Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status Nov.11th, 2025

Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M4 - Stabilization and Final Build/Release
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Nov. 13th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Nov. 11th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Nov. 13th 10am GMT and Monday Nov. 17th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

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

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 5.3 M3 was released
• YP 4.0.31 is due to be released
• We are not yet ready to build 5.3 as there are too many rough edges on bitbake-setup: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/2199
• The documentation changes related to bitbake-setup merged, thanks to all who have helped on these.
• We are now no longer updating the poky master branch. The distro in meta-yocto remains. Long live poky.
• Toaster is now working with bitbake-setup, huge thanks to David Reyna for resolving the issues there.
• Upstream linux kernel end-of-life’d 6.16 but we can’t get 6.17 working fully so we’ll be releasing with 6.16 and removing the 6.17 recipes (merged in error).
• YP 6.0 (wrynose) and the next LTS releases proposed timeline: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BlvtPxpYsxHkeL10DFBQzBI9q_1HIk9r2FPxlfsQ95U/edit?tab=t.0
• There are likely going to be breaking changes to the npm fetcher related to ongoing security concerns but we are lacking patches.
• We removed tcp-wrappers from OE-Core. It was late in but this should have happened long ago and if anyone is using it, you probably shouldn’t be!

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 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 bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/bugtriage/#newcomer-container
• There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.3. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.3_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.
• Ongoing project development plans are being developed in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xsnN_HcaMhqg6Dn1P_19AnumDaUMQSdFZ_I4rjD830A/edit?usp=sharing We need to continue to develop this as it will allow us to potentially find ways to fund specific work items.

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 3048 (last week 3103) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1067 (last week 1098)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 175 (16%) [last week 153 (14%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/

YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.3 M3 was released.
• YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10
• YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-11-28

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 4.0.31 is in review for release.
• YP 5.0.14 Build Date 2025-11-17
• YP 5.0.14 Release Date 2025-11-28
• YP 4.0.32 Build Date 2025-12-15
• YP 4.0.32 Release Date 2025-12-24
• YP 5.0.15 Build Date 2026-01-05
• YP 5.0.15 Release Date 2026-01-16

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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