Yocto Project

linux-distribution os

The Yocto Project is a Linux Foundation project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems and distributions regardless of the hardware architecture.

Release Released Support Status Latest
4.3 'Nanbield' 10 months ago
(09 Nov 2023)
Ended 3 months and 1 week ago
(09 Jun 2024)
4.3
(09 Nov 2023)
4.2 'Mickledore' 1 year and 4 months ago
(03 May 2023)
Ended 10 months ago
(05 Nov 2023)
4.2.3
(31 Aug 2023)
4.1 'Langdale' 1 year and 11 months ago
(23 Oct 2022)
Ended 1 year and 3 months ago
(27 May 2023)
4.1.4
(11 May 2023)
4.0 'Kirkstone' (LTS) 2 years and 4 months ago
(25 Apr 2022)
Ends in 1 year and 7 months
(27 Apr 2026)
4.0.13
(05 Oct 2023)
3.4 'Honister' 2 years and 11 months ago
(25 Oct 2021)
Ended 2 years and 4 months ago
(01 May 2022)
3.4.4
(12 May 2022)
3.3 'Hardknott' 3 years and 5 months ago
(19 Apr 2021)
Ended 2 years and 5 months ago
(20 Apr 2022)
3.3.6
(27 Apr 2022)
3.2 'Gatesgarth' 3 years and 10 months ago
(03 Nov 2020)
Ended 3 years and 4 months ago
(01 May 2021)
3.2.4
(17 May 2021)
3.1 'Dunfell' (LTS) 4 years ago
(21 Apr 2020)
Ended 5 months and 3 weeks ago
(01 Apr 2024)
3.1.28
(29 Sep 2023)
3.0 'Zeus' 4 years and 11 months ago
(22 Oct 2019)
Ended 4 years ago
(01 Aug 2020)
3.0.4
(20 Aug 2020)
2.7 'Warrior' 5 years ago
(01 May 2019)
Ended 4 years ago
(01 Jun 2020)
2.7.4
(02 Jun 2020)

Long-Term Support (LTS) releases are made usually every 2 years, and maintained for 2 years after their initial release. Minor releases for supported stable and LTS branches (e.g. 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1.1, …) are released on an unscheduled basis, usually when enough significant bug fixes have been accumulated.

After the maintenance window has ended, releases can enter a community support phase if a community maintainer steps up. Community support is best-effort, and testing usually does not cover all initially supported platforms. A release enters End-of-Life status if no community maintainer steps up, or when there is no longer an active community maintainer for 2 months.

Yocto stable releases (e.g. 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3…) are made about every 6 months, usually in April and October. Stable releases are maintained seven months after the initial release.

A list of releases and support level is published at https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Releases.

More information is available on the Yocto Project website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running:
bitbake -e | grep '^DISTRO_VERSION\|DISTRO_CODENAME='

You can submit an improvement to this page on GitHub :octocat: . This page has a corresponding Talk Page.

A JSON version of this page is available at /api/yocto.json. See the API Documentation for more information. You can subscribe to the iCalendar feed at /calendar/yocto.ics.