Yocto Project Status 21 May 2024 (WW21)

Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 M1

Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M1 Build 20 May 2024

Next Team Meetings:

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   Bug Triage meeting Thursday May 23rd at 7:30 am PST (
   https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
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   Weekly Project Engineering Sync Tuesday May 21st at 8 am PST (
   https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
   <https://zoom.us/j/990892712>
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   Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester


Key Status/Updates:

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   YP 5.0.1 has been through QA and is pending review for release
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   There are some CVE related announcements which are helpful to us:
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      There was a CVE 5.1 Record format
      <https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/blog/2024/04/30/New-CVE-Record-Format-Enables-Additional-Data>
      announcement with changes that encourage more useful data from our
      perspective
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      CISA announced on linkedin
      <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cisagov_we-understand-that-timely-and-accurate-information-activity-7193995615737901056-8PNq>
      the creation of https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment
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   There is an open letter the project has created related to the CVE/NVD
   situation, more information is available here:
   https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/1990

Please consider signing this to show support for those changes.

Signatures from small businesses/consultancies are as welcome as those from
larger organizations as we want to demonstrate the breadth of the need for
these changes.

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   The project is sponsoring Syslinbit to separate out our CVE tooling from
   the build system into a standalone tool so that it can be used on software
   manifests of output at a later date. Marta sent out an update last week on
   this (thanks!)
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   gcc 14 has merged to master. There are errors in meta-arm,
   meta-virtualization and meta-mingw. Now that has merged, we will build and
   release a new uninative version.
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   More of the WORKDIR to UNPACKDIR transition has merged and devtool
   oe-local-files support has been dropped.
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   The next stage of the WORKDIR changes is pending testing in master-next.
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   The aim is to build YP 5.1 M1 as soon as the various queued patches
   stabilize.
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   The project is in the process of testing a new way of hosting our
   autobuilder with plans to switch soon if successful. Our existing hardware
   is past end of life and showing increased hardware failures so is currently
   down on capacity meaning builds are taking longer than normal.
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   Automated testing continues to show large numbers of problems (e.g. a
   reproducibility issue in spirv-tools) but we continue to work through and
   fix issues as quickly as we can.
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   Two issues causing failures on the new test infrastructure were tracked
   down to problems in bitbake. Both were effectively timing related issues.
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   PR server pass through support merged.
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   A rust build issue of x86 hosted builds vs arm hosted builds has been
   identified as the cause of intermittent failures. Whilst this can be fixed,
   the fix breaks tests and/or reproducibility which gives challenges given
   the need to fix scarthgap. There are also challenges upgrading to newer
   rust versions.
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   The performance graph improvements have merged.
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   Improvements to the patch and CVE metrics page have also merged.


Ways to contribute:

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   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: 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!
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   There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project:
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
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   There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.1. See:
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.1_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
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   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.
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   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.
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   Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics
   <https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/>
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   We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is
   appreciated.
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   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.


Tracking Metrics:

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   WDD 2752 (last week 2740) (
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
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   OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
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      Total patches found: 1127 (last week 1128)
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      Patches in the Pending State: 221 (20%) [last week 221 (20%)]
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   https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:

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   YP 5.1 M1 Build date  2024-05-20
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   YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
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   YP 5.1 M2 Build date  2024-07-08
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   YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
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   YP 5.1 M3 Build date  2024-08-26
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   YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
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   YP 5.1 M4 Build date  2024-09-30
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   YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25


Upcoming dot releases:

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   YP 5.0.1 is ready for release.
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   YP 4.0.19 build date 2024-06-03
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   YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024-06-14
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   YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
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   YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
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   YP 4.0.20 Build Date 2024-07-15
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   YP 4.0.20 Release Date 2024-07-26
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   YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
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   YP 5.0.3 Release Date 2024-08-23
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   YP 4.0.21 Build Date 2024-09-09
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   YP 4.0.21 Release Date 2024-09-20
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   YP 5.0.4 Build Date 2024-09-23
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   YP 5.0.4 Release Date 2024-10-04
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   YP 4.0.22 Build Date 2024-10-14
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   YP 4.0.22 Release Date 2024-10-25
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   YP 5.0.5 Build Date 2024-11-11
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   YP 5.0.5 Release Date 2024-11-22
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   YP 4.0.23 Build Date 2024-11-18
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   YP 4.0.23 Release Date 2024-11-29


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 now 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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