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== Yocto Project Weekly Status September 12th, 2023 ==
== Yocto Project Status 25 August 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 4.3 M4 (Feature Freeze)<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.1 M3<br/>
Next Deadline: 2nd October 2023 YP 4.3 M4 build date<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 6.1 M3: w/c 2026-08-31<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday September 14th 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 27th Aug. 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday September 12th 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 25th Aug. 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 27th Aug. 10am GMT and Monday 31st Aug. 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/>
*We are now at feature freeze for 4.3.
*YP 6.0.3 is in QA.
*YP 4.2.3 was released
*YP 6.1 M3 is due in one week and this will be the feature freeze point for YP 6.1.
*The qemupcc issue was tracked down to the glibc 2.38 included in the new uninative version. Upgrading along the glibc stable branch appeared to resolve the issue. It seems ppc was worst affected as the emulation is slow.
*For 6.1 M3 our plans are to merge rpm 6, merge openssl 4 and update to the 7.2 kernel. If there are any other major changes planned, please let us know ASAP!
*We’re hoping to have tracked down the numpy reproducibility issue to non-deterministic blas library queries but we didn’t definitively work out which system was introducing the issue so we can’t be sure it is resolved.
*AI scrapers and bots continue to impact the infrastructure, taking huge amounts of time for our sysadmins and with a significant cost impact to the project.
*We need to upgrade to qemu 8.1.0 for security fixes but it is broken for x86. If we backport fixes for that issue, mips virtio breaks. We’ve filed a bug upstream: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1866
*We continue to try and keep up to date with upstream releases through the AUH, big thanks to those sending version updates and fixing version update issues. It is worth noting that the ‘success’ updates do still need work on the commit message changelogs and much of this work is being pushed to Richard.
*Patches have been resubmitted to radically alter the do_unpack process for license compliance reasons. The code is complex and hard to understand and will have a performance impact on builds as well as making things hard to debug. *The risk of not taking the changes is that for some legal departments, the SPDX data isn’t detailed enough. The compromise between performance and ease of use vs. legal requirements is a tough one. We don’t really want to have two codepaths either. Feedback/review on the series welcome.
*There are two AB-INT issues which are in a position where others could now help, as detailed in https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/242105:
*We continue to see intermittent ptest failures for glib-networking and openssh, help would be much appreciated.
**Matchbox-wm segfault/xserver restart
*Due to the number of issues related to mips and ppc being encountered with few people interested in helping fix them, we are likely to reduce the amount of testing being done on those targets before release. If you’re using these targets please let us know as we’re likely to drop them if there are no users.
**aarch64/x86-64 build host contamination/reproducibility issue
*M3 will build when we have a resolution to the qemu 8.1.0 issue and ideally fixes for the intermittent ptest issues.
We get a lot of comments about these being hard to reproduce or work on, in both cases, these have specific well defined things which need to be done and a basic understanding of what the issue relates to, if not the actual fix.
*We’re happy to be able to announce that some of the work in the RFQ will now be progressing, specifically that:
*Remaining intermittent build failures of concern:
**Marta Rybczynska will be working on the security topic
**other qemu ‘hang’ type issues on ARM
**Alexander Kanvin will be working on the core workflow topic
**sometimes yocto-check-layer is showing checksum mismatch issues
**Savoir-faire Linux will be working on the toaster and VSCode topics
**intermittent ptest failures in many recipes
**BayLibre will be working on the patchtest and project tooling topics
**Michael Opdenacker (Bootlin) will be working on the binary distro topic
The other remaining topic areas should be announced soon.
We’d also note that Tim Orling (Konsulko) will be working on the layer index.


'''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 4.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.2_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
'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
*We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER


'''YP 4.3 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 4.3 M3 is in QA
*WDD 2659 (last week 2704) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 4.3 M4 build date  2023/10/02
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*YP 4.3 M4 Release date 2023/10/27
**Total patches found: 1028 (last week 1030)
**Patches in the Pending State: 139 (14%) [last week 139 (14%)]
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
 
'''Upcoming development releases:'''<br/>
*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/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1.28 build date 2023/09/18
*YP 6.0.3 is in QA.
*YP 3.1.28 Release date 2023/09/29
**Release Date w/c 2026-08-24
*YP 4.0.13 build date 2023/09/25
*YP 5.0.20
*YP 4.0.13 Release date 2023/10/06
**Build Date w/c 2026-08-17
*YP 3.1.29 build date 2023/10/30
**Release Date w/c 2026-08-31
*YP 3.1.29 Release date 2023/11/10
*YP 6.0.4
*YP 4.0.14 build date 2023/11/06
**Build Date w/c 2026-09-28
*YP 4.0.14 Release date 2023/11/17
**Release Date w/c 2026-10-12
*YP 4.2.4 build date 2023/11/13
*YP 5.0.21
*YP 4.2.4 Release date 2023/11/24
**Build Date w/c 2026-10-05
*YP 3.1.30 build date 2023/12/11
**Release Date w/c 2026-10-19
*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


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*For future release dates, see https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Release_calendar
*WDD 2530 (last week 2500) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1186 (last week 1185)
**Patches in the Pending State: 255 (22%) [last week 254 (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]]

Latest revision as of 14:45, 25 August 2026

Yocto Project Status 25 August 2026

Current Dev Position: YP 6.1 M3
Next Deadline: YP 6.1 M3: w/c 2026-08-31

Next Team Meetings:

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

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 6.0.3 is in QA.
  • YP 6.1 M3 is due in one week and this will be the feature freeze point for YP 6.1.
  • For 6.1 M3 our plans are to merge rpm 6, merge openssl 4 and update to the 7.2 kernel. If there are any other major changes planned, please let us know ASAP!
  • AI scrapers and bots continue to impact the infrastructure, taking huge amounts of time for our sysadmins and with a significant cost impact to the project.
  • We continue to try and keep up to date with upstream releases through the AUH, big thanks to those sending version updates and fixing version update issues. It is worth noting that the ‘success’ updates do still need work on the commit message changelogs and much of this work is being pushed to Richard.
  • There are two AB-INT issues which are in a position where others could now help, as detailed in https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/242105:
    • Matchbox-wm segfault/xserver restart
    • aarch64/x86-64 build host contamination/reproducibility issue

We get a lot of comments about these being hard to reproduce or work on, in both cases, these have specific well defined things which need to be done and a basic understanding of what the issue relates to, if not the actual fix.

  • Remaining intermittent build failures of concern:
    • other qemu ‘hang’ type issues on ARM
    • sometimes yocto-check-layer is showing checksum mismatch issues
    • intermittent ptest failures in many recipes

Ways to contribute:

New to the project?

Tracking Metrics:

Upcoming development releases:

  • 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 6.0.3 is in QA.
    • 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
  • YP 6.0.4
    • Build Date w/c 2026-09-28
    • Release Date w/c 2026-10-12
  • YP 5.0.21
    • Build Date w/c 2026-10-05
    • Release Date w/c 2026-10-19

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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