Ubuntu 26.10 finishes the Rust coreutils transition by moving cp, mv and rm off GNU
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The last three holdouts from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, held back over security vulnerabilities awaiting upstream fixes, are now on the uutils Rust implementations alongside ls, cat, chmod and du. The project treats any deviation from GNU behavior as a bug, and the article reports no remaining end-user compatibility issues. Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray' ships 15 October with a beta later in September, so scripts that shell out to coreutils are worth testing on the beta rather than on release day.