This Month in Rust OSDev: October 2025

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+title = "This Month in Rust OSDev: October 2025"
+date = 2025-11-07
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+month = "October 2025"
+editors = ["phil-opp"]
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+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.
+
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+
+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.
+
+<!--
+    This is a draft for the upcoming "This Month in Rust OSDev (October 2025)" post.
+    Feel free to create pull requests against the `next` branch to add your
+    content here.
+    Please take a look at the past posts on https://rust-osdev.com/ to see the
+    general structure of these posts.
+-->
+
+## Announcements, News, and Blog Posts
+
+Here we collect news, blog posts, etc. related to OS development in Rust.
+
+<!--
+Please follow this template:
+
+- [Title](https://example.com)
+  - (optional) Some additional context
+-->
+
+- [This Month in Redox - October 2025](https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-251031/)
+- [Patina: a Rust implementation of UEFI firmware](https://opendevicepartnership.github.io/patina/introduction.html)
+- [Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes - who wins?](https://blog.cuongle.dev/p/inside-rusts-std-and-parking-lot-mutexes-who-win)
+- [Motor OS is now a Tier-3 target in Rust](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1oc2c8b/motor_os_is_now_a_tier3_target_in_rust/)
+
+## Infrastructure and Tooling
+
+In this section, we collect recent updates to `rustc`, `cargo`, and other tooling that are relevant to Rust OS development.
+
+<!--
+    Please use the following template:
+
+- [Title](https://example.com)
+  - (optional) Some additional context
+-->
+
+- [What's the status/blocker for `allocator_api` to be stabilized?](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1op6g64/whats_the_statusblocker_for_allocator_api_to_be/)
+
+
+
+## `rust-osdev` Projects
+
+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.
+
+<!--
+    Please use the following template:
+
+    ### [`repo_name`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/repo_name)
+    <span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@maintainer_1](https://github.com/maintainer_1)</span>
+
+    The `repo_name` crate ...<<short introduction>>...
+
+    We merged the following changes this month:
+    <<changelog, either in list or text form>>
+-->
+
+### [`acpi`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@IsaacWoods](https://github.com/IsaacWoods)</span>
+
+The `acpi` repository contains crates for parsing the ACPI tables – data structures that the firmware of modern computers use to relay information about the hardware to the OS. We merged the following changes this month:
+
+- [aarch64 fixes](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/261)
+
+Thanks to [@jackpot51](https://github.com/jackpot51) for their contributions!
+
+
+### [`ovmf-prebuilt`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop) and [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp)</span>
+
+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:
+
+- [Add loongarch support](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/211)
+- [Update the riscv64 toolchain](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/216)
+- [feat: add LoongArch64 architecture support and update to latest prebuilt version](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/217)
+- [release: 0.2.4 with edk2-stable202508-r1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/218)
+
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update actions/checkout action to v5](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/197) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/220) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/221) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/222) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/223) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/224) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/225) -->
+
+Thanks to [@ZR233](https://github.com/ZR233) for their contribution!
+
+
+### [`uefi-rs`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@GabrielMajeri](https://github.com/GabrielMajeri), [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop), and [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611)</span>
+
+`uefi` makes it easy to develop Rust software that leverages safe, convenient,
+and performant abstractions for UEFI functionality.
+
+We merged the following PRs this month:
+
+- [ci: fix latest nightly issues](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1773)
+- [style: apply/fix more clippy lints (from cargo::nursery)](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1761)
+- [uefi-raw: net: add convenient into_* helpers](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1778)
+- [uefi-raw: net: code improvements](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1776)
+- [uefi-raw: net: add convenient From impls + integration with core::net](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1777)
+- [uefi: Improve AlignedBuffer API with more accessors and copy_from_iter()](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1787)
+- [uefi: Add bindings for the HII_CONFIG_ROUTING protocol](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1753)
+- [uefi: document udp_read of PXE protocol + improve test](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1785)
+- [uefi-raw: add unit test for typical high-level net API usage](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1781)
+- [uefi: Wrap AtaPassThruProtocol in UnsafeCell](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1782)
+- [uefi: Wrap ScsiPassThruProtocol in UnsafeCell](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1792)
+- [uefi: Wrap NmvePassThruProtocol in UnsafeCell](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1793)
+- [uefi: use core::net-types in public API + remove duplications](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1780)
+- [uefi: remove inconsistent println!](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1794)
+- [style: apply/fix more clippy lints (from cargo::nursery) (2/2)](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1774)
+- [release: uefi-raw-0.12.0, uefi-macros-0.19.0, uefi-0.36.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1795)
+- [uefi-raw/uefi: Replace doc_auto_cfg with doc_cfg](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1796)
+- [uefi-raw: Replace remaining uses of bool with Boolean](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1801)
+- [xtask: Check uefi-raw for uses of the primitive bool type](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1802)
+- [uefi: improve doc for device path construction](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1800)
+
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.37.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1772) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update codecov/codecov-action action to v5.5.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1771) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.37.2](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1775) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update rust crate ovmf-prebuilt to v0.2.4](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1784) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update rust crate fs-err to v3.1.3](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1783) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): lock file maintenance](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1788) -->
+<!-- - [chore(deps): update crate-ci/typos action to v1.38.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1790) -->
+
+Thanks to [@seijikun](https://github.com/seijikun) for their contribution!
+
+### [`multiboot2`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2)
+<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611)</span>
+
+_Convenient and safe parsing of Multiboot2 Boot Information (MBI) structures and
+the contained information tags. Usable in no_std environments, such as a kernel.
+An optional builder feature also allows the construction of the corresponding
+structures._
+
+We merged the following PRs this month:
+
+- [ci: dependabot auto-merge](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/274)
+- [misc updates & improvements](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/275)
+- [workspace: unify](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/276)
+- [clippy: lifetime warnings](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/278)
+
+<!-- - [build(deps): bump crate-ci/typos from 1.35.7 to 1.37.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/273) -->
+<!-- - [build(deps): bump crate-ci/typos from 1.37.0 to 1.37.2](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/pull/277) -->
+
+
+## Other Projects
+
+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.
+
+<!--
+    Please use the following template:
+
+    ### [`owner_name/repo_name`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/owner_name/repo_name)
+    <span class="maintainers">(Section written by [@your_github_name](https://github.com/your_github_name))</span>
+
+    ...<<your project updates>>...
+-->
+
+
+<span class="gray">No projects updates were submitted this month.</span>
+
+
+## Join Us?
+
+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).