Release notes for Yocto-5.0.6 (Scarthgap)

Security Fixes in Yocto-5.0.6

Fixes in Yocto-5.0.6

  • binutils: Add missing perl modules to RDEPENDS for nativesdk variant

  • binutils: stable 2.42 branch update

  • bitbake: Remove custom exception backtrace formatting

  • bitbake: fetch2/git: Use quote from shlex, not pipes

  • bitbake: fetch2: use persist_data context managers

  • bitbake: fetch/wget: Increase timeout to 100s from 30s

  • bitbake: persist_data: close connection in SQLTable __exit__

  • bitbake: runqueue: Fix performance of multiconfigs with large overlap

  • bitbake: runqueue: Fix scenetask processing performance issue

  • bitbake: runqueue: Optimise setscene loop processing

  • build-appliance-image: Update to scarthgap head revision

  • builder: set CVE_PRODUCT

  • cmake: Fix sporadic issues when determining compiler internals

  • cml1: do_diffconfig: Don’t override .config with .config.orig

  • contributor-guide: Remove duplicated words

  • dev-manual: bblock: use warning block instead of attention

  • dev-manual: document how to provide confs from layer.conf

  • dnf: drop python3-iniparse from DEPENDS and RDEPENDS

  • do_package/sstate/sstatesig: Change timestamp clamping to hash output only

  • doc: Makefile: add support for xelatex

  • doc: Makefile: publish pdf and epub versions too

  • doc: Makefile: remove inkscape, replace by rsvg-convert

  • doc: add a download page for epub and pdf

  • doc: conf.py: add a bitbake_git extlink

  • doc: standards.md: add a section on admonitions

  • doc: sphinx-static: switchers.js.in: do not refer to URL_ROOT anymore

  • dropbear: backport fix for concurrent channel open/close

  • enchant2: fix do_fetch error

  • expat: upgrade to 2.6.4

  • gcc: backport patch to fix an issue with tzdata 2024b

  • ghostscript: upgrade to 10.04.0

  • glibc: stable 2.39 branch updates

  • groff: fix rare build race in hdtbl

  • libgcrypt: Fix building error with ‘-O2’ in sysroot path

  • libpam: drop cracklib from DEPENDS

  • libxml-parser-perl: fix do_fetch error

  • llvm: reduce size of -dbg package

  • lttng-ust: backport patch to fix cmake-multiple-shared-libraries build error

  • migration-guides: add release notes for 4.0.23 and 5.0.5

  • ninja: fix build with python 3.13

  • oeqa/runtime/ssh: Fix incorrect timeout fix

  • oeqa/runtime/ssh: Rework ssh timeout

  • oeqa/utils/gitarchive: Return tag name and improve exclude handling

  • package_rpm: Check if file exists before open()

  • package_rpm: restrict rpm to 4 threads

  • package_rpm: use zstd’s default compression level

  • poky.conf: bump version for 5.0.6

  • pseudo: Fix envp bug and add posix_spawn wrapper

  • python3-poetry-core: drop python3-six from RDEPENDS

  • python3-requests: upgrade to 2.32.2

  • python3-urllib3: upgrade to 2.2.2

  • qemu: upgrade to 8.2.7

  • qemurunner: Clean up serial_lock handling

  • ref-manual: classes: fix bin_package description

  • resulttool: Add –logfile-archive option to store mode

  • resulttool: Allow store to filter to specific revisions

  • resulttool: Clean up repoducible build logs

  • resulttool: Fix passthrough of –all files in store mode

  • resulttool: Handle ltp rawlogs as well as ptest

  • resulttool: Improve repo layout for oeselftest results

  • resulttool: Trim the precision of duration information

  • resulttool: Use single space indentation in json output

  • rootfs: Ensure run-postinsts is not uninstalled for read-only-rootfs-delayed-postinsts

  • rxvt-unicode.inc: disable the terminfo installation by setting TIC to :

  • sanity: check for working user namespaces

  • scripts/install-buildtools: Update to 5.0.5

  • selftest/reproducible: Clean up pathnames

  • selftest/reproducible: Drop rawlogs

  • shared-mime-info: drop itstool-native from DEPENDS

  • strace: download release tarballs from GitHub

  • systemd-boot: drop intltool-native from DEPENDS

  • systemd: drop intltool-native from DEPENDS

  • systemd: upgrade to 255.13

  • sysvinit: backport patch for fixing one issue of pidof

  • tcl: skip io-13.6 test case

  • toolchain-shar-extract.sh: exit when post-relocate-setup.sh fails

  • tune-cortexa32: set tune feature as armv8a

  • tzcode-native: upgrade to 2024b

  • tzdata: upgrade to 2024b

  • uboot-sign: fix concat_dtb arguments

  • udev-extraconf: fix network.sh script did not configure hotplugged interfaces

  • webkitgtk: fix erroneous use of unsuported DEBUG_LEVELFLAG variable

  • wireless-regdb: upgrade to 2024.10.07

Known Issues in Yocto-5.0.6

  • N/A

Contributors to Yocto-5.0.6

Thanks to the following people who contributed to this release:

  • Aleksandar Nikolic

  • Alexander Kanavin

  • Antonin Godard

  • Archana Polampalli

  • Bin Lan

  • Changqing Li

  • Chen Qi

  • Chris Laplante

  • Clayton Casciato

  • Deepthi Hemraj

  • Divya Chellam

  • Florian Kreutzer

  • Gassner, Tobias.ext

  • Guðni Már Gilbert

  • Harish Sadineni

  • Hitendra Prajapati

  • Hongxu Jia

  • Jagadeesh Krishnanjanappa

  • Jiaying Song

  • Jinfeng Wang

  • Joshua Watt

  • Lee Chee Yang

  • Markus Volk

  • Michael Opdenacker

  • Pavel Zhukov

  • Peter Marko

  • Philip Lorenz

  • Randy MacLeod

  • Regis Dargent

  • Richard Purdie

  • Robert Yang

  • Ross Burton

  • Soumya Sambu

  • Steve Sakoman

  • Talel BELHAJSALEM

  • Trevor Gamblin

  • Vijay Anusuri

  • Wang Mingyu

  • Yogita Urade

Repositories / Downloads for Yocto-5.0.6

poky

openembedded-core

meta-mingw

bitbake

yocto-docs