Weekly Status

Yocto Project Weekly Status May 13th, 2025

Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M1
Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M1 Build date 2025-06-09

Next Team Meetings:

• Bug Triage meeting - Thursday May 15th at 7:30 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
• Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday May 13th at 8 am PST (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
• Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday May 15th 10am GMT and Monday May 19th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

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

Key Status/Updates:

• YP 5.2 was released
• We’re happy to announce that RISC-V is becoming a officially supported architecture for Yocto Project: https://riscv.org/riscv-news/2025/05/risc-v-international-and-the-rise-project-join-forces-for-yocto-project-support/
  • Thanks to all who helped make this happen!
• Patches merged to switch pseudo from a directory exclusion list to a directory inclusion list. This change has long been requested but is now working and merged.
• The clang merge caused significant build time increases (nearly double) as well as image size increases, all of which we need analysis to try and mitigate if possible.
• Qemu changes upstream mean running it on 32 bit hosts may soon not be possible. 64 bit emulation on 32 bit hosts has already been dropped.
• Network access outside of do_fetch now causes yocto-check-layer to fail which is a new change/requirement for Yocto Compatible v3. We need to work out how to handle this for go recipes in particular in meta-openembedded
• Many other good upgrades and fixes were merged to master.

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 2753 (last week 2756) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
• OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
  • Total patches found: 1075 (last week 1071)
  • Patches in the Pending State: 140 (13%) [last week 140 (13%)]
• https://autobuilder.yocto.io/-release/patchmetrics/

YP 5.2 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.2 M4 was released.

YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:

• YP 5.3 M1 Build Date 2025-06-09
• YP 5.3 M1 Release Date 2025-06-20
• YP 5.3 M2 Build Date 2025-07-21
• YP 5.3 M2 Release Date 2025-08-01
• 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 4.0.27 Build Date 2025-05-19
• YP 4.0.27 Release Date 2025-05-30
• YP 5.2.1 Build Date 2025-05-26
• YP 5.2.1 Build Date 2025-06-06
• 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
• YP 5.2.2 Build Date 2025-07-07
• YP 5.2.2 Release Date 2025-07-18
• YP 5.0.11 Build Date 2025-07-14
• YP 5.0.11 Release Date 2025-07-25
• YP 4.0.29 Build Date 2025-08-11
• YP 4.0.29 Release Date 2025-08-25
• 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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