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Turso, which rewrote SQLite from scratch in Rust, is now building a Postgres-speaking frontend on the same engine, aiming to be what its CEO calls 'the LLVM of databases.'
CachyOS's August 2026 release rewrites the Shelly package manager from C# to Zig, moves the kernel-manager backend and Cachy-Update applet to Rust, and adds experimental Server Edition installer profiles.
Five Rust teams adopted a policy on Aug. 5 letting contributors use LLMs to analyze and review code but barring LLM-authored PRs, comments, and docs, with a circuit breaker if AI PRs exceed 50% of merges.
System76 released COSMIC Epoch 1.5.0, fixing Chromium/Electron scaling bugs, a D-Bus deadlock, and raising the wallpaper limit from 100 to 500.
The React team merged a work-in-progress Rust rewrite of the React Compiler, and Vercel says early Turbopack tests found 20-50% faster compilation.
Rust shipped an emergency point release fixing an LLVM miscompilation that quietly existed since Rust 1.87 and turned crash-prone after 1.97.0.
Rust 1.97.0, released July 9, made the v0 symbol-mangling scheme the stable default, stabilized a Cargo build.warnings setting, and enabled linker warning output by default.
Rust cracked the TIOBE Index top 10 for the first time in July 2026, climbing from 18th to 10th place as the 25-year-old index marks its anniversary.
Released June 29, the update extends the experimental git history command, adds inotify-based filesystem monitoring on Linux, and lets git push write to a group of remotes at once.
Jujutsu 0.42.0, released June 4, moves to the mimalloc allocator, drops several long-deprecated command options, and adds multi-revision support to jj show.
JFrog disclosed IronWorm, a self-propagating npm worm written in Rust that uses an eBPF rootkit, Tor command-and-control, and stolen credentials to spread.
Announced at Build 2026, Coreutils for Windows packages a Rust uutils build of coreutils, findutils, and grep as a single native binary installable via WinGet, though the GitHub repo still labels it a preview.