Rust 1.95.0 released
Version\
1.95.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the
addition of a cfg_select!
macro, the capability to use if let guards to allow conditionals based on pattern\
matching, and many newly stabilized APIs. See the release\
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Rust 1.95 Released With Several Improvements
Rust 1.95 was released to the wild today as the latest feature update to this popular programming language… ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (capstone, cockpit, firefox, git-lfs, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, kea, kernel, nghttp2, nodejs24, openexr, perl-XML-Parser, rsync, squid, and vim), Debian (imagemagick, systemd, and thunderbird), Slackware (libexif and xorg), SUSE (bind, clamav, firefox, freerdp2, giflib, go1.25, go1.26, helm, ignition, libpng16, libssh, oci-cli, rust1.92, strongswan, sudo, xorg-x11-server, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (rust-tar and rustc, rustc-1.7 … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0 Released
“The new Linux kernel was released and it’s kind of a big deal,” writes longtime Slashdot reader rexx mainframe. “Here is what you can expect.” Linuxiac reports: A key update in Linux 7.0 is the removal of the experimental label from Rust support. That (of course) does not make Rust a dominant language in kernel development, but it is still an important step in its gradual integration into the project. Another notable security-related c … ⌘ Read more
Rust For Linux 7.1 Bringing Experimental Option That Can Help Performance
In advance of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening, Miguel Ojeda sent out all of the Rust feature updates on Friday. This includes bumping the minimum Rust version for building the Linux kernel as well as a new experimental option that can provide better performance for Rust code within the kernel, alongside other updates… ⌘ Read more
Servo Browser Engine Making It Easier For Embedded Use
The open-source, Rust-based Servo browser engine has been improving its Servoshell demo browser application while one of the most promising potentials for this engine is around embedded use as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). With the latest moves by Servo developers, they are making for a more compelling story for its use… ⌘ Read more
Has the Rust Programming Language’s Popularity Reached Its Plateau?
“Rust’s rise shows signs of slowing,” argues the CEO of TIOBE.
Back in 2020 Rust first entered the top 20 of his “TIOBE Index,” which ranks programming language popularity using search engine results. Rust “was widely expected to break into the top 10,” he remembers today. But it never happened, and “That was nearly six years ago….”
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Mir-Based Miracle-WM 0.9 Introduces A WebAssembly Plugin System
Miracle-WM as the Wayland compositor / window manager built atop Canonical’s Mir project is out with a big new feature release. This “hackable” and i3/Sway-inspired Wayland compositor has landed a WebAssembly-based plug-in system for opening up new possibilities as well as a new Rust API with this week’s v0.9 release… ⌘ Read more
Redox OS Establishes AI Policy To Forbid Contributions Made Using LLMs
The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system provided a status update on all of their interesting development activities during the month of March. In addition to a lot of code improvements, Redox OS also enhanced its documentation as well as added an AI policy to reject any contributions relying on large language models… ⌘ Read more
Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains
Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils… ⌘ Read more
Redox OS Introducing New CPU Scheduler For ~1.5x Performance In Heavy Tasks
The Rust-based Redox OS operating system is preparing to land a new CPU scheduler thanks to work being carried out by open-source developer Akshit Gaur on modernizing the platform’s process scheduling subsystem… ⌘ Read more
The Linux Kernel’s Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1.85 Baseline
The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel… ⌘ Read more
New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel
After KDBUS failed to make it into the mainline Linux kernel more than one decade ago as an in-kernel version of D-Bus, BUS1 was proposed as a clean sheet design for in-kernel, capability-based inter-process communication (IPC). BUS1 didn’t gain enough traction to make it to the mainline kernel and then many of the same developers devised Dbus-Broker as a more performant D-Bus user-space implementation. Well, as a big surprise now, a new version of BUS1 … ⌘ Read more
A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions
Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April. The Rust graphics/display driver code for Linux 7.1 includes more programming language abstractions and other Rust infrastructure work to make graphics drivers written in Rust more capable… ⌘ Read more
Servo 0.0.6 Released With Many Great Improvements
Servo 0.0.6 is out today to round out the month with many great improvements made in recent weeks to this Rust-based browser engine advancing with its servoshell implementation and many prospects around using it for embedded browser use cases… ⌘ Read more
Open-Source RadeonSI+Rusticl Nearing Formal OpenCL 3.0 Conformance
The open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver with Rusticl for modern Rust-based OpenCL is nearing formal OpenCL 3.0 conformance with all necessary OpenCL test cases passing. Making this all the more interesting is that this is the first modern AMD graphics hardware in a decade likely to see formal recognition for OpenCL conformance with AMD having not submitted any of their own OpenCL conformance results since 2015… ⌘ Read more
Fish 4.6 Shell Brings Support For Recent systemd Environment Variables
Fish 4.6 released today as the newest version of this Rust-based interactive shell for Linux and other platforms… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Will Switch To ntpd-rs As Its Next Rust System Component
Canonical engineers are planning a switch to ntpd-rs as the newest Rust-based system component for Ubuntu Linux for handling time synchronization… ⌘ Read more
Canonical Joins Rust Foundation
