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| 2 | +title = "This Month in Rust OSDev: June 2025" |
| 3 | +date = 2025-07-08 |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +[extra] |
| 6 | +month = "June 2025" |
| 7 | +editors = ["phil-opp"] |
| 8 | ++++ |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +Welcome to a new issue of _"This Month in Rust OSDev"_. In these posts, we give a regular overview of notable changes in the Rust operating system development ecosystem. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +<!-- more --> |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +This series is openly developed [on GitHub](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/). Feel free to open pull requests there with content you would like to see in the next issue. If you find some issues on this page, please report them by [creating an issue](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/issues/new) or using our <a href="#comment-form">_comment form_</a> at the bottom of this page. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +<!-- |
| 17 | + This is a draft for the upcoming "This Month in Rust OSDev (June 2025)" post. |
| 18 | + Feel free to create pull requests against the `next` branch to add your |
| 19 | + content here. |
| 20 | + Please take a look at the past posts on https://rust-osdev.com/ to see the |
| 21 | + general structure of these posts. |
| 22 | +--> |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +## Announcements, News, and Blog Posts |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +Here we collect news, blog posts, etc. related to OS development in Rust. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +<!-- |
| 29 | +Please follow this template: |
| 30 | +
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| 31 | +- [Title](https://example.com) |
| 32 | + - (optional) Some additional context |
| 33 | +--> |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +## Infrastructure and Tooling |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +In this section, we collect recent updates to `rustc`, `cargo`, and other tooling that are relevant to Rust OS development. |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +<!-- |
| 41 | + Please use the following template: |
| 42 | +
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| 43 | +- [Title](https://example.com) |
| 44 | + - (optional) Some additional context |
| 45 | +--> |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +## `rust-osdev` Projects |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +In this section, we give an overview of notable changes to the projects hosted under the [`rust-osdev`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/about) organization. |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +<!-- |
| 54 | + Please use the following template: |
| 55 | +
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| 56 | + ### [`repo_name`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/repo_name) |
| 57 | + <span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@maintainer_1](https://github.com/maintainer_1)</span> |
| 58 | +
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| 59 | + The `repo_name` crate ...<<short introduction>>... |
| 60 | +
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| 61 | + We merged the following changes this month: |
| 62 | + <<changelog, either in list or text form>> |
| 63 | +--> |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +### [`uefi-rs`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs) |
| 66 | +<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@GabrielMajeri](https://github.com/GabrielMajeri), [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop), and [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611)</span> |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +`uefi` makes it easy to develop Rust software that leverages safe, convenient, |
| 69 | +and performant abstractions for UEFI functionality. |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +We merged the following PRs this month: |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +- [Updating Uefi Raw for EFI Shell Protocol](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1680) |
| 74 | +- [SNP Integration Test: Improve Clarity](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1621) |
| 75 | +- [ci: Temporarily pin to older nightly](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1689) |
| 76 | +- [fix typo `ctr16!` to `cstr16!`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1686) |
| 77 | +- [xtask: Allow clippy::collapsible_if lint](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1694) |
| 78 | +- [uefi: Fix clippy::uninlined_format_args lint](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1693) |
| 79 | +- [test-runner: Fix clippy::uninlined_format_args lint](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1692) |
| 80 | +- [uefi: Fix clippy::unnecessary_unwrap lint](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1691) |
| 81 | +- [Fix mismatched_lifetime_syntaxes lint](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1690) |
| 82 | +- [uefi: Make PciIoAddress orderable and hashable](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1682) |
| 83 | +- [uefi: Fix io-align == 0 edgecase handling for ata & nvme](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1698) |
| 84 | +- [uefi-raw: Add HII_CONFIG_ACCESS and CONFIG_KEYWORD_HANDLER protocol bindings](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1683) |
| 85 | +- [doc/uefi: improve Protocol documentation](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1612) |
| 86 | +- [Fix lints/tests on nightly and unpin the CI nightly version](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1703) |
| 87 | +- [uefi-services: prepare v0.26.0 release to accelerate migration/deprecation](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1709) |
| 88 | +- [uefi-services: remove again](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1712) |
| 89 | +- [uefi/test-runner: Remove `crate::` and `uefi::` prefix from Status](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1714) |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1681) --> |
| 92 | +<!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.33.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1696) --> |
| 93 | +<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1697) --> |
| 94 | +<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1702) --> |
