Weekly Status

Yocto Project Status 31 March 2026

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M3
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Apr. 2nd 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 31st Mar. 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Apr. 2nd 10am GMT and Monday Apr. 6th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.0.34 was released.
• YP 5.3.3 is approved for release.
• 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 still pending:
  • Splitting wic into an external tool.
  • Converting scripts/run-cvecheck to sbom-cve-check
  • DISTRO_FEATURES defaults improvements.
  • RHEL 9 xattrs/selinux/tar issue
  • How to improve DEBUG_BUILD?
  • RHEL 10/openSUSE Leap 16.0/Ubuntu 26.04 support
• Issues that are mostly known quantities still needing work:
  • x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
  • Failure to generate regression reports in release builds
  • Fixing yocto-check-layer to work with --machines (many fixes merged)
• Issues that were resolved this week:
  • Sbom-cve-check added
  • Replacement of runtlp with kirk (Thanks Daniel!)
  • bitbake-setup vscode integration
  • Fedora 43 selftest failures
  • Reconciling poky and OE-Core defaults templates.
• We have rationalized the tags in various project repositories, more information can be found here: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/2312 Whilst controversial, this will make the tag list much easier to understand for users, guide users to use the right tags going forward and remove confusion about whether any tags were “missed”, at the expense that some CI setups may need adjusting short term.
• 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.
• The CFP closing date for the Yocto Project Workshop at Embedded Recipes 2026 has been extended until April 7th, please submit a proposal if you’d like to present: https://pretalx.com/yocto-embedded-recipes-2026/cfp

Ways to contribute:

• 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 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/
• 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.
• For more ways to contribute, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oxKWxLorfF813h82mK6yKTIHeBp_-9owFuCWbzgjOk/edit?usp=sharing

New to the project?

• We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2814 (last week 2819) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1062 (last week 1072)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 148 (14%) [last week 151 (14%)]
  • https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

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:

• YP 4.0.34 was released.
• YP 5.3.3 ready for release.
• YP 5.0.17 Build Date 2026-03-30
• YP 5.0.17 Release Date 2026-04-15
• YP 4.0.35 Build Date 2026-04-06
• YP 4.0.35 Release Date 2026-04-22
• YP 5.3.4 Build Date 2026-04-20
• YP 5.3.4 Release Date 2026-05-06
• YP 5.0.18 Build Date 2026-04-27
• YP 5.0.18 Release Date 2026-05-13
• 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

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