Yocto Project Status 24 February 2026 (WW09)

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Hi all,

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M2
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M2 Build Date 2026-02-16

Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 26th Feb. 7:30am PDT
  (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=3DZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday 24th Feb. 8am PDT
  (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=3DcHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 26th Feb. 10am GMT and Monday 2nd M=
ar. 9am
  (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=3D1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/=20

Key Status/Updates:
- YP 4.0.33 is due for release
- YP 5.0.16 is in QA
- YP 5.2.3 is queued for QA
- YP 6.0 M2 is due to build when we have patches merged
- We have two open high issues which need further work that will block M3:=
=20
    - x86 kvm broken on Fedora 43 (cpu features issue?) (#16074)
    - AB-INT: opkg-build segmentation fault (memory corruption in
      pseudo?) (#16078)
- We also have issues we need to resolve before release:
    - Allowing non-destructive git fetcher updates for bitbake-setup
    - Splitting wic into an external tool
    - Kernel rust support
    - Switching to pkg-config
    - Deprecation of ltp (upstream dropped runltp and mandate kirk)
    - How to improve DEBUG_BUILD?
    - DISTRO_FEATURES changes to =E2=80=98nodistro=E2=80=99 in OE-Core
    - SBOM/cve-check changes
- We updated =E2=80=9Cnodistro=E2=80=9D to use 3 of the include files poky =
was already
  using:
    - Space optimization to reduce build footprint and sstate object
      size
    - Disabling most static libraries by default (build size/speed wins)
    - Enabling security flags by default
- =E2=80=9Cnodistro=E2=80=9D now also enables uninative by default to allow=
 for better
  CDN sstate reuse
- Distros now need to use INIT_MANAGER to select their preferred init
  system with the default being systemd for =E2=80=9Cnodistro=E2=80=9D. Pok=
y=E2=80=99s defaults
  remain unchanged and we don=E2=80=99t have plans to change this at this t=
ime
  due to the work involved and impact (e.g test result comparisons).
- The number of intermittent failures affecting builds, both stable and
  development, continues to be problematic - we continue to prioritise
  addressing these since any given build is now statistically likely to
  hit one or more of them.
- Patches are merging but there is a backlog and we=E2=80=99ve had to prior=
itize
  simpler changes. We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes
  needing in depth review/feedback. This could impact features making it
  into the LTS.

Want to contribute? We would appreciate help with the following areas:
- 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=3D661406&priority=
=3DHigh&priority=3DMedium%2B&product=3DPseudo&query_format=3Dadvanced&resol=
ution=3D---
- 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/incl=
ude/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_-9owFuCW=
bzgjOk/edit?usp=3Dsharing

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=3DNEWCOMER

Tracking Metrics:
- WDD 2941 (last week 2973) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.htm=
l)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
    - Total patches found: 1108 (last week 1106)
    - Patches in the Pending State: 151 (14%) [last week 152 (14%)]
    - https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:
- YP 6.0 M2 Build Date 2026-02-16
- YP 6.0 M2 Release Date 2026-02-27
- YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-09
- YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-03-20
- YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-03-30
- YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-04-26

Upcoming dot releases:
- YP 5.0.16 Release Date 2026-02-20
- YP 5.3.2 Release Date 2026-02-27
- YP 4.0.34 Build Date 2026-02-23
- YP 4.0.34 Release Date 2026-03-06
- YP 5.3.3 Build Date 2026-03-09
- YP 5.3.3 Release Date 2026-03-20
- YP 5.0.17 Build Date 2026-03-16
- YP 5.0.17 Release Date 2026-03-23
- YP 4.0.35 Build Date 2026-04-06
- YP 4.0.35 Release Date 2026-04-17
- YP 5.3.4 Build Date 2026-04-13
- YP 5.3.4 Release Date 2026-04-24
- YP 5.0.18 Build Date 2026-04-20
- YP 5.0.18 Release Date 2026-05-01
- YP 5.0.19 Build Date 2026-05-26
- YP 5.0.19 Release Date 2026-06-05

The Yocto Project=E2=80=99s technical governance is through its Technical
Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

The Status reports are now stored on the wiki at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Weekly_Status

[If anyone has suggestions for other information you=E2=80=99d like to see =
on
this weekly status update, let us know!]

Best regards,

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Paul Barker


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