Phoronix·37wHyprland 0.51 Compositor Released With Reworked Gesture System, New Animations
Hyprland 0.51 introduces a completely reworked gesture system with enhanced flexibility and new 1:1 trackpad gestures supporting fingers, modifiers, and directions. The release includes per-device scroll factor configuration, new DPMS animations, fade effects for Wayland pop-ups, and fixes for Chromium and Firefox screensharing by defaulting to 8-bit color.
Phoronix·36wUbuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings
Ubuntu 25.10's transition from GNU Coreutils to Rust Coreutils has revealed several performance issues, with the Rust version being significantly slower in some cases. Notable problems include cksum being up to 17x slower for large files and sort command failing to complete for large single-line files. While some issues like base64 performance have been quickly resolved and even improved beyond GNU's performance, developers are actively working to address remaining performance gaps before the stable release.
Phoronix·35wUbuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables
Ubuntu 25.10's transition to Rust-based coreutils is causing compatibility issues and benchmark failures with checksum errors reported on various executables, highlighting potential stability concerns with the new implementation.
Phoronix·35wGit Developers Debate Making Rust Mandatory
Git developers are considering making Rust a mandatory requirement for building Git, starting with experimental integration in the current version as a test balloon. The proposal aims to give time for experimentation with proper build infrastructure and allow distributors to adapt to new toolchain requirements, with Git 3.0 potentially requiring Rust as part of the mandatory build process.