Yocto Project Status 7 April 2026 (WW15)

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 9th Apr. 7:30am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
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   Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday 7th Apr. 8am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
   <https://zoom.us/j/990892712>
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   Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 9th Apr. 10am GMT and Monday 13th
   Apr. 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 5.3.3 was released.
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   YP 5.0.17 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 now due to build however there are still key changes
   missing.
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   Issues with pending work needed:
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      Converting scripts/run-cvecheck to sbom-cve-check
      -

      32bit x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074
      <https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16074>)
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      Failure to generate regression reports in release builds (need tags)
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      Ubuntu 26.04 support (need worker adding for testing)
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   Issues that have patches ready to merge:
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      DISTRO_FEATURES defaults improvements.
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      Fixing yocto-check-layer to work with --machines
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      RHEL 9 xattrs/selinux/tar issue
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      Splitting wic into an external tool.
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      RHEL 10/openSUSE Leap 16.0 support
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   Issues that need investigation
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      Reports of pseudo errors on Fedora 44 beta
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   The proposed wic changes will need wic support files to be placed in
   files/wic within layers going forwards.
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   We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build
   failures are still problematic, including the emergence of new issues
   (newer kernel version?). 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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   We are aware of our git hosting giving 502 Bad Gateway errors, this is
   being investigated
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   The CFP for the Yocto Project Workshop at Embedded Recipes 2026 closes
   today: https://pretalx.com/yocto-embedded-recipes-2026/cfp


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 2797 (last week 2814) (
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
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   OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
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      Total patches found: 1060 (last week 1062)
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      Patches in the Pending State: 148 (14%) [last week 148 (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 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 5.3.3 was released.
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   YP 5.0.17 is in QA.
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   YP 4.0.35
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      Build Date 2026-04-06
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      Release Date 2026-04-22
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   YP 5.3.4
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      Build Date  2026-04-20
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      Release Date 2026-05-06
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   For future release dates, see
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Release_calendar


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]>*