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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 1d

Ubuntu 25.10, running our sudo-rs as the default sudo, has just been released!

"Rust-based implementations of sudo and coreutils for improved memory safety"

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Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka | Canonical

The latest interim release of Ubuntu comes with compatibility enhancements at the silicon level, accessibility upgrades and a robust security posture that sets the stage for the next LTS. October 9,…

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 3d

Two days until the release of sudo-rs in Ubuntu 25.10 🚀
Here is everything you always wanted to know about sudo-rs:

trifectatech.org/blog/frequen...

#rust #ubuntu #rustlang

Frequently Asked Questions about sudo-rs - Trifecta Tech Foundation

With sudo-rs coming to Ubuntu 25.10, the core team has collected and published the Frequently Asked Questions about sudo-rs. They will be updated if user curiosity calls for it.

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Sep 10

Blog post by Folkert: How can we make Rust programs that use state machines even faster?

Trifecta Tech aims to create safe and robust infrastructure software, that's why we're dedicated to making Rust the go-to for performance-critical components like zlib&zstd.

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Improving state machine code generation - Trifecta Tech Foundation

Over the past couple of months, Björn and I have been working on improving state machine code generation in the rust compiler, a rust project goal for 2025H1. In late June, PR 138780 was merged,…

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Sep 2

The link to the Ubuntu blog post changed. New link: discourse.ubuntu.com/t/sudo-rs-is...

Sudo-rs is now default for Questing Quokka

Hello, this is a quick update following the announcement of adopting sudo-rs as default in Ubuntu. Throughout this article, I will use sudo.ws to refer to the OG sudo and sudo-rs to refer to the reim...

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Aug 26

** Major milestone ** our sudo-rs is the default sudo for the upcoming Ubuntu 🚀 🦀

More on the Ubuntu blog:
discourse.ubuntu.com/t/sudo-rs-is...

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Jul 19

Ruben and David are the champions (how cool is that?) for the NTS Pool session at the @ietf.org 123 Hackathon!

In parallel they will also work on NTPv5 interop testing and Network Time Security for PTP and CSPTP.

wiki.ietf.org/en/meeting/1...

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Jul 18

Our sudo-rs is headed to Ubuntu 25.10!

Write-up about the impact of the project and the collaboration with @tweedegolf.bsky.social and @ferroussystems.bsky.social, by our friends and project initiators at Prossimo:

www.memorysafety.org/blog/sudo-rs...

#rustlang #rust

sudo-rs Headed to Ubuntu

Every day, system administrators all over the world ask their computers to perform security-sensitive tasks across privilege boundaries, such as a standard user executing a command as root. The softwa...

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Tweede golf @tweedegolf.bsky.social · Jul 18

The success story of the memory-safe sudo-rs, the Rust implementation of the sudo command: www.memorysafety.org/blog/sudo-rs...

Thanks to Prossimo, Ferrous Systems and Trifecta Tech Foundation 🙏

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#rustlang #memorysafety #cybersecurity

sudo-rs Headed to Ubuntu

Every day, system administrators all over the world ask their computers to perform security-sensitive tasks across privilege boundaries, such as a standard user executing a command as root. The softwa...

www.memorysafety.org

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Jul 16

David and Ruben are headed to Madrid for the 123rd @ietf.org meeting!
They'll join the NTP WG and work on NTP version 5, an NTS pool, and better time synchronization in general. Come find them to talk all-things-time!

More on NTPv5 & NTS: trifectatech.org/tags/ntpd-rs/

- Madrid 123 image by IETF

Artwork of IETF 123 Madrid 19-25 July 2025

Trifecta Tech Foundation's David and Ruben in action at a PTP plugfest

Image announcement ntpd-rs support for Network Time Protocol version 5

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Jul 11

Time just got better!
ntpd-rs now optionally supports NTPv5, the next version of the Network Time Protocol.

trifectatech.org/blog/ntpd-rs...

#rustlang @sovereign.tech

ntpd-rs now supports version 5 of the Network Time Protocol - Trifecta Tech Foundation

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Jul 4

A new release of sudo-rs is out! Highlights:
- Increased backwards compatibility with older Linux kernels.
- Programs executed can be prevented from running other programs (NOEXEC)
- Other usability improvements suggested and contributed by our users!

#rust #rustlang

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Release Version 0.2.7 · trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs

To use the precompiled binaries attached below, consult our manual installation instructions Added Linux kernels older than 5.9 are now supported. Support for Defaults noexec/NOEXEC: on Linux syst...

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Jun 17

Today we're switching the bzip2 crate from C to 100% rust:

trifectatech.org/blog/bzip2-c...

Thanks to: Alex Crichton and Radically Open Security, and to NLnet Foundation for funding the work through the e-Commons fund with financial support from @minbzk.bsky.social‬

#rustlang #rust

bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% rust - Trifecta Tech Foundation

Today we published bzip2 version 0.6.0, which uses our rust implementation of the bzip2 algorithm, libbz2-rs-sys, by default. The bzip2 crate is now faster and easier to cross-compile.

