diff --git a/general/prog/rust.xml b/general/prog/rust.xml
index f24b919e2b..40b5700845 100644
--- a/general/prog/rust.xml
+++ b/general/prog/rust.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
   <!ENTITY rust-download-http "https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rustc-&rust-version;-src.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY rust-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY rust-md5sum        "e5e47e53c52574ce89ea200e52819f81">
-  <!ENTITY rust-size          "136 MB">
-  <!ENTITY rust-buildsize     "8.5 GB (501 MB installed); add 7.5 GB if running the tests">
+  <!ENTITY rust-md5sum        "e0c4908ceb01945930da218d172a21ba">
+  <!ENTITY rust-size          "142 MB">
+  <!ENTITY rust-buildsize     "7.4 GB (309 MB installed); add 6.9 GB if running the tests">
   <!ENTITY rust-time          "13 SBU (including download time; add 16 SBU for tests, both using parallelism=4)">
 ]>
 
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 1bcdef95e9..71ab10cac3 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
    <listitem>
       <para>March 19th, 2023</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[xry111] - Update to rustc-1.68.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17822">#17822</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[xry111] - Update to llvm-16.0.0. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17799">#17799</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 88e16271a0..57ebc83c64 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY ruby-patch-version           "1">
 <!ENTITY ruby-version                 "&ruby-minor-version;.&ruby-patch-version;">
 <!ENTITY ruby-gemdir                  "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/&ruby-minor-version;.0">
-<!ENTITY rust-version                 "1.67.1">
+<!ENTITY rust-version                 "1.68.0">
 <!ENTITY scons-version                "4.5.1">
 <!ENTITY slang-version                "2.3.3">
 <!ENTITY subversion-version           "1.14.2">