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GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2
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GNU Hurd's Q2 2026 report covers incremental progress on AArch64 kernel support, a 9P filesystem translator, Rust-based translator development, and dynamic SATA device population among other improvements.
The AArch64 patches bring Hurd closer to running on ARM hardware like Apple M1 and Raspberry Pi, though they remain unmerged and untested on bare metal. Dynamic device population would eliminate Hurd's reliance on static /dev entries, a long-standing architectural limitation. The 9pfs and Rust translator work expand the ecosystem's connectivity options and language surface area, respectively.
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Paulo Duarte submitted RFC patches for AArch64 kernel-side implementation that pass all tests under QEMU but lack bare-metal validation on actual ARM hardware.
Sergey Bugaev published a work-in-progress 9P filesystem translator with basic read and partial write support, though VM-host file sharing via virtio-9p remains blocked on unimplemented virtio support in Hurd.
Mikhail Karpov's work on storeio and the expanded partfs translator enables dynamic SATA device population at boot, replacing the current static /dev entry model.
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