📺 Watch PSF Executive Director @baconandcoconut close out #RustConf2026 with a fireside chat on stewarding Rust and Python: AI's impact, security, governance, and leading global communities. https://youtu.be/z5_tEecNkRs?si=EFL6hA5nxAVp4Ied

#Python #Rust #OpenSource

Love this article by @mre 💛

When #Rust Gets Ugly
https://corrode.dev/blog/ugly/

New cargo-semver-checks release 🎉

Variadic functions have only been stable for a few days, and we immediately have SemVer lint support for them.

https://github.com/obi1kenobi/cargo-semver-checks/releases/tag/v0.51.0

#rust #rustlang #semver

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cargo-semver-checks v0.51.0 release page. C-ABI variadic functions are new in Rust 1.99, and this is the first time a new language feature has had immediate SemVer linting support in the corresponding `cargo-semver-checks` release. - Six new lints for variadic functions: - `function_no_longer_variadic` - `function_now_variadic` - `inherent_method_no_longer_variadic` - `inherent_method_now_variadic` - `trait_method_no_longer_variadic` - `trait_method_now_variadic` - Bugfix in `inherent_method_now_doc_hidden` when multiple `impl` blocks for the same type have the same method name - Support for symlinks inside git repos used by the `--baseline-rev` flag - Thanks to @heaths for the initial PR that helped set this up. - Lots of security hardening, both in this repository and in dependencies that I also manage

New release: #rPGP version 0.21.0 🧰🔐

https://github.com/rpgp/rpgp/releases/tag/v0.21.0

#OpenPGP implemented in pure #Rust, permissively licensed

In this release, support for #PQC references the now finalized RFC 9980.

Besides this, two bugs - that could lead to panics - were fixed:

- https://github.com/rpgp/rpgp/pull/827 (panic on short x25519 session key, introduced in 0.19.0)
- https://github.com/rpgp/rpgp/pull/852 (reject nested embedded signature subpackets)

Updating to this version is recommended for all users.

#Google Rewrites Critical #C Dependencies to #Rust Using #AI and Differential Fuzzing

https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/c-rust-rewrite/

Rust 1.99 is out, and for the first time the corresponding cargo-semver-checks release will have immediate SemVer linting support for a new language feature: C-ABI variadic functions 🎉

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/10/01/Rust-1.99.0/

#rust #rustlang

Rusty Graphs - AI Ready Graphs for Rust Developers by Volodymyr Pavlyshyn is the featured book 📖 on Leanpub!

Language models guess. Knowledge graphs know.

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#Rust #Databases #Graph_theory #Ai

@lobsters

And this was on the 20th, the news from a few days earlier, that the #Rust rewrites shipped by Canonical in #Ubuntu had some egregious years-old bugs, having not really had time to reach people like the #OpenBSD people.

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/2949

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697392

#coreutils #uutils

OpenBSD's ports tree keeps GPL coreutils and rejects uutils (Rust rewrite) https://lobste.rs/s/vmmq7g #openbsd #rust
https://www.mail-archive.com/ports%40openbsd.org/msg143892.html

Eventually, I plan to write in #Rustlang a #Radicle orchestrator that talks to a Radicle node. Iinitial testing will be with a local test node, but I would hope in the long term to support communicating with a remote Radicle node.

It would take action on whatever the Radicle node reports via its control socket.

Kinda like a CI/CD, but one specific to the needs of the #HardenedBSD dev infrastructure.

Besides, I love reading #Rust code and I need a good excuse to write it better. (I find it much easier to read than to write, mainly because of a stubborn brain and limit hours in a day.)

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#Software_engineering #Computer_programming #Ai_game_production #Agentic_engineering #Rust

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I wrote this book to show exactly what happens when you add Rust to the kernel. Not as a toy.

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I've published version 0.8.0 of clingwrap, my Rust library for making command line applications. This release brings string indentation, configuration file type detection, and links to examples in README.

https://crates.io/crates/clingwrap/0.8.0

#Rust #RustLang #clingwrap #cli #announcment #release

Looking at deduplicating some library versions in a #Rust project and quickly arriving (again) to the conclusion that *applications* should be hyper specific about dependency versions on their Cargo.toml while *libraries* should be specifying only the top-most semver version for their deps (as much as possible, I know that the realities of incorrect versioning of libraries would get in the way).
#RustLang

Has anyone written #libucl bindings for #Rust?

#FreeBSD #Rustlang

One of the ironies of depending so heavily, on my #FreeBSD desktop, on source repositories rather than compiled and ready-to-go applications is that I've compiled a fair bit of #Rust code, and a lot of other weird things, without knowing the slightest thing about the actual language (yet.)

