Yocto Project Status 17 February 2026 (WW08)

[Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>]

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Hi all,

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M2
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M2 Build Date 2026-02-16

Next Team Meetings:
- Bug Triage meeting - Thursday 19th Feb. 7:30am PDT
  (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
- Weekly Project Engineering Sync  - Tuesday 17th Feb. 8am PDT
  (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
- Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday 19th Feb. 10am GMT and Monday 23rd Feb. 9am PDT
  (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)

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

Key Status/Updates:
- YP 4.0.33 is awaiting approval
- YP 5.0.16 is in QA
- YP 6.0 M2 is due to build this week but is blocked by high priority
  bugs
- There are currently 5 high open bugs, which will block M2. Three have
  line of sight to being resolved:
    - rust do_test_compile/do_install segfault (#16058)
    - Generation of releases.json needs updating (#16138)
    - AB-INT: do_image_wic: tar command return exit status 2 (#16143)
- Two are currently needing further work: 
    - x86 kvm broken on Fedora 43 (#16074)
    - AB-INT: opkg-build segmentation fault (#16078)
- We removed the bazaar, osc and cvs fetchers since they are obsolete
  and nobody should be using them
- We removed sysvinit compatibility support from systemd images since
  this will not be supported by upstream during the lifespan of our
  upcoming LTS release.
- We removed legacy tls support from openssl in the interests of
  providing better secure defaults.
- The number of intermittent failures affecting builds, both stable and
  development, continues to be problematic - we continue to prioritise
  addressing these since any given build is now statistically likely to
  hit one or more of them.
- Patch review is now using two branches:
    - “master-review”  - patches which pass on the autobuilder and will
      be discussed on the patch review call
      (https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=master-review)
    - “master-backlog” - patches which have been discussed and need
      further investigation or more detailed feedback which we haven’t
      had time for yet
      (https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=master-backlog)
- Patches are merging but there is a backlog and we’ve had to prioritize
  simpler changes. We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes
  needing in depth review/feedback. This could impact features making it
  into the LTS.

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 2941 (last week 2973) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
- OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
    - Total patches found: 1108 (last week 1106)
    - Patches in the Pending State: 151 (14%) [last week 152 (14%)]
    - https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/

YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:
- YP 6.0 M2 Build Date 2026-02-16
- YP 6.0 M2 Release Date 2026-02-27
- YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-09
- YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-03-20
- YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-03-30
- YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-04-26

Upcoming dot releases:
- YP 5.0.16 Release Date 2026-02-20
- YP 5.3.2 Build Date 2026-02-16
- YP 5.3.2 Release Date 2026-02-27
- YP 4.0.34 Build Date 2026-02-23
- YP 4.0.34 Release Date 2026-03-06
- YP 5.3.3 Build Date 2026-03-09
- YP 5.3.3 Release Date 2026-03-20
- YP 5.0.17 Build Date 2026-03-16
- YP 5.0.17 Release Date 2026-03-23
- YP 4.0.35 Build Date 2026-04-06
- YP 4.0.35 Release Date 2026-04-17
- YP 5.3.4 Build Date 2026-04-13
- YP 5.3.4 Release Date 2026-04-24
- YP 5.0.18 Build Date 2026-04-20
- YP 5.0.18 Release Date 2026-05-01
- YP 5.0.19 Build Date 2026-05-26
- YP 5.0.19 Release Date 2026-06-05

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,

-- 
Paul Barker


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