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Yocto Project Status 22 September 2026
Current Dev Position: YP 6.1 M4 - Stabilization (Bug Fixing)
Next Deadline: YP 6.1 M4: w/c 2026-10-12
Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 24th Sept. 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 22nd Sept. 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 24th Sept. 10am GMT and Monday 28th Sept. 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)
Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/
Key Status/Updates:
- YP 5.0.20 was released
- YP 6.1 M3 is due for release
- Our plan is to build M4 within the next week unless significant problems become known as we’re not aware of anyone working on any major fixes which would delay it.
- If there are release blocking issues, please report ASAP.
- We have made progress on the build architecture reproducibility issues, thanks in particular to Alejandro and Sunil and team at Windriver for getting the major rust issues resolved. There are around 30 issues left as shown by the *autobuilder tests (down from ~90) so great progress.
- python3-six recipe moved to meta-oe, it provides python 2.x era support so nothing should be needing that now - references are a sign that dependencies probably need updating but it is still available if needed.
- There are issues which are in a position where others could now help:
- Matchbox-wm segfault/xserver restart
- aarch64/x86-64 build host contamination/reproducibility issue - thanks for the work and fixes so far on this.
- See Richard’s email on the list https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/topic/areas_we_could_do_with/121159956 which details some others too
We get a lot of comments about these being hard to reproduce or work on, in both cases, these have specific well defined things which need to be done and a basic understanding of what the issue relates to, if not the actual fix.
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 2640 (last week 2647) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1055 (last week 1054)
- Patches in the Pending State: 137 (13%) [last week 135 (1%)]
- https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/3
Upcoming development releases:
- 6.1 M3: is due for release
- 6.1.0:
- Build Date (M4): w/c 2026-10-12
- Release Date: w/c 2026-11-02
Upcoming dot releases:
- YP 5.0.20 was released
- YP 6.0.4
- Build Date w/c 2026-09-28
- Release Date w/c 2026-10-12
- YP 5.0.21
- Build Date w/c 2026-10-05
- Release Date w/c 2026-10-19
- 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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