<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@GabrielMajeri](https://github.com/GabrielMajeri), [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop), and [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611)</span>

`uefi` makes it easy to develop Rust software that leverages safe, convenient,

and performant abstractions for UEFI functionality.

We merged the following PRs this month:

- [relicensing: Rewrite PR "DevicePathToText and DevicePathFromText Protocol"](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1528)

- [Relicense to "MIT OR Apache-2.0"](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1531)

- [Add SPDX headers](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1532)

- [release: uefi-raw-0.10.0, uefi-macros-0.18.0, uefi-0.34.0](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1533)

- [uefi: Update license info in docstring](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1534)

- [release: uefi-0.34.1](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1535)

- [uefi-raw: add Boolean type](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1536)

- [uefi-raw: use new Boolean type ](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1538)

- [xtask/uefi-raw: improve check-raw error messages](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1537)

- [Fix upcoming lints in clippy 1.85](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1541)

- [uefi: clarify situation with `boot::memory_map()` and `Status::BUFFER_TOO_SMALL`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1540)

- [Fix uefi-raw MSRV build, and improve CI for MSRV](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1542)

- [Add PXE types to uefi-raw](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1543)

- [uefi: Replace definition of MacAddress with a re-export from uefi-raw](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1547)

- [Use bitflags definitions from uefi-raw in uefi's pxe module](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1548)

- [uefi: Fix the BufferSize argument in SimpleNetwork::transmit](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1550)

- [Use newtype enum definitions from uefi-raw in uefi's pxe module](https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/pull/1551)

<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp) and [@Freax13](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/Freax13)</span>

The `bootloader` crate implements a custom Rust-based bootloader for easy loading of 64-bit ELF executables. This month, we merged the following improvements:

- [Update `x86_64` to `0.15.2`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/490)

- [change rustc-abi in custom targets to x86-softfloat](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/491)

- [[v0.9] change rustc-abi in custom targets to x86-softfloat](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/492)

- [Release `v0.11.10`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/493)

- [Update uart_16550 to 0.3.2](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/495)

- [Specify kernel-code virt addr in BootloaderConfig](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/494)

- [Use `Result::ok`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/496)

Thanks to [@Stazer](https://github.com/Stazer), [@Wasabi375](https://github.com/Wasabi375), and [@ChocolateLoverRaj](https://github.com/ChocolateLoverRaj) for their contributions!

<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp), [@josephlr](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/josephlr), and [@Freax13](https://github.com/orgs/rust-osdev/people/Freax13)</span>

The `x86_64` crate provides various abstractions for `x86_64` systems, including wrappers for CPU instructions, access to processor-specific registers, and abstraction types for architecture-specific structures such as page tables and descriptor tables.

We merged the following PRs this month:

- [Ensure that addition and subtraction of addresses panics on overflow/underflow](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/535)

- [don't pass -Crelocation-model=static to host targets](https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64/pull/536)

Thanks to [@farnz](https://github.com/farnz) for their contribution!

<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@IsaacWoods](https://github.com/IsaacWoods)</span>

The `acpi` repository contains crates for parsing the ACPI tables – data structures that the firmware of modern computers use to relay information about the hardware to the OS. We merged the following changes this month:

- [acpi: fix build errors](https://github.com/rust-osdev/acpi/pull/240)

Thanks to [@jellllly420](https://github.com/jellllly420) for their contribution!

<span class="maintainers">Maintained by [@nicholasbishop](https://github.com/nicholasbishop) and [@phil-opp](https://github.com/phil-opp)</span>

The `ovmf-prebuilt` project provides pre-built [edk2](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2) releases to make it easier to set up OVMF. We merged the following improvement this month:

- [Add 202408.01, 202411, and 202502 releases](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/139)

- [fix(deps): update rust crate ureq to v3](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/146)

- [Set `Source::LATEST` to `EDK2_STABLE202502_R1`](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/145)

- [release: 0.2.2](https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/pull/140)

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Thanks to [@mkroening](https://github.com/mkroening) for their contributions!