Date bug affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates

The Ubuntu Project has announcedthat a bug in the Rust-based uutils version of thedate command shipped with Ubuntu25.10 broke automaticupdates:

Some Ubuntu 25.10 systems have been unable to automatically checkfor available software updates. Affected machines include clouddeployments, container images, Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Serverinstalls.

The announcement includes remediation instructions for thoseaffected by the bug. Systems with the rust-coreutils packageversion 0.2.2-0ubuntu2 or earlier have the bug, it is fixed in0.2.2-0ubuntu2.1 or later. It does not impact manual updates using theapt command or other utilities.

Ubuntu embarked on a project to "oxidize" the distribution byswitching to uutils and sudo-rsfor the 25.10 release, and to see if the Rust-based utilities would besuitable for the long-term-release slated for next April. LWN covered that project inMarch.