diff --git a/.cargo/config.debian.toml b/.cargo/config.debian.toml
index f6d85c636..4d7000fdc 100644
--- a/.cargo/config.debian.toml
+++ b/.cargo/config.debian.toml
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Configure path to linker and emulators to use when running unit tests
 [target.aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu]
 linker = "aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc"
-runner = "qemu-aarch64-static"
+runner = "qemu-aarch64"
 [target.riscv64gc-unknown-linux-gnu]
 linker = "riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc"
-runner = "qemu-riscv64-static"
+runner = "qemu-riscv64"
 [target.x86_64-pc-windows-gnu]
 runner = "wine64"
 
diff --git a/devices/src/fw_cfg.rs b/devices/src/fw_cfg.rs
index e87942c34..5af41fbd8 100644
--- a/devices/src/fw_cfg.rs
+++ b/devices/src/fw_cfg.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 use std::collections::HashSet;
 use std::fs;
-use std::iter::repeat;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
 #[cfg(windows)]
@@ -273,7 +272,10 @@ impl FwCfgDevice {
             raw_file_dir.extend_from_slice(&[0, 0]);
             raw_file_dir.extend_from_slice(file.name.as_bytes());
             // Padding for c-style char[]
-            raw_file_dir.extend(repeat(0).take(FW_CFG_FILENAME_SIZE - file.name.len()));
+            raw_file_dir.extend(std::iter::repeat_n(
+                0,
+                FW_CFG_FILENAME_SIZE - file.name.len(),
+            ));
         }
 
         self.add_bytes(raw_file_dir, FwCfgItemType::FileDir);
diff --git a/devices/src/virtio/media.rs b/devices/src/virtio/media.rs
index 7e7e749b8..1e5bc5eba 100644
--- a/devices/src/virtio/media.rs
+++ b/devices/src/virtio/media.rs
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ pub fn create_virtio_media_v4l2_proxy_device<P: AsRef<Path>>(
         card: Default::default(),
     };
     let card = &device.caps().card;
-    let name_slice = &card.as_bytes()[0..std::cmp::min(card.as_bytes().len(), config.card.len())];
+    let name_slice = &card.as_bytes()[0..std::cmp::min(card.len(), config.card.len())];
     config.card.as_mut_slice()[0..name_slice.len()].copy_from_slice(name_slice);
     let device_path = PathBuf::from(device_path.as_ref());
 
diff --git a/net_util/build.rs b/net_util/build.rs
index f2dc05e31..5876b3f8f 100644
--- a/net_util/build.rs
+++ b/net_util/build.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ fn main() {
             libs.push(GLIB_FILENAME);
         }
         prebuilts::download_prebuilts("libslirp", version, &libs).unwrap();
+        for path in prebuilts::download_prebuilts("libslirp", version, &libs).unwrap() {
+            println!(
+                "cargo::rustc-link-search={}",
+                path.parent().unwrap().display()
+            );
+        }
     }
 
     // For unix, libslirp-sys's build script will make the appropriate linking calls to pkg_config.
diff --git a/rust-toolchain b/rust-toolchain
index 98da93896..526e32e2c 100644
--- a/rust-toolchain
+++ b/rust-toolchain
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 [toolchain]
-channel = "1.81.0"
+channel = "1.88.0"
 components = [ "rustfmt", "clippy", "llvm-tools-preview" ]
diff --git a/tools/deps/install-x86_64-other b/tools/deps/install-x86_64-other
index 7279e36b9..d001c297e 100755
--- a/tools/deps/install-x86_64-other
+++ b/tools/deps/install-x86_64-other
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ cargo binstall --no-confirm mdbook --version "0.4.25"
 cargo binstall --no-confirm mdbook-linkcheck --version "0.7.7"
 
 # Nextest is an improved test runner for cargo
-cargo binstall --no-confirm cargo-nextest --version "0.9.49"
+cargo binstall --no-confirm cargo-nextest --version "0.9.96"
 
 Red='\033[0;31m'
 Reset='\033[0m'
diff --git a/tools/impl/dev_container/version b/tools/impl/dev_container/version
index afb370433..4af71043a 100644
--- a/tools/impl/dev_container/version
+++ b/tools/impl/dev_container/version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-r0054
+r0055
diff --git a/tools/impl/testvm/cloud_init.yaml b/tools/impl/testvm/cloud_init.yaml
index d6c621572..792908081 100644
--- a/tools/impl/testvm/cloud_init.yaml
+++ b/tools/impl/testvm/cloud_init.yaml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ preserve_hostname: true
 # Runtime dependencies of crosvm binaries.
 # Note: Keep in sync with ./install-[aarch64-]deps.sh
 packages:
+    - binutils
     - e2fsprogs
     - gcc
     - libavcodec61
@@ -51,11 +52,11 @@ runcmd:
 
