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== Yocto Project Weekly Status April 2nd, 2024 ==
== Yocto Project Weekly Status Dec. 9th, 2025 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M4 - Final Release <br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M4 - Final Build QA and Release<br/>
Next Deadline: 1st April 2024 YP 5.0 M4 build<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday April 4th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Dec. 11th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday April 2nd at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Dec. 9th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Dec. 11th 10am GMT and Monday Dec. 13th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)
 
'''Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/'''<br/>


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*YP 4.0.17 has been released.
*YP 5.0.14 was released
*YP 4.3.4 is in QA and is the final planned nanbield release.
*YP 5.3 rc4 has passed QA and is under review
*YP 5.0 rc1 is now due to build when ready.
*The 5.3 QA report is available and no major release blocking issues were found so we should be able to finally make the release.
*Steve is taking patches for Dunfell until around April 8 in preparation for an April 15 build. This will be the last release of dunfell.
*There was an announcement about the new project roles: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/2207
*5.0 build status:
*Welcome to Paul and Yoann in their new roles and huge thanks to Steve!
**The opkg lock issue has been worked around for now in the run-postinsts script
*Patches for master are merging and the builds are looking greener, there is a problem with the test result regression reports still causing failures as well as some check-layer issues.
**An intermittent oe-selftest failure (sstatetests hang) was tracked down to a race in tinfoil event handling.
*We have isolated the Fedora43 workers until we can root cause the binary problems it was causing when the sstate was shared to older systems
**The public hash equivalence server changes aren’t ready yet unfortunately
*Further bitbake-setup changes under discussion for the new development cycle:
**There are issues with the size of the buildhistory repository which is being split up, this needs to happen before we can build the release.
**defaulting to a common sstate directory and hashequiv server
**A key worry now is the documentation for the release, especially given it is an LTS. There are emails on the docs list about this, help is much appreciated. This will now be the main delay on the release timeframe.
**Allowing symlinking of local existing repos into the build instead of fetching
*A new yocto-status https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto-status/topics mailing list has been created where we plan to send just the project weekly status reports and any other suitable updates on the project. This should help those who found the traffic of the other mailing lists too much.
*The project is exploring the idea of applying for funding for security related work. If anyone (individual or consultancies) has ideas, please talk to Paul/Richard/TSC. This is an opportunity to work on those issues you never have time/funding for!
*A yocto-patches https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto-patches/topics mailing list has been setup and patches that used to go to the yocto@ list will be migrating over to this new list, making yocto@ a bit more friendly for questions and discussions.
*We are considering entirely disabling the npm fetcher in bitbake due to the security issues until those are resolved
*Some other obsolete mailing lists were removed or made read-only to try and make it easier for people to find the right place to see/send things.
*Debian 12 and Fedora 40 containers have been added to crops (Thanks Rob Wolley)
*All the crops yocto-base containers now include python3-virtualenv
*The “Binary Distro” work is now well underway and there are PR Server passthrough patches ready for review. The wiki page https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Binary_Distro_Prototype#Policies_and_Processes has had a number of policy/process proposals documented, at least as a first pass. Help is welcome to help improve these, or highlight where further documentation is needed.
*One year after the original linux.com article, an update was published: https://www.yoctoproject.org/blog/2024/03/28/maintainer-confidential-challenges-and-opportunities-one-year-on/
*There was a significant security issue with xz release tarballs. We never merged the affected version and it was never in any of our main branches but we did test it on the autobuilder and saw build failures. We continue to watch for information on any potential implications of that. We have removed the compromised tarballs from our mirrors.
*We continue to watch the NIST NVD (CVE database) situation, the recent update didn’t clarify much. Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be a clear path forward as yet.


'''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: 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!
*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 identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
*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 that are currently unassigned for YP 5.0. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.0_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
*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 6.0. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_6.0_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 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  
*Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics  
*We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
*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.
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2978 (last week 2963) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1086 (last week 1080)
**Patches in the Pending State: 152 (14%) [last week 152 (14%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/
'''YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 5.3 M4 in review for release.
'''YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 6.0 M1 Build Date 2026-01-05
*YP 6.0 M1 Release Date 2026-01-16
*YP 6.0 M2 Build Date 2026-02-02
*YP 6.0 M2 Release Date 2026-02-13
*YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-02
*YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-03-13
*YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-03-30
*YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-04-26


'''YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0 M4 build date  2024/04/01
*YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30


