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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trifecta Tech Foundation is delighted to welcome Google as a new Gold sponsor! Read more on trifectatech.org/blog/new-gol... With thanks to Google's OSPO, @opensource.google, and the Safe Coding Engineering team!

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trifecta Tech Foundation is delighted to welcome Canonical as a new Gold sponsor! Read more on trifectatech.org/blog/new-gol... @canonicalltd.bsky.social

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We're excited to share that Firefox now uses zlib-rs for gzip (de)compression. This has both performance and safety advantages, but it took a while to get zlib-rs into production. Read why: trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs... Thanks to @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy and @mozilla.org #rustlang

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zlib-rs in Firefox - Trifecta Tech Foundation

As of 151.0.0, Firefox uses zlib-rs for gzip (de)compression. This is very exciting, and has both performance and safety advantages.

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We're proud to announce the first release of our latest data compression project, Zstandard in Rust! Read why we did this, the current state of the project, and where we're hoping to take it: buff.ly/JoruN7e Thanks to Chainguard, Astral, NLnet Foundation, and @sovereign.tech. #rustlang #opensource

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Announcing Zstandard in Rust - Trifecta Tech Foundation

Over the past year, we've been silently working on our third compression project. After zlib and bzip2 we're now taking on zstd with libzstd-rs-sys, and are proud to announce its first release.

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

In our data compression projects, we sometimes hit limitations in Rust itself and in the surrounding tooling. Folkert covers our contributions to the compiler and shows how we have become increasingly comfortable fixing these issues ourselves: trifectatech.org/blog/fixing-... #rustlang #opensource

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Fixing our own problems in the Rust compiler - Trifecta Tech Foundation

In our data compression projects, we use Rust where C is traditionally used. During the work, we've hit limitations in Rust itself and in the surrounding tooling. Over the years, we've become…

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

ntpd-rs is coming to Ubuntu! In RustNation's closing keynote Canonical announced that we are preparing ntpd-rs, our Network Time Protocol implementation, for Ubuntu. Watch the keynote here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOA4... @jnsgr.uk @rustnationuk.bsky.social @ubuntu-ls.bsky.social #rustlang

RustNation's closing keynote Canonical announced that we are preparing ntpd-rs, our Network Time Protocol implementation, for Ubuntu.

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The Network Time Protocol is generally used completely unprotected, much like the web was before HTTPS. At FOSDEM 2026, Ruben explained how we aim to push adoption of secure time (NTS) using pools of NTS servers. Video and slides: buff.ly/O4sfBKg #fosdem2026 #opensource #timesynchronization

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Ruben is headed to FOSDEM! Catch his talk 'Securing time with NTS' on Sun 1 Feb at 13.20 in room H.2215 (Ferrer)! fosdem.org/2026/schedul... @fosdem.org #opensource #rustlang #fosdem

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Zlib-rs is now feature-complete! We've released v0.6, the first version with a stable and complete API. The blog post has the details. With thanks to our maintainer Folkert de Vries, our contributors and @sovereign.tech. trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs... #rust #rustlang

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

New release of sudo-rs! Version 0.2.11 is out with askpass and multi-lingual support. Want to see sudo-rs in your language? You can start helping out today. PR's are welcome! We thank the @sovereign.tech for investing in this work, as well as 15 external contributors! github.com/trifectatech...

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Releases · trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs

A memory safe implementation of sudo and su. Contribute to trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The joint statement “Improving Europe's cybersecurity posture through memory safety”, has now been published: trifectatech.org/blog/calling... It calls for stronger #MemorySafety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies. Thanks to all supporters and contributors! #security

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Calling for memory safety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies - Trifecta Tech Foundation

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Canonical's Jon Seager talks about our sudo-rs and ntpd-rs (!) in ubuntu-ls.bsky.social, and his bold but level-headed vision on Rust's future for Ubuntu, in the Rust in Production podcast with Matthias Endler: corrode.dev/podcast/s05e... #rustlang #ubuntu @canonicalltd.bsky.social @jnsgr.uk

