### **Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 Release:**

This is a patch release focused on critical infrastructure fixes to ensure reliable distribution and deployment across different platforms.
We also improved the performance of base64 to be faster than the GNU implementation (1.56 times faster).

## What's Changed

## base64
* base64: improve perfs by using the base64-simd crate by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8578

## cp
* cp: fix copying current directory (.) to existing directory by @Vesal-J in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8565

## nl
* nl: allow non-UTF8 section delimiter by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8575

## stty
* Avoid panic in stty by @julian-klode in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8559

## uucore
* uucore/build.rs: rename function by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8584

## Distribution & Build
* manage the locales when the program is coming from crates.io by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8571
* link musl libc statically by @Ecordonnier in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8585
* Prepare version 0.2.2 by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8588

## Documentation
* release notes: store a copy in-tree too by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8564

## Dependencies
* chore(deps): update rust crate winapi-util to v0.1.11 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8570
* fix(deps): update rust crate console to v0.16.1 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8577
* chore(deps): update rust crate chrono to v0.4.42 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8576
* chore(deps): update rust crate linux-raw-sys to 0.11 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8580

## New Contributors
* @Vesal-J made their first contribution in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8565

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/compare/0.2.0...0.2.2
