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== Yocto Project Weekly Status Nov. 26th, 2024 ==
== Yocto Project Status 18 August 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 5.2 M1<br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.1 M3<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.2 M1 Release date 2024-12-09<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 Nov. 28th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 20th Aug. 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync Tuesday Nov. 26th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 18th Aug. 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 20th Aug. 10am GMT and Monday 24th 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 5.0.5 was released.
*YP 6.1 M3 is due in two weeks and this will be the feature freeze point for YP 6.1.
*YP 4.0.23 is in under review.
*AI scrapers and bots continue to impact the infrastructure, taking huge amounts of time for our sysadmins and with a significant cost impact to the project.
*Patch merging is continuing to flow but there are a lot of upgrades pending that were recently posted.
*We would like to remind everyone that AI-generated code submitted to Yocto Project must include disclosure of the use of AI tools, in line with our policy in the contributor guide (https://docs.yoctoproject.org/contributor-guide/submit-changes.html#acceptance-of-ai-generated-code). Joshua has sent patches adding AGENTS.md files to bitbake and openembedded-core to prompt agents to follow this policy. We are discussing further updates to our policy on AI assisted submissions as this is a rapidly evolving area.
*BB_DANGLINGAPPENDS_WARNONLY was removed.
*There have been locking changes with do_fetch/do_unpack within the bitbake fetcher to allow better performance of builds with shared DL_DIRs. There are also performance improvements to the handling of repeated ssl connection queries.
*yocto-check-layer is now checking for SECURITY files and there are changes planned for increasing the QA checks tested for.
*There is discussion on the architecture list about how we could improve the fetcher, particularly around how recursion is handled in git submodules: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/2416
*The yocto-testresults repository was reworked and the commits recreated to avoid problems with the size of the repository. The log files were separated to an http share here: https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/testresult-logarchives/
*We continue to try and keep up to date with upstream releases through the AUH, big thanks to those sending version updates and fixing version update issues.
*These changes pose a question/challenge for the stable branches. The changes mean we should avoid breaking git mirroring.
*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:
*As a result of this work, the reproducible builds summary page now functions much faster.
**Matchbox-wm segfault/xserver restart
*Several performance tweaks were made for bitbake pipe handling for large amounts of log data to avoid slow ptest builds and hangs.
**aarch64/x86-64 build host contamination/reproducibility issue
*A potential new “include_all” conf file directive (discussed on the openembedded-architecture list: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/2055 ) has no strong objections and is proceeding to proof of concept
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.
*There are patches under review for the addition of configuration fragment management to bitbake. It does require the addition of support for ‘/’ characters in variable flag names (which has been requested in the past too).
*Remaining intermittent build failures of concern:
*The 5.2 development plans are being developed in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xsnN_HcaMhqg6Dn1P_19AnumDaUMQSdFZ_I4rjD830A/edit?usp=sharing
**other qemu ‘hang’ type issues on ARM
*We need to continue to develop this, thanks to all who have contributed so far!
**sometimes yocto-check-layer is showing checksum mismatch issues
**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 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 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 identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
*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.
*There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.2_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
*For more ways to contribute, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oxKWxLorfF813h82mK6yKTIHeBp_-9owFuCWbzgjOk/edit?usp=sharing
*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.
'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics
*We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER
*We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2736 (last week 2721) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*WDD 2704 (last week 2694) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1073 (last week 1077)
**Total patches found: 1030 (last week 1028)
**Patches in the Pending State: 178 (17%) [last week 178 (17%)]
**Patches in the Pending State: 139 (14%) [last week 139 (14%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


'''YP 5.2 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming development releases:'''<br/>
*YP 5.2 M1 Build Date 2024-12-09
*6.1 M3:
*YP 5.2 M1 Release Date 2024-12-20
**Build Date: w/c 2026-08-31
*YP 5.2 M2 Build Date 2025-01-20
**Release Date: w/c 2026-09-14
*YP 5.2 M2 Release Date 2025-01-31
*6.1.0:
*YP 5.2 M3 Build Date 2025-03-03
**Build Date (M4): w/c 2026-10-12
*YP 5.2 M3 Release Date 2025-03-14
**Release Date: w/c 2026-11-02
*YP 5.2 M4 Build Date 2025-03-31
*YP 5.2 M4 Release Date 2025-04-25


