Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status Dec. 17th, 2024

Current Dev Position: YP 5.2 M2
Next Deadline: YP 5.2 M2 Release date 2025-01-20

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting Thursday Dec. 19th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync Tuesday Dec. 17th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester

Key Status/Updates:

• We built YP 5.2 M1 which is waiting for QA
• YP 5.0.6 is in QA
• YP 5.1.1 was released
• The next status report will be 7th January due to holidays.
• Bitbake fragment support has merged in time for the M1 build, thanks Alex Kanavin!
• A new bitbake “include_all” directive was also merged.
• The kernel was upgraded to 6.12 which has significantly reduced the reported CVEs (344 -> 18).
• The 5.2 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, thanks to all who have contributed so far!

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://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
• 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
• 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 2838 (last week 2820) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1046 (last week 1043)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 175 (17%) [last week 176 (17%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/

YP 5.2 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.2 M1 is in QA
• YP 5.2 M2 Build Date 2025-01-20
• YP 5.2 M2 Release Date 2025-01-31
• YP 5.2 M3 Build Date 2025-03-03
• YP 5.2 M3 Release Date 2025-03-14
• YP 5.2 M4 Build Date 2025-03-31
• YP 5.2 M4 Release Date 2025-04-25

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 5.1.1 was released.
• YP 5.0.6 is in QA.
• YP 4.0.24 Build Date 2025-01-06
• YP 4.0.24 Release Date 2025-01-17
• YP 5.1.2 Build Date 2025-01-13
• YP 5.1.2 Release Date 2025-01-24
• YP 5.0.7 Build Date 2025-01-27
• YP 5.0.7 Release Date 2025-02-07
• YP 4.0.25 Build Date 2025-02-17
• 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:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

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