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Yocto Project Status 24 March 2026
Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M3
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23
Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 26th Mar. 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 24th Mar. 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 26th Mar. 10am GMT and Monday 30th Mar. 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)
Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/
Key Status/Updates:
- YP 6.0 M2 has been released.
- YP 4.0.34 is due to be released.
- YP 5.3.3 is in review after QA.
- YP 6.0 M3 is the feature freeze for 6.0 which is our next LTS.
- YP 6.0 M3 is now due to build however there are many key changes needed still missing.
- Issues still pending:
- Splitting wic into an external tool.
- Deprecation of ltp (upstream dropped runltp and mandate kirk)
- How to improve DEBUG_BUILD?
- DISTRO_FEATURES defaults improvements.
- SBOM/cve-check changes.
- AB-INT: opkg-build segmentation fault (memory corruption in pseudo?) (#16078)
- Issues that are mostly known quantities still needing work:
- x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
- Failure to generate regression reports in release builds
- Reconcile poky and OE-Core defaults templates.
- Resolve Fedora 43 selftest failures
- Fixing yocto-check-layer to work with –machines
- Issues that were resolved this week:
- Switching to pkg-config.
- Allowing non-destructive git fetcher updates for bitbake-setup (further tweaks still being discussed)
- We are seeing issues with older versions of tar on RHEL 9 derived distros (selinux triggers due to xattrs)
- We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build failures are still problematic. We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback. This could impact features making it into the LTS.
Ways to contribute:
- We have several open issues for pseudo and limited maintainer time to work on them. Help from someone familiar with systems programming in C would be greatly appreciated. https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=661406&priority=High&priority=Medium%2B&product=Pseudo&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
- There are a large number of intermittent failures on our autobuilder, any help with investigating, reproducing or solving these issues would be welcome! https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/abint/
- Many recipes in openembedded-core would benefit from a new recipe maintainer. Please look at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc and see if you can adopt any of the unassigned recipes.
- For more ways to contribute, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oxKWxLorfF813h82mK6yKTIHeBp_-9owFuCWbzgjOk/edit?usp=sharing
New to the project?
- We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER
Tracking Metrics:
- WDD 2841 (last week 2866) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1069 (last week 1081)
- Patches in the Pending State: 152 (14%) [last week 151 (14%)]
- https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:
- YP 6.0 M2 was released.
- YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23
- YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-04-08
- YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-13
- YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-05-04
Upcoming dot releases:
- YP 4.0.34 ready for release.
- YP 5.3.3 is in review.
- YP 5.0.17 Build Date 2026-03-30
- YP 5.0.17 Release Date 2026-04-15
- YP 4.0.35 Build Date 2026-04-06
- YP 4.0.35 Release Date 2026-04-22
- YP 5.3.4 Build Date 2026-04-20
- YP 5.3.4 Release Date 2026-05-06
- YP 5.0.18 Build Date 2026-04-27
- YP 5.0.18 Release Date 2026-05-13
- 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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