A question I find myself asking: was it entirely necessary for Rust to have come up with its own versions of shared libraries and other such packaged code, with their own jargon? But Rust is scarcely the only language who seems inclined to reinvent all that stuff. Was the old system so bad? (here's where someone probably CAN say 'yes' backed up by reams of immediately persuasive technical explanation.)

~Chara of Pnictogen

Problem: It was a pain in the ass to install Bram (a Tauri app) on a Windows machine that did not have Python installed. Why needed? The hooks that enforce the workflow were written in Python.

Solution: Port that apparatus to Rust, bake it into the cross-plaform binary. In the Before Time that would make no sense. Now it's a breeze.

Is Rust the language I'd choose for that job? No. Does that matter? No. I am not writing the code, only directing the agents who do it. For them, programming languages are fungible.

#bram #python #rust

From the start, my hope for @minipgp6 has been to record a video series about the project - as an in-depth teaching resource that does a (very) deep dive into a small (but serious) #OpenPGP stack in #Rust.

Once finished, the series will be a complete recording of writing that software stack.
Today, I'm publishing three intro episodes that explain the series.

https://codeberg.org/minipgp6/making has episode scripts, and peertube video links.

Also see https://clip.place/c/minipgp6/videos for a peertube channel.

It started as a gag: a tiny popup telling IPv4 visitors that their provider hasn't yet discovered 1998.

To do that honestly I needed something to echo the client address.

Using ipify felt wrong when you run your own AS. So now it's a service. 🙃

curl https://ip.hofstede.it
curl https://v6.ip.hofstede.it/json
curl https://v4.ip.hofstede.it/asn

One Rust binary, server-rendered, zero JavaScript.

https://ip.hofstede.it

#IPv6 #Rust #FreeBSD #SelfHosting #AS201379 /cc @namedbird

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rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

If you personally use LLMs and want to contribute to the Rust toolchain, you *really* should read it.

The summary is "It's fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to *create*." Effectively, no other human should see LLM output, unless they ask for it, and LLM usage shall be disclosed.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/05/rust-langrust-is-adopting-an-llm-policy/

#RustLang #Rust

The next one in the #peoplebehindosco series is Felix.

Hi @Gronner 👋

Felix is a software engineer with more than 10 years experience in the automotive and medical industry. Working at XITASO he focuses on building secure and safe systems. Besides that he provides trainings on security, safety, software architecture and Rust. To learn in and with a community he organises the SWEC and is a member of the iSAQB. He loves learning by exploring: building small embedded system or tools, mostly in Rust. In his spare time he enjoys playing pen & paper games, miniature figure painting and playing the drums.

His Tags: #AppSec, #Embedded, #Rust, #ThreatModeling

Thank you very much for your work as a volunteer and your support in organizing the Open Security conference. Stay tuned and follow the hashtag #peoplebehindosco for more people behind osco.

Successfully ported the complete #LLVM stack (version 19.1.7, including llvm's binutils, clang, ldd) to #Solaris 11 Express (snv_151a) #SPARC. This build of #Solaris works on #SPARC machines that Solaris 11 GA (and later) do not support (example: sun4u workstations and servers), as well as machines that #Illumos does not support completely. This may allow for #Zig and #Rust to be ported to this version of Solaris on SPARC. Complete source archives, build instructions, and signed binaries in SVR4 package format (and soon, IPS) will be available for download. #Solaris #SPARC #retrocomputing #Illumos #Sunmicrosystems

CC: @ptribble @SolarisDiaspora

Candidature rejetée, après deux entretiens, parce que l'entreprise «s'oriente vers une adoption forte de l'IA dans ses pratiques de développement, une direction qui ne semble pas alignée avec vos attentes à ce stade».

Est-ce qu'il y a encore des éditeurs de logiciels en France qui sont prêts à embaucher un développeur qui préfère écrire lui-même son code ?

#GetFediHired #Rust #Scala #Python #PostgreSQL

@cks

That's messed up.

I made the mistake of looking at the #Debian source tree first, to see how this is happening. This is no help, and I couldn't figure out how the dependency was getting in there from list2depends, substvars, and whatnot.

Because it turns out that this was an explicit bodge, only in #Ubuntu, made in September of 2025.

https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/build-essential/commit/?id=28bd47593db15e492a66bd2531ad8caeb76f0caa

Temporary for nearly a year, so far. (-:

#coreutils #rust-coreutils

So the bad news is I have been laid off.

The good news is that I'll have a lot more time to write in the short term, both book stuff and code stuff.

...anyone need a #rust programmer?

I had a chat with Lori Lorusso and Niko Matsakis about the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund

Funding open source is a huge topic right now, the Rust Foundation has some great ideas. It will be exciting to watch this one grow and evolve

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-07-rfmf-lori-niko/

#OpenSourceSecurity #rust #RustFoundation