Yes, there's a paper! That's the first bit of news.
*"Miri: Practical Undefined Behavior Detection for Rust"* has been accepted to POPL 2026, one of the most prestigious and competitive conferences for fundamental research in Programming Languages.
+**Update (2026-02-04):** A recording of the conference talk about this paper is now also [available online](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9A8ZeDIStAs).
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## Miri progress
The paper aside, what progress has Miri made in the last three years?
## How you can help
If you want to help improve Miri, that's awesome!
-The [issue tracker](https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/issues) is a good place to start; the list of issues is short enough that you can just browse through it rather quickly to see if anything pikes your interest.
+The [issue tracker](https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/issues) is a good place to start; the list of issues is short enough that you can just browse through it rather quickly to see if anything piques your interest.
The ones that are particularly suited for getting started are marked with a green label.
Another good starting point is to try to implement the missing bit of functionality that keeps your test suite from working.
That said, you should have gathered some Rust experience in a simpler project before tackling Miri; Miri is not a good codebase for your first steps in Rust.