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== Yocto Project Weekly Status March 26th, 2024 ==
== Yocto Project Status 14 April 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M4 - Final Release <br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M4<br/>
Next Deadline: 1st April 2024 YP 5.0 M4 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 March 28th at 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 March 26th 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)
 
'''Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/'''<br/>


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0 M3 has been released.
*YP 5.0.17 is due to be released
*YP 4.0.17 is under review and due for release.
*YP 6.0 M3 is in QA
*Steve is taking patches for Dunfell until around April 8 in preparation for an April 15 build. This will be the last release of dunfell.
*YP 4.0.35 is queued for QA
*There was a regression on beaglebone in 5.0 M3 where X11 wasn’t working but this has been fixed in master ready for the release.
*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.
*A key worry now is the documentation for the release, especially given it is an LTS. There are emails on the docs list about this, help is much appreciated.
*Issues with pending work needed:
*For M4, we are still hoping to transition to a different public hash equivalence server before release. We have stopped taking general point release upgrades to recipes unless there is a security or other key reason to take them. *The key remaining fix needed before building is for the opkg lock issue.
**32bit x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
*The opkg lock issue is now understood but the best fix is still under discussion/ development.
**Reports of pseudo errors on Fedora 44 beta related to openat2()
*One set of the problematic autobuilder failures was tracked down to a queued but  unmerged bitbake patch. There are other intermittent issues which still need to be root caused, at least one failure was also due to system load issues.
**Intermittent qemu boot failures of qemuarmv5 (and possibly qemuarm) since the last kernel upgrade
*We continue to watch the NIST NVD (CVE database) issue and await further information about what the future holds there (https://nvd.nist.gov/  - “You will temporarily see delays in analysis efforts during this transition”)
**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: 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 5.0. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.0_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
*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 5.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*YP 5.0 M3 is released.
*We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER
*YP 5.0 M4 build date  2024/04/01
*YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30
 
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 4.0.17 is out of QA.
*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/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2703 (last week 2706) (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: 1156 (last week 1148)
**Total patches found: 1072 (last week 1060)
**Patches in the Pending State: 249 (22%) [last week 249 (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]]
*[[2024 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 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

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