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omg! ubuntu @omgubuntu.co.uk · Jun 2

ICYMI: Ubuntu 25.10 is to ship with a new version of 'sudo' written in Rust. #rustlang #ubuntu

Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo

Ubuntu 25.10 will replace the sudo command with sudo-rs, a new Rust rewrite designed to improve memory safety and security. What does this mean for users?

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Jun 3

We prefer to say "we'd love to be in your distro".

Nevertheless, a really good "sudo-rs explained" by @brodierobertson.xyz‬. Thanks!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le4i...

You Will Never Escape Rust Rewrites On Linux

Rust rewrites are kind of a long running joke in the world of Linux but soon you're not going to be able to escape them no matter how hard you try, Ubuntu 25...

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · May 27

Our data compression projects aim to offer best-in-class performance.
@tweedegolf.bsky.social‬'s Folkert de Vries shows how SIMD helps us to speed up zlib-rs in compare256, a crucial part of the compression algorithm that finds repetitions in the input.

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SIMD in zlib-rs (part 2): compare256 - Trifecta Tech Foundation

In part 1 of the "SIMD in zlib-rs" series, we've seen that, with a bit of nudging, autovectorization can produce optimal code for some problems.

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · May 8

Our sudo-rs work in The Register:

The Register @theregister.com · May 8

Sudo-rs make me a sandwich, hold the buffer overflows

Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default – part of a push to cut memory-related security bugs and lock down core system components.…

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · May 7

Look for us at the Trifecta Tech Foundation 'building blocks', near the Tweede golf booth!

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · May 7

Calling all Rust educators at RustWeek! Join us for the Rust Educators Speed Date at the Trifecta Tech Foundation table on Wednesday 14 May, 11.00am.

Teach-rs maintainers Tamme and Marc would love to hear both your battle stories and questions about teaching Rust.

#rustlang #RustWeek #education

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · May 7

Trifecta Tech Foundation is now a member of the @rustfoundation.org !

Why? We believe that software must become safer; that this is paramount in critical infrastructure; and that #rustlang is an outstanding choice of technology for this purpose.

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Rust Foundation Associate Member Announcement | May 2025 - The Rust Foundation

DOVER, DELAWARE, May 6, 2025 –The Rust Foundation, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the performance, safety, and sustainability of the Rust programming language, is…

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · May 6

* Announcement * Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu!

@canonicalltd.bsky.social is supporting us to get sudo-rs ready for Ubuntu 25.10.

trifectatech.org/blog/memory-...

Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu - Trifecta Tech Foundation

May 6, 2025 – Ubuntu 25.10 is set to adopt sudo-rs by default. Sudo-rs is a memory-safe reimplementation of the widely-used sudo utility, written in the Rust programming language.

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Apr 25

We're happy to see adoption for zlib-rs skyrocketing. Especially stoked about rust tooling like cargo, gitoxide and rustup 🚀

Special thanks to @josh.social.joshtriplett.org.ap.brid.gy

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use `zlib-rs` for gzip compression in rust code by folkertdev · Pull Request #15417 · rust-lang/cargo

What does this PR try to resolve? This PR uses zlib-rs via the flate2 crate. It is used for (de)compressing gzip files (e.g. in cargo package). Using zlib-rs is significantly faster, and produces o...

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Apr 8

New release: zlib-rs 0.5.0 🎉
We now allow using zlib-rs together with stock zlib or zlib-ng in the same project.

This is a **breaking change** if you relied on Rust exporting C symbols. The export-symbols flag preserves the previous behavior.

github.com/trifectatech...

#rustlang #rust

Release v0.5.0 · trifectatechfoundation/zlib-rs

This is technically a breaking change, but unless you rely on rust exporting C symbols, you should not run into any issues when upgrading. highlights the export-symbols feature now controls whethe...

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · Apr 2

New: sudo-rs supports FreeBSD + (highly anticipated!) "--bell" 🔔

Also in this release: the first contribution (bugfix) by Todd Miller, the maintainer of the original sudo - thank you!

More thanks to our funder NLnet Foundation and our maintainers Marc and Bjorn.

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Release Version 0.2.5 · trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs

To use the precompiled binaries attached below, consult our manual installation instructions Added sudo visudo will protect you from accidentally locking yourself out Support for --prompt and SUDO...

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Tweede golf @tweedegolf.bsky.social · Mar 20

sudo-rs might become the default in future Ubuntu releases!

The details from Ubuntu VP of Engineering Jon Seager: buff.ly/axxif1t

Our team, Marc, Bjorn, Ruben and Marlon are core contributors of sudo-rs, which is now part of Trifecta Tech Foundation.

#rustlang #riir

Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

Last month I published Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years, which outlines four key themes for how I intend to evolve Ubuntu in the coming years. In this post, I’ll focus on “Modernisation”.…

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