Yocto Project Status 14 April 2026 (WW16)

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M4

Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-20

Next Team Meetings:

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   Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 16th Apr. 7:30am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
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   Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday 14th Apr. 8am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
   <https://zoom.us/j/990892712>
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   Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 16th Apr. 10am GMT and Monday 20th
   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 5.0.17 is due to be released
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   YP 6.0 M3 is in QA
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   YP 4.0.35 is queued for QA
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   We have converted over to sbom-cve-check and dropped cve-check. This has
   caused a significant increase in CVEs reported, these are being triaged.
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   Issues with pending work needed:
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      32bit x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074
      <https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16074>)
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      Reports of pseudo errors on Fedora 44 beta related to openat2()
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      Intermittent qemu boot failures of qemuarmv5 (and possibly qemuarm)
      since the last kernel upgrade
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      Meta-oe cve layer filtering under new tooling (metrics script tweak?)
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      Reprodicubility issues with strace/apr-util after gnulib macro
      changes (patches in testing)
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   There was disruption to git services last week due to scraping attacks
   against the servers. This resulted in connection issues whilst those were
   mitigated, particularly the git protocol access.
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   git:// protocol access to git.yoctoproject.org and git.openembeded.org
   is deprecated and going forward https:// URLs should be used to access
   git repositories. We are aiming to discontinue git protocol use.
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   The recent 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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   The final kirkstone build has taken place and we’re no longer planning
   to merge patches on this branch.
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   If you have any final patches for whinlatter, please get these sent to
   the list ASAP.


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 2777 (last week 2797) (
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
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   OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
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      Total patches found: 1072 (last week 1060)
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      Patches in the Pending State: 147 (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 is in QA.
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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 5.0.17 is in review.
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   YP 4.0.35 is in QA.
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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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   YP 5.0.18
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      Build date: 2026-05-11
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      Release date: 2026-05-25
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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

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