Yocto Project Status 9 December 2025 (WW49)

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M1

Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M1 Build Date 2026-01-05

Next Team Meetings:

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   Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Dec. 11th 7:30 am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
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   Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday Dec.9th 8 am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
   <https://zoom.us/j/990892712>
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   Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday  Dec. 9th 10am GMT and Monday
   Dec. 13th 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 5.0.14 was released
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   YP 5.3 rc4 has passed QA and is under review
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   The 5.3 QA report is available and no major release blocking issues were
   found so we should be able to finally make the release.
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   There was an announcement about the new project roles:
   https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/2207

Welcome to Paul and Yoann in their new roles and huge thanks to Steve!

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   Patches for master are merging and the builds are looking greener, there
   is a problem with the test result regression reports still causing failures
   as well as some check-layer issues.
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   We have isolated the Fedora43 workers until we can root cause the binary
   problems it was causing when the sstate was shared to older systems
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   Further bitbake-setup changes under discussion for the new development
   cycle:
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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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   The project is exploring the idea of applying for funding for security
   related work. If anyone (individual or consultancies) has ideas, please
   talk to Paul/Richard/TSC. This is an opportunity to work on those issues
   you never have time/funding for!
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   We are considering entirely disabling the npm fetcher in bitbake due to
   the security issues until those are resolved.


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 6.0. See:
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_6.0_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 2978 (last week 2963) (
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
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   OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
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      Total patches found: 1086 (last week 1080)
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      Patches in the Pending State: 152 (14%) [last week 152 (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 in review for release.


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 5.0.14 was released.
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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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<[email protected]>[email protected] <[email protected]>*