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== Yocto Project Weekly Status May 21st, 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 23rd 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 21st 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 5.0.1 has been through QA and is pending review for release
*YP 5.3.3 was released.
*There are some CVE related announcements which are helpful to us:
*YP 5.0.17 is in QA
**There was a CVE 5.1 Record format announcement with changes that encourage more useful data from our perspective
*YP 6.0 M3 is the feature freeze for 6.0 which is our next LTS.
**CISA announced on linkedin the creation of https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment
*YP 6.0 M3 is now due to build however there are still key changes missing.
*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
*Issues with pending work needed:
**Please consider signing this to show support for those changes.
**Converting scripts/run-cvecheck to sbom-cve-check
**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.
**32bit x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
*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. Marta sent out an update last week on this (thanks!)
**Failure to generate regression reports in release builds (need tags)
*gcc 14 has merged to master. There are errors in meta-arm, meta-virtualization and meta-mingw. Now that has merged, we will build and release a new uninative version.
**Ubuntu 26.04 support (need worker adding for testing)
*More of the WORKDIR to UNPACKDIR transition has merged and devtool oe-local-files support has been dropped.
*Issues that have patches ready to merge:
*The next stage of the WORKDIR changes is pending testing in master-next.
**DISTRO_FEATURES defaults improvements.
*The aim is to build YP 5.1 M1 as soon as the various queued patches stabilize.
**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
*Automated testing continues to show large numbers of problems (e.g. a reproducibility issue in spirv-tools) but we continue to work through and fix issues as quickly as we can.
**Splitting wic into an external tool.
*Two issues causing failures on the new test infrastructure were tracked down to problems in bitbake. Both were effectively timing related issues.
**RHEL 10/openSUSE Leap 16.0 support
PR server pass through support merged.
*Issues that need investigation
*A rust build issue of x86 hosted builds vs arm hosted builds has been identified as the cause of intermittent failures. Whilst this can be fixed, the fix breaks tests and/or reproducibility which gives challenges given the need to fix scarthgap. There are also challenges upgrading to newer rust versions.
**Reports of pseudo errors on Fedora 44 beta
*The performance graph improvements have merged.
*The proposed wic changes will need wic support files to be placed in files/wic within layers going forwards.
*Improvements to the patch and CVE metrics page have also merged.
*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 2752 (last week 2740) (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: 1127 (last week 1128)
**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 5.0.1 is ready for release.
*YP 5.3.3 was released.
*YP 4.0.19 build date 2024-06-03
*YP 5.0.17 is in QA.
*YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024-06-14
*YP 4.0.35
*YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
**Build Date 2026-04-06
*YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
**Release Date 2026-04-22
*YP 4.0.20 Build Date 2024-07-15
*YP 5.3.4
*YP 4.0.20 Release Date 2024-07-26
**Build Date 2026-04-20
*YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
**Release Date 2026-05-06
*YP 5.0.3 Release Date 2024-08-23
*For future release dates, see https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Release_calendar
*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