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== Yocto Project Weekly Status October 31st, 2023 ==
== Yocto Project Status 11 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/>
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 13rd Aug. 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday 11th Aug. 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 13rd Aug. 10am GMT and Monday 17th Aug. 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)
'''Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/'''<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday November 2, 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday October 31st 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*The YP 4.3 passed QA and is now pending finalizing the release notes and migration guide.
*YP 6.1 M2 has been released
*Work has continued on trying to track down the 32bit x86 non-kvm 6.5 kernel early boot crash (thanks Paul).
*YP 6.1 M3 is due in three weeks and this will be the feature freeze point for YP 6.1.
*Patchtest is now replying live on the mailing list for OE-Core. There are some open bugs including a threading/references issue but it is great to welcome it back, thanks Trevor.
*We would like to remind everyone that AI-generated code submitted to Yocto Project must include disclosure of the use of AI tools, in line with our policy in the contributor guide (https://docs.yoctoproject.org/contributor-guide/submit-changes.html#acceptance-of-ai-generated-code). Joshua has sent patches adding AGENTS.md files to bitbake and openembedded-core to prompt agents to follow this policy. We are discussing further updates to our policy on AI assisted submissions as this is a rapidly evolving area.
*The autobuilder generated ‘metrics’ target has been altered to work per branch and we’re close to support for testing other layers such as meta-openembedded.
*Alex Stewart is stepping down as maintainer of opkg - huge thanks to him for his work on the project over the last 5 years, and thanks to National Instruments/Emerson for their continued support of opkg. Maintainership is being handed over to Erick Shepherd (also from NI/Emerson), there is also a call for input and anyone interested in being a co-maintainer: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/opkg/topic/120687514
*Toaster automated testing is close to being usable again.
*The NPM fetcher has been re-enabled in bitbake with security improvements and additional test cases
*Recipetool is now able to better handle various python module formats for recipe creation (Thanks Julien and Tim).
*The upgrade to sbom-cve-check 1.3.3 has more correct handling of Ubuntu/Red Hat specific CVEs, which may require new patches or CVE_STATUS assignments. The fallout in OE-core has been handled, other layers may see an uptick in reported CVEs.
*Various pieces of security information and processes are being added to our documentation.
*The SDK_TOOLCHAIN_LANGS variable has been replaced with a more general SDK_FEATURES variable to support improved SDK configurability. Uses of the old variable will need to be updated, `go` and `rust` langs are still supported as SDK features.
 
*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:
<br/>
**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:'''<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 4.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.3_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
*We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.


'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*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 was released.
*WDD 2694 (last week 2694) (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 1029)
 
**Patches in the Pending State: 139 (14%) [last week 141 (14%)]
 
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
'''YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0 M1 build date 2023/12/04
*YP 5.0 M1 Release date 2023/12/15
*YP 5.0 M2 build date  2024/01/15
*YP 5.0 M2 Release date 2024/01/24
*YP 5.0 M3 build date  2024/02/19
*YP 5.0 M3 Release date 2024/03/01
*YP 5.0 M4 build date  2024/04/01
*YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30


'''Upcoming development releases:'''<br/>
*6.1 M2: was released.
*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 3.1.29 build date 2023/10/30
*YP 6.0.3 due to release
*YP 3.1.29 Release date 2023/11/10
**Release Date w/c 2026-08-24
*YP 4.0.14 build date 2023/11/06
*YP 5.0.20
*YP 4.0.14 Release date 2023/11/17
**Build Date w/c 2026-08-17
*YP 4.2.4 build date 2023/11/13
**Release Date w/c 2026-08-31
*YP 4.2.4 Release date 2023/11/24
*YP 4.3.1 build date 2023/11/27
*YP 4.3.1 Release date 2023/12/08
*YP 3.1.30 build date 2023/12/11
*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
*YP 4.3.2 build date 2024/01/08
*YP 4.3.2 Release date 2024/01/19
*YP 3.1.31 build date 2024/01/22
*YP 3.1.31 Release date 2024/02/02
*YP 4.0.16 build date 2024/01/29
*YP 4.0.16 Release date 2024/02/09
*YP 4.3.3 build date 2024/02/12
*YP 4.3.3 Release date 2024/02/23
*YP 3.1.32 build date 2024/03/04
*YP 3.1.32 Release date 2024/03/15
*YP 4.0.17 build date 2024/03/11
*YP 4.0.17 Release date 2024/03/22
*YP 4.3.4 build date 2024/03/25
*YP 4.3.4 Release date 2024/04/05
*YP 3.1.33 build date 2024/04/15
*YP 3.1.33 Release date 2024/04/26
*YP 4.0.18 build date 2024/04/22
*YP 4.0.18 Release date 2024/05/03
*YP 4.0.19 build date 2024/06/03
*YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024/06/14
 
 
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2555 (last week 2475) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1179 (last week 1174)
**Patches in the Pending State: 253 (22%) [last week 253 (21%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


*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]]
*[[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 14:46, 11 August 2026

Yocto Project Status 11 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 6.1 M2 has been released
  • YP 6.1 M3 is due in three weeks and this will be the feature freeze point for YP 6.1.
  • We would like to remind everyone that AI-generated code submitted to Yocto Project must include disclosure of the use of AI tools, in line with our policy in the contributor guide (https://docs.yoctoproject.org/contributor-guide/submit-changes.html#acceptance-of-ai-generated-code). Joshua has sent patches adding AGENTS.md files to bitbake and openembedded-core to prompt agents to follow this policy. We are discussing further updates to our policy on AI assisted submissions as this is a rapidly evolving area.
  • Alex Stewart is stepping down as maintainer of opkg - huge thanks to him for his work on the project over the last 5 years, and thanks to National Instruments/Emerson for their continued support of opkg. Maintainership is being handed over to Erick Shepherd (also from NI/Emerson), there is also a call for input and anyone interested in being a co-maintainer: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/opkg/topic/120687514
  • The NPM fetcher has been re-enabled in bitbake with security improvements and additional test cases
  • The upgrade to sbom-cve-check 1.3.3 has more correct handling of Ubuntu/Red Hat specific CVEs, which may require new patches or CVE_STATUS assignments. The fallout in OE-core has been handled, other layers may see an uptick in reported CVEs.
  • The SDK_TOOLCHAIN_LANGS variable has been replaced with a more general SDK_FEATURES variable to support improved SDK configurability. Uses of the old variable will need to be updated, `go` and `rust` langs are still supported as SDK features.
  • 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 M2: was released.
  • 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 due to release
    • 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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