Current Dev Position: YP 4.2 M3

Next Deadline: 20th February 2023 YP 4.2 M3 Build

Next Team Meetings:

Key Status/Updates:

YP 4.0.7 and YP 4.2 M2 were released.
The 6.1 kernel issues we were seeing on the autobuilder were resolved by a point upgrade on the kernel to address virtio networking issues and some patches to address perf reproducibility issues.
A summary of some of the key issues was sent to the mailing list: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/176476

The bitbake command timeout and PR serv async io issues still need to be addressed.

Thanks to everyone who helped address the other items there, it was much appreciated.

We upgraded to glibc 2.37 and a corresponding uninative upgrade is pending.
Fixes for locale on target were merged with new automated locale tests to ensure these keep working.
We merged patches for basic loongarch support but there is no testing of it.
CVE levels in master are still high and we need to resolve several of the issues
We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.

Ways to contribute:

As people are likely aware, the project has a number of components which are either unmaintained, or have people with little to no time trying to keep them alive. These components include: patchtest, layerindex, devtool, toaster, wic, oeqa, autobuilder, CROPs containers, pseudo and more. Many have open bugs. Help is welcome in trying to better look after these components!
There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 4.2. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium.2B_4.2_Unassigned_Enhancements.2FBugs
We’d welcome new maintainers for recipes in OE-Core. Please see the list at: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc and discuss with the existing maintainer, or ask on the OE-Core mailing list. We will likely move a chunk of these to “Unassigned” soon to help facilitate this.
Help is very much welcome in trying to resolve our autobuilder intermittent issues. You can see the list of failures we’re continuing to see by searching for the “AB-INT” tag in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=AB-INT.
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YP 4.2 Milestone Dates:

Upcoming dot releases:

Tracking Metrics:

The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:

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