Yocto Project Status 17 March 2026 (WW12)

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M3

Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23

Next Team Meetings:

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   Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 19th Mar. 7:30am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
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   Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday 17th Mar. 8am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
   <https://zoom.us/j/990892712>
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   Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 19th Mar. 10am GMT and Monday 23rd
   Mar. 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/9776239
   <https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xkiC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1>7
   148?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 5.3.2 has been released
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   YP 6.0 M2 is due to be released
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   YP 4.0.34 is in QA.
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   YP 6.0 M3 is the feature freeze for 6.0 which is our next LTS.
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   YP 6.0 M3 is due to build next week however there are many key changes
   needed still missing.
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   We have issues we need to resolve before M3:
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      x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074
      <https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16074>)
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      AB-INT: opkg-build segmentation fault (memory corruption in pseudo?)
      (#16078 <https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16078>)
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      Failure to generate regression reports in release builds
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      Allowing non-destructive git fetcher updates for bitbake-setup.
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      Splitting wic into an external tool.
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      Switching to pkg-config.
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      Deprecation of ltp (upstream dropped runltp and mandate kirk)
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      How to improve DEBUG_BUILD?
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      DISTRO_FEATURES defaults improvements.
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      SBOM/cve-check changes.
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      Reconcile poky and OE-Core defaults templates.
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      Resolve Fedora 43 selftest failures
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   glibc was upgraded 2.43 and we released a new uninative to match
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   runqemu now has better handling for different display outputs including
   VNC on unix domain sockets
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   We are adding testing of ptests on musl to our test matrix
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   Kernel rust support has merged
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   We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build
   failures are still problematic. We continue to struggle for bandwidth for
   changes needing in depth review/feedback. This could impact features making
   it into the LTS.
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   On scarthgap, we have updated to openssl 3.5 since that is still
   maintained
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   Thanks to everyone who helped out with the booth at Embedded World, it
   was a great success!


Want to contribute? We would appreciate help with the following areas:

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   We have several open issues for pseudo and limited maintainer time to
   work on them. Help from someone familiar with systems programming in C
   would be greatly appreciated.
   https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=661406&priority=High&priority=Medium%2B&product=Pseudo&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
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   There are a large number of intermittent failures on our autobuilder,
   any help with investigating, reproducing or solving these issues would be
   welcome! https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/abint/
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   Many recipes in openembedded-core would benefit from a new recipe
   maintainer. Please look at
   https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
   and see if you can adopt any of the unassigned recipes.
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   For more ways to contribute, see
   https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oxKWxLorfF813h82mK6yKTIHeBp_-9owFuCWbzgjOk/edit?usp=sharing


New to the project?

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   We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing:
   https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER


Tracking Metrics:

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   WDD 2841 (last week 2866) (
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
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   OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
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      Total patches found: 1069 (last week 1081)
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      Patches in the Pending State: 152 (14%) [last week 151 (14%)]
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      https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:

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   YP 6.0 M2 is ready for release.
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   YP 6.0 M3 Build Date  2026-03-23
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   YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-04-08
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   YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-13
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   YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-05-04


Upcoming dot releases:

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   YP 5.3.2 is released.
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   YP 4.0.34 is in QA.
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   YP 5.3.3 is in QA.
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   YP 5.0.17 Build Date 2026-03-30
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   YP 5.0.17 Release Date 2026-04-15
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   YP 4.0.35 Build Date 2026-04-06
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   YP 4.0.35 Release Date 2026-04-22
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   YP 5.3.4 Build Date  2026-04-20
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   YP 5.3.4 Release Date 2026-05-06
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   YP 5.0.18 Build Date 2026-04-27
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   YP 5.0.18 Release Date 2026-05-13
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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

* *Email*:                 *s
<[email protected]>[email protected] <[email protected]>*