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== Yocto Project Weekly Status September 19th, 2023 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status Sept. 9th, 2025 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 4.3 M4 (Feature Freeze)<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M3<br/>
Next Deadline: 2nd October 2023 YP 4.3 M4 build date<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M3 Build Date 2025-09-01<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday September 21st 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Sept. 11th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday September 19th 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Sept. 9th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Sept. 11th 10am GMT and Monday Sept. 15th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)
 
'''Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/'''<br/>


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*The M3 rc1 QA report is available but the regression report failed, raising a dilemma on whether to release, the TSC needs to discuss
*YP 5.2.3 is due to be released.
*YP 3.1.28 is in QA
*YP 5.0.12 is due to be released.
*The numpy reproducibility issue remains
*YP 5.3 M3 is due to build soon
*The openssh ptest intermittent failure does have better logs available but we’ve yet to decode what it means:
*We’re at feature freeze for YP 5.3
http://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/20230917-2/testresults/qemuarm64-ptest/openssh.log
*Updates to the 6.16 kernel are pending before the 5.3 M3 build
*A significant flaw was found in bitbake’s inotify usage which has been causing rare intermittent build failures. These would only affect usage where BB_SERVER_TIMEOUT was enabled or tinfoil was used (e.g. recipetool, devtool, bitbake-layers). The issue means we’ve switched to using stat() calls and mtime to detect changes. External tools using tinfoil which change files will need to add an API call to have bitbake refresh its caches.
*We aim to merge bitbake-setup before building 5.3 M3
*On a positive note, those issues do explain some of the timeout and AB-INT failures that have been puzzling us for some time. Fixing it also allows the flush() call removal in server logging, which should improve bitbake server’s performance during heavy I/O.
*This change will mean “poky” as a combo-layer repository will no longer be needed or updated. This means autobuilder changes before we build 5.3 M3.
*There are patches pending to tweak the layout of deploy/licenses/ and SPDX’s file layout to avoid overlapping files in builds breaking due to “shared” files being removed unexpectedly. We will likely enforce non-overlapping files for symlinks under sstate control going forward to avoid these issues in future.
*Patch merging is continuing as long as the risk for the changes are low
*We are continuing to see large numbers of version upgrades of recipes, some of which are having destabilizing effects. This may mean we have to reduce the numbers being accepted to stabilize for release.
*There are a couple of open Yocto Project positions which we’re in the process of advertising:
*We’re happy to be able to announce that some of the work in the RFQ will now be progressing, specifically that:
**Ecosystem Engineering and Operations Lead
**Marta Rybczynska (Syslinbit) will be working on the security topic
**LTS Maintainer  - Steve Sakoman is retiring in April 2026 (full details pending)
**Alexander Kanvin (Linutronix) will be working on the core workflow topic
**Savoir-faire Linux will be working on the toaster and VSCode topics
**BayLibre will be working on the patchtest and project tooling topics
**Michael Opdenacker (Bootlin) will be working on the binary distro topic
**Smile will be working on the meta-openembedded topic area
We’d also note that Tim Orling (Konsulko) will be working on the layer index.


'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
*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: patchtest, layerindex, 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!
*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 are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
*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 that are currently unassigned for YP 4.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.2_Unassigned_Enhancements.2FBugs
*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.
*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 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  
*Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics  
*We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
*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:'''<br/>
*WDD 2835 (last week 2845) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1111 (last week 1095)
**Patches in the Pending State: 156 (14%) [last week 155 (14%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/


'''YP 4.3 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 4.3 M3 is being reviewed.
*YP 5.3 M3 Build Date 2025-09-01
*YP 4.3 M4 build date  2023/10/02
*YP 5.3 M3 Release Date 2025-09-12
*YP 4.3 M4 Release date 2023/10/27
*YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-10-06
*YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-10-31


'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1.28 in QA
*YP 5.2.3 is being reviewed for release.
*YP 4.0.13 build date 2023/09/25
*YP 5.0.12 is being reviewed for release.
*YP 4.0.13 Release date 2023/10/06
*YP 4.0.30 Build Date 2025-09-22
*YP 3.1.29 build date 2023/10/30
*YP 4.0.30 Release Date 2025-10-03
*YP 3.1.29 Release date 2023/11/10
*YP 5.2.4 Build Date 2025-09-29
*YP 4.0.14 build date 2023/11/06
*YP 5.2.4 Release Date 2025-10-10
*YP 4.0.14 Release date 2023/11/17
*YP 5.0.13 Build Date 2025-10-13
*YP 4.2.4 build date 2023/11/13
*YP 5.0.13 Release Date 2025-10-24
*YP 4.2.4 Release date 2023/11/24
*YP 4.0.31 Build Date 2025-11-03
*YP 3.1.30 build date 2023/12/11
*YP 4.031 Release Date 2025-11-14
*YP 3.1.30 Release date 2023/12/22
*YP 5.0.14 Build Date 2025-11-17
*YP 4.0.15 build date 2023/12/18
*YP 5.0.14 Release Date 2025-11-28
*YP 4.0.15 Release date 2023/12/29
*YP 4.0.32 Build Date 2025-12-15
 
*YP 4.0.32 Release Date 2025-12-24
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0.15 Build Date 2026-01-05
*WDD 2505 (last week 2530) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 5.0.15 Release Date 2026-01-16
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1185 (last week 1186)
**Patches in the Pending State: 255 (22%) [last week 255 (22%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


'''The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:'''<br/>
'''The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:'''<br/>
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== Archives ==
== Archives ==
*[[2025 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2024 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2022 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2022 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]

Latest revision as of 14:48, 9 September 2025

Yocto Project Weekly Status Sept. 9th, 2025

Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M3
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M3 Build Date 2025-09-01

Next Team Meetings:

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

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 5.2.3 is due to be released.
  • YP 5.0.12 is due to be released.
  • YP 5.3 M3 is due to build soon
  • We’re at feature freeze for YP 5.3
  • Updates to the 6.16 kernel are pending before the 5.3 M3 build
  • We aim to merge bitbake-setup before building 5.3 M3
  • This change will mean “poky” as a combo-layer repository will no longer be needed or updated. This means autobuilder changes before we build 5.3 M3.
  • Patch merging is continuing as long as the risk for the changes are low
  • There are a couple of open Yocto Project positions which we’re in the process of advertising:
    • Ecosystem Engineering and Operations Lead
    • LTS Maintainer - Steve Sakoman is retiring in April 2026 (full details pending)

Ways to contribute:

Tracking Metrics:

YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.3 M3 Build Date 2025-09-01
  • YP 5.3 M3 Release Date 2025-09-12
  • YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-10-06
  • YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-10-31

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 5.2.3 is being reviewed for release.
  • YP 5.0.12 is being reviewed for release.
  • YP 4.0.30 Build Date 2025-09-22
  • YP 4.0.30 Release Date 2025-10-03
  • YP 5.2.4 Build Date 2025-09-29
  • YP 5.2.4 Release Date 2025-10-10
  • YP 5.0.13 Build Date 2025-10-13
  • YP 5.0.13 Release Date 2025-10-24
  • YP 4.0.31 Build Date 2025-11-03
  • YP 4.031 Release Date 2025-11-14
  • YP 5.0.14 Build Date 2025-11-17
  • YP 5.0.14 Release Date 2025-11-28
  • 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

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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