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The Rust for CPython project has achieved cross-platform builds in CI and shifted its target from Python 3.15 to 3.16, setting a July deadline to submit a formal Python Enhancement Proposal that would make Rust a build-time dependency of the reference interpreter.

Linux 7.0, expected in mid-April 2026, formally ends the three-year Rust experiment in the kernel. The decision, reached at the 2025 Maintainers Summit in Tokyo, promotes Rust from experimental status to a core kernel language alongside C and assembly.

Canonical has joined the Rust Foundation at the Gold membership tier, pledging $150,000 annually to support language governance and ecosystem security as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS prepares to ship with Rust-based coreutils and sudo by default.

Meta rewrites WhatsApp's media processing library in Rust, cutting code by 44% while hardening security for 3 billion users across every major platform.