| 95 | +<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1707) --> |
| 96 | +<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1715) --> |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +Thanks to [@seijikun](https://github.com/seijikun), [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop), [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611), [@renovate[bot]](https://github.com/apps/renovate), [@RenTrieu](https://github.com/RenTrieu), and [@diamant3](https://github.com/diamant3) for their contributions! |
| 99 | + |
| 100 | + |
| 101 | +### [`ovmf-prebuilt`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt) |
| 102 | +<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop) and [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp)</span> |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | +The `ovmf-prebuilt` project provides pre-built [edk2](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2) releases to make it easier to set up OVMF. We merged the following improvement this month: |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | +<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/181) |
| 107 | +- [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/182) |
| 108 | +- [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/183) |
| 109 | +- [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/185) --> |
| 110 | +- [Split Source constants into a new file](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/186) |
| 111 | +<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/187) --> |
| 112 | + |
| 113 | + |
| 114 | +### [`multiboot2`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2) |
| 115 | +<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611)</span> |
| 116 | + |
| 117 | +_Convenient and safe parsing of Multiboot2 Boot Information (MBI) structures and |
| 118 | +the contained information tags. Usable in no_std environments, such as a kernel. |
| 119 | +An optional builder feature also allows the construction of the corresponding |
| 120 | +structures._ |
| 121 | + |
| 122 | +We merged the following PRs this month: |
| 123 | + |
| 124 | +- [update workspace, Rust edition 2024, fixes](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/267) |
| 125 | +<!-- - [build(deps): bump crate-ci/typos from 1.31.2 to 1.32.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/269) |
| 126 | +- [build(deps): bump uefi-raw from 0.8.0 to 0.11.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/268) --> |
| 127 | + |
| 128 | + |
| 129 | +### [`virtio-spec-rs`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/virtio-spec-rs) |
| 130 | +<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@mkroening](https://github.com/mkroening)</span> |
| 131 | + |
| 132 | +The `virtio-spec` crate provides definitions from the Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) specification. |
| 133 | +This project aims to be unopinionated regarding actual VIRTIO drivers that are implemented on top of this crate. |
| 134 | + |
| 135 | +We merged the following PRs this month: |
| 136 | + |
| 137 | +- [ci: run Miri](https://github.com/rust-osdev/virtio-spec-rs/pull/4) |
| 138 | +<!-- - [build(deps): upgrade dependencies](https://github.com/rust-osdev/virtio-spec-rs/pull/3) --> |
| 139 | +- [fix(net): make HdrGso an enum instead of a flag](https://github.com/rust-osdev/virtio-spec-rs/pull/2) |
| 140 | +- [add support of console](https://github.com/rust-osdev/virtio-spec-rs/pull/1) |
| 141 | +- [chore: release version 0.3.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/virtio-spec-rs/pull/5) |
| 142 | + |
| 143 | +Thanks to [@stlankes](https://github.com/stlankes) for their contribution! |
| 144 | + |
| 145 | + |
| 146 | +### [`bootloader`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader) |
| 147 | +<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp) and [@Freax13](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/Freax13)</span> |
| 148 | + |
| 149 | +The `bootloader` crate implements a custom Rust-based bootloader for easy loading of 64-bit ELF executables. This month, we merged the following improvements: |
| 150 | + |
| 151 | +- [Document physical memory mapping size](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/506) |
| 152 | + |
| 153 | +Thanks to [@aaronzper](https://github.com/aaronzper) for their contribution! |
| 154 | + |
| 155 | + |
| 156 | +### [`x86_64`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64) |
| 157 | +<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp), [@josephlr](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/josephlr), and [@Freax13](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/Freax13)</span> |
| 158 | + |
| 159 | +The `x86_64` crate provides various abstractions for `x86_64` systems, including wrappers for CPU instructions, access to processor-specific registers, and abstraction types for architecture-specific structures such as page tables and descriptor tables. |
| 160 | + |
| 161 | +We merged the following PRs this month: |
| 162 | + |
| 163 | +- [Add "FMask" alias for SFMask.](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/552) |
| 164 | + |
| 165 | +Thanks to [@ChocolateLoverRaj](https://github.com/ChocolateLoverRaj) for their contribution! |
| 166 | + |
| 167 | + |
| 168 | +## Other Projects |
| 169 | + |
| 170 | +In this section, we describe updates to Rust OS projects that are not directly related to the `rust-osdev` organization. Feel free to [create a pull request](https://github.com/rust-osdev/homepage/pulls) with the updates of your OS project for the next post. |
| 171 | + |
| 172 | +<!-- |
| 173 | + Please use the following template: |
| 174 | +
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| 175 | + ### [`owner_name/repo_name`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/owner_name/repo_name) |
| 176 | + <span class="maintainers">(Section written by [@your_github_name](https://github.com/your_github_name))</span> |
| 177 | +
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| 178 | + ...<<your project updates>>... |
| 179 | +--> |
| 180 | + |
| 181 | + |
| 182 | +<span class="gray">No projects updates were submitted this month.</span> |
| 183 | + |
| 184 | +## Join Us? |
| 185 | + |
| 186 | +Are you interested in Rust-based operating system development? Our `rust-osdev` organization is always open to new members and new projects. Just let us know if you want to join! A good way for getting in touch is our [Zulip chat](https://rust-osdev.zulipchat.com). |
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