Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status June 11th, 2024

Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 M2
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M2 Build 8 July 2024

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday June 13th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday June 11th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.0.19 is in QA
• YP 5.1 M1 rc1 is building
• We identified the performance problem in bitbake using hash equivalence servers and have made changes to batch queries and improve build times
• Extra logging for that performance problem is available by setting BB_LOGCONFIG=XXX/bitbake/contrib/autobuilderlog.json (the more verbose logging the autobuilder uses) which will then show if initial query or rehash looping takes longer than 30s for iterations or 60s overall.
• We changed locked-sigs to include the hash equivalence mapping data, removing the need to copy the cache file.
• Libtool was upgraded to the 2.5.0 alpha release, many patches were merged upstream.
• Qemu has been upgraded to 9.0.0, kernel headers to 6.9 and stable and dev kernel updates merged (to 6.6.32)
• There is one remaining issue on fedora40, systemtap-native does not build. The other Fedora 40 are believed to be fixed.
• Some layers are setting fallbacks for UNPACKDIR which break OE-Core by trying to claim compatibility with everything. Errors have been added to make this problem clear.
• sstate has had changes to fix a bug where build-history data was inconsistent. The siteconfig class was removed to make that change easier and improve the code, it was mostly unused anyway.
• The parallelism in the hash client was removed as batching queries is much more effective and easier on the server.
• 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
• Please consider signing this to show support for those changes.
• 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.
• There is a further update from Marta/Syslinbit on the CVE tooling/patches
• We continue to have trouble tracking down the rust reproducibility problem in rustdoc.
• Post release upgrading is resulting in an improvement in patch metrics which is great to see, more should appear next week in the statistics too.

Ways to contribute:

• 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!
• There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
• 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
• 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.
• Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics
• We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2774 (last week 2772) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1072 (last week 1098)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 205 (19%) [last week 205 (19%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.1 M1 is in QA
• YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
• YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
• YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
• 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:

• YP 4.0.19 is ready for release.
• 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

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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