56 files changed, 1485 insertions, 1054 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/serial.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/serial.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7c2cd8b248
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/serial.py
@@ -0,0 +1,315 @@
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+import base64
+import logging
+import os
+from threading import Lock
+from . import OETarget
+
+class OESerialTarget(OETarget):
+
+    def __init__(self, logger, target_ip, server_ip, server_port=0,
+                 timeout=300, serialcontrol_cmd=None, serialcontrol_extra_args=None,
+                 serialcontrol_ps1=None, serialcontrol_connect_timeout=None, 
+                 machine=None, **kwargs):
+        if not logger:
+            logger = logging.getLogger('target')
+            logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+            filePath = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'remoteTarget.log')
+            fileHandler = logging.FileHandler(filePath, 'w', 'utf-8')
+            formatter = logging.Formatter(
+                        '%(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(levelname)s: %(message)s',
+                        '%H:%M:%S')
+            fileHandler.setFormatter(formatter)
+            logger.addHandler(fileHandler)
+
+        super(OESerialTarget, self).__init__(logger)
+
+        if serialcontrol_ps1:
+            self.target_ps1 = serialcontrol_ps1
+        elif machine:
+            # fallback to a default value which assumes root@machine
+            self.target_ps1 = f'root@{machine}:.*# '
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("Unable to determine shell command prompt (PS1) format.")
+
+        if not serialcontrol_cmd:
+            raise ValueError("Unable to determine serial control command.")
+
+        if serialcontrol_extra_args:
+            self.connection_script = f'{serialcontrol_cmd} {serialcontrol_extra_args}'
+        else:
+            self.connection_script = serialcontrol_cmd
+
+        if serialcontrol_connect_timeout:
+            self.connect_timeout = serialcontrol_connect_timeout
+        else:
+            self.connect_timeout = 10 # default to 10s connection timeout
+
+        self.default_command_timeout = timeout
+        self.ip = target_ip
+        self.server_ip = server_ip
+        self.server_port = server_port 
+        self.conn = None
+        self.mutex = Lock()
+
+    def start(self, **kwargs):
+        pass
+
+    def stop(self, **kwargs):
+        pass
+
+    def get_connection(self):
+        if self.conn is None:
+            self.conn = SerialConnection(self.connection_script,
+                                         self.target_ps1,
+                                         self.connect_timeout,
+                                         self.default_command_timeout)
+
+        return self.conn
+
+    def run(self, cmd, timeout=None):
+        """
+            Runs command on target over the provided serial connection.
+            The first call will open the connection, and subsequent
+            calls will re-use the same connection to send new commands.
+
+            command:    Command to run on target.
+            timeout:    <value>:    Kill command after <val> seconds.
+                        None:       Kill command default value seconds.
+                        0:          No timeout, runs until return.
+        """
+        # Lock needed to avoid multiple threads running commands concurrently
+        # A serial connection can only be used by one caller at a time
+        with self.mutex:
+            conn = self.get_connection()
+
+            self.logger.debug(f"[Running]$ {cmd}")
+            # Run the command, then echo $? to get the command's return code
+            try:
+                output = conn.run_command(cmd, timeout)
+                status = conn.run_command("echo $?")
+                self.logger.debug(f"   [stdout]: {output}")
+                self.logger.debug(f"   [ret code]: {status}\n\n")
+            except SerialTimeoutException as e:
+                self.logger.debug(e)
+                output = ""
+                status = 255
+
+            # Return to $HOME after each command to simulate a stateless SSH connection
+            conn.run_command('cd "$HOME"')
+
+        return (int(status), output)
+
+    def copyTo(self, localSrc, remoteDst):
+        """
+            Copies files by converting them to base 32, then transferring
+            the ASCII text to the target, and decoding it in place on the
+            target.
+
+            On a 115k baud serial connection, this method transfers at
+            roughly 30kbps.
+        """
+        with open(localSrc, 'rb') as file:
+            data = file.read()
+
+        b32 = base64.b32encode(data).decode('utf-8')
+
+        # To avoid shell line limits, send a chunk at a time
+        SPLIT_LEN = 512 
+        lines = [b32[i:i+SPLIT_LEN] for i in range(0, len(b32), SPLIT_LEN)]
+
+        with self.mutex:
+            conn = self.get_connection()
+
+            filename = os.path.basename(localSrc)
+            TEMP = f'/tmp/{filename}.b32'
+
+            # Create or empty out the temp file
+            conn.run_command(f'echo -n "" > {TEMP}')
+
+            for line in lines:
+                conn.run_command(f'echo -n {line} >> {TEMP}')
+
+            # Check to see whether the remoteDst is a directory
+            is_directory = conn.run_command(f'[[ -d {remoteDst} ]]; echo $?')
+            if int(is_directory) == 0:
+                # append the localSrc filename to the end of remoteDst
+                remoteDst = os.path.join(remoteDst, filename)
+
+            conn.run_command(f'base32 -d {TEMP} > {remoteDst}')
+            conn.run_command(f'rm {TEMP}')
+
+        return 0, 'Success'
+
+    def copyFrom(self, remoteSrc, localDst):
+        """
+            Copies files by converting them to base 32 on the target, then
+            transferring the ASCII text to the host. That text is then
+            decoded here and written out to the destination.
+
+            On a 115k baud serial connection, this method transfers at
+            roughly 30kbps.
+        """
+        with self.mutex:
+            b32 = self.get_connection().run_command(f'base32 {remoteSrc}')
+
+            data = base64.b32decode(b32.replace('\r\n', ''))
+
+            # If the local path is a directory, get the filename from
+            # the remoteSrc path and append it to localDst
+            if os.path.isdir(localDst):
+                filename = os.path.basename(remoteSrc)
+                localDst = os.path.join(localDst, filename)
+
+            with open(localDst, 'wb') as file:
+                file.write(data)
+
+        return 0, 'Success'
+
+    def copyDirTo(self, localSrc, remoteDst):
+        """
+            Copy recursively localSrc directory to remoteDst in target.
+        """
+
+        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(localSrc):
+            # Create directories in the target as needed
+            for d in dirs:
+                tmpDir = os.path.join(root, d).replace(localSrc, "")
+                newDir = os.path.join(remoteDst, tmpDir.lstrip("/"))
+                cmd = "mkdir -p %s" % newDir
+                self.run(cmd)
+
+            # Copy files into the target
+            for f in files:
+                tmpFile = os.path.join(root, f).replace(localSrc, "")
+                dstFile = os.path.join(remoteDst, tmpFile.lstrip("/"))
+                srcFile = os.path.join(root, f)
+                self.copyTo(srcFile, dstFile)
+
+    def deleteFiles(self, remotePath, files):
+        """
+            Deletes files in target's remotePath.
+        """
+
+        cmd = "rm"
+        if not isinstance(files, list):
+            files = [files]
+
+        for f in files:
+            cmd = "%s %s" % (cmd, os.path.join(remotePath, f))
+
+        self.run(cmd)
+
+    def deleteDir(self, remotePath):
+        """
+            Deletes target's remotePath directory.
+        """
+
+        cmd = "rmdir %s" % remotePath
+        self.run(cmd)
+
+    def deleteDirStructure(self, localPath, remotePath):
+        """
+        Delete recursively localPath structure directory in target's remotePath.
+
+        This function is useful to delete a package that is installed in the
+        device under test (DUT) and the host running the test has such package
+        extracted in tmp directory.
+
+        Example:
+            pwd: /home/user/tmp
+            tree:   .
+                    └── work
+                        ├── dir1
+                        │   └── file1
+                        └── dir2
+
+            localpath = "/home/user/tmp" and remotepath = "/home/user"
+
+            With the above variables this function will try to delete the
+            directory in the DUT in this order:
+                /home/user/work/dir1/file1
+                /home/user/work/dir1        (if dir is empty)
+                /home/user/work/dir2        (if dir is empty)
+                /home/user/work             (if dir is empty)
+        """
+
+        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(localPath, topdown=False):
+            # Delete files first
+            tmpDir = os.path.join(root).replace(localPath, "")
+            remoteDir = os.path.join(remotePath, tmpDir.lstrip("/"))
+            self.deleteFiles(remoteDir, files)
+
+            # Remove dirs if empty
+            for d in dirs:
+                tmpDir = os.path.join(root, d).replace(localPath, "")
+                remoteDir = os.path.join(remotePath, tmpDir.lstrip("/"))
+                self.deleteDir(remoteDir)
+
+class SerialTimeoutException(Exception):
+    def __init__(self, msg):
+        self.msg = msg
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.msg
+
+class SerialConnection:
+
+    def __init__(self, script, target_prompt, connect_timeout, default_command_timeout):
+        import pexpect # limiting scope to avoid build dependency
+        self.prompt = target_prompt
+        self.connect_timeout = connect_timeout
+        self.default_command_timeout = default_command_timeout
+        self.conn = pexpect.spawn('/bin/bash', ['-c', script], encoding='utf8')
+        self._seek_to_clean_shell()
+        # Disable echo to avoid the need to parse the outgoing command
+        self.run_command('stty -echo')
+
+    def _seek_to_clean_shell(self):
+        """
+            Attempts to find a clean shell, meaning it is clear and
+            ready to accept a new command. This is necessary to ensure
+            the correct output is captured from each command.
+        """
+        import pexpect # limiting scope to avoid build dependency
+        # Look for a clean shell
+        # Wait a short amount of time for the connection to finish
+        pexpect_code = self.conn.expect([self.prompt, pexpect.TIMEOUT],
+                                        timeout=self.connect_timeout)
+
+        # if a timeout occurred, send an empty line and wait for a clean shell
+        if pexpect_code == 1:
+            # send a newline to clear and present the shell
+            self.conn.sendline("")
+            pexpect_code = self.conn.expect(self.prompt)
+
+    def run_command(self, cmd, timeout=None):
+        """
+            Runs command on target over the provided serial connection.
+            Returns any output on the shell while the command was run.
+
+            command:    Command to run on target.
+            timeout:    <value>:    Kill command after <val> seconds.
+                        None:       Kill command default value seconds.
+                        0:          No timeout, runs until return.
+        """
+        import pexpect # limiting scope to avoid build dependency
+        # Convert from the OETarget defaults to pexpect timeout values
+        if timeout is None:
+            timeout = self.default_command_timeout
+        elif timeout == 0:
+            timeout = None # passing None to pexpect is infinite timeout
+
+        self.conn.sendline(cmd)
+        pexpect_code = self.conn.expect([self.prompt, pexpect.TIMEOUT], timeout=timeout)
+
+        # check for timeout
+        if pexpect_code == 1:
+            self.conn.send('\003') # send Ctrl+C
+            self._seek_to_clean_shell()
+            raise SerialTimeoutException(f'Timeout executing: {cmd} after {timeout}s')
+
+        return self.conn.before.removesuffix('\r\n')
+
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/ssh.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/ssh.py
index 09cdd14c75..d473469384 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/ssh.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/core/target/ssh.py
@@ -55,14 +55,14 @@ class OESSHTarget(OETarget):
     def stop(self, **kwargs):
         pass
 
