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== Yocto Project Weekly Status June 22, 2021 ==
== Yocto Project Status 21 July 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 3.4 M2<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.1 M2<br/>
Next Deadline: 12th July 2021 YP 3.4 M2 build<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 6.1 M2: w/c 2026-07-20<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday June 24th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 23rd July 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday July 6th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday 21st July 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday June 22nd at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 23rd July 10am GMT and Monday 27th July 9am PDT (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 3.4 M1 has been through QA pending release approval with two QA issues highlighted.
*YP 6.0.2 has been released
*YP 3.1.9 is being built ready for QA.
*YP 5.0.19 is due to release
*Big thanks to Paul Gortmaker for tracking down the cause of an LTP null pointer dereference (and other errors) within the cgroups mount code which was responsible for several of our LTP hangs. The issue was introduced in new code between 5.0 and 5.1 in the kernel and had been present for a while. The fix is now making its way through various kernel trees upstream.
*YP 6.1 M2 will build this week after pseudo, systemd and resulttool changes merge
*Sadly, the above fix did not resolve the “rcu” autobuilder VM hangs we are seeing occasionally. These are odd in that they affect kvm and non-kvm builds (x86 and arm seen on x86-64 hosts), they pin the VM at 300-400% CPU usage and the VM will respond to pings but no ssh or console output. The rcu dumps from the kernel are likely a symptom that something is wrong rather than the cause and often look incomplete. It is as if some instantaneous host load breaks timers in a way the guest cannot recover or continue execution from. We’re continuing to try and narrow this down but it is proving elusive and progress is slow, any insight anyone may have would be welcome.
*Some invasive LICENSE changes have merged into master:
There are new manual sections that have recently been added on Reproducible Builds and Yocto Project Compatible.
**We now require the LICENSE field to match SPDX identifiers.  
*We continue to deal with an issue with centos8 kernels having what looks like bad bounds checking on the utimensat_time64 32 bit syscalls where the syscall was backported into a kernel point release. We’re working on reporting it upstream.
**The build will issue warnings when this isn’t the case.
*We have a 10th anniversary T-shirt and some other Yocto Project items (hoody, stickers, mugs etc.) now available at https://yoctoproject.org/shop (EU and Americas sources)
**Non SPDX licenses will need to be of the form LicenseRef-XXX
*The multiconfig changes in bitbake continue to cause problems, we still need simpler test cases to reproduce issues rather than huge builds. The existing patches seem to fix some workloads and break others. Richard is trying to fix but trying to fix autobuilder issues and other problems and these are slow builds to debug.
**CLOSED is no longer a valid value.  
*Intermittent autobuilder issues continue to occur and are now at a record high level. 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 We are working to identify the load pattern on the infrastructure that seems to trigger these.
**‘WITH’ license exceptions are now supported
Big thanks for Joshua for getting us to the point where we can finally clean this up!
*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
*Patches generated by the automatic upgrade helper (AUH) now include changelogs where these can be extracted from upstream.
*A couple of further pseudo related issues were identified, one with linkat flags and one with openat2 (tar related/triggered). We hope to have patches merged soon.
*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’re working through the backlog of patches, the bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback continues to be a challenge. The review calls are running out of time each meeting which limits progress.
**We’re making little progress on intermittent build failures despite the problems continuing to impact test builds:
**several qemu ‘hang’ type issues on ARM
**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
*For the qemuarmv5 amba crash (#16217), we did confirm it doesn’t seem to be load or memory usage related and does seem to happen on the autobuilder but not on other systems, for reasons still currently unknown.


'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
*There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
*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 that are currently unassigned for YP 3.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_3.3_Unassigned_Enhancements.2FBugs
*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/
*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.
*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


'''YP 3.4 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*YP 3.4 M1 is in review
*We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER
*YP 3.4 M2 build date 2021/07/12
*YP 3.4 M2 Release date 2021/07/23
*YP 3.4 M3 build date 2021/08/23
*YP 3.4 M3 Release date 2021/09/03
*YP 3.4 M4 build date 2021/10/04
*YP 3.4 M4 Release date 2021/10/29


'''Planned upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1.9 is being built
*WDD 2719 (last week 2689) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 3.1.9 release date 2021/07/02
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*YP 3.3.2 build date 2021/07/19
**Total patches found: 1019 (last week 1019+)
*YP 3.3.2 release date 2021/07/30
**Patches in the Pending State: 144 (14%) [last week 145 (14%)]
*YP 3.1.10 build date 2021/07/26
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
*YP 3.1.10 release date 2021/08/06
*YP 3.1.11 build date 2021/09/13
*YP 3.1.11 release date 2021/9/24


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming development releases:'''<br/>
*WDD 2684 (last week 2612) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*6.1 M2:
*Poky Patch Metrics 
**Build Date: w/c 2026-07-20
**Total patches found: 1272 (last week 1270)
**Release Date: w/c 2026-08-03
**Patches in the Pending State: 481 (38%) [last week 484 (38%)]
*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:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0.19 due to release
**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:'''<br/>
'''The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:'''<br/>
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Latest revision as of 14:50, 21 July 2026

Yocto Project Status 21 July 2026

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

Next Team Meetings:

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

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 6.0.2 has been released
  • YP 5.0.19 is due to release
  • YP 6.1 M2 will build this week after pseudo, systemd and resulttool changes merge
  • Some invasive LICENSE changes have merged into master:
    • We now require the LICENSE field to match SPDX identifiers.
    • The build will issue warnings when this isn’t the case.
    • Non SPDX licenses will need to be of the form LicenseRef-XXX
    • CLOSED is no longer a valid value.
    • ‘WITH’ license exceptions are now supported

Big thanks for Joshua for getting us to the point where we can finally clean this up!

  • 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
  • Patches generated by the automatic upgrade helper (AUH) now include changelogs where these can be extracted from upstream.
  • A couple of further pseudo related issues were identified, one with linkat flags and one with openat2 (tar related/triggered). We hope to have patches merged soon.
  • 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’re working through the backlog of patches, the bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback continues to be a challenge. The review calls are running out of time each meeting which limits progress.
    • We’re making little progress on intermittent build failures despite the problems continuing to impact test builds:
    • several qemu ‘hang’ type issues on ARM
    • 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
  • For the qemuarmv5 amba crash (#16217), we did confirm it doesn’t seem to be load or memory usage related and does seem to happen on the autobuilder but not on other systems, for reasons still currently unknown.

Ways to contribute:

New to the project?

Tracking Metrics:

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 due to release
    • 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

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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