Yocto Project Status 18 November 2025 (WW46)

Current Dev Position: YP 5.3 M4 - Stabilization and Final Build/Release

Next Deadline: YP 5.3 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10

Next Team Meetings:

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   Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Nov. 20th 7:30 am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
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   Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday Nov. 18th 8 am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
   <https://zoom.us/j/990892712>
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   Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday  Nov. 18th 10am GMT and Monday
   Nov. 24th 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 4.0.31 was released.
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   YP 5.0.14 is in QA.
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   The final 5.3 build is still pending on resolving some rough edges on
   bitbake-setup. The patches so far have made a huge difference, thanks
   everyone who helped!
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   We aim to build 5.3 when the remaining identified issues with
   bitbake-setup are resolved:
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      Improvements to the default build directory path (json format string?)
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      Handling potential MACHINE/DISTRO conflict between conf/env and
      feature settings
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      Comments to toolcfg.conf about how to change
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      Mention "bitbake-config-build enable-fragment machine/XXX" in
      bitbake-setup output
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      Remove/change broken template files from meta-yocto
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   Other potential changes that have been discussed but don’t have workable
   patches yet:
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      defaulting to a common sstate directory and hashequiv server
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      Allowing symlinking of local existing repos into the build instead of
      fetching
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   There are likely going to be breaking changes to the npm fetcher related
   to ongoing security concerns but we are lacking patches.


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 2943 (last week 3048) (
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
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   OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
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      Total patches found: 1066 (last week 1067)
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      Patches in the Pending State: 175 (16%) [last week 153 (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 M4 Build Date 2025-11-10
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   YP 5.3 M4 Release Date 2025-11-28


YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:

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   YP 6.0 M1 Build Date 2026-01-05
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   YP 6.0 M1 Release Date 2026-01-16
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   YP 6.0 M2 Build Date 2026-02-02
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   YP 6.0 M2 Release Date 2026-02-13
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   YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-02
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   YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-03-13
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   YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-03-30
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   YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-04-26


Upcoming dot releases:.

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   YP 4.0.31 was released.
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   YP 5.0.14 is in QA.
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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
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   YP 5.3.1 Build Date 2026-01-12
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   YP 5.3.1 Release Date 2026-01-23
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   YP 4.0.33 Build Date 2026-01-26
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   YP 4.0.33 Release Date 2026-01-30
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   YP 5.0.16 Build Date 2026-02-09
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   YP 5.0.16 Release Date 2026-02-20
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   YP 5.3.2 Build Date 2026-02-16
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   YP 5.3.2 Release Date 2026-02-27
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   YP 4.0.34 Build Date 2026-02-23
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   YP 4.0.34 Release Date 2026-03-06
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   YP 5.3.3 Build Date 2026-03-09
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   YP 5.3.3 Release Date 2026-03-20
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   YP 5.0.17 Build Date 2026-03-16
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   YP 5.0.17 Release Date 2026-03-23
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   YP 4.0.35 Build Date 2026-04-06
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   YP 4.0.35 Release Date 2026-04-17
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   YP 5.3.4 Build Date 2026-04-13
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   YP 5.3.4 Release Date 2026-04-24
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   YP 5.0.18 Build Date 2026-04-20
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   YP 5.0.18 Release Date 2026-05-01
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   YP 5.0.19 Build Date 2026-05-26
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   YP 5.0.19 Release Date 2026-06-05


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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