Weekly Status

Yocto Project Status 28 April 2026

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M4
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 Release Date w/c 2026-05-04

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 30th Apr. 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 29th Apr. 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 30th Apr. 10am GMT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

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

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 4.0.35 is due to release
• YP 5.3.4 is in QA
• YP 6.0 rc1 is in QA
• There will be no patch review on Monday 4th May due to public holidays.
• We continue to triage the CVEs being reported by the new tooling.
• There were some last minute changes to DISTRO_FEATURES behaviour to resolve some usability issues that users identified.
• There have been several issues in pseudo identified and these have been fixed in the various pseudo point releases. We will upgrade pseudo in 6.0.1 to pull these in.
• There have been issues with 403 errors from crates.io, there is a change in bitbake to use the preferred upstream urls via their CDN.
• The kvm cpu features issue looks to be a host system CPU microcode issue and using the latest microcode appears to have resolved the issues.
• git:// protocol access to git.yoctoproject.org and git.openembeded.org is deprecated and going forward https:// URLs should be used to access git repositories. We are aiming to discontinue git protocol use.
• We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build failures are still problematic. We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback but are trying to clear the backlog.

Ways to contribute:

• We have several open issues for pseudo and limited maintainer time to work on them. Help from someone familiar with systems programming in C would be greatly appreciated. https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=661406&priority=High&priority=Medium%2B&product=Pseudo&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
• There are a large number of intermittent failures on our autobuilder, any help with investigating, reproducing or solving these issues would be welcome! https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/abint/
• Many recipes in openembedded-core would benefit from a new recipe maintainer. Please look at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc and see if you can adopt any of the unassigned recipes.
• For more ways to contribute, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oxKWxLorfF813h82mK6yKTIHeBp_-9owFuCWbzgjOk/edit?usp=sharing

New to the project?

• We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER

Tracking Metrics:

• WDD 2788 (last week 2790) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1085 (last week 1078)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 146 (13%) [last week 147 (14%)]
  • https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 4.0.35 is in review.
• YP 5.3.4 is in QA
  • Release Date 2026-05-06
• YP 5.0.18
  • Build Date 2026-05-11
  • Release Date 2026-05-25
• For future release dates, see https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Release_calendar

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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