-    def _run(self, command, timeout=None, ignore_status=True):
+    def _run(self, command, timeout=None, ignore_status=True, raw=False):
         """
             Runs command in target using SSHProcess.
         """
         self.logger.debug("[Running]$ %s" % " ".join(command))
 
         starttime = time.time()
-        status, output = SSHCall(command, self.logger, timeout)
+        status, output = SSHCall(command, self.logger, timeout, raw)
         self.logger.debug("[Command returned '%d' after %.2f seconds]"
                  "" % (status, time.time() - starttime))
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class OESSHTarget(OETarget):
 
         return (status, output)
 
-    def run(self, command, timeout=None, ignore_status=True):
+    def run(self, command, timeout=None, ignore_status=True, raw=False):
         """
             Runs command in target.
 
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ class OESSHTarget(OETarget):
         else:
             processTimeout = self.timeout
 
-        status, output = self._run(sshCmd, processTimeout, ignore_status)
+        status, output = self._run(sshCmd, processTimeout, ignore_status, raw)
         self.logger.debug('Command: %s\nStatus: %d Output:  %s\n' % (command, status, output))
 
         return (status, output)
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ class OESSHTarget(OETarget):
                 remoteDir = os.path.join(remotePath, tmpDir.lstrip("/"))
                 self.deleteDir(remoteDir)
 
-def SSHCall(command, logger, timeout=None, **opts):
+def SSHCall(command, logger, timeout=None, raw=False, **opts):
 
     def run():
         nonlocal output
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ def SSHCall(command, logger, timeout=None, **opts):
         else:
             output_raw = process.communicate()[0]
 
-        output = output_raw.decode('utf-8', errors='ignore')
+        output = output_raw if raw else output_raw.decode('utf-8', errors='ignore')
         logger.debug('Data from SSH call:\n%s' % output.rstrip())
 
         # timout or not, make sure process exits and is not hanging
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ def SSHCall(command, logger, timeout=None, **opts):
 
     options = {
         "stdout": subprocess.PIPE,
-        "stderr": subprocess.STDOUT,
+        "stderr": subprocess.STDOUT if not raw else None,
         "stdin": None,
         "shell": False,
         "bufsize": -1,
@@ -320,4 +320,4 @@ def SSHCall(command, logger, timeout=None, **opts):
         logger.debug('Something went wrong, killing SSH process')
         raise
 
-    return (process.returncode, output.rstrip())
+    return (process.returncode, output if raw else output.rstrip())
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/core/tests/common.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/core/tests/common.py
index 88cc758ad3..bcc4fde632 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/core/tests/common.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/core/tests/common.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import os
 
