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== Yocto Project Weekly Status August 29th, 2023 ==
== Yocto Project Status 14 April 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 4.3 Feature Freeze<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M4<br/>
Next Deadline: 28th August 2023 YP 4.3 M3 build date<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-20<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday August 31st 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Apr. 16th 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday August 29th 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Apr. 14th 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Apr. 16th 10am GMT and Monday Apr. 20th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)
 
'''Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/'''<br/>


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*We are now at feature freeze for 4.3.
*YP 5.0.17 is due to be released
*YP 4.0.12 was released
*YP 6.0 M3 is in QA
*YP 4.2.3 is due to be released
*YP 4.0.35 is queued for QA
*The qemuppc ssh command hangs continues to be a mystery. It seems to be something in recent master that regressed it but it isn’t the kernel, the binutils upgrade, systemd or glibc or qemu. We’ve not seen any other hangs so the x86 issues may have been something else.
*We have converted over to sbom-cve-check and dropped cve-check. This has caused a significant increase in CVEs reported, these are being triaged.
*The acl/xattr changes are blocked on a hard requirement on tar 1.35, it is unclear how we’d achieve that in all cases.
*Issues with pending work needed:
*Patches have been resubmitted to radically alter the do_unpack process for license compliance reasons. The code is complex and hard to understand and will have a performance impact on builds as well as making things hard to debug. The risk of not taking the changes is that for some legal departments, the SPDX data isn’t detailed enough. The compromise between performance and ease of use vs. legal requirements is a tough one. We don’t really want to have two codepaths either. Feedback/review on the series welcome.
**32bit x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
*We continue to see intermittent ptest failures for glib-networking and openssh, help would be much appreciated.
**Reports of pseudo errors on Fedora 44 beta related to openat2()
*The M3 build will depend upon reaching conclusions in several of these areas
**Intermittent qemu boot failures of qemuarmv5 (and possibly qemuarm) since the last kernel upgrade
*We’re happy to be able to announce that some of the work in the RFQ will now be progressing, specifically that:
**Meta-oe cve layer filtering under new tooling (metrics script tweak?)
**Marta Rybczynska will be working on the security topic
**Reprodicubility issues with strace/apr-util after gnulib macro changes (patches in testing)
**Alexander Kanvin will be working on the core workflow topic
*There was disruption to git services last week due to scraping attacks against the servers. This resulted in connection issues whilst those were mitigated, particularly the git protocol access.
**Savoir-faire Linux will be working on the toaster and VSCode topics
git:// protocol access to git.yoctoproject.org and git.openembeded.org is deprecated and going forward https:// URLs should be used to access git repositories. We are aiming to discontinue git protocol use.
**BayLibre will be working on the patchtest and project tooling topics
*The recent wic changes will need wic support files to be placed in files/wic within layers going forwards.
The other remaining topic areas should be announced soon.
*We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build failures are still problematic, including the emergence of new issues (newer kernel version?). We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback. This could impact features making it into the LTS.
We’d also note that Tim Orling (Konsulko) will be working on the layer index.
*The final kirkstone build has taken place and we’re no longer planning to merge patches on this branch.
*If you have any final patches for whinlatter, please get these sent to the list ASAP.


'''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!
*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 bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
*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/
*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
*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.
*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.
*For more ways to contribute, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oxKWxLorfF813h82mK6yKTIHeBp_-9owFuCWbzgjOk/edit?usp=sharing
*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.


'''YP 4.3 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*YP 4.3 M3 build date  2023/08/28
*We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER
*YP 4.3 M3 Release date 2023/09/08
*YP 4.3 M4 build date  2023/10/02
*YP 4.3 M4 Release date 2023/10/27
 
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 4.0.12 is released
*YP 4.2.3 is ready for release
*YP 3.1.28 build date 2023/09/18
*YP 3.1.28 Release date 2023/09/29
*YP 4.0.13 build date 2023/09/25
*YP 4.0.13 Release date 2023/10/06
*YP 3.1.29 build date 2023/10/30
*YP 3.1.29 Release date 2023/11/10
*YP 4.0.14 build date 2023/11/06
*YP 4.0.14 Release date 2023/11/17
*YP 4.2.4 build date 2023/11/13
*YP 4.2.4 Release date 2023/11/24
*YP 3.1.30 build date 2023/12/11
*YP 3.1.30 Release date 2023/12/22
*YP 4.0.15 build date 2023/12/18
*YP 4.0.15 Release date 2023/12/29


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2500 (last week 2488) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*WDD 2777 (last week 2797) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1188 (last week 1183)
**Total patches found: 1072 (last week 1060)
**Patches in the Pending State: 258 (22%) [last week 258 (22%)]
**Patches in the Pending State: 147 (14%) [last week 148 (14%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
 
'''YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 6.0 M3 in QA.
*YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-13
*YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-05-04
 
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0.17 is in review.
*YP 4.0.35 is in QA.
*YP 5.3.4
**Build Date  2026-04-20
**Release Date 2026-05-06
*For future release dates, see https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Release_calendar


'''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 ==
*[[2026 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[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]]

Revision as of 14:47, 14 April 2026

Yocto Project Status 14 April 2026

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M4
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-20

Next Team Meetings:

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

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 5.0.17 is due to be released
  • YP 6.0 M3 is in QA
  • YP 4.0.35 is queued for QA
  • We have converted over to sbom-cve-check and dropped cve-check. This has caused a significant increase in CVEs reported, these are being triaged.
  • Issues with pending work needed:
    • 32bit x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
    • Reports of pseudo errors on Fedora 44 beta related to openat2()
    • Intermittent qemu boot failures of qemuarmv5 (and possibly qemuarm) since the last kernel upgrade
    • Meta-oe cve layer filtering under new tooling (metrics script tweak?)
    • Reprodicubility issues with strace/apr-util after gnulib macro changes (patches in testing)
  • There was disruption to git services last week due to scraping attacks against the servers. This resulted in connection issues whilst those were mitigated, particularly the git protocol access.

git:// protocol access to git.yoctoproject.org and git.openembeded.org is deprecated and going forward https:// URLs should be used to access git repositories. We are aiming to discontinue git protocol use.

  • The recent wic changes will need wic support files to be placed in files/wic within layers going forwards.
  • We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build failures are still problematic, including the emergence of new issues (newer kernel version?). We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback. This could impact features making it into the LTS.
  • The final kirkstone build has taken place and we’re no longer planning to merge patches on this branch.
  • If you have any final patches for whinlatter, please get these sent to the list ASAP.

Ways to contribute:

New to the project?

Tracking Metrics:

YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 6.0 M3 in QA.
  • YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-13
  • YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-05-04

Upcoming dot releases:

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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