Release 5.3 (whinlatter)

Migration notes for 5.3 (whinlatter)

This section provides migration information for moving to the Yocto Project 5.3 Release (codename “whinlatter”) from the prior release.

Supported kernel versions

The OLDEST_KERNEL setting is XXX in this release, meaning that out the box, older kernels are not supported. See 4.3 migration notes for details.

Supported distributions

Compared to the previous releases, running BitBake is supported on new GNU/Linux distributions:

  • XXX

On the other hand, some earlier distributions are no longer supported:

  • XXX

See all supported distributions.

Rust language changes

systemd changes

Recipe changes

Removed variables

The following variables have been removed:

Removed recipes

The following recipes have been removed in this release:

Removed classes

The following classes have been removed in this release:

Removed features

The following features have been removed in this release:

Miscellaneous changes