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== Yocto Project Weekly Status Apr. 6, 2021 ==
== Yocto Project Status 21 July 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 3.3 M4 (Feature Freeze)<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.1 M2<br/>
Next Deadline: 5th April 2021 YP 3.3 M4 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 Apr. 8th 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 Apr. 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 Apr. 13th 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/>
*We are now close to building YP 3.3 rc1 for the final release. That build may happen later today if three are no more urgent pending changes. The biggest blockers on release may be the changelog/release notes and migration guide as those have not been started yet.
*YP 6.0.2 has been released
*YP 3.2.3 was released.
*YP 5.0.19 is due to release
*We did merge a change to oeqa/runqemu to allow the qemu images to be run from a tmpfs. This should mean writes aren’t held up in the IO queue which we believe may have been a cause of the intermittent failures. Unfortunately we can’t use cgroups as the versions on most of the autobuilder workers isn’t recent enough for IO priorities, even ignoring the permission issues so this tmpfs solution seemed like the best option and was not very invasive to implement. It does mean we now see the “qemu didn’t start in 120s” error instead much more regularly if the copy into tmpfs is locked.
*YP 6.1 M2 will build this week after pseudo, systemd and resulttool changes merge
*There are a number of patches queued in master-next but most are version upgrades which will wait for 3.4 to open for development.
*Some invasive LICENSE changes have merged into master:
*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 now require the LICENSE field to match SPDX identifiers.
*We are working to identify the load pattern on the infrastructure that seems to trigger these.
**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:'''<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 3.3 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*YP 3.3 M4 build date 2021/04/05
*We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER
*YP 3.3 M4 Release date 2021/04/30


'''Planned upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 3.2.3 has been released.
*WDD 2719 (last week 2689) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 3.1.7 build date 2021/03/29
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*YP 3.1.7 release date 2021/04/09
**Total patches found: 1019 (last week 1019+)
*YP 3.2.4 build date 2021/05/3
**Patches in the Pending State: 144 (14%) [last week 145 (14%)]
*YP 3.2.4 release date 2021/05/14
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
*YP 3.1.8 build date 2021/05/17
*YP 3.1.8 release date 2021/05/28


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming development releases:'''<br/>
*WDD 2744 (last week 2751) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*6.1 M2:
*Poky Patch Metrics 
**Build Date: w/c 2026-07-20
**Total patches found: 1318 (last week 1317)
**Release Date: w/c 2026-08-03
**Patches in the Pending State: 493 (37%) [last week 493 (37%)]
*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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== Archives ==
== Archives ==
*[[2026 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
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*[[2024 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2022 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2021 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
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*[[2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2020 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2019 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2018 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]

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

Archives