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== Yocto Project Weekly Status November 21st, 2023 ==
== Yocto Project Status 14 April 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M1<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M4<br/>
Next Deadline: 4th December 2023 YP 5.0 M1 build<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 November 23, 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 November 21st at 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)
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'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*YP 4.0.14 and YP 3.1.29 were released
*YP 4.2.4  has passed QA and under discussion pending release
*Toaster news:
**Testing for toaster is now starting to be enabled on the autobuilder although not all tests are currently passing and there are host specific issues.
**The ability to view existing builds is being extended to allow debugging use of toaster even if the original build didn’t use it
*In support of the above, BB_DEFAULT_EVENTLOG is being proposed as enabled by default in bitbake.conf so that an event log is stored for all builds. This could be useful for debugging outside of toaster in other tools too. There is a small performance/disk footprint overhead but this should be offset by the useful debug data.
*The length of builds (world and oe-selftest) continues to be a concern.
*When running the first nanbield stable series builds, our LTS maintainer remarked on being unable to get successful green builds. We did make significant improvements on the intermittent issues prior to release but clearly not enough unfortunately. Troubling issues include:
**https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15005 - parsing failure on ubuntu2004/debian11 systems, maybe python/pthreads related with host python
**https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15166 - debuginfod issues (Ross has some debugging improvements pending)
**Devtool “initial_rev” race issue, an example failure: https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/87/builds/6082/steps/14/logs/stdio
**several intermittent pstest issues
*There have been several fixes for meta-openembedded reproducibility issues and fixes for mirroring/CVE reporting on stable release branches, thanks Yoann.


'''Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/'''<br/>


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'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*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:'''<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 4.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.3_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.


'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2777 (last week 2797) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1072 (last week 1060)
**Patches in the Pending State: 147 (14%) [last week 148 (14%)]
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


'''YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0 M1 build date 2023/12/04
*YP 6.0 M3 in QA.
*YP 5.0 M1 Release date 2023/12/15
*YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-13
*YP 5.0 M2 build date  2024/01/15
*YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-05-04
*YP 5.0 M2 Release date 2024/01/24
*YP 5.0 M3 build date  2024/02/19
*YP 5.0 M3 Release date 2024/03/01
*YP 5.0 M4 build date  2024/04/01
*YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30
 


'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1.29 build date 2023/10/30
*YP 5.0.17 is in review.
*YP 3.1.29 Release date 2023/11/10
*YP 4.0.35 is in QA.
*YP 4.0.14 build date 2023/11/06
*YP 5.3.4
*YP 4.0.14 Release date 2023/11/17
**Build Date  2026-04-20
*YP 4.2.4 build date 2023/11/13
**Release Date 2026-05-06
*YP 4.2.4 Release date 2023/11/24
*For future release dates, see https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Release_calendar
*YP 4.3.1 build date 2023/11/27
*YP 4.3.1 Release date 2023/12/08
*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
*YP 4.3.2 build date 2024/01/08
*YP 4.3.2 Release date 2024/01/19
*YP 3.1.31 build date 2024/01/22
*YP 3.1.31 Release date 2024/02/02
*YP 4.0.16 build date 2024/01/29
*YP 4.0.16 Release date 2024/02/09
*YP 4.3.3 build date 2024/02/12
*YP 4.3.3 Release date 2024/02/23
*YP 3.1.32 build date 2024/03/04
*YP 3.1.32 Release date 2024/03/15
*YP 4.0.17 build date 2024/03/11
*YP 4.0.17 Release date 2024/03/22
*YP 4.3.4 build date 2024/03/25
*YP 4.3.4 Release date 2024/04/05
*YP 3.1.33 build date 2024/04/15
*YP 3.1.33 Release date 2024/04/26
*YP 4.0.18 build date 2024/04/22
*YP 4.0.18 Release date 2024/05/03
*YP 4.0.19 build date 2024/06/03
*YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024/06/14
 
 
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2517 (last week 2533) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1177 (last week 1177)
**Patches in the Pending State: 253 (21%) [last week 253 (21%)]
*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 ==
*[[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

Archives