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Infra2026-09-15 · source-backed
The last three holdouts from 26.04 LTS, cp, mv and rm, held back over security vulnerabilities awaiting upstream fixes, are now on the uutils Rust implementations alongside ls, cat, chmod and du (OMG! Ubuntu). The project treats any deviation from GNU behavior as a bug, and the article reports no remaining end-user compatibility issues. 26.10 ships October 15 with a beta later this month, so test scripts that shell out to coreutils on the beta rather than on release day.
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