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== Yocto Project Weekly Status February 20th, 2024 ==
== Yocto Project Status 31 March 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M3<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M3<br/>
Next Deadline: 19th February 2024 YP 5.0 M3 build<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday February 22nd at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Apr. 2nd 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday February 20th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 31st Mar. 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Apr. 2nd 10am GMT and Monday Apr. 6th 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/>
*YP 4.0.16 was released.
*YP 4.0.34 was released.
*YP 4.3.3 is in QA.
*YP 5.3.3 is approved for release.
*We are now a week from feature freeze for 5.0, our next LTS release
*YP 6.0 M3 is the feature freeze for 6.0 which is our next LTS.
*The BBFILE_PRIORITY change is being deferred as unfortunately it causes problems with bbappend ordering.
*YP 6.0 M3 is now due to build however there are still key changes missing.  
*There have been fixes for python 3.12, recipe upgrades, kernel stable version bump and many other fixes and improvements this week.
*Issues still pending:
*The ‘scarthgap’ layer series name has merged to core. Compatibility with nanbield will be removed soon so maintainers will need to update their layers ASAP for the new release series.
**Splitting wic into an external tool.
*Patch testing, review and merging is still a little behind due to the volume of failures combined with builds needing long buildtimes to do rebuilding core components like the compiler or libc.
**Converting scripts/run-cvecheck to sbom-cve-check
*Several performance regressions were identified in bitbake for world builds and patches have merged to try and improve those.
**DISTRO_FEATURES defaults improvements.
*LLVMVERSION has been dropped from OE-Core since it doesn’t need it. This resolves a long standing issue/conflict with meta-clang but may need fixes for other layers that rely upon the variable.
**RHEL 9 xattrs/selinux/tar issue
*There have been questions about official RISC-V support in this next release, especially since it is an LTS. There is the potential to do this since the configurations have been written and are close to working. We’re wondering about trial testing this for M3 as a proof of concept. Without higher tier project membership support, this will not make it into the LTS final release though.
**How to improve DEBUG_BUILD?
**RHEL 10/openSUSE Leap 16.0/Ubuntu 26.04 support
*Issues that are mostly known quantities still needing work:
**x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
**Failure to generate regression reports in release builds
**Fixing yocto-check-layer to work with --machines (many fixes merged)
*Issues that were resolved this week:
**Sbom-cve-check added
**Replacement of runtlp with kirk (Thanks Daniel!)
**bitbake-setup vscode integration
**Fedora 43 selftest failures
**Reconciling poky and OE-Core defaults templates.
*We have rationalized the tags in various project repositories, more information can be found here: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/2312 Whilst controversial, this will make the tag list much easier to understand for users, guide users to use the right tags going forward and remove confusion about whether any tags were “missed”, at the expense that some CI setups may need adjusting short term.
*We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build failures are still problematic, including the emergence of new issues (newer kernel version?). We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback. This could impact features making it into the LTS.
*The CFP closing date for the Yocto Project Workshop at Embedded Recipes 2026 has been extended until April 7th, please submit a proposal if you’d like to present: https://pretalx.com/yocto-embedded-recipes-2026/cfp


'''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 5.0. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.0_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
*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.


'''YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*YP 5.0 M3 build date  2024/02/19
*We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER
*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 dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 4.3.3 is in QA.
*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/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2636 (last week 2621) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*WDD 2814 (last week 2819) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1145 (last week 1147)
**Total patches found: 1062 (last week 1072)
**Patches in the Pending State: 250 (22%) [last week 250 (22%)]
**Patches in the Pending State: 148 (14%) [last week 151 (14%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
 
'''YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23
*YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-04-08
*YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-13
*YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-05-04
 
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 4.0.34 was released.
*YP 5.3.3 ready for release.
*YP 5.0.17 Build Date 2026-03-30
*YP 5.0.17 Release Date 2026-04-15
*YP 4.0.35 Build Date 2026-04-06
*YP 4.0.35 Release Date 2026-04-22
*YP 5.3.4 Build Date 2026-04-20
*YP 5.3.4 Release Date 2026-05-06
*YP 5.0.18 Build Date 2026-04-27
*YP 5.0.18 Release Date 2026-05-13
*YP 5.0.19 Build Date 2026-05-26
*YP 5.0.19 Release Date 2026-06-05


'''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]]
*[[2024 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]

Latest revision as of 14:48, 31 March 2026

Yocto Project Status 31 March 2026

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M3
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23

Next Team Meetings:

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

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 4.0.34 was released.
  • YP 5.3.3 is approved for release.
  • YP 6.0 M3 is the feature freeze for 6.0 which is our next LTS.
  • YP 6.0 M3 is now due to build however there are still key changes missing.
  • Issues still pending:
    • Splitting wic into an external tool.
    • Converting scripts/run-cvecheck to sbom-cve-check
    • DISTRO_FEATURES defaults improvements.
    • RHEL 9 xattrs/selinux/tar issue
    • How to improve DEBUG_BUILD?
    • RHEL 10/openSUSE Leap 16.0/Ubuntu 26.04 support
  • Issues that are mostly known quantities still needing work:
    • x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
    • Failure to generate regression reports in release builds
    • Fixing yocto-check-layer to work with --machines (many fixes merged)
  • Issues that were resolved this week:
    • Sbom-cve-check added
    • Replacement of runtlp with kirk (Thanks Daniel!)
    • bitbake-setup vscode integration
    • Fedora 43 selftest failures
    • Reconciling poky and OE-Core defaults templates.
  • We have rationalized the tags in various project repositories, more information can be found here: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/2312 Whilst controversial, this will make the tag list much easier to understand for users, guide users to use the right tags going forward and remove confusion about whether any tags were “missed”, at the expense that some CI setups may need adjusting short term.
  • We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build failures are still problematic, including the emergence of new issues (newer kernel version?). We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback. This could impact features making it into the LTS.
  • The CFP closing date for the Yocto Project Workshop at Embedded Recipes 2026 has been extended until April 7th, please submit a proposal if you’d like to present: https://pretalx.com/yocto-embedded-recipes-2026/cfp

Ways to contribute:

New to the project?

Tracking Metrics:

YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23
  • YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-04-08
  • YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-13
  • YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-05-04

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 4.0.34 was released.
  • YP 5.3.3 ready for release.
  • YP 5.0.17 Build Date 2026-03-30
  • YP 5.0.17 Release Date 2026-04-15
  • YP 4.0.35 Build Date 2026-04-06
  • YP 4.0.35 Release Date 2026-04-22
  • YP 5.3.4 Build Date 2026-04-20
  • YP 5.3.4 Release Date 2026-05-06
  • YP 5.0.18 Build Date 2026-04-27
  • YP 5.0.18 Release Date 2026-05-13
  • YP 5.0.19 Build Date 2026-05-26
  • YP 5.0.19 Release Date 2026-06-05

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

Archives