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Canonical with Jon Seager - Rust in Production Podcast | corrode Rust Consulting

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The Rust Foundation @rustfoundation.org · 13/11/2025

The Rust Foundation has joined orgs across industry & open source to call for a more secure, memory-safe future for Europe. The path to safer digital infrastructure is clear — & it starts with modern, memory-safe tech. Read the joint statement & add your support:

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Please support the call for Memory Safety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies. If you agree with the position that memory safety should be on the EU and national cybersecurity agendas, please consider adding your name to this statement to show your support: trifectatech.org/blog/support... 1/3

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Support the call for Memory Safety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies - Trifecta Tech Foundation

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Watch Marc's talk at the Ubuntu Summit in London, "Sudo-rs and beyond": www.youtube.com/live/bEEamxJ... @canonicalltd.bsky.social #rust #rustlang #ubuntu

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Blog post by Folkert: How can we make Rust programs that use state machines even faster? Trifecta Tech aims to create safe and robust infrastructure software, that's why we're dedicated to making Rust the go-to for performance-critical components like zlib&zstd. trifectatech.org/blog/improvi...

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Improving state machine code generation - Trifecta Tech Foundation

Over the past couple of months, Björn and I have been working on improving state machine code generation in the rust compiler, a rust project goal for 2025H1. In late June, PR 138780 was merged,…

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

** Major milestone ** our sudo-rs is the default sudo for the upcoming Ubuntu 🚀 🦀 More on the Ubuntu blog: discourse.ubuntu.com/t/sudo-rs-is... #rust #rustlang

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Ruben and David are the champions (how cool is that?) for the NTS Pool session at the @ietf.org 123 Hackathon! In parallel they will also work on NTPv5 interop testing and Network Time Security for PTP and CSPTP. wiki.ietf.org/en/meeting/1... #ietf123

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

David and Ruben are headed to Madrid for the 123rd @ietf.org meeting! They'll join the NTP WG and work on NTP version 5, an NTS pool, and better time synchronization in general. Come find them to talk all-things-time! More on NTPv5 & NTS: trifectatech.org/tags/ntpd-rs/ - Madrid 123 image by IETF

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Trifecta Tech Foundation's David and Ruben in action at a PTP plugfest

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Time just got better! ntpd-rs now optionally supports NTPv5, the next version of the Network Time Protocol. trifectatech.org/blog/ntpd-rs... #rustlang @sovereign.tech

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ntpd-rs now supports version 5 of the Network Time Protocol - Trifecta Tech Foundation

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A new release of sudo-rs is out! Highlights: - Increased backwards compatibility with older Linux kernels. - Programs executed can be prevented from running other programs (NOEXEC) - Other usability improvements suggested and contributed by our users! #rust #rustlang github.com/trifectatech...

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Release Version 0.2.7 · trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs

To use the precompiled binaries attached below, consult our manual installation instructions Added Linux kernels older than 5.9 are now supported. Support for Defaults noexec/NOEXEC: on Linux syst...

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Today we're switching the bzip2 crate from C to 100% rust: trifectatech.org/blog/bzip2-c... Thanks to: Alex Crichton and Radically Open Security, and to NLnet Foundation for funding the work through the e-Commons fund with financial support from @minbzk.bsky.social‬ #rustlang #rust

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bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% rust - Trifecta Tech Foundation

Today we published bzip2 version 0.6.0, which uses our rust implementation of the bzip2 algorithm, libbz2-rs-sys, by default. The bzip2 crate is now faster and easier to cross-compile.

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Our data compression projects aim to offer best-in-class performance. @tweedegolf.bsky.social‬'s Folkert de Vries shows how SIMD helps us to speed up zlib-rs in compare256, a crucial part of the compression algorithm that finds repetitions in the input. trifectatech.org/blog/simd-in... #rustlang

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SIMD in zlib-rs (part 2): compare256 - Trifecta Tech Foundation

In part 1 of the "SIMD in zlib-rs" series, we've seen that, with a bit of nudging, autovectorization can produce optimal code for some problems.

