diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_langsmith_pyo3_wheels.yml b/.github/workflows/build_langsmith_pyo3_wheels.yml
index d844a48ac..07afd3c3a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_langsmith_pyo3_wheels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_langsmith_pyo3_wheels.yml
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ permissions:
   contents: read
 
 env:
-  # TODO: Switch off of nightly Rust.
-  RUST_VERSION: nightly
+  RUST_VERSION: stable
   SUPPORTED_PYTHON_VERSIONS: 'python3.8 python3.9 python3.10 python3.11 python3.12'
   WORKING_DIRECTORY: rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3
 
diff --git a/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/README.md b/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/README.md
index 9d2086015..a7f4e7d2a 100644
--- a/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/README.md
+++ b/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/README.md
@@ -23,5 +23,3 @@ To run install these bindings into another virtualenv (e.g. to run benchmarks),
 activate that virtualenv, then `cd` to this directory and run `uvx maturin develop --release`.
 When that command completes, the virtualenv will have an optimized build
 of `langsmith_pyo3` installed.
-
-TODO: Move the `.github/workflows` CI workflow for testing the maturin build to the top level of the repo.
diff --git a/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/lib.rs b/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/lib.rs
index 7d3e6f236..c0786102f 100644
--- a/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#![feature(vec_into_raw_parts)]
 #![allow(deprecated)]
 
 use pyo3::{pymodule, types::PyModule, Bound, PyResult, Python};
diff --git a/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/py_run.rs b/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/py_run.rs
index 6f911a2f2..69d0d692e 100644
--- a/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/py_run.rs
+++ b/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/py_run.rs
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ use crate::{errors::TracingClientError, serialization};
 
 // TODO: consider interning all the strings here
 
-// TODO: consider replacing `String` with `Box<str>`, and `Vec<T>` with `Box<[T]>`,
-//       since none of them are growable and we can make them more compact in memory
-
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct RunCreateExtended(langsmith_tracing_client::client::RunCreateExtended);
 
diff --git a/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/serialization/writer.rs b/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/serialization/writer.rs
index f4265495a..2d0136d91 100644
--- a/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/serialization/writer.rs
+++ b/rust/crates/langsmith_pyo3/src/serialization/writer.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 use std::io::Error;
 
+/// Writer that points directly to a `[u8]` buffer.
+///
+/// # Safety
+/// The external interface of this type is fully safe.
+///
+/// An internal invariant is that the `(buf, len, cap)` fields must be equivalent to a valid `Vec`
+/// both at the start and conclusion of any method call:
+/// - `self.buf` points to valid, initialized memory to which `Self` has exclusive access
+/// - `self.len` is a legal offset that remains in bounds when used with `self.buf`.
+/// - `self.cap` accurately shows how much capacity the `self.buf` memory region has.
 pub(super) struct BufWriter {
     buf: *mut u8,
     len: usize,
@@ -11,7 +21,23 @@ impl BufWriter {
 
     pub(super) fn new() -> Self {
         let buffer = Vec::with_capacity(Self::DEFAULT_CAPACITY);
-        let (buf, len, cap) = buffer.into_raw_parts();
+
+        let (buf, len, cap) = {
+            // Prevent the `Vec` from being dropped at the end of this scope.
+            let mut buffer = std::mem::ManuallyDrop::new(buffer);
+
+            // Get the `Vec`'s components.
+            let buf = buffer.as_mut_ptr();
+            let len = buffer.len();
+            let cap = buffer.capacity();
+
+            // We now own the `Vec`'s backing data.
+            // The `Vec` goes out of scope but will not be dropped
+            // due to being wrapped in `ManuallyDrop`.
+            (buf, len, cap)
+        };
+
+        // SAFETY: These values are derived from a valid `Vec` that has not been dropped.
         Self { buf, len, cap }
     }
 
@@ -51,10 +77,27 @@ impl BufWriter {
         // SAFETY: The buffer used to be a vector, and is exclusively owned by us.
         //         The `&mut self` here guarantees there can't be another mutable reference to it.
         //         It's safe to turn it back into a `Vec` and ask the `Vec` to resize itself.
+        //         After resizing, we deconstruct the `Vec` *and* ensure it isn't dropped,
+        //         meaning that the memory is still live and not use-after-free'd.
         unsafe {
-            let mut v = Vec::from_raw_parts(self.buf, self.len, self.cap);
-            v.reserve(cap - self.cap);
-            (self.buf, self.len, self.cap) = v.into_raw_parts();
+            // SAFETY: `self`'s `(buf, len, cap)` are no longer valid for accessing data
+            //         after the next line, until they are reassigned new values.
+            let mut buffer = Vec::from_raw_parts(self.buf, self.len, self.cap);
+
+            buffer.reserve(cap - self.cap);
+
+            // Prevent the `Vec` from being dropped at the end of this scope.
+            let mut buffer = std::mem::ManuallyDrop::new(buffer);
+
+            // Get the `Vec`'s components.
+            let buf = buffer.as_mut_ptr();
+            let len = buffer.len();
+            let cap = buffer.capacity();
+
+            // SAFETY: `self`'s `(buf, len, cap)` values are valid again from this point onward.
+            //         We own the `Vec`'s backing data. The `Vec` goes out of scope but
+            //         will not be dropped due to being wrapped in `ManuallyDrop`.
+            (self.buf, self.len, self.cap) = (buf, len, cap);
         }
     }
 }