Tonic is joining the gRPC project
Tonic is transitioning to become part of the gRPC project, specifically grpc/grpc-rust. This change aims to enhance the gRPC implementation in Rust and support the existing tonic community. A preview release of the new grpc crate is expected soon, which will maintain compatibility with current tonic users.
- ▪Tonic will be upstreamed to the official gRPC project as grpc/grpc-rust.
- ▪The transition is a response to the challenges of maintaining the tonic project and the need for new features.
- ▪The new grpc crate will include optimizations and a fresh implementation while remaining compatible with tonic's existing code.
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Tonic is joining the gRPC project May 19, 2026 at 10:00 6 min read Over the next week hyperium/tonic will become grpc/grpc-rust and we will publish a preview release of the new grpc crate. This marks a significant next step for the tonic project and for all gRPC users in Rust as it will be upstreamed to the official gRPC project. The gRPC project is a part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a division of The Linux Foundation. How tonic got here Before we get into the details, I would like to first give a little summary of the history of tonic. I created the project summer of 2019 mostly because I wanted to write some distributed systems in Rust.
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