Rust Coreutils 0.12.0 released with focus on Ubuntu compatibility, fixing bugs including data loss in parallel install and symlink handling. The project acknowledged and rewrote code segments copied from GNU Coreutils, achieving 96.9% compatibility on the GNU test suite with security hardening across ls, sort, and install utilities.
Theo de Raadt critiques a proposal to package uutils (Rust reimplementations of GNU utilities) for OpenBSD, arguing that introducing subtly different tool behaviors creates unnecessary complexity and workflow risks without clear justification.