'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 4.0.17 is released.
*YP 5.0.14 was released.
*YP 4.3.4 is in QA.
*YP 4.0.32 Build Date 2025-12-15
*YP 3.1.33 build date 2024/04/15
*YP 4.0.32 Release Date 2025-12-24
*YP 3.1.33 Release date 2024/04/26
*YP 5.0.15 Build Date 2026-01-05
*YP 4.0.18 build date 2024/04/22
*YP 5.0.15 Release Date 2026-01-16
*YP 4.0.18 Release date 2024/05/03
*YP 5.3.1 Build Date 2026-01-12
*YP 4.0.19 build date 2024/06/03
*YP 5.3.1 Release Date 2026-01-23
*YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024/06/14
*YP 4.0.33 Build Date 2026-01-26
 
*YP 4.0.33 Release Date 2026-01-30
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0.16 Build Date 2026-02-09
*WDD 2681 (last week 2703) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*YP 5.0.16 Release Date 2026-02-20
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*YP 5.3.2 Build Date 2026-02-16
**Total patches found: 1173 (last week 1156)
*YP 5.3.2 Release Date 2026-02-27
**Patches in the Pending State: 249 (21%) [last week 249 (22%)]
*YP 4.0.34 Build Date 2026-02-23
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
*YP 4.0.34 Release Date 2026-03-06
*YP 5.3.3 Build Date 2026-03-09
*YP 5.3.3 Release Date 2026-03-20
*YP 5.0.17 Build Date 2026-03-16
*YP 5.0.17 Release Date 2026-03-23
*YP 4.0.35 Build Date 2026-04-06
*YP 4.0.35 Release Date 2026-04-17
*YP 5.3.4 Build Date 2026-04-13
*YP 5.3.4 Release Date 2026-04-24
*YP 5.0.18 Build Date 2026-04-20
*YP 5.0.18 Release Date 2026-05-01
*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 ==
*[[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 15:50, 9 December 2025

Yocto Project Weekly Status Dec. 9th, 2025

Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M4 - Final Build QA and 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 5.0.14 was released
  • YP 5.3 rc4 has passed QA and is under review
  • The 5.3 QA report is available and no major release blocking issues were found so we should be able to finally make the release.
  • There was an announcement about the new project roles: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/2207
  • Welcome to Paul and Yoann in their new roles and huge thanks to Steve!
  • Patches for master are merging and the builds are looking greener, there is a problem with the test result regression reports still causing failures as well as some check-layer issues.
  • We have isolated the Fedora43 workers until we can root cause the binary problems it was causing when the sstate was shared to older systems
  • Further bitbake-setup changes under discussion for the new development cycle:
    • defaulting to a common sstate directory and hashequiv server
    • Allowing symlinking of local existing repos into the build instead of fetching
  • The project is exploring the idea of applying for funding for security related work. If anyone (individual or consultancies) has ideas, please talk to Paul/Richard/TSC. This is an opportunity to work on those issues you never have time/funding for!
  • We are considering entirely disabling the npm fetcher in bitbake due to the security issues until those are resolved

Ways to contribute:

Tracking Metrics:

YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.3 M4 in review for release.

YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 6.0 M1 Build Date 2026-01-05
  • YP 6.0 M1 Release Date 2026-01-16
  • YP 6.0 M2 Build Date 2026-02-02
  • YP 6.0 M2 Release Date 2026-02-13
  • YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-02
  • YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-03-13
  • YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-03-30
  • YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-04-26


Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 5.0.14 was released.
  • 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
  • YP 5.3.1 Build Date 2026-01-12
  • YP 5.3.1 Release Date 2026-01-23
  • YP 4.0.33 Build Date 2026-01-26
  • YP 4.0.33 Release Date 2026-01-30
  • YP 5.0.16 Build Date 2026-02-09
  • YP 5.0.16 Release Date 2026-02-20
  • YP 5.3.2 Build Date 2026-02-16
  • YP 5.3.2 Release Date 2026-02-27
  • YP 4.0.34 Build Date 2026-02-23
  • YP 4.0.34 Release Date 2026-03-06
  • YP 5.3.3 Build Date 2026-03-09
  • YP 5.3.3 Release Date 2026-03-20
  • YP 5.0.17 Build Date 2026-03-16
  • YP 5.0.17 Release Date 2026-03-23
  • YP 4.0.35 Build Date 2026-04-06
  • YP 4.0.35 Release Date 2026-04-17
  • YP 5.3.4 Build Date 2026-04-13
  • YP 5.3.4 Release Date 2026-04-24
  • YP 5.0.18 Build Date 2026-04-20
  • YP 5.0.18 Release Date 2026-05-01
  • 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