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== Yocto Project Weekly Status May 28th, 2024 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status Oct. 28th, 2025 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 M1 <br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M4 - Stabilization and Final Build/Release<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M1 Build 20 May 2024<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday May 30th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Oct. 30th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday May 28th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Oct. 28th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Oct. 30th 10am GMT and Monday Nov. 3rd 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/>
*YP 5.0.1 has been released.
*YP 5.3 M3 is in QA
*We have suspected a performance problem for a while, this has now been identified/confirmed as an issue with hash equivalence. The public server using websockets/SSL has significantly slowed down things, to the point a 2 hour world build is taking 18+ hours. In trying to improve this, we ended up destablising the autobuilders entirely, breaking many builds and halting the patch merging.
*YP 5.0.13 is under review for release
The problem is visible both at build initialization time and also at any point it rehashes due to new hash information from the server. We are still trying to work out ways to improve things but there appears to be multiple levels of different problems, including the hashserve client parallelism seeming to have bugs. The issue affects scarthgap as well as master.
*Documentation updates related to many of the recent changes are in progress, thanks to all who have helped on these.
*A new gcc 14 compatible version of uninative was released allowing fedora 40 testing. Unfortunately there are issues with build failures on that host that are as yet uninvestigated.
*We have now past feature freeze for YP 5.3. To be accepted, patches that have a high bar until after we branch master from whinlatter. Known issues:
*The WORKDIR to UNPACKDIR transition has merged and other layers are now working on the updates needed. There appear to be some challenges around go modules in particular which are needing more investigation and development time.
**check-layer tests are now running under nodistro instead of poky, so some layers are failing as they assume some DISTRO_FEATURES are enabled.
*We aim to build YP 5.1 M1 after the performance issue is addressed and we have stable builds.
**Toaster is broken with bitbake-setup (#16012). Help moving to supporting non-poky layouts would be good if anyone is using Toaster.
*We were able to merge a chunk of pending patches but things are still processing slowly unfortunately.
**The patch/cve metrics jobs need reviewing to be sure they’re correct with bitbake-setup (#16013)
*There are some CVE related announcements which are helpful to us:
**The build performance jobs don’t know that poky and oe-core are the same so the charts are currently wrong (#16014)
**There was a CVE 5.1 Record format announcement with changes that encourage more useful data from our perspective
**Help welcomed to resolve these issues!
**CISA announced on linkedin the creation of https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment
*Upstream linux kernel just end-of-life’d 6.16 but whinlatter contains 6.16. We are evaluating the situation with 6.17, feedback on it (for/against and known issues) would be welcome.
**Unfortunately there are reports that the backlog of CVEs without version constraints is growing rapidly
*“poky” as a combo-layer repository will soon no longer be needed or updated for master and whinlatter branches.
*There is an open letter the project has created related to the CVE/NVD situation, more information is available here: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/1990
*There are likely going to be breaking changes to the npm fetcher related to ongoing security concerns.
**Please consider signing this to show support for those changes.
**Signatures from small businesses/consultancies are as welcome as those from larger organizations as we want to demonstrate the breadth of the need for these changes.
*The project is sponsoring Syslinbit to separate out our CVE tooling from the build system into a standalone tool so that it can be used on software manifests of output at a later date.
*The project is in the process of testing a new way of hosting our autobuilder with plans to switch soon if successful. Our existing hardware is past end of life and showing increased hardware failures so is currently down on capacity meaning builds are taking longer than normal, also not helped with the performance issue identfiied above.
*Further performance graph improvements have merged and the graphs now have links to specific revisions allowing regressions to be much more easily tracked down.


'''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: 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 5.1. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.1_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
*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/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2772 (last week 2752) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*WDD 3001 (last week 3009) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1121 (last week 1127)
**Total patches found: 1091 (last week 1091)
**Patches in the Pending State: 221 (20%) [last week 221 (20%)]
**Patches in the Pending State: 153 (14%) [last week 153 (14%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/


'''YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 5.1 M1 Build date 2024-05-20
*YP 5.3 M3 is in QA.
*YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
*YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10
*YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
*YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-11-28
*YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
*YP 5.1 M3 Build date 2024-08-26
*YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
*YP 5.1 M4 Build date 2024-09-30
*YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25


'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0.1 is released.
*YP 5.0.13 is in review for release.
*YP 4.0.19 build date 2024-06-03
*YP 4.0.31 Build Date 2025-11-03
*YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024-06-14
*YP 4.0.31 Release Date 2025-11-14
*YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
*YP 5.0.14 Build Date 2025-11-17
*YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
*YP 5.0.14 Release Date 2025-11-28
*YP 4.0.20 Build Date 2024-07-15
*YP 4.0.32 Build Date 2025-12-15
*YP 4.0.20 Release Date 2024-07-26
*YP 4.0.32 Release Date 2025-12-24
*YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
*YP 5.0.15 Build Date 2026-01-05
*YP 5.0.3 Release Date 2024-08-23
*YP 5.0.15 Release Date 2026-01-16
*YP 4.0.21 Build Date 2024-09-09
*YP 4.0.21 Release Date 2024-09-20
*YP 5.0.4 Build Date 2024-09-23
*YP 5.0.4 Release Date 2024-10-04
*YP 4.0.22 Build Date 2024-10-14
*YP 4.0.22 Release Date 2024-10-25
*YP 5.0.5 Build Date 2024-11-11
*YP 5.0.5 Release Date 2024-11-22
*YP 4.0.23 Build Date 2024-11-18
*YP 4.0.23 Release Date 2024-11-29


'''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]]
*[[2024 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]

Latest revision as of 14:50, 28 October 2025

Yocto Project Weekly Status Oct. 28th, 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:

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

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 5.3 M3 is in QA
  • YP 5.0.13 is under review for release
  • Documentation updates related to many of the recent changes are in progress, thanks to all who have helped on these.
  • We have now past feature freeze for YP 5.3. To be accepted, patches that have a high bar until after we branch master from whinlatter. Known issues:
    • check-layer tests are now running under nodistro instead of poky, so some layers are failing as they assume some DISTRO_FEATURES are enabled.
    • Toaster is broken with bitbake-setup (#16012). Help moving to supporting non-poky layouts would be good if anyone is using Toaster.
    • The patch/cve metrics jobs need reviewing to be sure they’re correct with bitbake-setup (#16013)
    • The build performance jobs don’t know that poky and oe-core are the same so the charts are currently wrong (#16014)
    • Help welcomed to resolve these issues!
  • Upstream linux kernel just end-of-life’d 6.16 but whinlatter contains 6.16. We are evaluating the situation with 6.17, feedback on it (for/against and known issues) would be welcome.
  • “poky” as a combo-layer repository will soon no longer be needed or updated for master and whinlatter branches.
  • There are likely going to be breaking changes to the npm fetcher related to ongoing security concerns.

Ways to contribute:

Tracking Metrics:

YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.3 M3 is in QA.
  • YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10
  • YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-11-28

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 5.0.13 is in review for release.
  • YP 4.0.31 Build Date 2025-11-03
  • YP 4.0.31 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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