The Embedded Working Group Newsletter - 10

This is the tenth newsletter of the Embedded WG where we highlight new progress, celebrate cool projects, thank the community, and advertise projects that need help!

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Highlights

• We have a blog! We'll be posting newsletters, notices for upcoming changes, and embedded related articles there in the upcoming future. Use RSS? It has an RSS feed! Check out the blog on github to make any corrections or to contribute an article
• Nightly Rust has switched to lld for Cortex-M targets as a default. See the blog post for how to handle this change
• There have been updates to cortex-m, cortex-m-rt, and cortex-m-quickstart! Check out the linked changelogs to see what is new. Also, the latest release of each of these no longer require arm-none-eabi-gcc!

Embedded Projects

If you have an embedded project or blog post you would like to have featured in the Embedded WG Newsletter, make sure to mention it on the tracking issue for the next newsletter, we would love to show it off!

• Support for aarch64-unknown-none has landed upstream! It is now possible to write bare-metal Rust code for 64-bit ARM architectures

embedded-hal Ecosystem Crates

As part of the Weekly Driver Initiative, crates that are part of the embedded-hal ecosystem are now tracked in the Awesome Embedded Rust repository. Here is a current snapshot of what is available there:

Help Wanted

• Take a minute to check out the wg help wanted issues as labeled on our issue tracker!