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== Yocto Project Weekly Status Sept. 1, 2020 ==
== Yocto Project Status 28 April 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 3.2 M3<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M4<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 3.2 M3 build date 2020/8/31 - FEATURE FREEZE<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 Release Date w/c 2026-05-04<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday Sept. 3rd at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 30th Apr. 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Sept. 1st at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 29th Apr. 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Sept. 8th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 30th Apr. 10am GMT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)
*Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
 
'''Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/'''<br/>


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*YP 3.0.4 was released
*YP 4.0.35 is due to release
*M3 is due to close at the end of the week and this is the feature freeze point for 3.2
*YP 5.3.4 is in QA
*After much debugging, we’ve concluded the bitbake cooker/server launch process is terminally flawed, you can’t fork a python process into two independent python processes and have the internal python state machinery work correctly. *As such, we’re going to have to make some major changes to the way the bitbake cooker/server startup happens.
*YP 6.0 rc1 is in QA
*On a positive note, those server changes have forced many of the memory resident bitbake bugs to the surface and the new code appears to fix them, bringing memres bitbake much closer to being usable, maybe even becoming a default in this release if testing goes well.
*There will be no patch review on Monday 4th May due to public holidays.
*There is concern about invasive changes like this with regard to LTS/dunfell where these bitbake bugs are also present. Ultimately we will make a decision about backporting based upon patch stability and user feedback from the LTS users.
*We continue to triage the CVEs being reported by the new tooling.
*We may delay M3 slightly to enable the bitbake server changes to merge since these are important for release and work making/merging.
*There were some last minute changes to DISTRO_FEATURES behaviour to resolve some usability issues that users identified.
*The number of autobuilder intermittent bugs has continued to rise unfortunately. 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 with any of these would be much appreciated, unfortunately it is proving hard to find anyone interested in helping figure these out and they significantly hamper our testing.
*There have been several issues in pseudo identified and these have been fixed in the various pseudo point releases. We will upgrade pseudo in 6.0.1 to pull these in.
*One way to help the project is to help us with bugs that are currently unassigned but ideally needed during YP 3.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.2_Unassigned_Enhancements.2FBugs
*There have been issues with 403 errors from crates.io, there is a change in bitbake to use the preferred upstream urls via their CDN.
*There is a proposal on the bitbake list to remove globbing support from file:// urls. Usage of these urls currently breaks source file checksumming which users don’t realise, it can’t be fixed in a sane way so and the most common use cases has easy alternatives such as referencing a directory as a file:// url without globs so removing globbing support appears to be the best way forward.
*The kvm cpu features issue looks to be a host system CPU microcode issue and using the latest microcode appears to have resolved the issues.
*We have switched to the 5.8 kernel by default, it's taken a while to get through all the different issues but we appear to be there now, thanks to Bruce for working through many of them!
*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.
*Some long standing musl SDK issues should be resolved now.
*We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build failures are still problematic. We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback but are trying to clear the backlog.


'''YP 3.2 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
*YP 3.2 M3 build date 2020/8/31
*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=---
*YP 3.2 M3 Release date 2020/9/11
*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/
*YP 3.2 M4 build date 2020/10/5
*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.
*YP 3.2 M4 Release date 2020/10/30
*For more ways to contribute, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oxKWxLorfF813h82mK6yKTIHeBp_-9owFuCWbzgjOk/edit?usp=sharing


'''Planned upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*YP 3.1.3 build date 2020/9/14
*We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER
*YP 3.1.3 release date 2020/9/25


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2436 (last week 2424) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*WDD 2788 (last week 2790) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*Poky Patch Metrics
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1264 (last week 1273)
**Total patches found: 1085 (last week 1078)
**Patches in the Pending State: 502 (40%) [last week 502 (39%)]
**Patches in the Pending State: 146 (13%) [last week 147 (14%)]
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
 
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 4.0.35 is in review.
*YP 5.3.4 is in QA
**Release Date 2026-05-06
*YP 5.0.18
**Build Date  2026-05-11
**Release Date 2026-05-25
*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]]
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*[[2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
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Latest revision as of 14:51, 28 April 2026

Yocto Project Status 28 April 2026

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M4
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 Release Date w/c 2026-05-04

Next Team Meetings:

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

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 4.0.35 is due to release
  • YP 5.3.4 is in QA
  • YP 6.0 rc1 is in QA
  • There will be no patch review on Monday 4th May due to public holidays.
  • We continue to triage the CVEs being reported by the new tooling.
  • There were some last minute changes to DISTRO_FEATURES behaviour to resolve some usability issues that users identified.
  • There have been several issues in pseudo identified and these have been fixed in the various pseudo point releases. We will upgrade pseudo in 6.0.1 to pull these in.
  • There have been issues with 403 errors from crates.io, there is a change in bitbake to use the preferred upstream urls via their CDN.
  • The kvm cpu features issue looks to be a host system CPU microcode issue and using the latest microcode appears to have resolved the issues.
  • 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.
  • We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build failures are still problematic. We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback but are trying to clear the backlog.

Ways to contribute:

New to the project?

Tracking Metrics:

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