Yocto Project Status 28 April 2026 (WW18)

Paul Barker <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:53:23 +0100

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Hi all,

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M4
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 Release Date w/c 2026-05-04

Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 30th Apr. 7:30am PDT
(https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday 29th Apr. 8am PDT
(https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 30th Apr. 10am GMT
(https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/

Key Status/Updates:
- YP 4.0.35 is due to release
- YP 5.3.4 is in QA
- YP 6.0 rc1 is in QA
- There will be no patch review on Monday 4th May due to public
holidays.
- We continue to triage the CVEs being reported by the new tooling.
- There were some last minute changes to DISTRO_FEATURES behaviour to
resolve some usability issues that users identified.
- There have been several issues in pseudo identified and these have
been fixed in the various pseudo point releases. We will upgrade
pseudo in 6.0.1 to pull these in.
- There have been issues with 403 errors from crates.io, there is a
change in bitbake to use the preferred upstream urls via their CDN.
- The kvm cpu features issue looks to be a host system CPU microcode
issue and using the latest microcode appears to have resolved the
issues.
- 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.
- 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 but are trying to clear
the backlog.

Want to contribute? We would appreciate help with the following areas:
- 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=
- 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/
- 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.
- For more ways to contribute, see
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oxKWxLorfF813h82mK6yKTIHeBp_-9owFuCWbzgjOk/edit?usp=sharing

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

Tracking Metrics:
- WDD 2788 (last week 2790)
(https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
- Total patches found: 1085 (last week 1078)
- Patches in the Pending State: 146 (13%) [last week 147 (14%)]
- https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

Upcoming dot releases:
- YP 4.0.35 is in review.
- YP 5.3.4 is in QA
- Release Date 2026-05-06
- YP 5.0.18
- Build Date 2026-05-11
- Release Date 2026-05-25
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!]

Best regards,

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Paul Barker

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