mastodon 4.7.3Open infrastructure software in the public interest. Maintainers of ntpd-rs, Statime, sudo-rs, zlib-rs and teach-rs.
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 in Folkert's blog: https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-in-firefox/
Thanks to @glandium@mozilla.social, @gabrielesvelto@mas.to, Bobby Holley, @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl, @sovtechfund@mastodon.social, Chainguard, Astral / @charliermarsh@hachyderm.io, @mozilla@mastodon.social, @ProssimoISRG@infosec.exchange
We are 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: https://trifectatech.org/blog/announcing-zstandard-in-rust/
Zstandard is a modern successor to zlib, providing better compression faster.
Thanks to Chainguard, Astral / @charliermarsh@hachyderm.io, @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl, and @sovtechfund@mastodon.social.
Trifecta Tech Foundation is delighted to welcome Canonical as a new Gold sponsor!
Read more on: https://trifectatech.org/blog/new-gold-sponsor-canonical/
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.
Zlib-rs offers an alternative to C/C++ counterparts. It provides on-par (or better!) performance while reducing attack surface through memory safety.
With thanks to our maintainer @folkertdev@hachyderm.io, our contributors and @sovtechfund@mastodon.social.
Announcement: ntpd-rs is coming to @ubuntu@ubuntu.social! In RustNation's closing keynote Canonical announced that we are preparing ntpd-rs, our Network Time Protocol implementation, for Ubuntu.
They will support our work and help us reach a long-term goal in our roadmap: shipping both NTP and the Precision Time Protocol in a single utility.
Also, a big thanks to @jnsgruk@hachyderm.io for the wonderful compliments about sudo-rs in Ubuntu.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOA4GA8tAWA&list=PL1AoGvxomykQcqQZ9oKh3MEi9jcvuoqb6&index=14
The Network Time Protocol is generally used completely unprotected, much like the web was before HTTPS. At @fosdem@fosstodon.org 2026, Ruben explained how we aim to push adoption of secure time (NTS) using pools of NTS servers.
Video and slides: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/J8UN83-securing_time_with_nts/
Folkert and Waffle have submitted a project goal to move explicit tail calls forward in 2026. In this blog, Folkert explains the work ahead: https://trifectatech.org/blog/tail-calls-project-goal/
** Announcement ** Ubuntu to adopt ntpd-rs as the default time synchronization client and server.
We're proud of this huge next step for ntpd-rs, and the boost to the impact of our work!
With thanks to @ubuntu@ubuntu.social for their continued support, and our partners and previous supporters, @ProssimoISRG@infosec.exchange, @sovtechfund@mastodon.social, @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz and @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl for making this possible.
https://trifectatech.org/blog/announcing-ntpd-rs-as-default-on-ubuntu/
Ubuntu 25.10, running our sudo-rs as the default sudo, has just been released!
"Rust-based implementations of sudo and coreutils for improved memory safety"
https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka
In our data compression projects, we sometimes hit limitations in Rust itself and in the surrounding tooling.
In this blog, Folkert covers some of our contributions to the Rust compiler and shows how we have become increasingly comfortable fixing these issues ourselves: https://trifectatech.org/blog/fixing-our-own-problems-in-the-rust-compiler/
The joint statement “Improving Europe's cybersecurity posture through memory safety”, has now been published: https://trifectatech.org/blog/calling-for-memory-safety-incentives-in-eu-cybersecurity-policies/
It calls for stronger #MemorySafety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies.
It is endorsed by industry leaders like Infineon Technologies, and industry and academic experts, including experts from Signify, Volvo Cars, Radboud University and Delft University of Technology.
We look forward to presenting it to national and EU policymakers in 2026.
Sudo-rs maintainer Marc Schoolderman was invited to the 2025 Ubuntu Summit to talk about the design choices that shaped sudo-rs.
Watch the talk here: https://trifectatech.org/blog/video-sudo-rs-and-beyond/
Ruben is headed to FOSDEM! Catch his talk 'Securing time with NTS' on Sun 1 Feb at 13.20 in room H.2215 (Ferrer)!
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/J8UN83-securing_time_with_nts/
Watch Marc's talk at the Ubuntu Summit in London, "Sudo-rs and beyond":
https://www.youtube.com/live/bEEamxJ60aI?t=18244s
New release of sudo-rs! Version 0.2.11 is out with askpass and multi-lingual support.
We've already started on making sudo speak Dutch. Want to see it in your language? You can start helping out today. PR's are always welcome!
We thank the @sovtechfund@mastodon.social for investing in this work, as well as 15 external contributors!
https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/releases/tag/v0.2.11
How do you test code that a CI machine won't run? To support avx-512 SIMD instructions in zlib-rs, we taught Miri how to emulate them.
https://trifectatech.org/blog/emulating-avx-512-intrinsics-in-miri/
Hello world! Trifecta Tech Foundation is a brand-new nonprofit organization that develops and maintains #opensource infrastructure software.
We are the new long-term home for infrastructure projects like sudo and NTP in Rust, and ecosystem projects such as teach-rs.
@erikjee@fosstodon.org @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl @sovtechfund@mastodon.social @ProssimoISRG@infosec.exchange @ferrous@social.ferrous-systems.com @tweedegolf@fosstodon.org
https://trifectatech.org/blog/trifecta-tech-foundation-announcement/
Canonical's @jnsgruk@hachyderm.io talks about our sudo-rs and ntpd-rs (!) in @ubuntu@ubuntu.social, and his bold but level-headed vision on Rust's future for Ubuntu, in the Rust in Production podcast with host @mre@mastodon.social:
Plugfest! Ruben and David joined 70 time sync experts to test the next version of NTP, and the all-new Client Server PTP (CSPTP) during the #ISPCS Plugfest in Ottawa:
First implementations of CSPTP (IEEE 1588.1) were tested against each other with Meinberg and NetTimeLogic.
Our #opensource implementation of CSPTP runs in ntpd-rs, with our PTP library Statime under the hood.
We thank Meinberg and Heiko Gerstung for supporting our travel costs.
Images by Meinberg and IEEE I&M Society.
