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Rust Foundation Names Its First Six Maintainers in Residence, Funding Core Compiler, Rustup, and Clippy Work for a Year
The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund has raised $350,000 and named its inaugural cohort of six paid maintainers, resolving details left open when the fund launched in June.
HashiCorp's Packer 1.16 Adds Signed SLSA Provenance Attestations for Machine Images
Packer 1.16 adds a provenance post-processor and a verify-attestation command, letting teams cryptographically sign and check the origin of every machine image they build.
Swift 6.4 Development Snapshots Bring Full Existential Types and Untyped Throws to Embedded Swift
Doug Gregor detailed Embedded Swift additions landing ahead of Swift 6.4: broader `any` type support, untyped throws, and full metatype support.
Linux Foundation Asks OSI to Approve OpenMDW-1.1 AI Model License as Reviewers Split Over Its Copyright Termination Clause
The Linux Foundation submitted its OpenMDW-1.1 AI model license to the Open Source Initiative for approval, but reviewers are contesting a clause that terminates rights over copyright lawsuits, not just patent ones.
Rust Enables Its Next-Generation Trait Solver by Default on Nightly After Nearly Four Years of Development
The Rust project switched nightly builds to a rewritten trait solver by default, calling it the largest single compiler change since Rust's initial release.
Emacs 31.1 Ships With Unexec Dumper Removed, Terminal Mouse Support On by Default, and a New User Lisp Directory
GNU Emacs 31.1 arrives with the legacy unexec dumper removed, xterm-mouse-mode on by default in compatible terminals, a new user-lisp directory feature, and expanded tree-sitter options.
Redis 8.10 Ships Compact Hashes, a Bulk-Insert HIMPORT Command, and Native BACKUP
Redis 8.10 reaches general availability with a memory-saving compact hash encoding, a bulk-insert HIMPORT command, and a node-side BACKUP command built on multi-part AOF.
Google Launches Gemini 3.7 Flash With Sharp Coding Benchmark Gains, Same-Day GitHub Copilot Rollout
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash posts sharp coding and web-dev benchmark gains at half its predecessor's launch price, and lands in GitHub Copilot immediately.
Xen Project Forms Safety Committee, Enlisting AMD, EPAM, and Renesas to Pursue Formal Certification for Its Open Source Hypervisor
The Linux Foundation-hosted Xen Project launched a Safety Committee with AMD, EPAM, and Renesas as founding contributors, aiming to bring formal functional-safety certification to the open source hypervisor for automotive, avionics, and robotics use.
Salesforce Launches Slack Code, Bringing AI Coding Agents Into Team Chat Channels
Slack's new Slack Code feature moves AI coding agents out of private terminals into shared, self-archiving team channels, launching with Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub, and Vercel.
pg_clickhouse v0.10 Pushes Correlated Subqueries to ClickHouse, Cutting a TPC-H Query From 32.7 Seconds to 37 Milliseconds
ClickHouse's pg_clickhouse extension now pushes whole correlated subqueries down to ClickHouse, taking TPC-H pushdown coverage from 12 to 16 of 22 queries.
Rust 1.98.0 Ships Algebraic Floating-Point Methods and a Standard-Library Alternative to the itoa Crate
Rust 1.98.0 stabilizes non-deterministic algebraic float operations for faster loop vectorization and a format_into method that matches the itoa crate's performance.