     # Install cargo-nextest using prebuilt binaries and validate checksum.
 {% if v1.machine == 'aarch64' %}
-    - curl -LsSf https://get.nexte.st/0.9.43/linux-arm | tar zxf - -C /usr/bin
-    - echo "59374b208807b5002f96c815a04f6bcc80d16707c2e8046471bb41043324363e /usr/bin/cargo-nextest" | sha256sum -c -
+    - curl -LsSf https://get.nexte.st/0.9.96/linux-arm | tar zxf - -C /usr/bin
+    - echo "dcf773f27abaa13d8aba20c0e448c3ab6e09785ca26e1c8ce7ebdb224d10f79d /usr/bin/cargo-nextest" | sha256sum -c -
 {% else %}
-    - curl -LsSf https://get.nexte.st/0.9.43/linux | tar zxf - -C /usr/bin
-    - echo "0b100bd45bbae6e7a4fa05f8f2cee0ca231997875ec43f984cd5ffaa2e6e9a98 /usr/bin/cargo-nextest" | sha256sum -c -
+    - curl -LsSf https://get.nexte.st/0.9.96/linux | tar zxf - -C /usr/bin
+    - echo "4d9d511e911b41dd71e87367bc5edb209199a46795fb1a8706be25803411cf39 /usr/bin/cargo-nextest" | sha256sum -c -
 {% endif %}
 
     # Enable core dumps for debugging crashes
diff --git a/tools/impl/testvm/version b/tools/impl/testvm/version
index ea1d9ddeb..08fffc1eb 100644
--- a/tools/impl/testvm/version
+++ b/tools/impl/testvm/version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-r0016
+r0017
diff --git a/tools/install-deps.ps1 b/tools/install-deps.ps1
index 457319971..23617a217 100644
--- a/tools/install-deps.ps1
+++ b/tools/install-deps.ps1
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ param (
     [Parameter(
         Position = 0
     )]
-    [string]$BASE_DIR = $Env:TEMP  ## 
+    [string]$BASE_DIR = $Env:TEMP  ##
 )
 
 $BASE_DIR = $BASE_DIR + "\"
@@ -73,5 +73,6 @@ $BINSTALL_DEST=((Get-Command cargo) | Get-Item).DirectoryName
 Expand-Archive -Path $BINSTALL_ZIP -DestinationPath $BINSTALL_DEST
 
 # Nextest is an improved test runner for cargo
-cargo binstall --no-confirm cargo-nextest --version "0.9.49"
+cargo binstall --no-confirm cargo-nextest --version "0.9.96"
+
 
diff --git a/vm_memory/src/guest_memory.rs b/vm_memory/src/guest_memory.rs
index 1736c275a..f584dd583 100644
--- a/vm_memory/src/guest_memory.rs
+++ b/vm_memory/src/guest_memory.rs
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ impl GuestMemory {
                 if last
                     .guest_base
                     .checked_add(last.mapping.size() as u64)
-                    .map_or(true, |a| a > range.0)
+                    .is_none_or(|a| a > range.0)
                 {
                     return Err(Error::MemoryRegionOverlap);
                 }
@@ -866,11 +866,7 @@ impl GuestMemory {
         // Assume no overlap among regions
         let (mapping, offset, _) = self.find_region(guest_addr)?;
 
-        if mapping
-            .size()
-            .checked_sub(offset)
-            .map_or(true, |v| v < size)
-        {
+        if mapping.size().checked_sub(offset).is_none_or(|v| v < size) {
             return Err(Error::InvalidGuestAddress(guest_addr));
         }
 
diff --git a/vm_memory/src/udmabuf/sys/linux.rs b/vm_memory/src/udmabuf/sys/linux.rs
index 9c26480b2..530a1b2e9 100644
--- a/vm_memory/src/udmabuf/sys/linux.rs
+++ b/vm_memory/src/udmabuf/sys/linux.rs
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ fn memory_offset(mem: &GuestMemory, guest_addr: GuestAddress, len: u64) -> Udmab
     let map_offset = map_offset as u64;
     if map_offset
         .checked_add(len)
-        .map_or(true, |a| a > mapping.size() as u64)
+        .is_none_or(|a| a > mapping.size() as u64)
     {
         return Err(UdmabufError::InvalidOffset(
             GuestMemoryError::InvalidGuestAddress(guest_addr),