 import unittest
 import logging
-import os
 
 logger = logging.getLogger("oeqa")
 logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/manual/crops.json b/meta/lib/oeqa/manual/crops.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 5cfa653843..0000000000
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/manual/crops.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,294 +0,0 @@
-[
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "crops-default.crops-default.sdkext_eSDK_devtool_build_make",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com",
-                    "name": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "IMPORTANT NOTE: The firsts 5 steps refer to configuration of the environment to run the rest of the steps. These only apply for CROPS-eSDK.    \n\n\n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": " Initiate your Crops-esdk environment as it says in wiki https://github.com/crops/docker-win-mac-docs/wiki   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": "Create the following tree of files  <crops-esdk-workdir-workspace>/sdkext/files/myapp <crops-esdk-workdir-workspace>/sdkext/files/myapp_cmake   \n\n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": " Create the following files withing the myapp directory  myapp.c and the Makefile. Write the following inside of each file: \n---------------------------------------- \nMakefile should contain  \n\nall: myapp  \n\nmyapp: myapp.o \n\t$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $< -o $@  \n\nmyapp.o: myapp.c  \n\t$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@ \n\nclean: \n\trm -rf myapp.o myapp  \n\n-----------------------------  \nmyapp.c  shold contain  \n\n\n#include <stdio.h>    \n\nint \nmain(int argc, char *argv[]) \n{ \n\tprintf(\"Hello world\\n\"); \n \n\treturn 0; \n} \n------------------------------------  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "be sure that the indentations on the makefile are tabs not spaces.  \n\n"
-                },
-                "5": {
-                    "action": " Create the following files within the myapp_cmake directory CMakeLists.txt and myapp.c. Write the following inside each file:  \n\n------------------------------------ \nCMakeLists.txt should contain:  \n\ncmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.6) \nproject (myapp) \n# The version number. \nset (myapp_VERSION_MAJOR 1) \nset (myapp_VERSION_MINOR 0)  \n\n# add the executable \nadd_executable (myapp myapp.c)  \n\ninstall(TARGETS myapp \nRUNTIME DESTINATION bin)  \n\n------------------------------------------ \nmyapp.c should contain:  \n\n#include <stdio.h>     \n\nint  \nmain(int argc, char *argv[])  \n{ \n\tprintf(\"Hello world\\n\");  \n\n\treturn 0; \n} \n-------------------------------------------------  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "Be sure that the indentations on CMakeLists.txt is tabs not spaces."
-                },
-                "6": {
-                    "action": " source environment-setup-i586-poky-linux  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should output a message that says SDK environment now set up; additionally you may now run devtool to perform development tasks etc etc ...   \n\n"
-                },
-                "7": {
-                    "action": " run command which devtool  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "this should output the directory of the devtool script and it should be within the sdk workdir you are working in.  \n\n  "
-                },
-                "8": {
-                    "action": "devtool add myapp <directory>(this is myapp dir)    \n\n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "The directory you should input is the myapp directory. This should automatically create the recipe myapp.bb under <crops-esdk-workdir-workspace>/recipes/myapp/myapp.bb"
-                },
-                "9": {
-                    "action": " devtool build myapp  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should compile an image"
-                },
-                "10": {
-                    "action": " devtool reset myapp  ",
-                    "expected_results": "This cleans sysroot of the myapp recipe, but it leaves the source tree intact. meaning it does not erase."
-                }
-            },
-            "summary": "sdkext_eSDK_devtool_build_make"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "crops-default.crops-default.sdkext_devtool_build_esdk_package",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com",
-                    "name": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "IMPORTANT NOTE: The firsts 5 steps refer to configuration of the environment to run the rest of the steps. These only apply for CROPS-eSDK.    \n\n\n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": " Initiate your Crops-esdk environment as it says in wiki https://github.com/crops/docker-win-mac-docs/wiki   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": " Create the following tree of files    <crops-esdk-workdir-workspace>/sdkext/files/myapp/ \n <crops-esdk-workdir-workspace>/sdkext/files/myapp_cmake  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": " Create the following files withing the myapp directory  myapp.c and the Makefile. Write the following inside of each file: \n---------------------------------------- \nMakefile should contain  \n\nall: myapp  \n\nmyapp: myapp.o \n\t$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $< -o $@ \n\nmyapp.o: myapp.c  \n\t$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@ \n\nclean: \n\trm -rf myapp.o myapp  \n\n-----------------------------  \nmyapp.c  shold contain  \n\n#include <stdio.h>   \n\nint \nmain(int argc, char *argv[]) \n{ \n\tprintf(\"Hello world\\n\"); \n \n\treturn 0; \n} \n------------------------------------  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "be sure that the indentations on the makefile are tabs not spaces.  \n\n"
-                },
-                "5": {
-                    "action": " Create the following files within the myapp_cmake directory CMakeLists.txt and myapp.c. Write the following inside each file:  \n\n------------------------------------ \nCMakeLists.txt should contain:  \n\ncmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.6) \nproject (myapp) \n# The version number. \nset (myapp_VERSION_MAJOR 1) \nset (myapp_VERSION_MINOR 0)  \n\n# add the executable \nadd_executable (myapp myapp.c)  \n\ninstall(TARGETS myapp \nRUNTIME DESTINATION bin)  \n\n------------------------------------------ \nmyapp.c should contain:  \n\n#include<stdio.h>     \n\nint  \nmain(int argc, char *argv[])  \n{ \n\tprintf(\"Hello world\\n\");  \n\n\treturn 0; \n} \n-------------------------------------------------  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "Be sure that the indentations on CMakeLists.txt is tabs not spaces.  \n\n"
-                },
-                "6": {
-                    "action": " source environment-setup-i586-poky-linux  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should output a message that says SDK environment now set up; additionally you may now run devtool to perform development tasks etc etc ...  \n\n"
-                },
-                "7": {
-                    "action": " run command which devtool  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": " this should output the directory of the devtool script and it should be within the sdk workdir you are working in.  \n\n"
-                },
-                "8": {
-                    "action": " devtool add myapp <directory>  (this is myapp dir)  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": " The directory you should input is the myapp directory. This should automatically create the recipe myapp.bb under <crops-esdk-workdir-workspace>/recipes/myapp/myapp.bb  \n\n"
-                },
-                "9": {
-                    "action": " devtool package myapp  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": " you should expect a package creation of myapp and it should be under the  /tmp/deploy/  \n\n"
-                },
-                "10": {
-                    "action": " devtool reset myapp  ",
-                    "expected_results": "This cleans sysroot of the myapp recipe, but it leaves the source tree intact. meaning it does not erase.\n</package_format>"
-                }
-            },
-            "summary": "sdkext_devtool_build_esdk_package"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "crops-default.crops-default.sdkext_devtool_build_cmake",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com",
-                    "name": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "IMPORTANT NOTE: The firsts 5 steps refer to configuration of the environment to run the rest of the steps. These only apply for CROPS-eSDK.    \n\n\n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": " Initiate your Crops-esdk environment as it says in wiki https://github.com/crops/docker-win-mac-docs/wiki   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": " Create the following tree of files    <crops-esdk-workdir-workspace>/sdkext/files/myapp \n <crops-esdk-workdir-workspace>/sdkext/files/myapp_cmake  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": " Create the following files withing the myapp directory  myapp.c and the Makefile. Write the following inside of each file: \n---------------------------------------- \nMakefile should contain  \n\nall: myapp  \n\nmyapp: myapp.o \n\t$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $< -o $@ \n\nmyapp.o: myapp.c  \n\t$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@ \n\nclean: \n\trm -rf myapp.o myapp  \n\n-----------------------------  \nmyapp.c  shold contain  \n\n#include <stdio.h>   \n\nint \nmain(int argc, char *argv[]) \n{ \n\tprintf(\"Hello world\\n\"); \n \n\treturn 0; \n} \n------------------------------------  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "be sure that the indentations on the makefile are tabs not spaces.   \n\n"
-                },
-                "5": {
-                    "action": " Create the following files within the myapp_cmake directory CMakeLists.txt and myapp.c. Write the following inside each file:  \n\n------------------------------------ \nCMakeLists.txt should contain:  \n\ncmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.6) \nproject (myapp) \n# The version number. \nset (myapp_VERSION_MAJOR 1) \nset (myapp_VERSION_MINOR 0)  \n\n# add the executable \nadd_executable (myapp myapp.c)  \n\ninstall(TARGETS myapp \nRUNTIME DESTINATION bin)  \n\n------------------------------------------ \nmyapp.c should contain:  \n\n#include    \n\nint  \nmain(int argc, char *argv[])  \n{ \n\tprintf(\"Hello world\\n\");  \n\n\treturn 0; \n} \n-------------------------------------------------  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "Be sure that the indentations on CMakeLists.txt is tabs not spaces.  \n\n"
-                },
-                "6": {
-                    "action": " source environment-setup-i586-poky-linux  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should output a message that says SDK environment now set up; additionally you may now run devtool to perform development tasks etc etc ...  \n\n"
-                },
-                "7": {
-                    "action": " run command which devtool  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "this should output the directory of the devtool script and it should be within the sdk workdir you are working in.  \n\n"
-                },
-                "8": {
-                    "action": " devtool add myapp <directory>   (this is myapp_cmake dir)  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "The directory you should input is the myapp_cmake directory. This should automatically create the recipe myapp.bb under <crops-esdk-workdir-workspace>/recipes/myapp/myapp.bb  \n\n"
-                },
-                "9": {
-                    "action": " devtool build myapp  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should compile an image  \n\n"
-                },
-                "10": {
-                    "action": " devtool reset myapp  ",
-                    "expected_results": "This cleans sysroot of the myapp recipe, but it leaves the source tree intact. meaning it does not erase.  "
-                }
-            },
-            "summary": "sdkext_devtool_build_cmake"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "crops-default.crops-default.sdkext_extend_autotools_recipe_creation",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com",
