diff --git a/general/prog/rust.xml b/general/prog/rust.xml
index 40b5700845..ba308d9656 100644
--- a/general/prog/rust.xml
+++ b/general/prog/rust.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
   <!ENTITY rust-download-http "https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rustc-&rust-version;-src.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY rust-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!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)">
+  <!ENTITY rust-md5sum        "3b94faca83c0c56f2d04ea3b3a22699b">
+  <!ENTITY rust-size          "141 MB">
+  <!ENTITY rust-buildsize     "8.9 GB (308 MB installed); add 7.2 GB if running the tests">
+  <!ENTITY rust-time          "24 SBU (including download time; add 17 SBU for tests, both using parallelism=4)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="rust" xreflabel="rustc-&rust-version;">
@@ -201,8 +201,8 @@
 
     <note>
       <para>
-        Currently Rust compiler produces SSE2 instructions for 32-bit x86,
-        causing the generated code broken on 32-bit systems without a
+        Currently the rust compiler produces SSE2 instructions for 32-bit x86,
+        causing the generated code to be broken on 32-bit systems without a
         SSE2-capable processor.  All x86 processor models released after
         2004 should be SSE2-capable.  Run
         <command>lscpu | grep sse2</command> as a test.  If it outputs
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index de5f0631e9..36bbc06ab8 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
    <listitem>
      <para>March 26th, 2023</para>
      <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>[renodr] - Update to rust-1.68.1. Fixes
+         <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17860">#17860</ulink>.</para>
+       </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[renodr] - Update to Thunderbird-102.9.0 (Security Update).
          Fixes <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17794">#17794</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index dfd56b2823..9cdd481eeb 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                 "1.68.0">
+<!ENTITY rust-version                 "1.68.1">
 <!ENTITY scons-version                "4.5.1">
 <!ENTITY slang-version                "2.3.3">
 <!ENTITY subversion-version           "1.14.2">