rust-embedded / rust-embedded/cortex-m
Deprecation of `bare-metal`
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Description
A run of cargo audit today picked up on RUSTSC-2026-0110 for the deprecation of bare-metal. This was detected because cortex-m has a dependency on bare-metal. It does not look like that dependency is actually in use. Should it be removed?
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the reported cargo audit finding for RUSTSEC-2026-0110 and inspect how cortex-m declares its dependency on bare-metal. Confirm whether the dependency is unused, remove it if appropriate, and rerun cargo audit to verify that the advisory is no longer reported.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- embedded-iot
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 62/100