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Ubuntu 25.10 Proceeding With Its Rust Coreutils Transition
Following sudo-rs becoming the default sudo implementation in Ubuntu 25.10 as of a few days ago, Canonical is also proceeding with its transition of using the Rust version of Coreutils for this next Ubuntu Linux release.
Canonical engineer Julian Andres Klode announced that the rust-coreutils transition is landing within a release pocket later today. This is as part of their transition from GNU Coreutils to using the Rust Coreutils "uutils" project as part of further leveraging Rust within Ubuntu Linux system components. Klode, an Ubuntu core developer, explained on the mailing list:"Just a heads up for everyone that the rust-coreutils transition is landing in the release pocket later today.
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