2024 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive

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Yocto Project Weekly Status January 23rd, 2024

Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M3
Next Deadline: 19th February 2024 YP 5.0 M3 build

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 4.3.2 was released
  • YP 5.0 M2 and YP 3.1.31 are in QA
  • The shadow sstate library dependency issues were reworked to avoid static libs after various problems were reported, thanks Alexander Kanavin for resolving this.
  • We have dropped the 6.1 kernel leaving just 6.6 in master for our 5.0 release
  • We were able to get a number of libtool patches merged upstream and the libunwind recipe was cleaned up a lot too.
  • Patches to fix rust tests are queued, thanks Yash for getting these working again.
  • The inherit_defer changes have merged. There are some reported issues of poor interaction with class-native overrides. There isn’t a regression but unfortunately inherit_defer has an unforeseen issue with the override handling. See bug 15361
  • We’ve opted to keep rng-tools in OE-Core for now since it appears a small subset of hardware does require it.
  • It is great to see patches adding test cases for the issues they’re fixing or functionality they’re adding. We cannot stress how useful this is over the medium/long term to keep things maintained, thanks!

Ways to contribute:

YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.0 M2 is in QA.
  • YP 5.0 M2 Release date 2024/01/24
  • YP 5.0 M3 build date 2024/02/19
  • YP 5.0 M3 Release date 2024/03/01
  • YP 5.0 M4 build date 2024/04/01
  • YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 4.3.2 is released.
  • YP 3.1.31 is in QA.
  • YP 3.1.31 Release date 2024/02/02
  • YP 4.0.16 build date 2024/01/29
  • YP 4.0.16 Release date 2024/02/09
  • YP 4.3.3 build date 2024/02/12
  • YP 4.3.3 Release date 2024/02/23
  • YP 3.1.32 build date 2024/03/04
  • YP 3.1.32 Release date 2024/03/15
  • YP 4.0.17 build date 2024/03/11
  • YP 4.0.17 Release date 2024/03/22
  • YP 4.3.4 build date 2024/03/25
  • YP 4.3.4 Release date 2024/04/05
  • YP 3.1.33 build date 2024/04/15
  • YP 3.1.33 Release date 2024/04/26
  • YP 4.0.18 build date 2024/04/22
  • YP 4.0.18 Release date 2024/05/03
  • YP 4.0.19 build date 2024/06/03
  • YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024/06/14

Tracking Metrics:

The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

Yocto Project Weekly Status January 16th, 2024

Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M2
Next Deadline: 15th January 2024 YP 5.0 M2 build

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 4.3.2 passed QA and is in review.
  • YP 5.0 M2 is due to build this week
  • The inherit_defer work highlighted a bug in EXPORT_FUNCTIONS handling. This was fixed but does change behavior in some real world usages of the function where the incorrect behavior was being relied upon.
  • EXPORT_FUNCTIONS is defined as mapping to those ‘namespaced’ functions only if there isn’t a real definition of that function.
  • The inherit_defer changes will likely merge into M2.
  • There has been at least one serial issue that reappeared with the 6.6 kernel on the autobuilder unfortunately.
  • A bug was fixed in the bitbake –runall option where it wasn’t building as much as it should have.
  • The recipe reporting system on the layer index is now functional again, thanks Tim!

Ways to contribute:

YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.0 M2 build date 2024/01/15
  • YP 5.0 M2 Release date 2024/01/24
  • YP 5.0 M3 build date 2024/02/19
  • YP 5.0 M3 Release date 2024/03/01
  • YP 5.0 M4 build date 2024/04/01
  • YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 4.3.2 is ready for release.
  • YP 3.1.31 build date 2024/01/22
  • YP 3.1.31 Release date 2024/02/02
  • YP 4.0.16 build date 2024/01/29
  • YP 4.0.16 Release date 2024/02/09
  • YP 4.3.3 build date 2024/02/12
  • YP 4.3.3 Release date 2024/02/23
  • YP 3.1.32 build date 2024/03/04
  • YP 3.1.32 Release date 2024/03/15
  • YP 4.0.17 build date 2024/03/11
  • YP 4.0.17 Release date 2024/03/22
  • YP 4.3.4 build date 2024/03/25
  • YP 4.3.4 Release date 2024/04/05
  • YP 3.1.33 build date 2024/04/15
  • YP 3.1.33 Release date 2024/04/26
  • YP 4.0.18 build date 2024/04/22
  • YP 4.0.18 Release date 2024/05/03
  • YP 4.0.19 build date 2024/06/03
  • YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024/06/14

Tracking Metrics:

The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

Yocto Project Weekly Status January 9th, 2024

Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M2
Next Deadline: 15th January 2024 YP 5.0 M2 build

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 3.1.30, 4.0.15 and 5.0 M1 were released
  • YP 4.3.2 is in QA
  • Rust was upgraded from 1.71.1 to 1.74.1 in master. 1.75 has reproducibility issues.
  • We were able to remove all exclusions on reproducibility in OE-Core and it is once again 100% reproducible.
  • The sstate-cache-management script was rewritten in python. It is possible there are regressions compared to the previous version, we’ll have to fix them as they’re identified.
  • A workaround for the long standing autobuilder failures on debian11 and ubuntu 18.04 was identified by preloading libgcc. This is now applied for python 3.8 and 3.9 versions within bitbake.
  • We have switched to the 6.6 linux kernel
  • There are patches proposing new “inherit_defer” syntax for bitbake to handle conditional inherits in a way more in keeping with user expectations. Please see the discussion on the openembedded-architecture list.
  • Functions related to signature/hash debugging had an API change resulting in a need to update bitbake and OE-Core together to allow the functionality to be improved.
  • Improvements to the CDN tests and signature debugging were merged which improve usability and also address intermittent autobuilder failures
  • Regarding bugs, even if you can’t fix a bug, submitting a failing test case that can reproduce the issue significantly improves the chances it might get fixed.

Ways to contribute:

YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 5.0 M1 is released.
  • YP 5.0 M2 build date 2024/01/15
  • YP 5.0 M2 Release date 2024/01/24
  • YP 5.0 M3 build date 2024/02/19
  • YP 5.0 M3 Release date 2024/03/01
  • YP 5.0 M4 build date 2024/04/01
  • YP 5.0 M4 Release date 2024/04/30

Upcoming dot releases:

  • YP 3.1.30 is released.
  • YP 4.0.15 is released.
  • YP 4.3.2 is in QA.
  • YP 3.1.31 build date 2024/01/22
  • YP 3.1.31 Release date 2024/02/02
  • YP 4.0.16 build date 2024/01/29
  • YP 4.0.16 Release date 2024/02/09
  • YP 4.3.3 build date 2024/02/12
  • YP 4.3.3 Release date 2024/02/23
  • YP 3.1.32 build date 2024/03/04
  • YP 3.1.32 Release date 2024/03/15
  • YP 4.0.17 build date 2024/03/11
  • YP 4.0.17 Release date 2024/03/22
  • YP 4.3.4 build date 2024/03/25
  • YP 4.3.4 Release date 2024/04/05
  • YP 3.1.33 build date 2024/04/15
  • YP 3.1.33 Release date 2024/04/26
  • YP 4.0.18 build date 2024/04/22
  • YP 4.0.18 Release date 2024/05/03
  • YP 4.0.19 build date 2024/06/03
  • YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024/06/14

Tracking Metrics:

The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC