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== Yocto Project Weekly Status September 3, 2019 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status Oct. 28th, 2025 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 2.8 M4 Feature Freeze<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M4 - Stabilization and Final Build/Release<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 3.0 Final Release 25th Oct<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10<br/>


'''SWAT Team Rotation:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*SWAT lead is currently: Paul
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Oct. 30th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*SWAT team rotation: Paul -> Ross on Sept. 13, 2019
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Oct. 28th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*SWAT team rotation: Ross -> Amanda on Sept. 20, 2019
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Oct. 30th 10am GMT and Monday Nov. 3rd 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)
*://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday Sept 12th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603)
*Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday Oct. 1st at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday Sept. 10th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712)
*Twitch - Next event is Tuesday Sept. 10th at 8am PDT (https://www.twitch.tv/yocto_project)


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*We’re now in feature freeze for 3.0 and working on bug fixing for final release
*YP 5.3 M3 is in QA
*We have not built M3 yet as some work still remains for us to be feature complete and ready for QA. This puts us behind schedule but the plan is to complete the key features we’ve planned rather than adhere strictly to dates. We hope to make up time during M4 by having M3 at high quality and take advantage of our automation.
*YP 5.0.13 is under review for release
*RP is away for the rest of the week which means M3 progress will be limited this week, Ross will queue patches.
*Documentation updates related to many of the recent changes are in progress, thanks to all who have helped on these.
*Key 3.0 changes have now merged:
*We have now past feature freeze for YP 5.3. To be accepted, patches that have a high bar until after we branch master from whinlatter. Known issues:
**5.2 linux-libc-kernel-headers
**check-layer tests are now running under nodistro instead of poky, so some layers are failing as they assume some DISTRO_FEATURES are enabled.
**5.2 kernel recipes by default for all reference BSPs
**Toaster is broken with bitbake-setup (#16012). Help moving to supporting non-poky layouts would be good if anyone is using Toaster.
**Removal of LSB and poky-lsb and replacement with alt config testing
**The patch/cve metrics jobs need reviewing to be sure they’re correct with bitbake-setup (#16013)
**systemd by default for poky-altcfg
**The build performance jobs don’t know that poky and oe-core are the same so the charts are currently wrong (#16014)
**Patches have significantly reduced the dependency on python2
**Help welcomed to resolve these issues!
**Reproducible builds are now being tested for core-image-minimal
*Upstream linux kernel just end-of-life’d 6.16 but whinlatter contains 6.16. We are evaluating the situation with 6.17, feedback on it (for/against and known issues) would be welcome.
**Automated toolchain testsuite tests (binutils, gcc, glibc)
*“poky” as a combo-layer repository will soon no longer be needed or updated for master and whinlatter branches.
*Key blocking issues for M3 that have been fixed:
*There are likely going to be breaking changes to the npm fetcher related to ongoing security concerns.
**Systemtap issues with 5.2 were debugged and patches sent/merged upstream
**5.2 dmesg on qemuarm64 fixed
**qemumips hang when using highmem root caused and worked around (for now)
**mdadm ptest timeout worked around
**quilt and libevent ptest regressions from M2 resolved
*Remaining issues blocking M3:
**systemd boot failure on qemumips
**strace ptest timeout
**Hash equivalence performance problems (RP has a simple idea to ~double speed)
**Hash equivalence bugs
**Toolchain testsuite relocation bugs (Nathan working on it)
*Hash Equivalency status:
**Ideas about removing some dependency information from the hashes to allow faster bulk queries aren’t viable so the current codebase approach is correct
**we need to rework the client/server communication to scale to the autobuilder
**there are some bugs in the code the autobuilder continues to expose
**we have cases where its not 100% clear what the correct behaviour should be
**test cases are proving to be problematic to write in a maintainable way
*Documentation - Due to illness Scott is unavailable for the next month or two so doc patches will be handled by Richard or Ross in the short term. We’ll likely limit them to correctness issues and defer any substantial new text. If anyone has availability and skills to work on the manuals please talk to us. We’re aware there is a patch backlog.
*If anyone has any status items for the project they’d like to add to the weekly reports, please email Richard+Stephen.


