Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

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Ubuntu 26. 10 completes the distro’s move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to memory-safe versions. cp, mv and rm were held back on their GNU versions in Ubuntu 26. 04 LTS due to a crop of TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) issues that needed to be fixed in the uutils versions. With those issues resolved upstream, Ubuntu 26. 10 finishes the job. Ubuntu 25. 10 was the first release to ship with Rust-based utilities and made Rust-based sudo the default.

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