Who contributed to Rust on July 4, 2026?

4 developers shipped this update, including tgross35, jonathanpallant, dybucc, and papertigers.

What were the notable Rust updates?

ci: Add a retry to BSD dependency installs, Support new qnx targets, and windows: expose `cfg` for 64-bit `time_t`.

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LIBC STABILIZES BSD CI, OPENS QNX AND WINDOWS PATHS

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:04 UTC on July 4, 2026 · About Rust

4 people shipped this

tgross35 @tgross35 1 cited

jonathanpallant @jonathanpallant 1 cited

dybucc @dybucc 1 cited

papertigers @papertigers 1 cited

The Rust standard library bindings just fixed the flaky BSD test pipeline that's been eating CI cycles, while simultaneously adding support for three major platform expansions.

The libc team shipped a retry mechanism for BSD dependency installs [1], addressing the chronic network timeouts that plague NetBSD and other BSD VMs during CI runs. This is a low-friction fix that moves install logic to a shared script, letting all BSD targets benefit from automatic retries on pkg_add failures. In parallel, three platform expansions landed: QNX SDP 8 support [2] rewires the target definitions from the deprecated nto nomenclature to the new qnx identifiers while fixing pthread mutex initialization, illumos gained tier-2 CI coverage [4] via omnios LTS with a seven-year support window, and Windows GNU x86 developers can now opt into 64-bit time_t via a cfg flag [3] to experiment with fixes before they land on stable. The crates.io index saw routine updates across datapress-datafusion, mkutils, and related packages [5] [6] [7], along with git-internal and pelagos bumps [8] [9], but nothing breaking the surface.

Action items

→ If you maintain BSD CI workflows, pull the latest libc to inherit the retry logic for your dependency installs rust-lang/libc [plan]
→ QNX SDK users: test your bindings against the new target definitions in libc main before your next release rust-lang/libc [plan]
→ Windows GNU x86 maintainers: review the time_t cfg option if you've hit alignment issues with time values rust-lang/libc [monitor]

References

[1] ci: Add a retry to BSD dependency installs ↗ rust-lang/libc
[2] Support new qnx targets ↗ rust-lang/libc
[3] windows: expose `cfg` for 64-bit `time_t` ↗ rust-lang/libc
[4] Add tier 2 illumos CI ↗ rust-lang/libc
[5] Update crate `datapress-datafusion` rust-lang/crates.io-index
[6] Update crate `mkutils` rust-lang/crates.io-index
[7] Update crate `mkutils-macros` rust-lang/crates.io-index
[8] Update crate `git-internal` rust-lang/crates.io-index
[9] Update crate `pelagos` rust-lang/crates.io-index

Quick answers

What shipped in Rust on July 4, 2026?: The Rust standard library bindings just fixed the flaky BSD test pipeline that's been eating CI cycles, while simultaneously adding support for three major platform expansions. In total, 58 commits and 6 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Rust on July 4, 2026?: 4 developers shipped this update, including tgross35, jonathanpallant, dybucc, and papertigers.
What were the notable Rust updates?: ci: Add a retry to BSD dependency installs, Support new qnx targets, and windows: expose `cfg` for 64-bit `time_t`.

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