Weekly Status

Yocto Project Status 7 July 2026

Current Dev Position: YP 6.1 M2
Next Deadline: YP 6.1 M2: w/c 2026-07-20

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 9th July 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 7th July 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 9th July 10am GMT and Monday 13th July 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

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

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 6.1 M1 was released
• YP 6.0.2 is in review
• YP 5.0.19 is in QA
• We are now two weeks away from M2!
• We have identified a few linux-yocto CVEs which need triaging due to missing version information in the CVE databases (affecting master, wrynose and scarthgap), see the email sent to the list: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/topic/120036383
• We are having some challenges with the autobuilder, both with an NFS server open file/lock build up of some kind causing slowdown and eventual halting of write operations and also a mkdir cache race issue. We are working to debug both issues but it is distracting from other work like patch review and new development (e.g. layer.conf format changes).
• Systemd issues with older host kernels (e.g. RHEL 8) is still being worked on https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/topic/119870359
• We have become aware we should ideally replace eudev with a minimal udev build from systemd instead similar to what some other distros are doing.
• We continue to see high load on our infrastructure due to bots and AI scraping. This has primarily caused timeouts and errors accessing git.openembedded.org & git.yoctoproject.org. We have mitigations in place for now. Traditional git:// protocol continues to be disabled.
• We’re working through the backlog of patches, the bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback continues to be a challenge.
• A key pseudo memory corruption issue when interacting with bash was identified and patches are being worked on for a new pseudo release to address this.
• Intermittent build failures continue to be problematic:
  • several qemu ‘hang’ type issues
  • sometimes yocto-check-layer is showing checksum mismatch issues
  • siggen reset issues (“ResourceWarning: unclosed transport”)
  • groff build race issues
  • intermittent ptest failures in many recipes
• We would like to know what people are planning to work on for Yocto Project 6.1 and beyond. We have a roadmap document in Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12xgAzSjDj5zVlo4eQIbiv1s3QMjtBTCvBFY3_T7OPto

Ways to contribute:

• 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 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/
• 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.
• For more ways to contribute, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oxKWxLorfF813h82mK6yKTIHeBp_-9owFuCWbzgjOk/edit?usp=sharing

New to the project?

• We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2647 (last week 2620) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1036 (last week 1054)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 145 (14%) [last week 145 (14%)]
  • https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

Upcoming development releases:

• 6.1 M2:
  • Build Date: w/c 2026-07-20
  • Release Date: w/c 2026-08-03
• 6.1 M3:
  • Build Date: w/c 2026-08-31
  • Release Date: w/c 2026-09-14
• 6.1.0:
  • Build Date (M4): w/c 2026-10-12
  • Release Date: w/c 2026-11-02

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 5.0.19 is in QA.
  • Release Date w/c 2026-07-13
• YP 6.0.3
  • Build Date w/c 2026-08-10
  • Release Date w/c 2026-08-24
• YP 5.0.20
  • Build Date w/c 2026-08-17
  • Release Date w/c 2026-08-31

• 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:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

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