Canonical Joins the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member

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Canonical’s Gold-level investment in the Rust Foundation supports the long-term health of the Rust programming language and highlights its growing role in building resilient systems on Ubuntu and beyond. AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS — March 23, 2026 (Open Source SecurityCon, KubeCon Europe 2026) — The Rust Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing the performance, safety, and sustainability of the Rust programming language, today announced that Canonical has joined the organization as a Gold Member. Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, one of the world’s most widely deployed Linux distributions. Through its broader work maintaining open source software, the company provides long-term security maintenance and support for hundreds of thousands of packages used by developers and organizations worldwide. Rust Foundation members play a critical role in supporting the governance, infrastructure, and long-term health of Rust. As a Gold Member, Canonical is making a significant investment in that work while supporting the growing use of Rust in production systems. “Rust has become a foundational technology for building safe and reliable systems, and its continued success depends on strong collaboration between the open source community and the organizations bringing it into production,” said Dr. Rebecca Rumbul, Executive Director and CEO of the Rust Foundation. “Canonical joining the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member is an important signal of Rust’s growing role in large-scale systems.” Canonical’s work with Rust starts with providing an up-to-date Rust toolchain for the Ubuntu software repositories, but extends to crafting a first-class Rust developer experience on Ubuntu. Ubuntu recently replaced core system components such as the coreutils and sudo with Rust implementations to bolster the resilience of the operating system and cloud platforms it underpins. Through its participation in the Rust Foundation, Canonical is helping support the continued development and stew...