Notify#

I released notify v9.0.0-rc.5 on August 30, continuing work toward v9.

I added automatic backend selection for native FreeBSD builds. A follow-up extended inotify selection to FreeBSD 14.5+, while older versions continue to use kqueue:

• Select the FreeBSD backend at build time
• Enable inotify selection on FreeBSD 14.5+

I also migrated the workspace to the Rust 2024 edition.

Reviewed 21 PRs this month, including platform-specific fixes and performance improvements:

• Guard against FSEvents closing unrelated file descriptors when watching too many paths
• Detect file modification times changing within the same second in PollWatcher
• Avoid repeated filesystem metadata queries when adding a Windows watch

Still no ETA for v9 but that release would be cool.

Actix#

For actix-web, nothing major but I updated syn to v3 in the proc-macro crates and refreshed GitHub Actions and their lockfile:

• Upgrade syn to v3
• Update GitHub Actions

I also fixed actix-net CI by removing unused test imports.

Review work included graceful shutdown support across actix-net and actix-web, and the removal of actix-files’ experimental io-uring integration:

• Notify server services when graceful shutdown starts
• Close idle HTTP/1 connections and finish active requests during graceful shutdown
• Remove experimental io-uring support from actix-files

Reviewed 45 PRs across Actix repositories this month.

Rust#

Most of my authored Rust work this month was CI maintenance and platform support documentation.

I pinned cc to v1.4.0 to unblock libc CI while waiting for an upstream fix. Later in the month, I adjusted libc’s CI for the removal of i686-pc-windows-gnu host tools, removed duplicate repr(C) attributes, and switched the Android CI image to Debian.

I also moved i686-pc-windows-gnu to the Tier 2 without host tools section in rustc’s platform support documentation.

Reviewed 28 PRs on rust-lang/rust and 10 PRs on rust-lang/libc this month. Reviewing PRs on rust-lang/rust is quite fun but also takes my time and energy. I hope I could dedicate my time to other projects more…

rust-phf#

I reviewed 3 maintenance PRs, covering dependency and CI tooling updates:

• Update trybuild
• Update zizmor
• Update rust-cache

Personal projects#

I released mach2 v0.7.0, with bindings and CI updates for Xcode 26.6.0 and its 26.5 SDKs. The release also includes new Mach port attribute and notification bindings, which I reviewed this month.