'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0.5 was released.
*YP 6.0.3 due to release
*YP 4.0.23 is in review.
**Release Date w/c 2026-08-24
*YP 5.1.1 Build Date 2024-12-02
*YP 5.0.20
*YP 5.1.1 Release Date 2024-12-13
**Build Date w/c 2026-08-17
*YP 5.0.6 Build Date 2024-12-16
**Release Date w/c 2026-08-31
*YP 5.0.6 Release Date 2024-12-27
*YP 6.0.4
*YP 4.0.24 Build Date 2025-01-06
**Build Date w/c 2026-09-28
*YP 4.0.24 Release Date 2025-01-17
**Release Date w/c 2026-10-12
*YP 5.1.2 Build Date 2025-01-13
*YP 5.0.21
*YP 5.1.2 Release Date 2025-01-24
**Build Date w/c 2026-10-05
*YP 5.0.7 Build Date 2025-01-27
**Release Date w/c 2026-10-19
*YP 5.0.7 Release Date 2025-02-07
 
*YP 4.0.25 Build Date 2025-02-17
*For future release dates, see https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Release_calendar
*YP 4.0.25 Release Date 2025-02-28
*YP 5.1.3 Build Date 2025-02-24
*YP 5.1.3 Release Date 2025-03-07
*YP 5.0.8 Build Date 2025-03-10
*YP 5.0.8 Release Date 2025-03-21
*YP 5.1.4 Build Date 2025-03-24
*YP 5.1.4 Release Date 2025-04-04
*YP 4.0.26 Build Date 2025-04-07
*YP 4.0.26 Release Date 2025-04-18
*YP 5.0.9 Build Date 2025-04-21
*YP 5.0.9 Release Date 2025-05-02
*YP 4.0.27 Build Date 2025-05-19
*YP 4.0.27 Release Date 2025-05-30
*YP 5.0.10 Build Date 2025-06-02
*YP 5.0.10 Release Date 2025-06-13
*YP 4.0.28 Build Date 2025-06-30
*YP 4.0.28 Release Date 2025-07-11


'''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 14:45, 18 August 2026

Yocto Project Status 18 August 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 6.1 M3 is due in two weeks and this will be the feature freeze point for YP 6.1.
  • AI scrapers and bots continue to impact the infrastructure, taking huge amounts of time for our sysadmins and with a significant cost impact to the project.
  • We would like to remind everyone that AI-generated code submitted to Yocto Project must include disclosure of the use of AI tools, in line with our policy in the contributor guide (https://docs.yoctoproject.org/contributor-guide/submit-changes.html#acceptance-of-ai-generated-code). Joshua has sent patches adding AGENTS.md files to bitbake and openembedded-core to prompt agents to follow this policy. We are discussing further updates to our policy on AI assisted submissions as this is a rapidly evolving area.
  • There have been locking changes with do_fetch/do_unpack within the bitbake fetcher to allow better performance of builds with shared DL_DIRs. There are also performance improvements to the handling of repeated ssl connection queries.
  • There is discussion on the architecture list about how we could improve the fetcher, particularly around how recursion is handled in git submodules: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/2416
  • We continue to try and keep up to date with upstream releases through the AUH, big thanks to those sending version updates and fixing version update issues.
  • 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.

  • Remaining intermittent build failures of concern:
    • other qemu ‘hang’ type issues on ARM
    • sometimes yocto-check-layer is showing checksum mismatch issues
    • intermittent ptest failures in many recipes

Ways to contribute:

New to the project?

Tracking Metrics:

Upcoming development releases:

  • 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 6.0.3 due to release
    • 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
  • YP 6.0.4
    • Build Date w/c 2026-09-28
    • Release Date w/c 2026-10-12
  • YP 5.0.21
    • Build Date w/c 2026-10-05
    • Release Date w/c 2026-10-19

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

Archives

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