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⇱ Rust Coreutils 0.4 Released With Better GNU Compatibility & Faster Performance - Phoronix


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Rust Coreutils 0.4 Released With Better GNU Compatibility & Faster Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 9 November 2025 at 08:19 PM EST. 63 Comments
Rust Coreutils continues moving fast on their goal "toward full GNU compatibility" with the GNU Coreutils. The uutils project announced Rust Coreutils 0.4 this evening with better compatibility, performance optimizations, and other improvements.

Rust Coreutils 0.4 is up to passing 544 tests from the GNU test suite, an increase of 12 from the prior release and around 85% compatibility overall.

👁 Rust Coreutils 0.4 pass rate


On the performance size there are performance improvements around factor, adding performance benchmarks for cksum, and fixes to tsort and mkdir.

Rust Coreutils also features better cross-platform compatibility and some specific improvements to help OpenBSD and FreeBSD>

Rust Coreutils 0.4 also brings improvements to the hashsum code, better compatibility with GNU's date timezone handling, and other changes.

Downloads and more details on the Rust Coreutils 0.4 release via GitHub.

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