Re: [yocto] [scarthgap] DISTRO_VERSION not bumped in 5.0.16 tag

On Mon Mar 16, 2026 at 8:39 AM CET, Felix Mellmann via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

> The Yocto 5.0.16 (scarthgap) tagged release (1d54d1) still has 
> DISTRO_VERSION set to "5.0.15" in meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf.
>
> It looks like the version bump was missed before tagging.

Yes, it did: https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-5.0.16/RELEASENOTES:
> ---------------
>  Known Issues
> ---------------
> The poky DISTRO_VERSION was incorrectly left at 5.0.15. This is a minor issue, if a workaround is needed please cherry-pick:
>  - poky commit 06210079b2e10d6d3fb943afe87864267e329821, or
>  - meta-yocto commit 03f93c769ec99e5086e492d8145eb308a718e8d3.

> Could this be corrected?

The tag will not be moved but you can apply one of the quoted patch
above to fix this in your setup.

Sorry about this,

Regards,
-- 
Yoann Congal
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