Canonical has become a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, committing €40,000/year to support the development of memory-safe system utilities written in Rust. The collaboration builds on prior co-sponsorship of sudo-rs, which became the default in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The next phase focuses on adopting ntpd-rs as the default time synchronization client and server in Ubuntu, targeting testing in Ubuntu 26.10 and default status in Ubuntu 27.04. Funded work includes gpsd IP socket support, multi-threading for NTP servers, multi-homed server support, AppArmor/seccomp profiles, and gPTP support for connected vehicle deployments.
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