Yocto Project Status 18 August 2026 (WW34)

Current Dev Position: YP 6.1 M3

Next Deadline: YP 6.1 M3: w/c 2026-08-31

Next Team Meetings:

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   Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 20th Aug. 7:30am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
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   Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday 18th Aug. 8am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
   <https://zoom.us/j/990892712>
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   Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 20th Aug. 10am GMT and Monday 24th
   Aug. 9am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)


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

Key Status/Updates:

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   YP 6.1 M3 is due in two weeks and this will be the feature freeze point
   for YP 6.1.
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   AI scrapers and bots continue to impact the infrastructure, taking huge
   amounts of time for our sysadmins and with a significant cost impact to the
   project.
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   We would like to remind everyone that AI-generated code submitted to
   Yocto Project must include disclosure of the use of AI tools, in line with
   our policy in the contributor guide (
   https://docs.yoctoproject.org/contributor-guide/submit-changes.html#acceptance-of-ai-generated-code).
   Joshua has sent patches adding AGENTS.md <http://agents.md> files to
   bitbake and openembedded-core to prompt agents to follow this policy. We
   are discussing further updates to our policy on AI assisted submissions as
   this is a rapidly evolving area.
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   There have been locking changes with do_fetch/do_unpack within the
   bitbake fetcher to allow better performance of builds with shared DL_DIRs.
   There are also performance improvements to the handling of repeated ssl
   connection queries.
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   There is discussion on the architecture list about how we could improve
   the fetcher, particularly around how recursion is handled in git
   submodules:
   https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/2416
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   We continue to try and keep up to date with upstream releases through
   the AUH, big thanks to those sending version updates and fixing version
   update issues.
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   There are two AB-INT issues which are in a position where others could
   now help, as detailed in
   https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/242105:
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      Matchbox-wm segfault/xserver restart
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      aarch64/x86-64 build host contamination/reproducibility issue

We get a lot of comments about these being hard to reproduce or work on, in
both cases, these have specific well defined things which need to be done
and a basic understanding of what the issue relates to, if not the actual
fix.

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   Remaining intermittent build failures of concern:
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      other qemu ‘hang’ type issues on ARM
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      sometimes yocto-check-layer is showing checksum mismatch issues
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      intermittent ptest failures in many recipes


Want to contribute? We would appreciate help with the following areas:

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   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=---
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   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/
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   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.
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   For more ways to contribute, see
   https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oxKWxLorfF813h82mK6yKTIHeBp_-9owFuCWbzgjOk/edit?usp=sharing


New to the project?

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   We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing:
   https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER


Tracking Metrics:

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   WDD 2704 (last week 2694) (
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
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   OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
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      Total patches found: 1030 (last week 1028)
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      Patches in the Pending State: 139 (14%) [last week 139 (14%)]
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      https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


Upcoming development releases:

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   6.1 M3:
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      Build Date: w/c 2026-08-31
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      Release Date: w/c 2026-09-14
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   6.1.0:
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      Build Date (M4): w/c 2026-10-12
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      Release Date: w/c 2026-11-02


Upcoming dot releases:

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   YP 6.0.3
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      Build Date w/c 2026-08-10
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      Release Date w/c 2026-08-24
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   YP 5.0.20
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      Build Date w/c 2026-08-17
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      Release Date w/c 2026-08-31
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   YP 6.0.4
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      Build Date w/c 2026-09-28
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      Release Date w/c 2026-10-12
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   YP 5.0.21
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      Build Date w/c 2026-10-05
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      Release Date w/c 2026-10-19
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   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

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

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

Thanks,



*Stephen K. Jolley*

*Yocto Project Program Manager*

(    *Cell*:                (208) 244-4460

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<[email protected]>[email protected] <[email protected]>*