2024 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive
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Yocto Project Weekly Status January 30th, 2024
Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M3
Next Deadline: 19th February 2024 YP 5.0 M3 build
Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting Thursday February 1st at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday January 30th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
Key Status/Updates:
- YP 5.0 M2 and YP 3.1.31 are due to be released
- YP 4.0.16 is in QA
- We are now three weeks to feature freeze for 5.0, our next release
- There is a proposal on the openembedded-architecture list for a “setup tool” for layers and configuration: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/1913
- We were able to re-enable rust automated testing
- Some key upgrades merged (e.g. qemu, rpm and grub)
- The upgrades and other changes meant we were able to lower our patch count by 25 this week.
- We did encounter at least one qemu regression, we’re trying to discuss with upstream and have a workaround. This did put patch merging at risk.
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: patchtest, layerindex, 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 are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
- There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.0. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.0_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.
YP 5.0 Milestone Dates:
- YP 5.0 M2 is ready to release.
- 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 3.1.31 is ready to release.
- YP 4.0.16 is in QA.
- 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:
- WDD 2572 (last week 2587) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1142 (last week 1167)
- Patches in the Pending State: 249 (22%) [last week 249 (21%)]
- https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
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 23rd, 2024
Current Dev Position: YP 5.0 M3
Next Deadline: 19th February 2024 YP 5.0 M3 build
Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting Thursday January 25th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday January 23rd at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
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:
- 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: patchtest, layerindex, 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 are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
- There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.0. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.0_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.
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:
- WDD 2587 (last week 2555) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1167 (last week 1168)
- Patches in the Pending State: 249 (21%) [last week 251 (21%)]
- https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
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:
- Bug Triage meeting Thursday January 18th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday January 16th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
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:
- 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: patchtest, layerindex, 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 are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
- There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.0. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.0_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.
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:
- WDD 2555 (last week 2562) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1168 (last week 1171)
- Patches in the Pending State: 251 (21%) [last week 252 (21%)]
- https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
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:
- Bug Triage meeting Thursday January 11th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday January 9th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
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:
- 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: patchtest, layerindex, 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 are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
- There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.0. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.0_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.
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:
- WDD 2562 (last week 2574) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1171 (last week 1171)
- Patches in the Pending State: 252 (22%) [last week 252 (21%)]
- https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC
