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Yocto Project Status 14 April 2026
Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M4
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-20
Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Apr. 16th 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Apr. 14th 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Apr. 16th 10am GMT and Monday Apr. 20th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)
Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/
Key Status/Updates:
- YP 5.0.17 is due to be released
- YP 6.0 M3 is in QA
- YP 4.0.35 is queued for QA
- We have converted over to sbom-cve-check and dropped cve-check. This has caused a significant increase in CVEs reported, these are being triaged.
- Issues with pending work needed:
- 32bit x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
- Reports of pseudo errors on Fedora 44 beta related to openat2()
- Intermittent qemu boot failures of qemuarmv5 (and possibly qemuarm) since the last kernel upgrade
- Meta-oe cve layer filtering under new tooling (metrics script tweak?)
- Reprodicubility issues with strace/apr-util after gnulib macro changes (patches in testing)
- There was disruption to git services last week due to scraping attacks against the servers. This resulted in connection issues whilst those were mitigated, particularly the git protocol access.
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.
- The recent wic changes will need wic support files to be placed in files/wic within layers going forwards.
- We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build failures are still problematic, including the emergence of new issues (newer kernel version?). We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback. This could impact features making it into the LTS.
- The final kirkstone build has taken place and we’re no longer planning to merge patches on this branch.
- If you have any final patches for whinlatter, please get these sent to the list ASAP.
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 2777 (last week 2797) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1072 (last week 1060)
- Patches in the Pending State: 147 (14%) [last week 148 (14%)]
- https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:
- YP 6.0 M3 in QA.
- YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-13
- YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-05-04
Upcoming dot releases:
- YP 5.0.17 is in review.
- YP 4.0.35 is in QA.
- YP 5.3.4
- Build Date 2026-04-20
- Release Date 2026-05-06
- 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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