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Calling all Rust educators at RustWeek! Join us for the Rust Educators Speed Date at the Trifecta Tech Foundation table on Wednesday 14 May, 11.00am. Teach-rs maintainers Tamme and Marc would love to hear both your battle stories and questions about teaching Rust. #rustlang #RustWeek #education

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

New release: zlib-rs 0.5.0 🎉 We now allow using zlib-rs together with stock zlib or zlib-ng in the same project. This is a **breaking change** if you relied on Rust exporting C symbols. The export-symbols flag preserves the previous behavior. github.com/trifectatech... #rustlang #rust

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Release v0.5.0 · trifectatechfoundation/zlib-rs

This is technically a breaking change, but unless you rely on rust exporting C symbols, you should not run into any issues when upgrading. highlights the export-symbols feature now controls whethe...

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

New: sudo-rs supports FreeBSD + (highly anticipated!) "--bell" 🔔 Also in this release: the first contribution (bugfix) by Todd Miller, the maintainer of the original sudo - thank you! More thanks to our funder NLnet Foundation and our maintainers Marc and Bjorn. github.com/trifectatech...

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Release Version 0.2.5 · trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs

To use the precompiled binaries attached below, consult our manual installation instructions Added sudo visudo will protect you from accidentally locking yourself out Support for --prompt and SUDO...

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Tweede golf @tweedegolf.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

sudo-rs might become the default in future Ubuntu releases! The details from Ubuntu VP of Engineering Jon Seager: buff.ly/axxif1t Our team, Marc, Bjorn, Ruben and Marlon are core contributors of sudo-rs, which is now part of Trifecta Tech Foundation. #rustlang #riir

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Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

Last month I published Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years, which outlines four key themes for how I intend to evolve Ubuntu in the coming years. In this post, I’ll focus on “Modernisation”.…

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Internet Engineering Task Force @ietf.org · 16/03/2025

It's underway! The week of #IETF122 Bangkok hosted by Juniper Networks has kicked off with the #IETFHackathon. Select sessions are streamed live and all sessions are available on demand after the meeting. Find links and more information at: www.ietf.org/live/

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

zlib-rs is now used in uv! uv is the extremely fast Python package & project manager with over 200M requests/day. Not only are we happy about the adoption but also grateful for Astral and @crmarsh.com stepping up and supporting us through a GitHub sponsorship. Thanks!

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Migrate to `zlib-rs` (again) by charliermarsh · Pull Request #11894 · astral-sh/uv

Summary I believe zlib-rs is now a better choice on ARM and x86, so I'm just going to assume it's a better choice everywhere. It's much easier to build (removes our CMake dependency), a...

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

New release of ntpd-rs, our Network Time Protocol implementation! Includes support for PPS (pulse per second) based sources. Fixes two low severity vulnerabilities in our NTS cookie parsing, found through YesWeHack's Bug Bounty program, supported by @sovereign.tech.

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Release Version 1.5.0 · pendulum-project/ntpd-rs

This releases fixes two related low severity vulnerabilities in our NTS cookie parsing, please see the related advisory. Added Support for PPS based sources (this support can be disabled with a co...

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Trifecta Tech Foundation @trifectatech.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

New release of sudo-rs, the memory safe implementation of sudo and su. Includes experimental support for FreeBSD and improved compatibility between sudo-rs and sudo. Special thanks to NLnet Foundation & Todd Miller, the maintainer of sudo. github.com/trifectatech...

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Release Version 0.2.4 · trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs

Added Support for 'SETENV:' and corresponding 'sudo VAR=value command' syntax Support for 'Defaults rootpw' Support for 'Defaults pwfeedback' Support for host/user/runas/command-specific Defaults ...

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