BrianFagioli writes: Canonical has joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member, signaling a deeper investment in the Rust programming language and its role in modern infrastructure. The company already maintains an up-to-date Rust toolchain for Ubuntu and has begun integrating Rust into parts of its stack, citing memory safety and reliability as key drivers. By joining at a higher tier, Canonical is not just ad … ⌘ Read more
Firefox 149 Now Available With XDG Portal File Picker, Rust-Based JPEG-XL Decoder
Firefox 149.0 release binaries are now available with a wide assortment of improvements for this month’s update to the cross-platform Mozilla web browser solution… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Joins The Rust Foundation
Canonical announced today that they have joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member… ⌘ Read more
Sashiko Now Providing AI Reviews On Rust Code For The Linux Kernel
A few days ago Google engineers went public with Sashiko with their agentic AI code review for the Linux kernel. The Google Gemini Pro powered AI code review service is automatically monitoring the Linux kernel mailing list for new patch submissions and has proven useful already. Interest continues to build by upstream Linux kernel stakeholders around Sashiko and the latest addition is now covering the Rust-For-Linux mailing list submission … ⌘ Read more
I thought that YouTube finally destroyed all the feeds, because I didn’t get any new entries in my newsreader for days. Now I realized that Newsboat somehow just froze. No idea what happened. This is the very first time ever in all those years. Haven’t updated the version for literally years. I reckon I will compile the upcoming version then. This will require a new Rust toolchain, that’s going to be great fun, I’m sure. Already looking forward to that…
System76 Makes The Best Open-Source Keyboard Even Better
If System76 engineers didn’t already have enough going on with recently shipping the COSMIC Rust-based desktop environment and also shipping Pop!_OS 24.04 as their in-house Linux distribution plus completely redesigning the Thelio Desktop, they also recently revised their Launch Keyboard. They have made this leading open-source keyboard design even better with the latest iteration of the System76 Launch Keyboard. ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0 Lands Improvements To Deal With Upcoming Rust Changes, Build Reproducibility
Merged to mainline yesterday for Linux 7.0 were yet more Rust changes in preparing for upcoming Rust releases as well as enhancing the kernel build reproducibility when engaging the Rust code… ⌘ Read more
New Rust Driver Aims To Improve Upstream Linux On Synology NAS Devices
A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week introduce a new driver for enhancing the upstream/mainline Linux kernel support for Synology network attached storage (NAS) devices. This new driver is Synology Microp and is making use of the Linux kernel’s modern Rust programming language support… ⌘ Read more
Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations
Rust Coreutils 0.7 released on Sunday as a performance-focused update to this popular alternative to GNU Coreutils that is still striving for 100% compatibility against the GNU Test Suite… ⌘ Read more
Rust 1.94 Released With Stable Support For AVX-512 FP16 Intrinsics, Array Windows
Rust 1.94 was rolled out today as the newest routine stable update for the Rust programming language… ⌘ Read more
Redox OS Gets Vulkan & Node.js Working On This Rust-Based Open-Source OS
There were some fairly exciting improvements made by the Redox OS developers over the course of February. They have the Vulkan API working on Redox OS for the first time along with more COSMIC desktop software and even Node.js… ⌘ Read more
New Zlib-rs Delivers More Performance With AVX-512 VNNI Adler32 Implementation
Zlib-rs as the Rust programming language implementation of Zlib from the Trifetca Tech Foundation is out with a shiny new release (actually, releases) today… ⌘ Read more
Systing 1.0 Released For Rust-Based eBPF-Based Tracing Tool Leveraging AI
Josef Bacik, of Btrfs notoriety before leaving Meta and stepping back from kernel development last year, announced the release of Systing 1.0. Systing is a newer eBPF-tracing tool for Linux complete with AI integration… ⌘ Read more
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 Released With More Desktop Refinements
While System76 has been hard at work on a redesigned Thelio desktop chassis design, this hasn’t slowed down their software work. Today they shipped COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 as the newest work on their open-source, Rust-based desktop environment used by their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution as well as found in other Linux distributions too… ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD’s Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year
The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4’2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0 Makes Preparations For Rust 1.95
Last week was the main feature pull of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Most notable with that pull was Rust officially concluding its “experimental” in now treating Rust for Linux kernel/driver programming as stable and here to stay. Sent out today was a round of Rust fixes for Linux 7.0 that includes preparations for the upcoming Rust 1.95 release… ⌘ Read more
Cloud Hypervisor 51 Brings Performance Improvements, Better QCOW2 v3 Support
Cloud Hypervisor 51 is now available for this Rust-based VMM focused on secure cloud computing. For what began as an Intel open-source project years ago is continuing to be largely led by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Tencent, Ant Group, and others… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers
Merged a few days ago for the Linux 7.0 kernel were all of the driver core enhancements. As has been the common theme in recent kernel releases, a lot of the driver core code churn revolves around additions for allowing more Rust kernel driver usage… ⌘ Read more
Sixteen AI Agents Built a C Compiler From Scratch
Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini set 16 instances of Claude Opus 4.6 loose on a shared codebase over two weeks to build a C compiler from scratch, and the AI agents produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux 6.9 kernel on x86, ARM and RISC-V architectures.
