Ubuntu's 26.10 release, scheduled for October 2026, will replace the final three GNU core commands—cp, mv, and rm—with Rust-based equivalents from the uutils project, completing Canonical's planned migration. The transition marks the end of a gradual shift to improve security and performance.
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"Ubuntu's Rustification Has a New Milestone! Coreutils Migration is Complete" "The Ubuntu 26.10 release moves its last three GNU commands, cp, mv, and rm, to Rust." https:// feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17 462674/ubuntu-rustification-coreutils-migration # Ubuntu
Oboi here we go 🙄 >Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack. The last three holdouts, cp, mv and rm, have moved to uutils' coreutils; the Rust reimplementation Canonical has been feeding into the distro since 2025. >They had been held back from 26.04 LTS over flaws in the uutils versions. Everything else, from ls and cat to chmod and du, made that jump in earlier
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Ubuntu 26.10 will replace the remaining GNU Coreutils versions of `cp`, `mv` and `rm` with versions from the Rust-based uutils project, completing Canonical’s planned migration of the distribution’s core command-line utilities. The change follows fixes for compatibility and time-of-check to time-of-use issues that prevented Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.10 from switching the three commands [phoro
While Ubuntu Linux has been making use of the Rust Coreutils project over the past year since Ubuntu 25.10 as an alternative to GNU Coreutils and part of their effort to get more system components implemented in the memory-safety-focused Rust programming language, Ubuntu 26.10 finally completes the transition with the cp, mv, and rm commands now coming from Rust Coreutils...
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Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils Ubuntu has been replacing core utilities with Rust rewrites, and it's now completed the process. cp, mv and rm were held back on their GNU versions in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due to a crop of TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) issues that needed to be fixed in the uutils versions. With those issues resolved upstream, U https://www. osnews.com/s