Weekly Status

Yocto Project Status 6 October 2026

Current Dev Position: YP 6.2 M1 - Development
Next Deadline: YP 6.1 M4: w/c 2026-10-12

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 15th Oct. 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 13rd Oct. 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 15th Oct. 10am GMT and Monday 12th Oct. 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

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

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 6.1 is in QA
• YP 6.0.4 is pending with QA.
• Blacksail and master are now on separate branches and have diverged.
• Patches for 6.2 have started merging into master
• There are changes to the pypi class so that PYPI_PACKAGE is the normalised name
• python3-pytz moved from core to meta-oe, if you notice anything using it, it is a sign the dependencies may be obsolete
• There are issues where we could accept help:
  • Matchbox-wm segfault/xserver restart
  • aarch64/x86-64 build host contamination/reproducibility issue - thanks for the work and fixes so far on this.
  • Remaining github.com references in bitbake-selftest
• Bitbake’s network disabling has recently been enhanced to include landlock support.
• This week is Open Source Summit EU and Yocto Project Developer Day in Prague! Contact Paul or Megan if you are attending and want to meet up with other Yocto Project folks, especially if you’re new to our community.
  • Regular meetings on Tuesday and Thursday will be canceled, including the Tech call (Tue 6th), Patch review call (Thu 8th) and Bug triage call (Thu 8th).

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 2644 (last week 2643) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1057 (last week 1053)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 135 (13%) [last week 135 (13%)]
  • https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/3

Upcoming development releases:

• 6.1.0: in QA
  • Release Date: w/c 2026-11-02

Upcoming dot releases:

• YP 6.0.4 in QA
  • 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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