-                    "name": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "IMPORTANT NOTE: The firsts 2 steps refer to configuration of the environment to run the rest of the steps. These only apply for CROPS-eSDK.    \n\n\n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": "Initiate your Crops-esdk environment as it says in wiki https://github.com/crops/docker-win-mac-docs/wiki   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": " source environment-setup-i586-poky-linux  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": " This should output a message that says SDK environment now set up; additionally you may now run devtool to perform development tasks etc etc ...   \n\n"
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": "run command which devtool  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "this should output the directory of the devtool script and it should be within the sdk workdir you are working in.   \n\n"
-                },
-                "5": {
-                    "action": "devtool sdk-install -s libxml2  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "this should install libxml2   \n\n"
-                },
-                "6": {
-                    "action": "devtool add librdfa  https://github.com/rdfa/librdfa  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should automatically create the recipe librdfa.bb under /recipes/librdfa/librdfa.bb   \n\n"
-                },
-                "7": {
-                    "action": "devtool build librdfa  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should compile   \n\n"
-                },
-                "8": {
-                    "action": "devtool reset librdfa  ",
-                    "expected_results": "This cleans sysroot of the librdfa recipe, but it leaves the source tree intact. meaning it does not erase."
-                }
-            },
-            "summary": "sdkext_extend_autotools_recipe_creation"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "crops-default.crops-default.sdkext_devtool_kernelmodule",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com",
-                    "name": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "IMPORTANT NOTE: The firsts 2 steps refer to configuration of the environment to run the rest of the steps. These only apply for CROPS-eSDK.    \n\n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": " Initiate your Crops-esdk environment as it says in wiki https://github.com/crops/docker-win-mac-docs/wiki   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": "source environment-setup-i586-poky-linux   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should output a message that says SDK environment now set up; additionally you may now run devtool to perform development tasks etc etc ...   \n \n"
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": "run command which devtool  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "this should output the directory of the devtool script and it should be within the sdk workdir you are working in.   \n\n"
-                },
-                "5": {
-                    "action": "devtool add kernel-module-hello-world https://git.yoctoproject.org/git/kernel-module-hello-world \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should automatically create the recipe kernel-module-hello-world.bb under <crops-esdk-workdir-workspace>/recipes/kernel-module-hello-world/kernel-module-hello-world.bb "
-                },
-                "6": {
-                    "action": "devtool build kernel-module-hello-world   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should compile an image   \n\n"
-                },
-                "7": {
-                    "action": "devtool reset kernel-module-hello-world   ",
-                    "expected_results": "This cleans sysroot of the kernel-module-hello-world recipe, but it leaves the source tree intact. meaning it does not erase."
-                }
-            },
-            "summary": "sdkext_devtool_kernelmodule"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "crops-default.crops-default.sdkext_recipes_for_nodejs",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com",
-                    "name": "francisco.j.pedraza.gonzalez@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "IMPORTANT NOTE: The firsts 2 steps refer to configuration of the environment to run the rest of the steps. These only apply for CROPS-eSDK.    \n\n\nlets say variable npm = npm://registry.npmjs.org;name=winston;version=2.2.0   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": "Initiate your Crops-esdk environment as it says in wiki https://github.com/crops/docker-win-mac-docs/wiki   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": "source environment-setup-i586-poky-linux   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should output a message that says SDK environment now set up; additionally you may now run devtool to perform development tasks etc etc ...   \n\n"
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": "run command which devtool   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "this should output the directory of the devtool script and it should be within the sdk workdir you are working in.  \n\n"
-                },
-                "5": {
-                    "action": " 4a) git clone git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded in  layers/build  directory   \n \n4b) Add meta-openembedded/meta-oe in bblayer.conf as mentioned below: ${SDKBASEMETAPATH}/layers/build/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \\   \n\n4c) devtool add \"npm://registry.npmjs.org;name=npm;version=2.2.0\"   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": " This should automatically create the recipe npm.bb under /recipes/npm/npm.bb  \n\n"
-                },
-                "6": {
-                    "action": "devtool build npm   \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "This should compile an image  \n\n"
-                },
-                "7": {
-                    "action": " devtool reset npm",
-                    "expected_results": "This cleans sysroot of the npm recipe, but it leaves the source tree intact. meaning it does not erase."
-                }
-            },
-            "summary": "sdkext_recipes_for_nodejs"
-        }
-    }
-]
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/manual/eclipse-plugin.json b/meta/lib/oeqa/manual/eclipse-plugin.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c110d0656..0000000000
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/manual/eclipse-plugin.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,322 +0,0 @@
-[
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "eclipse-plugin.eclipse-plugin.support_SSH_connection_to_Target",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com",
-                    "name": "ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "In Eclipse, swich to Remote System Explorer to create a connention baseed on SSH, input the remote target IP address as the Host name, make sure disable the proxy in Window->Preferences->General->Network Connection, set Direct as Active Provider field.  ",
-                    "expected_results": "the connection based on SSH could be set up."
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": "Configure connection from Eclipse: Run->Run Configurations->C/C++ Remote Application\\ ->New Connection->General->SSH Only  ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": "Then right click to connect, input the user ID and password.  ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": "expand the connection, it will show the Sftp Files etc.   \nNOTE. Might need to change dropbear to openssh and add the packagegroup-core-eclipse-debug recipe",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                }
-            },
-            "summary": "support_SSH_connection_to_Target"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "eclipse-plugin.eclipse-plugin.Launch_QEMU_from_Eclipse",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com",
-                    "name": "ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "Set the Yocto ADT's toolchain root location, sysroot location and kernel, in the menu Window -> Preferences -> Yocto ADT.   \n \n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": "wget  https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-$VERSION/machines/qemu/qemux86/ (ex:core-image-sato-sdk-qemux86-date-rootfs-tar-bz2) \nsource /opt/poky/version/environment-setup-i585-poky-linux  \n\nExtract qemu with runqemu-extract-sdk /home/user/file(ex.core-image-sato-sdk-qemux86.bz2) \n/home/user/qemux86-sato-sdk  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": " Qemu can be lauched normally."
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": "(a)Point to the Toolchain:  \n \nIf you are using a stand-alone pre-built toolchain, you should be pointing to the /opt/poky/{test-version} directory as Toolchain Root Location. This is the default location for toolchains installed by the ADT Installer or by hand. If ADT is installed in other location, use that location as Toolchain location.\nIf you are using a system-derived toolchain, the path you provide for the Toolchain Root Location field is the Yocto Project's build directory.  \n \n           E.g:/home/user/yocto/poky/build \n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": "(b)Specify the Sysroot Location: \nSysroot Location is the location where the root filesystem for the target hardware is created on the development system by the ADT Installer (SYSROOT in step 2 of the case ADT installer Installation).  \n   \n         Local :     e.g: /home/user/qemux86-sato-sdk \nUsing ADT : e.g :/home/user/test-yocto/qemux86  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "5": {
-                    "action": "(c)Select the Target Architecture:  \n \nThe target architecture is the type of hardware you are going to use or emulate. Use the pull-down Target Architecture menu to make your selection.  \n \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "6": {
-                    "action": "(d) QEMU: \nSelect this option if you will be using the QEMU emulator. Specify the Kernel matching the QEMU architecture you are using. \n      wget  https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-$VERSION/machines/qemu/qemux86/bzImage-qemux86.bin \n      e.g: /home/$USER/yocto/adt-installer/download_image/bzImage-qemux86.bin  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },      
-                "7": {
-                    "action": "(e) select OK to save the settings.  \n\n\n1: In the Eclipse toolbar, expose the Run -> External Tools menu. Your image should appear as a selectable menu item.  \n2: Select your image in the navigation pane to launch the emulator in a new window. \n3: If needed, enter your host root password in the shell window at the prompt. This sets up a Tap 0 connection needed for running in user-space NFS mode. \n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                }                               
-            },
-            "summary": "Launch_QEMU_from_Eclipse"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "eclipse-plugin.eclipse-plugin.Relocatable_SDK_-_C_-_Build_Hello_World_ANSI_C_Autotools_Project",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com",
-                    "name": "ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "Launch a QEMU of target environment.(Reference to case \"ADT - Launch qemu by eclipse\") ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": "Select File -> New -> Project.",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": "Double click C/C++.",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": "Click C or C++ Project to create the project.",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "5": {
-                    "action": "Expand Yocto ADT Project.",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "6": {
-                    "action": "Select Hello World ANSI C Autotools Project.",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "7": {
-                    "action": "Put a name in the Project name. Do not use hyphens as part of the name. \n \n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "8": {
-                    "action": "Click Next.",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "9": {
-                    "action": "Add information in the Author and Copyright notice fields. \n1",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "10": {
-                    "action": "Click Finish. \n1",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "11": {
-                    "action": "If the \"open perspective\" prompt appears, click \"Yes\" so that you open the C/C++ perspective. \n1",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "12": {
-                    "action": "In the Project Explorer window, right click the project -> Reconfigure project. \n1",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "13": {
-                    "action": "In the Project Explorer window, right click the project -> Build project. \n1",
