This update from Rust Foundation Project Directors covers July, August, and October board meeting highlights including the new Rust in Industry Working Group, Trusted Publishing on crates.io, the Rust Innovation Lab with rustls, efforts to support laid-off Rust project members, and initiatives for crates.io security and maintainer funding.
Rust is moving beyond dev tools, now driving critical production systems in robotics, mobility, and fundamental infrastructure with its focus on reliability and predictability.
Wasmi 1.0, a stable and secure WebAssembly interpreter for embedded environments, now supports Wasm 2.0/3.0 proposals and offers C-API, with a performance-focused 2.0 on the horizon.
`hyper-util` introduces new composable connection pool layers built on Tower, enabling highly customized and efficient HTTP client pooling strategies without bloat.
vexide 0.8.0 now supports Rust's Standard Library on VEX robots (armv7a-vex-v5 target), enabling host compilation, unit testing, and detailed CPU fault reporting, alongside API modernizations.
`doc2dataset` v0.1.0, a new Rust-based tool, provides a comprehensive pipeline to convert diverse document formats into structured, token-efficient datasets for LLM training and RAG systems, complete with numeric integrity checks and multi-framework exports.
pgm-extra-rs v1.2.2 introduces a high-performance Rust PGM-index implementation offering faster queries and lower memory than B-trees, with BTreeSet/BTreeMap drop-in replacements and no_std support.
A defense of Rust's mutex lock poisoning, arguing its necessity for preventing silent data corruption from panics in critical sections and against proposals for silent unlocking.
KCL's dynamic language integrates an ergonomic numeric units system for CAD, balancing correctness and user experience with optional annotations, implicit conversions, and file-level defaults.
Netstack.FM offers expert-led deep dives into Rust networking, systems programming, and foundational internet protocols, covering crucial crates and large-scale infrastructure.
Canonical's VP Engineering for Ubuntu discusses the strategy behind "oxidizing" critical OS components like `sudo` and `coreutils` with Rust for a more secure and modern foundation.
This article details cross-compiling Rust for Raspberry Pi video capture, addressing `bindgen`'s `libclang` dependency with a custom `cross` Docker image and a split x86/ARM CI strategy.
Learn to send rootless ICMP pings in Rust using `socket2` by creating a UDP socket with `Protocol::ICMPV4`, detailing OS-specific packet construction and response parsing.
The author applies `cargo-mutants` to `librsvg`, discovering significant test suite gaps even in covered code, and shares insights on setup, analysis, and handling "missed" mutants in a large Rust project.
The Rust Africa Hackathon 2026 invites African developers to build Rust projects across various tracks for prizes, mentorship, and global recognition, taking place remotely from January 4-18, 2026.
Ferrous Systems achieved TÜV SÜD certification for a subset of the Rust core library (IEC 61508 SIL 2), integrated into Ferrocene 25.11.0, enabling broader Rust adoption in safety-critical and embedded systems.