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== Yocto Project Weekly Status April 23rd, 2024 ==
== Yocto Project Status 28 July 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 preparing to build rc2 <br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.1 M3<br/>
Next Deadline: 1st April 2024 YP 5.0 M4 build<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 6.1 M3: w/c 2026-08-31<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday April 25th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 30th July 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday April 23rd at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 28th July 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 30th July 10am GMT and Monday 3rd Aug. 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 5.0 rc1 is building but has many (6+) failures in the build so will have to be abandoned.
*YP 5.0.19 has been released
*The final dunfell build will follow 5.0 into QA.
*YP 6.1 M2 is out of QA and under review
*The master branch has diverged from scarthgap.
*Progress has been made with some of the AB-INT issues:
*For 5.0, we were able to switch to the new hash equivalence server however the need for websockets complicated the worker configuration and needed new buildtools tarball versions which are causing various problems.
**We identified a kernel issue likely causing the arm psplash boot hangs
*During the rc1 build as well as pip and setuptools issues within buildtools, we also saw a qemuppc boot issue, an instance of the spdx dependency problem, an sstate mirror issue and a github network error. This highlights how important fixing these is over the release cycle. The volume of these may impact our ability to maintain the LTS.
**The groff race issues were reported upstream and we have that section of the build disabled for groff-native now to avoid them
*Thanks to everyone who sent documentation patches, we’re in much better shape with the migration guide and release notes now. Further improvements are still very welcome.
**Several pseudo issues were patched in a recent update
*The “Binary Distro” work is now well underway and there are PR Server passthrough and image testing patches under review. The wiki page has had a number of policy/process proposals documented, help is welcome to help improve these, or highlight where further documentation is needed.
**One infrastructure issue on a worker was corrected
*There are patches for improving the build performance graphs in review. Sample output from the changes is here and here.
*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:
*There are also patches under review for the patch/cve metrics page to improve the usability.
**Matchbox-wm segfault/xserver restart
*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 but using data directly from MITRE may help give partial information. These issues are making it hard to know what to include in the 5.0 release as it isn’t clear which changes are security related.
**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.
*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 to Joshua for getting us to the point where we can finally clean this up!
*Patches generated by the automatic upgrade helper (AUH) now include changelogs where these can be extracted from upstream. Initial results are good, some manual tweaking of commit messages may be needed, feedback is welcome to improve the automation.
*We continue to work on the backlog of patches which has slightly reduced.
*Fixes merged to handle ptest reports for both glibc and musl in resulttool and whilst this improves the main reports, it does cause noise in the regression reports due to poor comparison baselines.
*Remaining intermittent build failures  of concern:
**other qemu ‘hang’ type issues on ARM
**sometimes yocto-check-layer is showing checksum mismatch issues
**siggen reset issues (“ResourceWarning: unclosed transport”)
**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: 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 is in QA
*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 M4 Release date 2024/04/30
 
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2689 (last week 2719) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1021 (last week 1019)
**Patches in the Pending State: 141 (14%) [last week 144 (14%)]
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


'''YP 5.1 Proposed Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming development releases:'''<br/>
*YP 5.1 M1 Build date 2024-05-20
*6.1 M2: out of QA.
*YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
**Release Date: w/c 2026-08-03
*YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
*6.1 M3:
*YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
**Build Date: w/c 2026-08-31
*YP 5.1 M3 Build date 2024-08-26
**Release Date: w/c 2026-09-14
*YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
*6.1.0:
*YP 5.1 M4 Build date 2024-09-30
**Build Date (M4): w/c 2026-10-12
*YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25
**Release Date: w/c 2026-11-02


'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 3.1.33 is in QA
*YP 5.0.19 due to release
*YP 3.1.33 Release date 2024-04-26
**Release Date w/c 2026-07-13
*YP 4.0.18 is in QA
*YP 6.0.3
*YP 4.0.18 Release date 2024-05-03
**Build Date w/c 2026-08-10
*YP 5.0.1 Build Date 2024-05-13
**Release Date w/c 2026-08-24
*YP 5.0.1 Release Date 2024-05-24
*YP 5.0.20
*YP 4.0.19 build date 2024-06-03
**Build Date w/c 2026-08-17
*YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024-06-14
**Release Date w/c 2026-08-31
*YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
*YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
*YP 4.0.20 Build Date 2024-07-15
*YP 4.0.20 Release Date 2024-07-26
*YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
*YP 5.0.3 Release Date 2024-08-23
*YP 4.0.21 Build Date 2024-09-09
*YP 4.0.21 Release Date 2024-09-20
*YP 5.0.4 Build Date 2024-09-23
*YP 5.0.4 Release Date 2024-10-04
*YP 4.0.22 Build Date 2024-10-14
*YP 4.0.22 Release Date 2024-10-25
*YP 5.0.5 Build Date 2024-11-11
*YP 5.0.5 Release Date 2024-11-22
*YP 4.0.23 Build Date 2024-11-18
*YP 4.0.23 Release Date 2024-11-29


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*For future release dates, see https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Release_calendar
*WDD 2714 (last week 2719) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1140 (last week 1173)
**Patches in the Pending State: 249 (21%) [last week 249 (21%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


'''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, 28 July 2026

Yocto Project Status 28 July 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 5.0.19 has been released
  • YP 6.1 M2 is out of QA and under review
  • Progress has been made with some of the AB-INT issues:
    • We identified a kernel issue likely causing the arm psplash boot hangs
    • The groff race issues were reported upstream and we have that section of the build disabled for groff-native now to avoid them
    • Several pseudo issues were patched in a recent update
    • One infrastructure issue on a worker was corrected
  • 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.
  • 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 to Joshua for getting us to the point where we can finally clean this up!

  • Patches generated by the automatic upgrade helper (AUH) now include changelogs where these can be extracted from upstream. Initial results are good, some manual tweaking of commit messages may be needed, feedback is welcome to improve the automation.
  • We continue to work on the backlog of patches which has slightly reduced.
  • Fixes merged to handle ptest reports for both glibc and musl in resulttool and whilst this improves the main reports, it does cause noise in the regression reports due to poor comparison baselines.
  • Remaining intermittent build failures of concern:
    • other qemu ‘hang’ type issues on ARM
    • sometimes yocto-check-layer is showing checksum mismatch issues
    • siggen reset issues (“ResourceWarning: unclosed transport”)
    • intermittent ptest failures in many recipes

Ways to contribute:

New to the project?

Tracking Metrics:

Upcoming development releases:

  • 6.1 M2: out of QA.
    • 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