-                    "expected_results": "Under the Project files, a new folder appears called Binaries. This indicates that the compilation have been successful and the project binary have been created. \n"
-                },
-                "14": {
-                    "action": "Right click it again and Run as -> Run Configurations.  \n\t\t\tUnder Run Configurations expand \"C/C++ Remote Application\". A configuration for the current project should appear. Clicking it will display the configuration settings. \n\t\t\tin \"C/C++ Application\" field input Remote Absolute File path for C/C++ Application. e.g.: /home/root/myapplication \n\t\t\tIn \"Connection\" drop-down list make sure a TCF connection is set up for your target. If not, create a new one by clicking the New button. \n1",
-                    "expected_results": "step 14 to step 16 -> Build succeed and the console outputs Hello world, you can also check the output on target."
-                },
-                "15": {
-                    "action": "After all settings are done, select the Run button on the bottom right corner \n\n1",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "16": {
-                    "action": "Repeat the steps 14-15, but instead of using Run Configurations use Debug Configurations: \nRight click it again and Debug as -> Debug Configurations \nUnder Debug Configurations expand \"C/C++ Remote Application\". A configuration for the current project should appear. Clicking it will display the configuration settings. \nin \"C/C++ Application\" field input Remote Absolute File path for C/C++ Application.\ne.g.: /home/root/myapplication \nIn \"Connection\" drop-down list make sure a TCF connection is set up for your target. If not, create a new one by clicking the New button \n1",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "17": {
-                    "action": "After all settings are done, select the Debug button on the bottom right corner",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                }
-            },
-            "summary": "Relocatable_SDK_-_C_-_Build_Hello_World_ANSI_C_Autotools_Project"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "eclipse-plugin.eclipse-plugin.Relocatable_SDK_-_C++_-_Build_Hello_World_C++_Autotools_project",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com",
-                    "name": "ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "Launch a QEMU of target environment.(Reference to case \"ADT - Launch qemu by eclipse\") ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": "Select File -> New -> Project. ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": "Double click C/C++. ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": "Click C or C++ Project to create the project. ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "5": {
-                    "action": "Expand Yocto ADT Project. ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "6": {
-                    "action": "Select Hello World ANSI C++ Autotools Project. ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "7": {
-                    "action": "Put a name in the Project name. Do not use hyphens as part of the name.  \n \n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "8": {
-                    "action": "Click Next.",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "9": {
-                    "action": "Add information in the Author and Copyright notice fields.",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "10": {
-                    "action": "Click Finish. \n1",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "11": {
-                    "action": "If the \"open perspective\" prompt appears, click \"Yes\" so that you open the C/C++ perspective. \n1",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "12": {
-                    "action": "In the Project Explorer window, right click the project -> Reconfigure project. \n1",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "13": {
-                    "action": "In the Project Explorer window, right click the project -> Build project. \n\n1",
-                    "expected_results": "under the Project files, a new folder appears called Binaries. This indicates that the compilation have been successful and the project binary have been created.  \n"
-                },
-                "14": {
-                    "action": "Right click it again and Run as -> Run Configurations. \n\t\t\tUnder Run Configurations expand \"C/C++ Remote Application\". A configuration for the current project should appear. Clicking it will display the configuration settings. \n\t\t\tin \"C/C++ Application\" field input Remote Absolute File path for C/C++ Application. e.g.: /home/root/myapplication \n\t\t\tIn \"Connection\" drop-down list make sure a TCF connection is set up for your target. If not, create a new one by clicking the New button. \n1",
-                    "expected_results": "step 14 to step 16 -> Build succeed and the console outputs Hello world, you can also check the output on target."
-                },
-                "15": {
-                    "action": "After all settings are done, select the Run button on the bottom right corner \n\n1",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "16": {
-                    "action": "Repeat the steps 14-15, but instead of using Run Configurations use Debug Configurations: \n\t\tRight click it again and Debug as -> Debug Configurations \n\t\tUnder Debug Configurations expand \"C/C++ Remote Application\". A configuration for the current project should appear. Clicking it will display the configuration settings. \n\t\tin \"C/C++ Application\" field input Remote Absolute File path for C/C++ Application. \n\t\te.g.: /home/root/myapplication \n\t\tIn \"Connection\" drop-down list make sure a TCF connection is set up for your target. If not, create a new one by clicking the New button \n1",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "17": {
-                    "action": "After all settings are done, select the Debug button on the bottom right corner",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                }
-            },
-            "summary": "Relocatable_SDK_-_C++_-_Build_Hello_World_C++_Autotools_project"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "eclipse-plugin.eclipse-plugin.Build_Eclipse_Plugin_from_source",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "laurentiu.serban@intel.com",
-                    "name": "laurentiu.serban@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "Clone eclipse-poky source.   \n    \n    - git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/eclipse-poky  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "Eclipse plugin is successfully installed  \n\nDocumentation is there. For example if you have release yocto-2.0.1 you will found on   https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-2.0.1/eclipse-plugin/mars/  archive with documentation like org.yocto.doc-development-$date.zip  \n  \n"
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": "Checkout correct tag.  \n\n    - git checkout <eclipse-version>/<yocto-version> \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": "After plugin is build you must have  4 archive in foder scripts from eclipse-poky:  \n     - org.yocto.bc - mars-master-$date.zip  \n     - org.yocto.doc - mars-master-$date.zip    --> documentation  \n     - org.yocto.sdk - mars-master-$date.zip       \n     - org.yocto.sdk - mars-master-$date.-archive.zip  --> plugin  "
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": "Move to scripts/ folder.  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": "Run ./setup.sh  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "5": {
-                    "action": "When the script finishes, it prompts a command to issue to build the plugin. It should look similar to the following:  \n\n$ ECLIPSE_HOME=/eclipse-poky/scripts/eclipse ./build.sh /&1 | tee -a build.log  \n\nHere, the three arguments to the build script are tag name, branch for documentation and release name.  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "6": {
-                    "action": "On an eclipse without the Yocto Plugin, select \"Install New Software\" from Help pull-down menu  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "7": {
-                    "action": "Select Add and from the dialog choose Archive...  Look for the *archive.zip file that was built previously with the build.sh script. Click OK.  \n\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "8": {
-                    "action": "Select all components and proceed with Installation of plugin. Restarting eclipse might be required.\n",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                }
-            },
-            "summary": "Build_Eclipse_Plugin_from_source"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test": {
-            "@alias": "eclipse-plugin.eclipse-plugin.Eclipse_Poky_installation_and_setup",
-            "author": [
-                {
-                    "email": "ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com",
-                    "name": "ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "execution": {
-                "1": {
-                    "action": "Install SDK  \n\ta)Download https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/releases//toolchain/x86_64/poky-glibc-x86_64-core-\timage-sato-i586-toolchain-.sh  \n\tb)Run the SDK installer and accept the default installation directory ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "2": {
-                    "action": "Install \"Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers\" Oxygen release (4.7.0)  \n\ta) Go to https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/all, click \"Oxygen R\"  \n\tb) Click to download the build for your OS  \n\tc) Click \"Download\" button to download from a mirror  \n\td) Run \"tar xf\" to extract the downloaded archive  ",
-                    "expected_result": ""
-                },
-                "3": {
-                    "action": "Install \"Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers\" Oxygen release (4.7.0) (Continue)  \n\te) Run \"eclipse/eclipse\" to start Eclipse  \n\tf) Optional step for host machine within Intel network: In Eclipse workbench window, go to \"Window\" menu -> \"Preferences...\".  \n\tg) In \"Preferences\" dialog, go to \"General\" -> \"Network Connections\", set \"Active Provider\" to \"Manual\". In \"Proxy \tentries\" table, select HTTP and click \"Edit\" and enter host \"proxy-chain.intel.com\" port 911, click OK. Repeat for HTTPS with port 912 \nClick OK to close \"Preferences\" dialog.  \n\th) Go to \"File\" menu -> \"Restart\" to restart Eclipse for proxy settings to take effect. ",
-                    "expected_result": ""
-                },
-                "4": {
-                    "action": "Install Eclipse Poky plugins  \n\ta) Download https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/releases/<yocto-version>/eclipse-plugin/<eclipse-version>/org.yocto.sdk-development-<date>-archive.zip   \n\tb) In Eclipse workbench window, go to \"Help\" menu -> \"Install New Software...\"  \n\tc) In \"Install\" dialog, click \"Add...\" button  \n\td) In \"Add Repository\" dialog, enter \"Eclipse Poky\" for (repository) Name, click \"Archive...\"  ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "5": {
-                    "action": "Install Eclipse Poky plugins (continue)  \n\te) In \"Repository archive\" browse dialog, select the downloaded Eclipse Poky repository archive  \n\tf) Back in \"Add Repository\" dialog, click \"OK\"  \n\tg) Back in \"Install\" dialog, make sure \"Work with:\" is set to \"Eclipse Poky\" repository, tick \"Yocto Project \tDocumentation Plug-in\" and \"Yocto Project SDK Plug-in\", click \"Next >\" and verify plugins/features name/version, \tclick \"Next >\" and accept license agreement, click \"Finish\"  \n\th) If \"Security Warning\" dialog appears, click \"OK\" to install unsigned content.  \n\ti) In \"Software Updates\" dialog, click \"Yes\" to restart Eclipse to complete Eclipse Poky plugins installation. ",
-                    "expected_results": ""
-                },
-                "6": {
-                    "action": "Setup Eclipse Poky to use SDK  \n\ta) In Eclipse workbench window, go to \"Window\" menu -> \"Preferences\".  \n\tb) In \"Preferences\" window, go to \"Yocto Project SDK\", in \"Cross Compiler Options\" frame, select \"Standalone pre-\tbuilt toolchain\".  ",
-                    "expected_results": "Eclipse Poky plugins installed and running successfully, e.g. observe that \"Yocto Project Tools\" menu is available on Eclipse workbench window."
-                }
-            },
-            "summary": "Eclipse_Poky_installation_and_setup"
-        }
-    }
-]
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
index f588a93200..e81360670c 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class LtpTestBase(OERuntimeTestCase):
 
