Contribution report for Apr. 2026

Contribution summary#

237 commits authored.
87 pull requests opened.
96 pull request reviews submitted.
1 issue opened.

(You can find my full contributions in April here)

Focus areas#

Actix#

April had a lot of Actix maintenance across the project.

For actix-web, I prepared the actix-http v3.12.1 release: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/releases/tag/http-v3.12.1

I also worked on multipart fixes and follow-ups:

Fix parser buffering cap: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/pull/4025
Fix a multipart parser panic: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/pull/4024
Count ignored fields toward MultipartFormConfig limits: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/pull/4026
Prepare actix-multipart 0.8.0: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/pull/4027

Other actix-web work included adding the cookie_raw API, supporting multi-component path params in actix-files, fixing web::Data drop behavior during graceful shutdown, and reducing a few needless allocations:

For actix-net, I spent time on bytestring performance and released bytestring v1.5.1: https://github.com/actix/actix-net/releases/tag/bytestring-v1.5.1

I also wrote Actix security documentation and hardened GitHub Actions usage across several repositories:

Incident response plan: https://github.com/actix/.github/pull/1
Threat model: https://github.com/actix/.github/pull/2
Example zizmor hardening PR: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/pull/4054

Notify#

Continued working toward notify v9.

Released notify v9.0.0-rc.3 and notify-debouncer-full v0.8.0-rc.1:

There were also a few fixes and performance improvements:

Avoid rebuilding queues during flush: https://github.com/notify-rs/notify/pull/883
Speed up debouncer hashing with rustc-hash: https://github.com/notify-rs/notify/pull/896
Preserve watched path representations across backends: https://github.com/notify-rs/notify/pull/901
Replace watcher state correctly when rewatching: https://github.com/notify-rs/notify/pull/906
Fix kqueue path handling for non-recursive watchers: https://github.com/notify-rs/notify/pull/907

The remaining v9 queue is mostly about tightening behavior and checking platform-specific edge cases.

Rust#

I opened a stabilization PR for tcp_deferaccept: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/154834

On libc, I helped with the 0.2.186 release and CI/security maintenance:

Migrate CI from Cirrus CI to GitHub Actions: https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/pull/5058
Backports for 0.2.186: https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/pull/5074
Release 0.2.186: https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/pull/5075
SHA-pin actions: https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/pull/5078
Track further action pinning work: https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/issues/5063

rust-phf#

I also did some rust-phf maintenance, including an experimental ptrhash feature and a security policy:

Personal projects#

Rewrote the rust-thanks-card action: https://github.com/JohnTitor/rust-thanks-card/pull/272

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