Yocto Project Status 23 September 2025 (WW37)

Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M3

Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M3 Build Date 2025-09-01

Next Team Meetings:

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   Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Sept. 25th 7:30 am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
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   Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday Sept. 23rd 8 am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
   <https://zoom.us/j/990892712>
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   Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Sept. 25th 10am GMT and Monday
   Sept. 29th 9am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1
   <https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1>)


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

Key Status/Updates:

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   YP 4.0.30 is in QA
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   YP 5.3 M3 is due to build soon
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   We’re at feature freeze for YP 5.3. There are three pending items we
   still aim to merge before building:
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      Fixing a reproducibility problem in perf from 6.16
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      Split of llvm from clang
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      Merging of bitbake-setup once the autobuilder can use it
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   We aim to merge bitbake-setup before building 5.3 M3, work is currently
   being done to migrate the autobuilder to use it.
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   This change will mean “poky” as a combo-layer repository will no longer
   be needed or updated.
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   Patch merging is continuing as long as the risk for the changes are low
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   There are likely going to be breaking changes to the npm fetcher related
   to ongoing security concerns.
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   There is a proposal to the TSC requesting an exception to allow
   backporting of SPDX 3 support to scarthgap. Please comment on the list in
   support of or against this as appropriate, the TSC is leading towards
   granting the exception.
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   There are a couple of open Yocto Project positions which we’re in the
   process of advertising:
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      Ecosystem Engineering and Operations Lead
      <https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/topic/rfq_job_opening_yocto/115087601>
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      LTS Maintainer
      <https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/LinuxFoundation/744000081384375-yocto-lts-maintainer-contractor>
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      Steve Sakoman is retiring in April 2026


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 is an issue open upstream with the openssl project related to
   making path relocation of openssl easier (as used in our buildtools tarball
   and SDK). We’d love assistance in moving this forward and getting some kind
   of upstream feature merged to make this easier:
   https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/19260
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   There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project:
   https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/bugtriage/#newcomer-container
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   There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.3. See:
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.3_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.
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   Further help on optimizing build disk usage would be most welcome.
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   Ongoing project development plans are being developed in this document:
   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xsnN_HcaMhqg6Dn1P_19AnumDaUMQSdFZ_I4rjD830A/edit?usp=sharing

We need to continue to develop this as it will allow us to potentially find
ways to fund specific work items.

Tracking Metrics:

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   WDD 2846 (last week 2828) (
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
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   OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
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      Total patches found: 1105 (last week 1112)
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      Patches in the Pending State: 154 (14%) [last week 155 (14%)]
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      https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


YP 5.3 Milestone Dates:

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   YP 5.3 M3 Build Date 2025-09-01
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   YP 5.3 M3 Release Date 2025-09-12
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   YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-10-06
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   YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-10-31


Upcoming dot releases:.

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   YP 4.0.30 is in QA.
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   YP 5.2.4 Build Date 2025-09-29
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   YP 5.2.4 Release Date 2025-10-10
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   YP 5.0.13 Build Date 2025-10-13
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   YP 5.0.13 Release Date 2025-10-24
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   YP 4.0.31 Build Date 2025-11-03
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   YP 4.031 Release Date 2025-11-14
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   YP 5.0.14 Build Date 2025-11-17
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   YP 5.0.14 Release Date 2025-11-28
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   YP 4.0.32 Build Date 2025-12-15
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   YP 4.0.32 Release Date 2025-12-24
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   YP 5.0.15 Build Date 2026-01-05
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   YP 5.0.15 Release Date 2026-01-16


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