Wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Rust_Uutils_Coreutils_0.5_Nushell_0.109
Discussion Thread: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/179398 **This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.** This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. == Summary == Upgrades [https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rust-coreutils `rust-coreutils`] and its set of associated crates from `0.0.27` to `0.5.x` and [https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rust-nu `rust-nu`] from `0.99.1` to `0.109.2` or higher. == Owner == * Name: [[User:salimma|Michel Lind]], [[User:decathorpe|Fabio Valentini]], [[User:music|Benjamin A. Beasley]], Rust SIG * Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] == Detailed Description == `rust-coreutils` (our packaging of [https://uutils.github.io/coreutils/ uutils coreutils]) will get updated to the latest `0.5` series. This was previously packaged because enough of its crates are dependencies of `nushell`, and it did not take many more crates to get the standalone `coreutils` binaries usable regardless of which shell someone uses, but at version `0.0.27` every version change is semver breaking, making it difficult to update both `coreutils` and `nushell`. Now that `uutils coreutils` is more mature - [ https://packages.ubuntu.com/questing-updates/rust-coreutils 0.2.2 shipped as the default coreutils in Ubuntu 25.10] - we can update both sets of packages and their dependencies. Note that we don't plan to propose this to be the default `coreutils` in Fedora at this moment. == Feedback == == Benefit to Fedora == Early adopters of `rust-coreutils` get feature improvements and bugfixes, without having to build from source. Users of both `uutils coreutils` and `nushell` will hopefully get faster updates in the future, as semver breaking changes to `uutils` crates will hopefully be less common now that it has gone through five minor releases. == Scope == * Proposal owners: update, package, and unretire dependent crates, and patch or update dependent packages as much as possible or provide compatibility crates when necessary. Updates will be broken up into multiple smaller sets that can be tested independently. * Other developers: N/A, but if you maintain a package depending on a Rust SIG package, please let us know if anything breaks. We will err towards providing compatibility crates if a change might be breaking. * Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issues #Releng issue number] * Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change) * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) * Alignment with the Fedora Strategy: Technology Innovation & Leadership == Upgrade/compatibility impact == Users of [ https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/rust-coreutils/uutils-coreutils/ `uutils-coreutils`] and/or [ https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/rust-nu/nu/ nu] get upgraded to the new version. No compatibility impact is expected for `uutils-coreutils`, as the project tries to get more and more compatible with GNU coreutils over time. For `nushell` these are the breaking changes since `0.99`: * https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2024-11-12-nushell_0_100_0.html#breaking-changes-toc * https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2024-12-24-nushell_0_101_0.html#breaking-changes-toc * https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2025-02-04-nushell_0_102_0.html#breaking-changes-toc * https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2025-03-18-nushell_0_103_0.html#breaking-changes-toc * https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2025-04-29-nushell_0_104_0.html#breaking-changes-toc * https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2025-06-10-nushell_0_105_0.html#breaking-changes-toc * https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2025-07-23-nushell_0_106_0.html#breaking-changes-toc * https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2025-09-02-nushell_0_107_0.html#breaking-changes-toc * https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2025-10-15-nushell_v0_108_0.html#breaking-changes-toc == Early Testing (Optional) == Do you require 'QA Blueprint' support? N == How To Test == Enable the [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/salimma/nu-wip/ nu-wip COPR] where we stage changes not ready to land in Rawhide yet. Since Rust binaries are statically linked, once `uutils-coreutils` and `nu` are available users can also just download the binary and it should work even on Fedora 43 - or install them in a Rawhide chroot in mock to test. == User Experience == Users benefit from around 1.5 years of improvements (as of January 2026) to `uutils-coreutils` and over 1 year of improvement to `nushell`. == Dependencies == N/A, Rust crates and most Rust packages are collectively maintained by the Rust SIG == Contingency Plan == * Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No == Documentation == N/A (not a System Wide Change) == Release Notes == \n
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