Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 M1

Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M1 Build 20 May 2024

Next Team Meetings:

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   Bug Triage meeting Thursday June 6th at 7:30 am PST (
   https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
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   Weekly Project Engineering Sync Tuesday June 4th at 8 am PST (
   https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
   <https://zoom.us/j/990892712>
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   Twitch -  See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester


Key Status/Updates:

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   YP 4.0.19 is in QA
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   YP 5.1 M1 rc1 is building
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   We identified the performance problem in bitbake using hash equivalence
   servers and have made changes to batch queries and improve build times
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   Extra logging for that performance problem is available by setting
   BB_LOGCONFIG=XXX/bitbake/contrib/autobuilderlog.json (the more verbose
   logging the autobuilder uses) which will then show if initial query or
   rehash looping takes longer than 30s for iterations or 60s overall.
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   We changed locked-sigs to include the hash equivalence mapping data,
   removing the need to copy the cache file.
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   Libtool was upgraded to the 2.5.0 alpha release, many patches were
   merged upstream.
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   Qemu has been upgraded to 9.0.0, kernel headers to 6.9 and stable and
   dev kernel updates merged (to 6.6.32)
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   There is one remaining issue on fedora40, systemtap-native does not
   build. The other Fedora 40 are believed to be fixed.
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   Some layers are setting fallbacks for UNPACKDIR which break OE-Core by
   trying to claim compatibility with everything. Errors have been added to
   make this problem clear.
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   sstate has had changes to fix a bug where build-history data was
   inconsistent. The siteconfig class was removed to make that change easier
   and improve the code, it was mostly unused anyway.
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   The parallelism in the hash client was removed as batching queries is
   much more effective and easier on the server.
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   There is an open letter the project has created related to the CVE/NVD
   situation, more information is available here:
   https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/1990

Please consider signing this to show support for those changes.

Signatures from small businesses/consultancies are as welcome as those from
larger organizations as we want to demonstrate the breadth of the need for
these changes.

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   There is a further update from Marta/Syslinbit on the CVE tooling/patches
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   We continue to have trouble tracking down the rust reproducibility
   problem in rustdoc.
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   Post release upgrading is resulting in an improvement in patch metrics
   which is great to see, more should appear next week in the statistics too.


Ways to contribute:

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   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: 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!
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   There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project:
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
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   There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.1. See:
   
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.1_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
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   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.
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   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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   Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics
   <https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/>
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   We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is
   appreciated.
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   Regarding bugs, even if you can’t fix a bug, submitting a failing test
   case that can reproduce the issue significantly improves the chances it
   might get fixed.


Tracking Metrics:

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   WDD 2772 (last week 2772) (
   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
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   OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
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      Total patches found: 1098 (last week 1121)
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      Patches in the Pending State: 205 (19%) [last week 221 (20%)]
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   https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:

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   YP 5.1 M1 Build date  2024-05-20
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   YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
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   YP 5.1 M2 Build date  2024-07-08
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   YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
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   YP 5.1 M3 Build date  2024-08-26
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   YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
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   YP 5.1 M4 Build date  2024-09-30
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   YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25


Upcoming dot releases:

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   YP 4.0.19 is in QA.
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   YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
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   YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
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   YP 4.0.20 Build Date 2024-07-15
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   YP 4.0.20 Release Date 2024-07-26
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   YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
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   YP 5.0.3 Release Date 2024-08-23
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   YP 4.0.21 Build Date 2024-09-09
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   YP 4.0.21 Release Date 2024-09-20
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   YP 5.0.4 Build Date 2024-09-23
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   YP 5.0.4 Release Date 2024-10-04
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   YP 4.0.22 Build Date 2024-10-14
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   YP 4.0.22 Release Date 2024-10-25
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   YP 5.0.5 Build Date 2024-11-11
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   YP 5.0.5 Release Date 2024-11-22
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   YP 4.0.23 Build Date 2024-11-18
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   YP 4.0.23 Release Date 2024-11-29


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*

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