 class LtpTest(LtpTestBase):
 
-    ltp_groups = ["math", "syscalls", "dio", "io", "mm", "ipc", "sched", "nptl", "pty", "containers", "controllers", "filecaps", "cap_bounds", "fcntl-locktests", "commands", "net.ipv6_lib", "input","fs_perms_simple", "cve", "crypto", "ima", "net.nfs", "net_stress.ipsec_icmp", "net.ipv6", "numa", "uevent", "ltp-aiodio.part1", "ltp-aiodio.part2", "ltp-aiodio.part3", "ltp-aiodio.part4"]
+    ltp_groups = ["math", "syscalls", "dio", "mm", "ipc", "sched", "nptl", "pty", "containers", "controllers", "fcntl-locktests", "commands", "net.ipv6_lib", "input","fs_perms_simple", "cve", "crypto", "ima", "net.nfs", "net_stress.ipsec_icmp", "net.ipv6", "numa", "uevent", "ltp-aiodio.part1", "ltp-aiodio.part2", "ltp-aiodio.part3", "ltp-aiodio.part4"]
 
     ltp_fs = ["fs", "fs_bind"]
     # skip kernel cpuhotplug
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs-ignores-mipsarch.txt b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs-ignores-mipsarch.txt
index 2c0bd9a247..9c2677c4cf 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs-ignores-mipsarch.txt
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs-ignores-mipsarch.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,8 @@
 # These should be reviewed to see if they are still needed
 cacheinfo: Failed to find cpu0 device node
+
+# 6.10 restructures sysctl registration such that mips
+# registers an empty table and generates harmless warnings:
+#   failed when register_sysctl_sz sched_fair_sysctls to kernel
+#   failed when register_sysctl_sz sched_core_sysctls to kernel
+failed when register_sysctl_sz sched
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs-ignores-qemuall.txt b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs-ignores-qemuall.txt
index b0c0fc9ddf..143db40d63 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs-ignores-qemuall.txt
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs-ignores-qemuall.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO failed, double buffering disabled
 # pci 0000:00:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: reg 0x20: invalid BAR (can't size)
 # pci 0000:00:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: reg 0x24: invalid BAR (can't size)
 invalid BAR (can't size)
+# 6.10+ the invalid BAR warnings are of this format:
+# pci 0000:00:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: BAR 0: invalid; can't size
+# pci 0000:00:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: BAR 1: invalid; can't size
+# pci 0000:00:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: BAR 2: invalid; can't size
+# pci 0000:00:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: BAR 3: invalid; can't size
+# pci 0000:00:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: BAR 4: invalid; can't size
+# pci 0000:00:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: BAR 5: invalid; can't size
+invalid; can't size
 
 # These should be reviewed to see if they are still needed
 wrong ELF class
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs.py
index 6966923c94..47c77fccd5 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/parselogs.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class ParseLogsTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
     log_locations = ["/var/log/", "/var/log/dmesg", "/tmp/dmesg_output.log"]
 
     # The keywords that identify error messages in the log files
-    errors = ["error", "cannot", "can't", "failed"]
+    errors = ["error", "cannot", "can't", "failed", "---[ cut here ]---", "No irq handler for vector"]
 
     # A list of error messages that should be ignored
     ignore_errors = []
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/scp.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/scp.py
index ee97b8ef66..364264369a 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/scp.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/scp.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class ScpTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
         os.remove(cls.tmp_path)
 
     @OETestDepends(['ssh.SSHTest.test_ssh'])
-    @OEHasPackage(['openssh-scp'])
+    @OEHasPackage({'openssh-scp', 'openssh-sftp-server'})
     def test_scp_file(self):
         dst = '/tmp/test_scp_file'
 
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ssh.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ssh.py
index cdbef59500..b86428002f 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ssh.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ssh.py
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 #
 
+import time
+import signal
+
 from oeqa.runtime.case import OERuntimeTestCase
 from oeqa.core.decorator.depends import OETestDepends
 from oeqa.runtime.decorator.package import OEHasPackage
@@ -13,12 +16,22 @@ class SSHTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
     @OETestDepends(['ping.PingTest.test_ping'])
     @OEHasPackage(['dropbear', 'openssh-sshd'])
     def test_ssh(self):
-        (status, output) = self.target.run('sleep 20', timeout=2)
-        msg='run() timed out but return code was zero.'
-        self.assertNotEqual(status, 0, msg=msg)
-        (status, output) = self.target.run('uname -a')
-        self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg='SSH Test failed: %s' % output)
-        (status, output) = self.target.run('cat /etc/controllerimage')
-        msg = "This isn't the right image  - /etc/controllerimage " \
-              "shouldn't be here %s" % output
-        self.assertEqual(status, 1, msg=msg)
+        for i in range(20):
+          status, output = self.target.run("uname -a", timeout=5)
+          if status == 0:
+              break
+          elif status == 255 or status == -signal.SIGTERM:
+              # ssh returns 255 only if a ssh error occurs.  This could
+              # be an issue with "Connection refused" because the port
+              # isn't open yet, and this could check explicitly for that
+              # here.  However, let's keep it simple and just retry for
+              # all errors a limited amount of times with a sleep to
+              # give it time for the port to open.
+              # We sometimes see -15 (SIGTERM) on slow emulation machines too, likely
+              # from boot/init not being 100% complete, retry for these too.
+              time.sleep(5)
+              continue
+          else:
+              self.fail("uname failed with \"%s\" (exit code %s)" % (output, status))
+        if status != 0:
+            self.fail("ssh failed with \"%s\" (exit code %s)" % (output, status))
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/systemd.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/systemd.py
index 5481e1d840..640f28abe9 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/systemd.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/systemd.py
@@ -145,18 +145,29 @@ class SystemdServiceTests(SystemdTest):
         Verify that call-stacks generated by systemd-coredump contain symbolicated call-stacks,
         extracted from the minidebuginfo metadata (.gnu_debugdata elf section).
         """
-        t_thread = threading.Thread(target=self.target.run, args=("ulimit -c unlimited && sleep 1000",))
+        # use "env sleep" instead of "sleep" to avoid calling the shell builtin function
+        t_thread = threading.Thread(target=self.target.run, args=("ulimit -c unlimited && env sleep 1000",))
         t_thread.start()
         time.sleep(1)
 
-        status, output = self.target.run('pidof sleep')
+        status, sleep_pid = self.target.run('pidof sleep')
         # cause segfault on purpose
-        self.target.run('kill -SEGV %s' % output)
-        self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg = 'Not able to find process that runs sleep, output : %s' % output)
+        self.target.run('kill -SEGV %s' % sleep_pid)
+        self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg = 'Not able to find process that runs sleep, output : %s' % sleep_pid)
 
-        (status, output) = self.target.run('coredumpctl info')
+        # Give some time to systemd-coredump@.service to process the coredump
+        for x in range(20):
+            status, output = self.target.run('coredumpctl list %s' % sleep_pid)
+            if status == 0:
+                break
+            time.sleep(1)
+        else:
+            self.fail("Timed out waiting for coredump creation")
+
+        (status, output) = self.target.run('coredumpctl info %s' % sleep_pid)
         self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg='MiniDebugInfo Test failed: %s' % output)
-        self.assertEqual('sleep_for_duration (busybox.nosuid' in output, True, msg='Call stack is missing minidebuginfo symbols (functions shown as "n/a"): %s' % output)
+        self.assertEqual('sleep_for_duration (busybox.nosuid' in output or 'xnanosleep (sleep.coreutils' in output,
+                         True, msg='Call stack is missing minidebuginfo symbols (functions shown as "n/a"): %s' % output)
 
 class SystemdJournalTests(SystemdTest):
 
