10-17

Added

• add cargo-wdk cargo extension (#306)

Other

• [breaking] bump to Rust 2024 Edition (#430)
• enforce typo checking (#452)
• update crate references for consistency in documentation (#440)

wdk-alloc

0.4.0 - 2025-10-17

Added

• add cargo-wdk cargo extension (#306)

Other

• [breaking] bump to Rust 2024 Edition (#430)
• enforce typo checking (#452)

wdk-panic

0.4.0 - 2025-10-17

Other

• [breaking] bump to Rust 2024 Edition (#430)
• enforce typo checking (#452)

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Pull Request Overview

Release PR updating crate versions and changelogs for the wdk workspace to publish the next set of coordinated releases.

• Bump versions of all workspace crates (wdk* family) to 0.4.0 / 0.5.0 as appropriate.
• Add corresponding new sections to each crate's CHANGELOG.
• Update root workspace dependency version pins.

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 13 out of 14 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
crates/wdk/Cargo.toml	Bump crate version to 0.4.0.
crates/wdk/CHANGELOG.md	Add 0.4.0 release notes.
crates/wdk-sys/Cargo.toml	Bump crate version to 0.5.0.
crates/wdk-sys/CHANGELOG.md	Add 0.5.0 release notes (also introduces a duplicated header block).
crates/wdk-panic/Cargo.toml	Bump crate version to 0.4.0.
crates/wdk-panic/CHANGELOG.md	Add 0.4.0 release notes.
crates/wdk-macros/Cargo.toml	Bump crate version to 0.5.0.
crates/wdk-macros/CHANGELOG.md	Add 0.5.0 release notes.
crates/wdk-build/Cargo.toml	Bump crate version to 0.5.0.
crates/wdk-build/CHANGELOG.md	Add 0.5.0 release notes (also introduces a duplicated header block).
crates/wdk-alloc/Cargo.toml	Bump crate version to 0.4.0.
crates/wdk-alloc/CHANGELOG.md	Add 0.4.0 release notes.
Cargo.toml	Update workspace dependency version constraints to match new releases.

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[Copilot]

This block duplicates the existing top-of-file Changelog header and metadata. Remove the repeated header section here to avoid redundancy.

Suggested change

	# Changelog
	All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
	The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
	and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

[Copilot]

Duplicated Changelog header and standard preamble already present at the top of the file. Remove this repeated block to keep the file concise.

Suggested change

	# Changelog
	All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
	The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
	and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

[gurry]

@leon-xd This PR does not include cargo-wdk. Will you be making a separate release for it?

[leon-xd]

@leon-xd This PR does not include cargo-wdk. Will you be making a separate release for it?

@gurry Need to do some release-plz work, cargo-wdk is not registered in our repo as a published crate and I need to initialize it as such. Will turn the PR from a draft into official when it's ready.

[gurry]

@gurry Need to do some release-plz work, cargo-wdk is not registered in our repo as a published crate and I need to initialize it as such. Will turn the PR from a draft into official when it's ready.

Sure. Please feel free to reach out if you need any help with it.