Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status June 3rd, 2025

Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M1
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M1 Build date 2025-06-09

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting - Thursday June 5th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday June 3rd at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday June 5th 10am GMT and Monday June 9th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

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

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.0.27 and YP 5.2.1 are due to be released.
• YP 5.0.10 is in QA.
• YP 5.3 M1 is one weeks away
• Patches continue to merge into master for upgrades and fixes.
• The clang build time and size increases continue to cause significant concern.
• Changes to workdir layout for unpack are being considered with potentially significant impact for git based recipes requiring recipe changes.
• Network access outside of do_fetch now causes yocto-check-layer to fail which is a new change/requirement for Yocto Compatible v3. We need to work out how to handle this for go recipes in particular in meta-openembedded.
• The toolchain selection mechanism is proving challenging as both the toolchain inherit and class extensions like native both need to happen ‘last’ and both involve overrides that are involved in deferred inherits. This issue may need bitbake changes to resolve.
• Should we drop icecc.bbclass and let someone step up and maintain it in its own layer?
• The project has switched to a different CDN setup with a different URL. This is proving reliable on the autobuilder 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://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 2778 (last week 2803) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1089 (last week 1088)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 157 (14%) [last week 157 (14%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/

YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.3 M1 Build Date 2025-06-09
• YP 5.3 M1 Release Date 2025-06-20
• YP 5.3 M2 Build Date 2025-07-21
• YP 5.3 M2 Release Date 2025-08-01
• YP 5.3 M3 Build Date 2025-09-01
• YP 5.3 M3 Release Date 2025-09-12
• YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-10-06
• YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-10-31

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 4.0.27 is out for review.
• YP 5.2.1 is out for review.
• YP 5.0.10 is in QA.
• YP 4.0.28 Build Date 2025-06-30
• YP 4.0.28 Release Date 2025-07-11
• YP 5.2.2 Build Date 2025-07-07
• YP 5.2.2 Release Date 2025-07-18
• YP 5.0.11 Build Date 2025-07-14
• YP 5.0.11 Release Date 2025-07-25
• YP 4.0.29 Build Date 2025-08-11
• YP 4.0.29 Release Date 2025-08-25
• YP 5.2.3 Build Date 2025-08-18
• YP 5.2.3 Release Date 2025-08-29
• YP 5.0.12 Build Date 2025-08-25
• YP 5.0.12 Release Date 2025-09-05
• YP 4.0.30 Build Date 2025-09-22
• YP 4.0.30 Release Date 2025-10-03
• YP 5.2.4 Build Date 2025-09-29
• YP 5.2.4 Release Date 2025-10-10
• YP 5.0.13 Build Date 2025-10-13
• YP 5.0.13 Release Date 2025-10-24
• YP 4.0.31 Build Date 2025-11-03
• YP 4.031 Release Date 2025-11-14
• 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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