Yocto Project Status 28 April 2026 (WW18)

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Hi all,

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M4
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 Release Date w/c 2026-05-04

Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 30th Apr. 7:30am PDT
  (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=3DZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday 29th Apr. 8am PDT
  (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=3DcHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 30th Apr. 10am GMT
  (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=3D1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

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

Key Status/Updates:
- YP 4.0.35 is due to release
- YP 5.3.4 is in QA
- YP 6.0 rc1 is in QA
- There will be no patch review on Monday 4th May due to public
  holidays.
- We continue to triage the CVEs being reported by the new tooling.
- There were some last minute changes to DISTRO_FEATURES behaviour to
  resolve some usability issues that users identified.
- There have been several issues in pseudo identified and these have
  been fixed in the various pseudo point releases. We will upgrade
  pseudo in 6.0.1 to pull these in.
- There have been issues with 403 errors from crates.io, there is a
  change in bitbake to use the preferred upstream urls via their CDN.
- The kvm cpu features issue looks to be a host system CPU microcode
  issue and using the latest microcode appears to have resolved the
  issues.
- 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.
- We=E2=80=99re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent bui=
ld
  failures are still problematic. We continue to struggle for bandwidth
  for changes needing in depth review/feedback but are trying to clear
  the backlog.

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 2788 (last week 2790)
  (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
    - Total patches found: 1085 (last week 1078)
    - Patches in the Pending State: 146 (13%) [last week 147 (14%)]
    - https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

Upcoming dot releases:
- YP 4.0.35 is in review.
- YP 5.3.4 is in QA
    - Release Date 2026-05-06
- YP 5.0.18
    - Build Date   2026-05-11
    - Release Date 2026-05-25
For future release dates, see
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Release_calendar

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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