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GNU Hurd Makes Progress On AArch64, Writing Translators In Rust
Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 18 July 2026 at 08:53 PM EDT. 8 Comments
The GNU Hurd project recently issued their Q2'2026 status report to outline recently development efforts. The Hurd is still happening!
The GNU Hurd Q2-2026 progress report was published earlier this month but only yesterday did their project site get fixed up to once again restore its RSS feed. While not as pronounced as the Linux development pace or even some other efforts like Haiku and Redox, GNU Hurd developers continue persevering in its development.
Some of the Hurd efforts over the past quarter included announcing work on a 9P translator for the Hurd, with motivation to use it for browsing files and potentially with virtio-9p to share directory trees between VMs and the host. Hurd also saw msync validation work to better follow the POSIX specification. Separately was also work on allowing privileged users to set their task priority nice value.
Hurd has been seeing work towards AArch64 support. In Q2 there was also activity on getting more of that AArch64 work upstream into the kernel.
Hurd in Q2 also saw work on a TRIVFS implementation within the Rust programming language. This work isn't yet complete but does demonstrate the possibility of writing Hurd translators in Rust. More details on that here.
Some other activities include porting of Neovim, ongoing work to port OpenBSD's OpenNTPD, Glibc enhancements, and other porting activities.
More details on the second quarter work around GNU Hurd can be found via the status report on GNU.org.
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