Stable branch maintenance

The Yocto Project maintains stable branches of Poky (OE-Core and BitBake). Typically, alongside the latest release the previous two releases are also maintained.

Stable and LTS branch maintainers

Major version	Current Version	Branch name	BitBake version	Maintainer
3.3	planning	Hardknott	1.50	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
3.2	Dev	Gatesgarth	1.48	Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>
3.1	3.1.3	Dunfell (LTS)	1.46	Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
3.0	3.0.4	Zeus	1.44	Anuj/Armin
2.7	2.7.3	Warrior	1.42	Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
2.6	2.6.4	Thud	1.40	Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
2.5	2.5.3	sumo	1.38	Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
2.4	2.4.4	rocko	1.36	Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
2.3	2.3.4	pyro	1.34	Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
2.2	2.2.4	morty	1.32	Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
2.1	2.1.3	krogoth	1.30	Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
2.0	2.0.3	jethro	1.28	Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
1.8	1.8.2	fido	1.26	Joshua Lock <joshua.g.lock@intel.com>
1.7	1.7.3	dizzy	1.24	Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
1.6	1.6.3	daisy	1.22	Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
1.5	1.5.4	dora	1.20	Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
1.4	1.4.3*	dylan	1.18	Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
1.3	1.3.2	danny	1.16	Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>

(Versions in grey above are no longer actively maintained, but well-tested patches may still be accepted for them.)

Policies

See Stable Release and LTS.