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== Yocto Project Weekly Status May 14th, 2024 ==
== Yocto Project Status 7 April 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 M1 <br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M3<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M1 Build 20 May 2024<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 May 16th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Apr. 9th 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday May 14th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Apr. 7th 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Apr. 9th 10am GMT and Monday Apr. 13th 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 4.0.18 has been released
*YP 5.3.3 was released.
*YP 5.0.1 rc2 is in QA.
*YP 5.0.17 is in QA
*YP 5.0.1 rc1 was abandoned due to high numbers of intermittent failures.
*YP 6.0 M3 is the feature freeze for 6.0 which is our next LTS.
*There are some CVE related announcements which are helpful to us:
*YP 6.0 M3 is now due to build however there are still key changes missing.  
**There was a CVE 5.1 Record format announcement with changes that encourage more useful data from our perspective
*Issues with pending work needed:
**CISA announced on linkedin the creation of https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment
**Converting scripts/run-cvecheck to sbom-cve-check
*There is an open letter the project has created related to the CVE/NVD situation, more information is available here: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/1990
**32bit x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
**Please consider signing this to show support for those changes.
**Failure to generate regression reports in release builds (need tags)
**Signatures from small businesses/consultancies are as welcome as those from larger organizations as we want to demonstrate the breadth of the need for these changes.
**Ubuntu 26.04 support (need worker adding for testing)
*The project is sponsoring Syslinbit to separate out our CVE tooling from the build system into a standalone tool so that it can be used on software manifests of output at a later date.
*Issues that have patches ready to merge:
*The WORKDIR to UNPACKDIR transition and redefinition of UNPACKDIR now has patches under testing in master-next, including updates to recipetool and devtool which pass our automated tests.
**DISTRO_FEATURES defaults improvements.
*gcc 14 has patches pending thanks for Khem and Martin in particular. Merging the new gcc version is needed to generate new uninative tarballs to support Fedora 40 builds or any other distro using the new gcc version.
**Fixing yocto-check-layer to work with --machines
*The project is in the process of testing a new way of hosting our autobuilder with plans to switch soon if successful. Our existing hardware is past end of life and showing increased hardware failures so is currently down on capacity meaning builds are taking longer than normal.
**RHEL 9 xattrs/selinux/tar issue
*Mailing list changes now mean any google hosted email accounts have the mailing list From: address rewritten. This had impacted our ability to handle patches but key maintainers now have workarounds for this.
**Splitting wic into an external tool.
*Our automated tests have been seeing a number of intermittent issues. An email was sent detailing a few of these and the response with several patches or patches in progress has been extremely helpful and they’re very gratefully received.
**RHEL 10/openSUSE Leap 16.0 support
*Issues that need investigation
**Reports of pseudo errors on Fedora 44 beta
*The proposed wic changes will need wic support files to be placed in files/wic within layers going forwards.
*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.
*We are aware of our git hosting giving 502 Bad Gateway errors, this is being investigated
*The CFP for the Yocto Project Workshop at Embedded Recipes 2026 closes today: 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: 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 5.1. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.1_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
'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
*We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2740 (last week 2720) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*WDD 2797 (last week 2814) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1128 (last week 1125)
**Total patches found: 1060 (last week 1062)
**Patches in the Pending State: 221 (20%) [last week 221 (20%)]
**Patches in the Pending State: 148 (14%) [last week 148 (14%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


'''YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 5.1 M1 Build date 2024-05-20
*YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23
*YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
*YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-04-08
*YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
*YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-13
*YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
*YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-05-04
*YP 5.1 M3 Build date 2024-08-26
*YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
*YP 5.1 M4 Build date 2024-09-30
*YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25


'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 4.0.18 is released.
*YP 5.3.3 was released.
*YP 5.0.1 is in QA.
*YP 5.0.17 is in QA.
*YP 4.0.19 build date 2024-06-03
*YP 4.0.35
*YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024-06-14
**Build Date 2026-04-06
*YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
**Release Date 2026-04-22
*YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
*YP 5.3.4
*YP 4.0.20 Build Date 2024-07-15
**Build Date 2026-04-20
*YP 4.0.20 Release Date 2024-07-26
**Release Date 2026-05-06
*YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
*For future release dates, see https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Release_calendar
*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


'''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 14:44, 7 April 2026

Yocto Project Status 7 April 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 5.3.3 was released.
  • YP 5.0.17 is in QA
  • 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 with pending work needed:
    • Converting scripts/run-cvecheck to sbom-cve-check
    • 32bit x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
    • Failure to generate regression reports in release builds (need tags)
    • Ubuntu 26.04 support (need worker adding for testing)
  • Issues that have patches ready to merge:
    • DISTRO_FEATURES defaults improvements.
    • Fixing yocto-check-layer to work with --machines
    • RHEL 9 xattrs/selinux/tar issue
    • Splitting wic into an external tool.
    • RHEL 10/openSUSE Leap 16.0 support
  • Issues that need investigation
    • Reports of pseudo errors on Fedora 44 beta
  • The proposed wic changes will need wic support files to be placed in files/wic within layers going forwards.
  • 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.
  • We are aware of our git hosting giving 502 Bad Gateway errors, this is being investigated
  • The CFP for the Yocto Project Workshop at Embedded Recipes 2026 closes today: 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:

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

Archives