#rust
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Ubuntu 27.04 "Tenacious T-Rex" Opens for Development
Following the release of Ubuntu 26.10, Canonical has formally opened the development cycle for the next release, Ubuntu 27.04, codenamed "Tenacious T-Rex." It is due on 22 April.
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GitHub Launches npm Firewall to Stop Malicious Packages Before Installation
GitHub has opened a public preview of a package firewall for npm. It checks dependencies against a set of policies and blocks suspicious packages at install time.
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Linux Drops Google's C Binder Driver as Rust Version Takes Over "Few Billion Devices"
The char/misc changes for Linux 7.4 remove Google's C-written Binder driver. The Rust implementation now takes over the role for good, destined to run on all future Android devices.
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Wild 0.11 Linker: Linux Kernel Modules and WASM by Default
The fast Wild linker has a new release. Highlights include linking WebAssembly by default and enough support to build Linux kernel modules.
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How Brute Force Out-Thought a Programmer Inside an FPU Emulator
The author of the purplesyringa blog explains how, instead of a clever bit trick, they let brute force hunt for the optimal formula — and got a solution they never would have found themselves.
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Servo Brings CSS Grid to Life and Speeds Up With Threadboost
The belated August status report on the Rust-based Servo browser engine covers CSS Grid support and an experimental feature that lifts Speedometer scores by 50%.
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Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Lands With Linux 7.3, GNOME 51 and a Finished Rust Coreutils Switch
Canonical has shipped its latest six-month, non-LTS release. The headline changes are a fresh kernel, the GNOME 51 desktop and the fully completed move to Rust-based core utilities.
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Asterinas 0.19.0: Rust Kernel Gains Graphics and Arm Support
Asterinas, a project building a new operating-system kernel in Rust, has released version 0.19.0, adding a graphics subsystem able to run X.org and initial 64-bit Arm support.
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Sorry, you still have to think: lessons from the AI rewrites of Campfire
DHH had an AI agent rewrite Campfire from Rails to Rust, Elixir and Go without reading the code. Piotr Sarnacki digs into the results and concludes that programming is far from "solved."
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Valen: References That Remember Where They Point
Evan Ovadia has unveiled a new borrow checker for his Valen language — it tracks the "path" of every reference and catches use-after-free at compile time, while staying more flexible than Rust's.
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Quake rewritten in safe Rust and running in the browser
id Software's 1996 Quake has been ported from its open GPL sources to Rust and now runs right in the browser — no GPU, no dependencies, software-rendered.
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Bevy 0.20 Released: Path Tracing, WESL Shaders and a Refined Scene Syntax
The Rust game engine Bevy ships a major update: a faster Solari path tracer now running on macOS, a move to the WESL shader standard, and a polished BSN scene system.
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Nova Driver Keeps Advancing: A Rust-Based NVIDIA Kernel Driver Aiming for Official Use
At the LPC2026 conference in Prague, engineers from NVIDIA and Red Hat shared the progress on Nova — an open-source Linux kernel driver for NVIDIA GPUs written in Rust.
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Microsoft Ships First Release of Its LiteBox Sandboxing Library OS
Microsoft has tagged the first release of LiteBox, an open-source, Rust-based library operating system built for sandboxing applications.
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When random isn't random enough: the modulo trap
The classic way to pick a random object — grab a big number and take it modulo the count — quietly breaks uniformity. The author explains why, and what to reach for instead.
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Mold 3.0 Linker Released After C++-to-Rust Rewrite
The high-speed Mold linker has reached version 3.0 — the first release rewritten entirely from C++ to Rust. The developers aim to make Mold the default linker on Linux systems.
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Rust comes to CPython: zlib will be the first module
At the Python Language Summit 2026 the Rust for CPython team laid out a roadmap for gradually bringing Rust into the interpreter — starting with an optional implementation of the zlib module in Python 3.16.
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Rust 1.99.0 Released: C-ABI Variadics and Layout Info from Raw Pointers
The Rust team has shipped version 1.99.0. The headline features are the ability to write C-ABI variadic functions in Rust itself and to query size and alignment through raw pointers to non-Sized types.
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OpenBSD rejects uutils port as Theo de Raadt smells an 'agenda'
A proposal to add the Rust-rewritten uutils to OpenBSD's ports tree met firm pushback from Stuart Henderson and Theo de Raadt.
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FoxPro is back: FoxDev Studio runs your old apps on 64 bits
Nearly two decades after Microsoft killed Visual FoxPro, a new project called FoxDev Studio opens legacy projects untouched and lifts the ceilings of the 32-bit era.
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