Yocto Project Status 21 April 2026 (WW17)

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 23rd Apr. 7:30am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
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   Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday 21st Apr. 8am PDT (
   https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
   <https://zoom.us/j/990892712>
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   Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 23rd Apr. 10am GMT and Monday 27th
   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 was released
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   YP 6.0 M3 was released
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   YP 4.0.35 is in QA
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   YP 6.0 M4 is due to build
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   We continue to triage the CVEs being reported by the new tooling.
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   Various fixes have merged or are planned to merge before the M4 release
   build:
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      Various CVE issue resolutions from CVE triage
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      Reproducibility issues with strace/apr-util
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      Make race in groff
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      Shadow-native tallylog issue fix
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      Upgrade of barebox to align with an LTS release
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      Implementation of a wrapper for openat2, fixing Fedora 44 beta build
      failures
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      Sbom-cve-check upgrade (along with dependencies)
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   Issues still pending:
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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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      Intermittent qemu boot failures of qemuarmv5 (and possibly qemuarm)
      since the last kernel upgrade
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      Intermittent wic failures on the autobuilder
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   At this point we will likely run the release build as the remaining
   issues aren’t critical to end users and we have no clear timeframe for
   resolution of them
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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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   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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   The final whinlatter build is happening this week.


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 2790 (last week 2777) (
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
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   OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
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      Total patches found: 1078 (last week 1072)
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      Patches in the Pending State: 146 (14%) [last week 147 (14%)]
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      https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


Upcoming dot releases:

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   YP 5.0.17 has been released.
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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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   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]>*