Ubuntu 25.10 Adds New Rust Library to Default Installs

A new Rust-based library is included by default in Ubuntu 25.10 ‘Questing Quokka’, designed to bolster Canonical’s hardware story for Ubuntu Pro. The rust-hwlib package is described as “part of the hardware-api project, owned and developed by Canonical Hardware Certification team. It will be used by Ubuntu pro-client to retrieve information about the machine and check its certification status.” (sic). With no similar or comparable package in main—the primary Ubuntu repository for packages which are part of default installations and for which Canonical commits to ongoing support—this library is being added in Ubuntu 25.10. But a bug-report tracking the addition […]

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