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== Yocto Project Weekly Status May 18, 2021 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status Sept. 9th, 2025 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 3.4 M1<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M3<br/>
Next Deadline: 7th June 2021 YP 3.4 M1 build<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M3 Build Date 2025-09-01<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday May 20th at 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Sept. 11th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Monthly Project Meeting Tuesday June 1st at 8am  PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Sept. 9th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday May 18th at 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Sept. 11th 10am GMT and Monday Sept. 15th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.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 3.2.4 was released
*YP 5.2.3 is due to be released.
*YP 3.3.1 is in QA
*YP 5.0.12 is due to be released.
*Patch merging to master is continuing and we now have a round of AUH upgrades to process. We’ve tried to merge some of the easier ones as there was autobuilder testing availability. This allows people to concentrate on the areas where there are issues with the automated upgrade and where we most need the help.
*YP 5.3 M3 is due to build soon
*Anuj is unavailable for a few weeks so Richard will be acting as maintainer for hardknott until he returns (assistance welcome).
*We’re at feature freeze for YP 5.3
*An open letter about open source project work was sent to various mailing lists highlighting some of the challenges established project face from a resourcing perspective:
*Updates to the 6.16 kernel are pending before the 5.3 M3 build
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/topic/open_source_maintainers_an/82722442
*We aim to merge bitbake-setup before building 5.3 M3
*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.
*This change will mean “poky” as a combo-layer repository will no longer be needed or updated. This means autobuilder changes before we build 5.3 M3.
*We saw a significant drop in open CVEs reported by the tooling against master this week (63 down to 18) and hopefully many more of these have resolutions “in flight”. This will allow us to focus on the real issues and filter out the legacy noise.
*Patch merging is continuing as long as the risk for the changes are low
*SMP was enabled for qemu on arm/x86 and we switched x86 to a more modern cpu/platform
*There are a couple of open Yocto Project positions which we’re in the process of advertising:
*One source of the OOM issues on the autobuilder appears to be glibc usermode testing going out of control and using up all system memory. We are investigating the best way to mitigate that but it accounts for some of our intermittent issues.
**Ecosystem Engineering and Operations Lead
*When OOM issues occur an issue was identified in bitbake’s heartbeat events causing bitbake to hang. Ironically this was being heavily used by the recent autobuilder load debugging code. There is a patch pending to address this.
**LTS Maintainer  - Steve Sakoman is retiring in April 2026 (full details pending)
*A rare sstate manifest corruption bug was tracked down thanks to information from Martin Jansa, a fix has been merged.
*We have enabled more resource control on the autobuilder for xz memory/thread usage as that was contributing to the OOM issues. More investigation is needed into the rpm/deb controls for xz, help there would be appreciated.
*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.


'''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
*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!
*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 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
*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.
*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.


'''YP 3.4 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 3.4 M1 build date 2021/06/07
*WDD 2835 (last week 2845) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 3.4 M1 Release date 2021/06/18
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*YP 3.4 M2 build date 2021/07/12
**Total patches found: 1111 (last week 1095)
*YP 3.4 M2 Release date 2021/07/23
**Patches in the Pending State: 156 (14%) [last week 155 (14%)]
*YP 3.4 M3 build date 2021/08/23
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/
*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/>
'''YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 3.2.4 is in released
*YP 5.3 M3 Build Date 2025-09-01
*YP 3.3.1 is in QA
*YP 5.3 M3 Release Date 2025-09-12
*YP 3.3.1 release date 2021/05/28
*YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-10-06
*YP 3.1.8 build date 2021/05/24
*YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-10-31
*YP 3.1.8 release date 2021/06/04
*YP 3.1.9 build date 2021/06/21
*YP 3.1.9 release date 2021/07/02
*YP 3.3.2 build date 2021/07/19
*YP 3.3.2 release date 2021/07/30
*YP 3.1.10 build date 2021/07/26
*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 dot releases:'''<br/>
*WDD 2664 (last week 2674) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 5.2.3 is being reviewed for release.
*Poky Patch Metrics 
*YP 5.0.12 is being reviewed for release.
**Total patches found: 1297 (last week 1331)
*YP 4.0.30 Build Date 2025-09-22
**Patches in the Pending State: 494 (38%) [last week 497 (37%)]
*YP 4.0.30 Release Date 2025-10-03
*YP 5.2.4 Build Date 2025-09-29
*YP 5.2.4 Release Date 2025-10-10
*YP 5.0.13 Build Date 2025-10-13
*YP 5.0.13 Release Date 2025-10-24
*YP 4.0.31 Build Date 2025-11-03
*YP 4.031 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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Latest revision as of 14:48, 9 September 2025

Yocto Project Weekly Status Sept. 9th, 2025

Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M3
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M3 Build Date 2025-09-01

Next Team Meetings:

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

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 5.2.3 is due to be released.
  • YP 5.0.12 is due to be released.
  • YP 5.3 M3 is due to build soon
  • We’re at feature freeze for YP 5.3
  • Updates to the 6.16 kernel are pending before the 5.3 M3 build
  • We aim to merge bitbake-setup before building 5.3 M3
  • This change will mean “poky” as a combo-layer repository will no longer be needed or updated. This means autobuilder changes before we build 5.3 M3.
  • Patch merging is continuing as long as the risk for the changes are low
  • There are a couple of open Yocto Project positions which we’re in the process of advertising:
    • Ecosystem Engineering and Operations Lead
    • LTS Maintainer - Steve Sakoman is retiring in April 2026 (full details pending)

Ways to contribute:

Tracking Metrics:

YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.3 M3 Build Date 2025-09-01
  • YP 5.3 M3 Release Date 2025-09-12
  • YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-10-06
  • YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-10-31

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 5.2.3 is being reviewed for release.
  • YP 5.0.12 is being reviewed for release.
  • YP 4.0.30 Build Date 2025-09-22
  • YP 4.0.30 Release Date 2025-10-03
  • YP 5.2.4 Build Date 2025-09-29
  • YP 5.2.4 Release Date 2025-10-10
  • YP 5.0.13 Build Date 2025-10-13
  • YP 5.0.13 Release Date 2025-10-24
  • YP 4.0.31 Build Date 2025-11-03
  • YP 4.031 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

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