Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status Nov. 18th, 2025

Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M4 - Stabilization and Final Build/Release
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Nov. 20th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Nov. 18th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Nov. 20th 10am GMT and Monday Nov. 24th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.0.31 was released.
• YP 5.0.14 is in QA.
• The final 5.3 build is still pending on resolving some rough edges on bitbake-setup. The patches so far have made a huge difference, thanks everyone who helped!
• We aim to build 5.3 when the remaining identified issues with bitbake-setup are resolved:
  • Improvements to the default build directory path (json format string?)
  • Handling potential MACHINE/DISTRO conflict between conf/env and feature settings
  • Comments to toolcfg.conf about how to change
  • Mention "bitbake-config-build enable-fragment machine/XXX" in bitbake-setup output
  • Remove/change broken template files from meta-yocto
• Other potential changes that have been discussed but don’t have workable patches yet:
  • defaulting to a common sstate directory and hashequiv server
  • Allowing symlinking of local existing repos into the build instead of fetching
• There are likely going to be breaking changes to the npm fetcher related to ongoing security concerns but we are lacking patches.

Ways to contribute:

• As people are likely aware, the project has a number of components which are either unmaintained, or have people with little to no time trying to keep them alive. These components include: devtool, toaster, wic, oeqa, autobuilder, CROPs containers, pseudo and more. Many have open bugs. Help is welcome in trying to better look after these components!
• There is an issue open upstream with the openssl project related to making path relocation of openssl easier (as used in our buildtools tarball and SDK). We’d love assistance in moving this forward and getting some kind of upstream feature merged to make this easier: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/19260
• There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/bugtriage/#newcomer-container
• There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.3_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
• We’d welcome new maintainers for recipes in OE-Core. Please see the list at: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc and discuss with the existing maintainer, or ask on the OE-Core mailing list. We will likely move a chunk of these to “Unassigned” soon to help facilitate this.
• Help is very much welcome in trying to resolve our autobuilder intermittent issues. You can see the list of failures we’re continuing to see by searching for the “AB-INT” tag in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=AB-INT.
• Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics
• We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
• Ongoing project development plans are being developed in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xsnN_HcaMhqg6Dn1P_19AnumDaUMQSdFZ_I4rjD830A/edit?usp=sharing We need to continue to develop this as it will allow us to potentially find ways to fund specific work items.

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2943 (last week 3048) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1066 (last week 1067)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 175 (16%) [last week 175 (16%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/

YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10
• YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-11-28

YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:

• YP 6.0 M1 Build Date 2026-01-05
• YP 6.0 M1 Release Date 2026-01-16
• YP 6.0 M2 Build Date 2026-02-02
• YP 6.0 M2 Release Date 2026-02-13
• YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-02
• YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-03-13
• YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-03-30
• YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-04-26

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 4.0.31 was released.
• YP 5.0.14 is in QA.
• YP 4.0.32 Build Date 2025-12-15
• YP 4.0.32 Release Date 2025-12-24
• YP 5.0.15 Build Date 2026-01-05
• YP 5.0.15 Release Date 2026-01-16
• YP 5.3.1 Build Date 2026-01-12
• YP 5.3.1 Release Date 2026-01-23
• YP 4.0.33 Build Date 2026-01-26
• YP 4.0.33 Release Date 2026-01-30
• YP 5.0.16 Build Date 2026-02-09
• YP 5.0.16 Release Date 2026-02-20
• YP 5.3.2 Build Date 2026-02-16
• YP 5.3.2 Release Date 2026-02-27
• YP 4.0.34 Build Date 2026-02-23
• YP 4.0.34 Release Date 2026-03-06
• YP 5.3.3 Build Date 2026-03-09
• YP 5.3.3 Release Date 2026-03-20
• YP 5.0.17 Build Date 2026-03-16
• YP 5.0.17 Release Date 2026-03-23
• YP 4.0.35 Build Date 2026-04-06
• YP 4.0.35 Release Date 2026-04-17
• YP 5.3.4 Build Date 2026-04-13
• YP 5.3.4 Release Date 2026-04-24
• YP 5.0.18 Build Date 2026-04-20
• YP 5.0.18 Release Date 2026-05-01
• YP 5.0.19 Build Date 2026-05-26
• YP 5.0.19 Release Date 2026-06-05

The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

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