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== Yocto Project Weekly Status January 7, 2020 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status Nov. 4th, 2025 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 3.1 M2 <br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M4 - Stabilization and Final Build/Release<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 3.1 M2 build date 1/20/2020<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 Jan. 9th  at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Nov. 6th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Jan. 7th  at 8am  PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Nov. 4th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Jan. 14th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Nov. 6th 10am GMT and Monday Nov. 10th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)  
*Twitch - Next event is Tuesday Jan. 14th at 8am PDT (https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)
 
'''Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/'''<br/>


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1 M1 was released.
*YP 5.0.13 was released
*Over the last two weeks there were a number of significant fixes for hash equivalence which should resolve some of the long standing bugs reported here. Some of these fixes may require further architectural tweaks to the codebase but those are cleanups which can happen in due course now the root causes are identified.
*YP 5.3 M3 is due to be released
*There are performance issues that remain in hashequivlence but these will be looked at only once the correctness issues and intermittent test failures are addressed.
*YP 4.0.31 is in QA
*There are some puzzling selftest failures that remain, in particular a locked signatures one which seems to be caused through bad interaction with the hash equivalence code but is intermittent and does not make sense.
*Documentation updates related to many of the recent changes are in progress, thanks to all who have helped on these.
*The patch queue for master should be roughly up to date which some key changes such as the gettext upgrade having merged recently. Some pending changes like the glibc upgrade look problematic.
*We plan to merge the documentation changes then stop updating the poky repository master branch.
*A key functionality change has merged this week where the layout of the sstate directory has changed. This was done to try and improve performance and handle some performance issues where the previous code simply wasn’t scaling. There is no user visible impact but it does mean new sstate will be generated into a new layout and the older sstate will be ignored. The sstate filename length issues should also be addressed by this patchset.
*We are now past the feature freeze for YP 5.3. To be accepted, patches that have a high bar until after we branch master from whinlatter. Known issues:
*Whilst the SWAT process is disbanded, the effect of this is that Richard now has to file the bugs personally. This distracts from other things that could be worked on.
**check-layer tests are now running under nodistro instead of poky, so some layers are failing as they assume some DISTRO_FEATURES are enabled.
*The triage team is worried about attendance at triage meetings and the project is finding it hard to find people to help fix bugs. If anyone is willing to work on bugs, assistance would be greatly appreciated.
**Toaster is broken with bitbake-setup (#16012). Help moving to supporting non-poky layouts would be good if anyone is using Toaster.
*The TSC is working on LTS plans, productive discussions have been had and a new policy on handling this and stable releases should be available in the coming weeks.
**The patch/cve metrics jobs need reviewing to be sure they’re correct with bitbake-setup (#16013)
*We are continuing to collect ideas for YP 3.1 in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UKZIGe88-eq3-pOPtkAvFAegbQDzhy_f4ye64yjnABc/edit?usp=sharing
**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. The 6.17 kernel has run into issues we don’t have availability/time to resolve unfortunately so we will have to release with 6.16.
*YP 6.0 (wrynose) and the next LTS releases proposed timeline: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BlvtPxpYsxHkeL10DFBQzBI9q_1HIk9r2FPxlfsQ95U/edit?tab=t.0
*There are likely going to be breaking changes to the npm fetcher related to ongoing security concerns.
 
'''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!
*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.


'''Proposed YP 3.1 Milestone Dates'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1 M2 build date 1/20/2020
*WDD 3103 (last week 3001) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 3.1 M2 release date 1/31/2020
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*YP 3.1 M3 build date 2/24/2020
**Total patches found: 1098 (last week 1091)
*YP 3.1 M3 release date 3/6/2020
**Patches in the Pending State: 153 (14%) [last week 153 (14%)]
*YP 3.1 M4 build date  3/30/2020
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/
*YP 3.1 M4 release date  4/24/2020


'''Planned upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 2.7.3 build date  2/10/2020
*YP 5.3 M3 is in review for release.
*YP 2.7.3 release date 2/21/2020
*YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10
*YP 3.0.2 build date  2/3/2020
*YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-11-28
*YP 3.0.2 release date 2/14/2020


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*WDD 2773 (last week 2783) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 5.0.13 was released.
*Poky Patch Metrics 
*YP 4.0.31 is in QA.
**Total patches found: 1400 (last week 1400)
*YP 5.0.14 Build Date 2025-11-17
**Patches in the Pending State: 562 (40%) [last week 561 (40%)]
*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:'''<br/>
'''The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:'''<br/>
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Latest revision as of 15:52, 4 November 2025

Yocto Project Weekly Status Nov. 4th, 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 5.0.13 was released
  • YP 5.3 M3 is due to be released
  • YP 4.0.31 is in QA
  • Documentation updates related to many of the recent changes are in progress, thanks to all who have helped on these.
  • We plan to merge the documentation changes then stop updating the poky repository master branch.
  • We are now past the 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. The 6.17 kernel has run into issues we don’t have availability/time to resolve unfortunately so we will have to release with 6.16.
  • YP 6.0 (wrynose) and the next LTS releases proposed timeline: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BlvtPxpYsxHkeL10DFBQzBI9q_1HIk9r2FPxlfsQ95U/edit?tab=t.0
  • 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 review for release.
  • 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 was released.
  • YP 4.0.31 is in QA.
  • 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

Archives