The project ran through nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and cost abou … ⌘ Read more
Redox OS Gets Cargo & The Rust Compiler Running On This Open-Source OS
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is now able to leverage Cargo and the Rust compiler “rustc” itself running within this platform. Plus they also made a heck of a lot of other improvements too over the course of the past month. Today they published a status update to outline all of the promising advancements made to this independent OS so far in 2026… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment
While Linux 7.0 is the next kernel version solely over Linus Torvalds’ numbering preference, there is a notable symbolic change that was sent in overnight for this new kernel merge window: formally concluding the “Rust experiment” with upstream kernel developers now in acceptance that Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay… ⌘ Read more
GNOME’s Glycin 2.1 Beta Enables JPEG 2000 Support By Default
GNOME’s Rust-based and sandboxed Glycin image loading library focused on safety now supports JPEG 2000 images by default… ⌘ Read more
NetBSD’s Kernel Supports Lua Scripting But Don’t Look For Rust In There Anytime Soon
For those not fond of the increasing use of the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel or FreeBSD’s considerations for Rust in its kernel, you can perhaps find refuge within NetBSD. One of the NetBSD developers has explained why you likely won’t be finding Rust code within the NetBSD kernel anytime soon… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s New Open-Source Project: LiteBox As A Rust-Based Sandboxing Library OS
Microsoft engineers and other stakeholders have been developing LiteBox as a security-focused library OS written in the Rust programming language and leveraging Linux Virtualization Based Security “LVBS”. The design is for LiteBox to operate as a secure kernel protecting the normal guest kernel via virtualization hardware… ⌘ Read more
GNU Coreutils 9.10 Released With Many Improvements
Earlier this week Rust Coreutils 0.6 released while out today is GNU Coreutils 9.10 as the de facto standard for this set of core utilities on Linux systems and other platforms… ⌘ Read more
OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris’ IPS Package Management To Rust
OpenIndiana as the open-source project built atop Illumos that is continuing to maintain and advance the former OpenSolaris code is working on a big ambitions of modernizing the Image Packaging System (IPS) package management solution. As part of that they are working to move from a C and Python codebase over to Rust… ⌘ Read more
Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf
Following the Rust Coreutils presentation from FOSDEM this weekend, Rust Coreutils 0.6 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust programming language re-implementation of GNU Coreutils… ⌘ Read more
Git 2.53 Released With More Optimizations, One Step Closer To Making Rust Mandatory
While we might see Git 3.0 released around the end of 2026, Git 2.53 is out today as the latest feature release and continuing to make changes with an eye toward that big Git 3.0 milestone… ⌘ Read more
Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong
Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year’s talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10’s adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils… ⌘ Read more
GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30 Years
After more than 30 years of development, GNU gettext finally “crossed the symbolic ‘v1.0’ milestone,” according to Phoronix’s Michael Larabel. “GNU gettext 1.0 brings PO file handling improvements, a new ‘po-fetch’ program to fetch translated PO files from a translation project’s site on the Internet, new ‘msgpre’ and ‘spit’ pre-translation programs, and Ocaml and Rust programming l … ⌘ Read more
Open-Source Nova Driver In Linux 7.0 Continues Preparing For NVIDIA Turing GPU Support
This week the Rust DRM changes intended for the Linux 7.0 merge window were sent out by Danilo Krummrich. The Apple Silicon Asahi Linux “AGX” DRM kernel driver still isn’t positioned for upstreaming to the mainline kernel so that leaves most of the Rust DRM upstream work currently around the NVIDIA Nova driver as well as the Arm Mali Tyr drivers… ⌘ Read more
RFC Patches Posted For Klint Integration With The Linux Kernel: Rust-Based Linting Tool
A request for comments (RFC) patch series was sent out today for providing Klint integration with the Linux kernel. Klint is a new linting tool written in the Rust programming language that helps with static code analysis for errors/bugs as well as code styling inconsistencies… ⌘ Read more