'Questing Quokka' enters UI freeze as Ubuntu 25.10 nears release

The Quokka is a small, furry, and perpetually smiling marsupial from Australia. It's very cute – and now it's freezing.

Ubuntu "Questing Quokka" – which will be 25.10 – was already in Feature Freeze but now it's also in UI Freeze.

We've kept you informed of the plans since what we dubbed the Pudgy Puffin back in April, and while most of those things are coming true, there are also some last-minute changes.

We knew the plan was that Questing would swap GNU coreutils for Rust. Well, the new sudo-rs is now in place.

There's been a lot of recent development activity in the Rust Coreutils project. Version 0.2 appeared on September 6. As Linux benchmarking site Phoronix reports, the big gains are in performance. Until recently, the new Rusty tools were about ten times slower than the traditional GNU versions implemented in C, but as ...