The announcement comes just weeks before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships with the latest Rust upgrades.

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Canonical has joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member, committing $150,000 per year to support the Rust programming language ecosystem. This formalizes Canonical's existing investment in Rust, which already includes replacing sudo with sudo-rs and GNU Coreutils with uutils in Ubuntu. The membership gives Canonical a seat on the Rust Foundation's Board of Directors and a stated goal of improving the Rust developer experience on Ubuntu, including better toolchain support and more up-to-date packages in Ubuntu repositories.

Ubuntu Maker Canonical is Backing Rust Development With $150K/year