Rust on Ubuntu - May 2026

“Rust on Ubuntu” shares updates about how we are using the Rust programming language on Ubuntu.

Rust 1.93.1 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is available in chiseled OCI containers.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS uses Rust coreutils as the default with a few tools still using the GNU versions.

Opt-in support for cargo-auditable metadata is available on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS!

cargo-audit is available as a Snap package.

lpcli is a command-line client for launchpad.net, written in Rust.

Update: last month we stated that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will use Rust coreutils version 0.7.0 and sudo-rs version 0.2.13. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released with Rust coreutils version 0.8.0 and sudo-rs version 0.2.13.

1 Like