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Rust is a systems programming language focused on memory safety and concurrency without using a garbage collector.
… As previously covered on Phoronix, the Linux kernel's minimum Rust version is being bumped . Rust 1.85 will be the new baseline for Rust-For-Linux support compared to Rust 1.78 previously. …
… Rust 1.95 also adds in if-let guards into match expressions, stabilizes a number of APIs, and various other changes. The Linux kernel for its part has already been preparing for Rust 1.95 . More details on the Rust 1.95 changes can be found via the announcement on Rust-Lang.org .
… Brush v0.4 Released As "Significant" Release For This Rust-Based Shell OpenCL Introducing Cooperative Matrix Extensions For Machine Learning Rust-Written Zed 1.0 Code Editor Released OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic "BIGNUMA" For More Than 256 CPU Cores Git 2.54 Released With New Experimenta…
Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For "100% Rust Coreutils" Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 22 April 2026 at 12:21 PM EDT. …
… The DRM Rust changes for Linux 7.1 include a rework of their DMA coherent API, GPU buddy allocator abstractions in Rust, DRM shared memory GEM helper abstraction in Rust, I/O infrastructure improvements, a workqueue improvement, and other Rust bring-up pieces. …
… This new BUS1 version was stripped down to the basics and implemented in the Rust programming language. This initial announcement today went out on the Rust-For-Linux mailing list to gain feedback on the Rust aspect of this BUS1 implementation. …
… Brush v0.4 Released As "Significant" Release For This Rust-Based Shell OpenCL Introducing Cooperative Matrix Extensions For Machine Learning OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic "BIGNUMA" For More Than 256 CPU Cores Git 2.54 Released With New Experimental "git history" Command Rust 1.95 Released…
Popular Rust-Based Database Turns To AI For Up To 1.5x Speedup, Other Improvements Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 20 April 2026 at 06:27 AM EDT. 22 Comments Redb is one of the open-source, embed-friendly key-value databases written in the Rust programming language. …
Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 6 May 2026 at 08:22 PM EDT. …
… This bump takes the minimum version from Rust 1.78 to Rust 1.85 and then from Bindgen 0.65.1 to 0.71.1. In turn there are some clean-ups made to the Rust kernel code now that Rust 1.85+ can be assumed. These patches are now out for review making that minimum Rust version change for the Linux kernel. …