#Phoronix Phoronix * Articles & Reviews * News Archive * Forums * Premium Ad-Free * Contact * Popular Categories * Close * * Articles & Reviews * News Archive * Forums * Premium * Contact * Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals * ____________________ Search Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 11 June 2026 at 12:15 PM EDT. 15 Comments PROGRAMMING Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default. Git 2.55-rc0 landed the change to enable Rust by default. Up to this point you had to opt-in to Rust by default with Meson or the standard Makefile with WITH_RUST. But beginning in Git 2.55, the Rust support is now assumed by default. With Git 2.55, users can choose to opt-out of the Rust support if they so desire. Git 2.55 changes the "WITH_RUST" option in the Makefile to "NO_RUST" can be set if wanting to avoid the Rust code in Git 2.55. The Meson "rust" option is set to "enabled" but likewise can be set to disabled in this version. Git Rust default enabling merge It's with Git 3.0 where Rust will always be enabled without the ability to disable. Also on the Git 2.55 side around the Rust programming language are preparations for making the xdiff code work with Rust. Git 2.55 has also been baking a number of optimizations, bug fixes, and minor enhancements to different Git sub commands. More details can be found via today's Git 2.55-rc0 announcement. 15 Comments Tweet IFRAME: //www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://www.phoronix.com/news/ Git-2.55-rc0-Released&width=200&height=46&colorscheme=light&layout=butt on_count&action=like&show_faces=false&send=true Related News Lightweight Pragtical Code Editor Adds SDL GPU Backend Redis 8.8 Released With New Array Data Structure, More Performance Optimizations KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations Rust-Based Wild Linker 0.9 Brings New Platform Coverage, Linker Plugin API chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL Vim Merges GTK4 Toolkit Support, Co-Authored-By Claude About The Author Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. 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