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/context.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/context.py
index cb7227a8df..daabc44910 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/context.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/context.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 
 from oeqa.core.context import OETestContext, OETestContextExecutor
+from oeqa.core.target.serial import OESerialTarget
 from oeqa.core.target.ssh import OESSHTarget
 from oeqa.core.target.qemu import OEQemuTarget
 
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ class OERuntimeTestContextExecutor(OETestContextExecutor):
         runtime_group = self.parser.add_argument_group('runtime options')
 
         runtime_group.add_argument('--target-type', action='store',
-                default=self.default_target_type, choices=['simpleremote', 'qemu'],
+                default=self.default_target_type, choices=['simpleremote', 'qemu', 'serial'],
                 help="Target type of device under test, default: %s" \
                 % self.default_target_type)
         runtime_group.add_argument('--target-ip', action='store',
@@ -108,6 +109,8 @@ class OERuntimeTestContextExecutor(OETestContextExecutor):
             target = OESSHTarget(logger, target_ip, server_ip, **kwargs)
         elif target_type == 'qemu':
             target = OEQemuTarget(logger, server_ip, **kwargs)
+        elif target_type == 'serial':
+            target = OESerialTarget(logger, target_ip, server_ip, **kwargs)
         else:
             # XXX: This code uses the old naming convention for controllers and
             # targets, the idea it is to leave just targets as the controller
@@ -203,8 +206,15 @@ class OERuntimeTestContextExecutor(OETestContextExecutor):
 
         super(OERuntimeTestContextExecutor, self)._process_args(logger, args)
 
+        td = self.tc_kwargs['init']['td']
+
         target_kwargs = {}
+        target_kwargs['machine'] = td.get("MACHINE") or None
         target_kwargs['qemuboot'] = args.qemu_boot
+        target_kwargs['serialcontrol_cmd'] = td.get("TEST_SERIALCONTROL_CMD") or None
+        target_kwargs['serialcontrol_extra_args'] = td.get("TEST_SERIALCONTROL_EXTRA_ARGS") or ""
+        target_kwargs['serialcontrol_ps1'] = td.get("TEST_SERIALCONTROL_PS1") or None
+        target_kwargs['serialcontrol_connect_timeout'] = td.get("TEST_SERIALCONTROL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT") or None
 
         self.tc_kwargs['init']['target'] = \
                 OERuntimeTestContextExecutor.getTarget(args.target_type,
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/case.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/case.py
index c45882689c..46a3789f57 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/case.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/case.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import os
 import subprocess
+import shutil
 
 from oeqa.core.case import OETestCase
 
@@ -21,12 +22,14 @@ class OESDKTestCase(OETestCase):
             archive = os.path.basename(urlparse(url).path)
 
         if dl_dir:
-            tarball = os.path.join(dl_dir, archive)
-            if os.path.exists(tarball):
-                return tarball
+            archive_tarball = os.path.join(dl_dir, archive)
+            if os.path.exists(archive_tarball):
+                return archive_tarball
 
         tarball = os.path.join(workdir, archive)
         subprocess.check_output(["wget", "-O", tarball, url], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+        if dl_dir and not os.path.exists(archive_tarball):
+            shutil.copyfile(tarball, archive_tarball)
         return tarball
 
     def check_elf(self, path, target_os=None, target_arch=None):
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildcpio.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/autotools.py
index 51003b19cd..4bac28f04d 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildcpio.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/autotools.py
@@ -13,10 +13,15 @@ from oeqa.sdk.case import OESDKTestCase
 from oeqa.utils.subprocesstweak import errors_have_output
 errors_have_output()
 
-class BuildCpioTest(OESDKTestCase):
+class AutotoolsTest(OESDKTestCase):
     """
     Check that autotools will cross-compile correctly.
     """
+    def setUp(self):
+        libc = self.td.get("TCLIBC")
+        if libc in [ 'newlib' ]:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("AutotoolsTest class: SDK doesn't contain a supported C library")
+
     def test_cpio(self):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="cpio-", dir=self.tc.sdk_dir) as testdir:
             tarball = self.fetch(testdir, self.td["DL_DIR"], "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.15.tar.gz")
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/assimp.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/cmake.py
index e986838aea..cb0944ee99 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/assimp.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/cmake.py
@@ -13,22 +13,26 @@ from oeqa.sdk.case import OESDKTestCase
 from oeqa.utils.subprocesstweak import errors_have_output
 errors_have_output()
 
-class BuildAssimp(OESDKTestCase):
+class CMakeTest(OESDKTestCase):
     """
     Test case to build a project using cmake.
     """
 
     def setUp(self):
+        libc = self.td.get("TCLIBC")
+        if libc in [ 'newlib' ]:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("CMakeTest class: SDK doesn't contain a supported C library")
+
         if not (self.tc.hasHostPackage("nativesdk-cmake") or
                 self.tc.hasHostPackage("cmake-native")):
-            raise unittest.SkipTest("Needs cmake")
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("CMakeTest: needs cmake")
 
     def test_assimp(self):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="assimp", dir=self.tc.sdk_dir) as testdir:
-            tarball = self.fetch(testdir, self.td["DL_DIR"], "https://github.com/assimp/assimp/archive/v5.3.1.tar.gz")
+            tarball = self.fetch(testdir, self.td["DL_DIR"], "https://github.com/assimp/assimp/archive/v5.4.1.tar.gz")
 
             dirs = {}
-            dirs["source"] = os.path.join(testdir, "assimp-5.3.1")
+            dirs["source"] = os.path.join(testdir, "assimp-5.4.1")
             dirs["build"] = os.path.join(testdir, "build")
             dirs["install"] = os.path.join(testdir, "install")
 
@@ -39,7 +43,7 @@ class BuildAssimp(OESDKTestCase):
             self._run("sed -i '/#  ifdef _FILE_OFFSET_BITS/I,+2 d' {source}/contrib/zlib/gzguts.h".format(**dirs))
             os.makedirs(dirs["build"])
 
-            self._run("cd {build} && cmake -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE:BOOL=ON -DASSIMP_BUILD_ZLIB=ON {source}".format(**dirs))
+            self._run("cd {build} && cmake -DASSIMP_WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=OFF -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE:BOOL=ON -DASSIMP_BUILD_ZLIB=ON {source}".format(**dirs))
             self._run("cmake --build {build} -- -j".format(**dirs))
             self._run("cmake --build {build} --target install -- DESTDIR={install}".format(**dirs))
-            self.check_elf(os.path.join(dirs["install"], "usr", "local", "lib", "libassimp.so.5.3.0"))
+            self.check_elf(os.path.join(dirs["install"], "usr", "local", "lib", "libassimp.so.5.4.1"))
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/gcc.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/gcc.py
index fc28b9c3d4..e810d2c42b 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/gcc.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/gcc.py
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ class GccCompileTest(OESDKTestCase):
                     os.path.join(self.tc.sdk_dir, f))
 
     def setUp(self):
+        libc = self.td.get("TCLIBC")
+        if libc in [ 'newlib' ]:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("GccCompileTest class: SDK doesn't contain a supported C library")
+
         machine = self.td.get("MACHINE")
         if not (self.tc.hasHostPackage("packagegroup-cross-canadian-%s" % machine) or
                 self.tc.hasHostPackage("^gcc-", regex=True)):
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildgalculator.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/gtk3.py
index 178f07472d..8f60d5e7da 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildgalculator.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/gtk3.py
@@ -13,11 +13,15 @@ from oeqa.sdk.case import OESDKTestCase
 from oeqa.utils.subprocesstweak import errors_have_output
 errors_have_output()
 
