Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status Aug. 12th, 2025

Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M2
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M2 Build date 2025-07-21

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Aug. 14th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Aug. 12th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Aug. 14th 10am GMT and Monday Aug. 18th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

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

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 5.3 M2 was released
• YP 4.0.29 is in QA
• Patches continue to merge into master for upgrades and fixes.
• Things have noticeably slowed due to holidays.
• Images are now .zst compressed by default
• Bitbake variable “filter” support merged, which is useful to make class extension internals (and hence parse time) more efficient.
• The clang build time (41min -> 76min) and size (350MB -> 535MB) increases continue to cause significant concern. There is some minor improvement with recent patches but much work remains to regain speed/space.
• The main mirroring issues left are around “downloadfilename” support in urls which likely needs to be rewritten.
• Glibc was upgraded to 2.42 with a new uninative added for the new version
• The kernel upgrade to 6.16 is blocked on lttng-modules which doesn’t support the new kernel version yet.
• For M3, the following changes have been mentioned as possibilities:
  • Bitbake-setup (although this is feeling not ready and too late for the next LTS)
  • wic split from OE-Core
  • RISC-V tune changes (final part)

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 2838 (last week 2841) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1098 (last week 1098)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 155 (14%) [last week 156 (14%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/

YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.3 M2 was released.
• 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 4.0.29 is in QA.
• 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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