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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.

Vite 8.0 replaces its dual esbuild-and-Rollup architecture with Rolldown, a Rust-based bundler delivering 10-30x faster builds. Linear reports build times dropping from 46 to 6 seconds.

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.

Rust 1.94.0 stabilizes array_windows and AVX-512 FP16 intrinsics as the project finalizes 65 goals for 2026 targeting faster compilation, trait overhauls, and deeper Linux kernel integration.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS enters beta on March 26, shipping Rust-based coreutils and sudo, GNOME 50 without X11, post-quantum SSH, and AMD ROCm in official repositories.

Amazon S3 marks its 20th anniversary storing over 500 trillion objects across hundreds of exabytes, while AWS progressively rewrites core storage components in Rust for memory safety and performance.

Linus Torvalds confirms the next kernel will be 7.0, citing confusion over large numbers, as the first RC ships with one of the largest merge windows on record.

Git 2.53 defaults Rust support in both build systems and unlocks geometric repacking for partial clones, setting the stage for a Git 3.0 release by late 2026.

Rust 1.93.0 ships musl 1.2.5, allocator and asm! improvements, and new stabilized APIs.

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

Linux 6.19 brings Rust into 'actual driver development' phase with I2C support and Nova GPU driver progress