Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status Apr. 8th, 2025

Current Dev Position: YP 5.2 M4 - Feature Freeze
Next Deadline: YP 5.2 M4 Build Date 2025-03-31 - Feature Freeze

Next Team Meetings:

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

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

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 5.1.4 was released
• YP 5.2 rc1 is in QA
• YP 4.0.26 is ready for QA
• While 5.2 is in testing, master has continued to take patches which are ready.
• We are aiming to add more tag entries to SRC_URI for git SRCREV based recipes, please keep this in mind during upgrades.
• Some further analysis on the pseudo bug was posted
• There is a proposed whitespace syntax change with a pending bitbake patch to improve some consistency issues in formatting which can affect variable assignment.
• YP 5.3 Proposed timeline: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BlvtPxpYsxHkeL10DFBQzBI9q_1HIk9r2FPxlfsQ95U/edit?tab=t.0
• We are aware of 500/502 errors from the project git servers. These are caused by load from the significant number of AI crawlers the infrastructure is being overloaded with which is hard to mitigate against. The cgit interface has been separated from the clone servers so load spikes should only now impact the web interface.

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.
• 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 2771 (last week 2781) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1080 (last week 1080)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 167 (15%) [last week 167 (15%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/

YP 5.2 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.2 M4 is in QA.

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 5.1.4 is released.
• YP 4.0.26 is ready for QA.
• 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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