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RustConf 2026 adds four hands-on workshops for Montréal conference day

RustConf 2026 is turning its first day into a systems boot camp, with workshops on FFI, C migration, async actors and Linux drivers.

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Rust GPU Driver Infrastructure Grows in Linux 7.1 Merge

Rust pushed deeper into Linux’s GPU stack as 7.1 merged new DRM infrastructure, with Nova and Tyr moving memory-safe code closer to real hardware.

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Rust project goal seeks stable tail calls for stack-safe recursion

Stable tail calls could let Rust recurse without chewing through stack frames, opening a safer path for interpreters, parsers, and embedded state machines.

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Rust QUIC simulator proves correctness across arbitrary IP networks

Rust’s safety story is moving beyond memory bugs. A QUIC simulator now proves key network behaviors across arbitrary IP topologies, including Earth-Mars and Earth-Moon tests.

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wasmCloud makes experimental WASI P3 usable for Rust developers today

wasmCloud turned on experimental WASI P3 behind a single Cargo flag, and Rust HTTP components are already running with async handlers and streamed bodies.

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Holochain 0.6.1 release ETA drops to two weeks amid rapid progress

Holochain 0.6.1 is 82% done, with 297 of 363 points complete and just two weeks left. The faster ETA could mark a real P2P inflection point, or simply sharper planning.

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RustSec flags malicious crates, supply-chain threat spans three packages

Three Rust crates were pulled in four days, including one that planted SSH access and stole .env files and Telegram data.

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Rust 1.95 adds cfg_select, match guards, and wider platform support

cfg_select! lands in stable Rust, match arms gain if-let guards, and seven platform targets move up as 1.95.0 sharpens cross-platform work.

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RustSec Removes safe-agent-rs Over Suspicious Provenance and Impersonation Signs

RustSec pulled safe-agent-rs after linking it to a suspicious publisher account and a lookalike websocket library. The crate had 4,138 downloads, but no crates depended on it.

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Tailscale launches tailscale-rs, Rust-native library for embedded networking

Tailscale gave Rust developers a new way to embed secure networking, then hinted at a broader shift with Python, Elixir, and C bindings in the mix.

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Rustls-webpki tightens certificate checks after URI and wildcard flaws

Two certificate-validation bugs in rustls-webpki let URI constraints slip through and wildcards overreach, raising the stakes for Rustls trust checks.

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This Week in Rust 647 spans databases, AI, cryptography, and kernel work

Rust's weekly digest now looks like a full-stack signal, with practical releases you can try soon in networking, AI, crypto, and kernel-adjacent tooling.

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High-severity thin-vec bug risks memory corruption in safe Rust code

A panic in thin-vec’s drop path could double-free memory, and safe Rust callers were enough to trigger it.

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RustSec flags rand unsoundness when logging triggers thread-local reseeding

A rare rand bug let a custom logger trip thread-local reseeding into aliased mutable references, with Miri catching the violation and optimized builds left unpredictable.

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Linux 7.0 makes Rust official for kernel development

Rust in Linux crossed from experiment to standard practice, with kernel docs, Binder, and Ubuntu 26.04 now treating it as a real path.

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Rust Internals debates index-aware slice sorting APIs for data-oriented code

Rust Internals is eyeing index-aware slice sorting for leaderboard-style data, with a fight over temporary indices, scratch arrays, and how to avoid enumerate-and-sort boilerplate.

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Reimplementing Traceroute in Rust, From Sockets to Raw Packets

Building traceroute from scratch in Rust forces you past the standard library and into raw sockets, the same low-level territory Van Jacobson occupied at Lawrence Berkeley in 1987.

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Rust Concurrency Best Practices: Never Await While Holding a Mutex

Rust's compiler won't catch async mutex deadlocks. A former Cloudflare engineer's battle-tested checklist shows what to fix before they find you in production.

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Rust's Ownership Model Makes Safe Concurrent Programming Practical and Reliable

Rust's borrow checker turns concurrency from a source of dread into a compile-time guarantee, preventing entire classes of race conditions before your code ever runs.

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Cache-line contention makes RwLock five times slower than Mutex

Redstone's author found that on commercial hardware an RwLock made a read-heavy Tensor Cache about 5× slower than a Mutex due to cache-line ping-pong and atomic contention.

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Google puts Rust DNS parser into Pixel 10 modem firmware

Google moved a Rust DNS parser into Pixel 10 modem firmware, replacing a crash-prone C parser inside a baseband with tens of megabytes of executable code.

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Deep Dive: How Astral's uv Python Manager Works in Rust

uv resolves 43 packages in 12ms, and it's not just because it's Rust: a two-thread PubGrub solver, a DAG of 60+ focused crates, and a content-addressed cache explain the real speed.

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RustConn Updates Show Rust Growing in GNOME Desktop Apps

RustConn stood out in a GNOME app roundup by bringing Rust into a real desktop utility with 2,428 monthly downloads and a fast-moving release line.

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Servo 0.1.0 lands on crates.io, browser engine becomes embeddable

Servo’s first crates.io release turned the browser engine into a library, and the team paired it with a best-effort LTS path for embedders.

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Rust India Conference 2026 finalizes Bengaluru lineup, focuses on production Rust

Niko Matsakis headlines a Bengaluru Rust India lineup built around async safety, DataFusion, and two April 17 workshops now open for booking.

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Rust Developer Catalogs 800 Terminal Projects Across Three Years of Discovery

Orhun Parmaksız cataloged 786 Mastodon posts over 1,203 days to surface the 99 best Rust terminal UI projects, revealing a TUI ecosystem that has quietly exploded.

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Ladybird newsletter spotlights Rust gains, 4K YouTube and faster JavaScript execution

Ladybird now plays YouTube up to 4K on most videos, and its Rust rewrites are paying off with a 6x faster regexp engine and quicker JavaScript paths.

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Zig Parser Yuku Challenges Rust Rivals, Matches Oxc and SWC Benchmarks

Yuku’s Zig parser edged Oxc on a 7.83 MB TypeScript file and cut SWC’s time nearly in half, jolting Rust’s parser-speed bragging rights.

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Oxichrome Lets Rust Developers Build Browser Extensions Without JavaScript

Oxichrome hit 100 GitHub stars in 2 days — a Rust framework that compiles browser extensions to WebAssembly with zero hand-written JavaScript and just four macros.

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Rust App Optimization Uses Napkin Math to Crush Lock Contention and Memory Pressure

Napkin math plus data-oriented redesign is how engineers at PlanetScale and ex-Cloudflare are actually killing lock contention in production Rust apps.

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