'''Planned Releases for YP 3.0 {2.8}:'''<br/>
'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
*M3 Release 6th Sept
*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!
*M4 Cutoff 30th Sept - this will be YP 3.0.
*There is an issue open upstream with the openssl project related to making path relocation of openssl easier (as used in our buildtools tarball and SDK). We’d love assistance in moving this forward and getting some kind of upstream feature merged to make this easier: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/19260
*YP 3.0 {2.8 (M4)} Final Release 25th Oct
*There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/bugtriage/#newcomer-container
*There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.3_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
*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.
*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.
*Ongoing project development plans are being developed in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xsnN_HcaMhqg6Dn1P_19AnumDaUMQSdFZ_I4rjD830A/edit?usp=sharing We need to continue to develop this as it will allow us to potentially find ways to fund specific work items.


'''Planned upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 2.7.2 (Warrior) is planned for after YP 3.0 release.
*WDD 3001 (last week 3009) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 2.6.4 (Thud) is planned for after YP 2.7.release.
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1091 (last week 1091)
**Patches in the Pending State: 153 (14%) [last week 153 (14%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*WDD 2424 (last week 2413) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 5.3 M3 is in QA.
*Poky Patch Metrics 
*YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10
**Total patches found: 1417 (last week 1470)
*YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-11-28
**Patches in the Pending State: 582 (41%) [last week 611 (42%)]


'''Key Status Links for YP:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_v2.8_Status<br/>
*YP 5.0.13 is in review for release.
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.8_Schedule<br/>
*YP 4.0.31 Build Date 2025-11-03
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_2.8_Features<br/>
*YP 4.0.31 Release Date 2025-11-14
*YP 5.0.14 Build Date 2025-11-17
*YP 5.0.14 Release Date 2025-11-28
*YP 4.0.32 Build Date 2025-12-15
*YP 4.0.32 Release Date 2025-12-24
*YP 5.0.15 Build Date 2026-01-05
*YP 5.0.15 Release Date 2026-01-16


'''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 ==
*[[2025 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2024 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2022 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2021 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]

Latest revision as of 14:50, 28 October 2025

Yocto Project Weekly Status Oct. 28th, 2025

Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M4 - Stabilization and Final Build/Release
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10

Next Team Meetings:

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

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 5.3 M3 is in QA
  • YP 5.0.13 is under review for release
  • Documentation updates related to many of the recent changes are in progress, thanks to all who have helped on these.
  • We have now past feature freeze for YP 5.3. To be accepted, patches that have a high bar until after we branch master from whinlatter. Known issues:
    • check-layer tests are now running under nodistro instead of poky, so some layers are failing as they assume some DISTRO_FEATURES are enabled.
    • Toaster is broken with bitbake-setup (#16012). Help moving to supporting non-poky layouts would be good if anyone is using Toaster.
    • The patch/cve metrics jobs need reviewing to be sure they’re correct with bitbake-setup (#16013)
    • The build performance jobs don’t know that poky and oe-core are the same so the charts are currently wrong (#16014)
    • Help welcomed to resolve these issues!
  • Upstream linux kernel just end-of-life’d 6.16 but whinlatter contains 6.16. We are evaluating the situation with 6.17, feedback on it (for/against and known issues) would be welcome.
  • “poky” as a combo-layer repository will soon no longer be needed or updated for master and whinlatter branches.
  • There are likely going to be breaking changes to the npm fetcher related to ongoing security concerns.

Ways to contribute:

Tracking Metrics:

YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.3 M3 is in QA.
  • YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10
  • YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-11-28

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 5.0.13 is in review for release.
  • YP 4.0.31 Build Date 2025-11-03
  • YP 4.0.31 Release Date 2025-11-14
  • YP 5.0.14 Build Date 2025-11-17
  • YP 5.0.14 Release Date 2025-11-28
  • YP 4.0.32 Build Date 2025-12-15
  • YP 4.0.32 Release Date 2025-12-24
  • YP 5.0.15 Build Date 2026-01-05
  • YP 5.0.15 Release Date 2026-01-16

The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

Archives