-class GalculatorTest(OESDKTestCase):
+class GTK3Test(OESDKTestCase):
     """
     Test that autotools and GTK+ 3 compiles correctly.
     """
     def setUp(self):
+        libc = self.td.get("TCLIBC")
+        if libc in [ 'newlib' ]:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("GTK3Test class: SDK doesn't contain a supported C library")
+
         if not (self.tc.hasTargetPackage("gtk+3", multilib=True) or \
                 self.tc.hasTargetPackage("libgtk-3.0", multilib=True)):
             raise unittest.SkipTest("GalculatorTest class: SDK don't support gtk+3")
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/kmod.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/kmod.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9e8fdbcd40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/kmod.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+import os
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+import unittest
+
+from oeqa.sdk.case import OESDKTestCase
+from oeqa.utils.subprocesstweak import errors_have_output
+errors_have_output()
+
+class KernelModuleTest(OESDKTestCase):
+    """
+    Test that out-of-tree kernel modules build.
+    """
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        if not self.tc.hasTargetPackage("kernel-devsrc"):
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("KernelModuleTest needs kernel-devsrc")
+
+        # These targets need to be built before kernel modules can be built.
+        self._run("make -j -C $OECORE_TARGET_SYSROOT/usr/src/kernel prepare scripts")
+
+
+    def test_cryptodev(self):
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="cryptodev", dir=self.tc.sdk_dir) as testdir:
+            git_url = "https://github.com/cryptodev-linux/cryptodev-linux"
+            # This is a knnown-good commit post-1.13 that builds with kernel 6.7+
+            git_sha = "bb8bc7cf60d2c0b097c8b3b0e807f805b577a53f"
+
+            sourcedir = os.path.join(testdir, "cryptodev-linux")
+            subprocess.check_output(["git", "clone", git_url, sourcedir], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+            self.assertTrue(os.path.isdir(sourcedir))
+            subprocess.check_output(["git", "-C", sourcedir, "checkout", git_sha], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+
+            self._run("make -C %s V=1 KERNEL_DIR=$OECORE_TARGET_SYSROOT/usr/src/kernel" % sourcedir)
+            self.check_elf(os.path.join(sourcedir, "cryptodev.ko"))
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildlzip.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/makefile.py
index b4b7d85b88..e1e2484820 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildlzip.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/makefile.py
@@ -4,15 +4,21 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 #
 
-import os, tempfile, subprocess, unittest
+import os, tempfile, subprocess
+import unittest
 from oeqa.sdk.case import OESDKTestCase
 from oeqa.utils.subprocesstweak import errors_have_output
 errors_have_output()
 
-class BuildLzipTest(OESDKTestCase):
+class MakefileTest(OESDKTestCase):
     """
     Test that "plain" compilation works, using just $CC $CFLAGS etc.
     """
+    def setUp(self):
+        libc = self.td.get("TCLIBC")
+        if libc in [ 'newlib' ]:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("MakefileTest class: SDK doesn't contain a supported C library")
+
     def test_lzip(self):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="lzip", dir=self.tc.sdk_dir) as testdir:
             tarball = self.fetch(testdir, self.td["DL_DIR"], "http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/lzip-1.19.tar.gz")
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/maturin.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/maturin.py
index ea10f568b2..20f6b553d0 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/maturin.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/maturin.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import os
 import shutil
 import unittest
 
-from oeqa.core.utils.path import remove_safe
 from oeqa.sdk.case import OESDKTestCase
 from oeqa.utils.subprocesstweak import errors_have_output
 
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildepoxy.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/meson.py
index 147ee3e0ee..1edf78720a 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/buildepoxy.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/meson.py
@@ -13,14 +13,18 @@ from oeqa.sdk.case import OESDKTestCase
 from oeqa.utils.subprocesstweak import errors_have_output
 errors_have_output()
 
-class EpoxyTest(OESDKTestCase):
+class MesonTest(OESDKTestCase):
     """
     Test that Meson builds correctly.
     """
     def setUp(self):
+        libc = self.td.get("TCLIBC")
+        if libc in [ 'newlib' ]:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("MesonTest class: SDK doesn't contain a supported C library")
+
         if not (self.tc.hasHostPackage("nativesdk-meson") or
                 self.tc.hasHostPackage("meson-native")):
-            raise unittest.SkipTest("EpoxyTest class: SDK doesn't contain Meson")
+            raise unittest.SkipTest("MesonTest: needs meson")
 
     def test_epoxy(self):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="epoxy", dir=self.tc.sdk_dir) as testdir:
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/python.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/python.py
index 5ea992b9f3..51284949f5 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/python.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/python.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 #
 
-import subprocess, unittest
+import unittest
 from oeqa.sdk.case import OESDKTestCase
 
 from oeqa.utils.subprocesstweak import errors_have_output
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/rust.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/rust.py
index f5d437bb19..a54245851b 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/rust.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/cases/rust.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import os
 import shutil
 import unittest
 
-from oeqa.core.utils.path import remove_safe
 from oeqa.sdk.case import OESDKTestCase
 
 from oeqa.utils.subprocesstweak import errors_have_output
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py
index 5ffb732556..d0746e68eb 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py
@@ -69,10 +69,9 @@ class DevtoolTest(OESDKExtTestCase):
         self._test_devtool_build(self.myapp_cmake_dst)
 
     def test_extend_autotools_recipe_creation(self):
-        req = 'https://github.com/rdfa/librdfa'
-        recipe = "librdfa"
-        self._run('devtool sdk-install libxml2')
-        self._run('devtool add %s %s' % (recipe, req) )
+        recipe = "test-dbus-wait"
+        self._run('devtool sdk-install dbus')
+        self._run('devtool add %s https://git.yoctoproject.org/git/dbus-wait' % (recipe) )
         try:
             self._run('devtool build %s' % recipe)
         finally:
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bbclasses.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bbclasses.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..10545ebe65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bbclasses.py
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+#
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
+from oeqa.utils.commands import get_bb_vars, bitbake
+
+class Systemd(OESelftestTestCase):
+    """
+    Tests related to the systemd bbclass.
+    """
+
+    def getVars(self, recipe):
+        self.bb_vars = get_bb_vars(
+            [
+                'BPN',
+                'D',
+                'INIT_D_DIR',
+                'prefix',
+                'systemd_system_unitdir',
+                'sysconfdir',
+            ],
+            recipe,
+        )
+
+    def fileExists(self, filename):
+        self.assertExists(filename.format(**self.bb_vars))
+
+    def fileNotExists(self, filename):
+        self.assertNotExists(filename.format(**self.bb_vars))
+
+    def test_systemd_in_distro(self):
+        """
+        Summary:    Verify that no sysvinit files are installed when the
+                    systemd distro feature is enabled, but sysvinit is not.
+        Expected:   Systemd service file exists, but /etc does not.
+        Product:    OE-Core
+        Author:     Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
+        """
+
+        self.write_config("""
+DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " systemd usrmerge"
+DISTRO_FEATURES:remove = "sysvinit"
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
+""")
+        bitbake("systemd-only systemd-and-sysvinit -c install")
+
+        self.getVars("systemd-only")
+        self.fileExists("{D}{systemd_system_unitdir}/{BPN}.service")
+
+        self.getVars("systemd-and-sysvinit")
+        self.fileExists("{D}{systemd_system_unitdir}/{BPN}.service")
+        self.fileNotExists("{D}{sysconfdir}")
+
+    def test_systemd_and_sysvinit_in_distro(self):
+        """
+        Summary:    Verify that both systemd and sysvinit files are installed
+                    when both the systemd and sysvinit distro features are
+                    enabled.
+        Expected:   Systemd service file and sysvinit initscript exist.
+        Product:    OE-Core
+        Author:     Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
+        """
+
+        self.write_config("""
+DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " systemd sysvinit usrmerge"
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
+""")
+        bitbake("systemd-only systemd-and-sysvinit -c install")
+
+        self.getVars("systemd-only")
+        self.fileExists("{D}{systemd_system_unitdir}/{BPN}.service")
+
+        self.getVars("systemd-and-sysvinit")
+        self.fileExists("{D}{systemd_system_unitdir}/{BPN}.service")
+        self.fileExists("{D}{INIT_D_DIR}/{BPN}")
+
+    def test_sysvinit_in_distro(self):
+        """
+        Summary:    Verify that no systemd service files are installed when the
+                    sysvinit distro feature is enabled, but systemd is not.
+        Expected:   The systemd  service file does not exist, nor does /usr.
+                    The sysvinit initscript exists.
+        Product:    OE-Core
+        Author:     Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
+        """
+
+        self.write_config("""
+DISTRO_FEATURES:remove = "systemd"
+DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " sysvinit usrmerge"
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "sysvinit"
+""")
+        bitbake("systemd-only systemd-and-sysvinit -c install")
+
+        self.getVars("systemd-only")
+        self.fileNotExists("{D}{systemd_system_unitdir}/{BPN}.service")
+        self.fileNotExists("{D}{prefix}")
+        self.fileNotExists("{D}{sysconfdir}")
+        self.fileExists("{D}")
+
+        self.getVars("systemd-and-sysvinit")
+        self.fileNotExists("{D}{systemd_system_unitdir}/{BPN}.service")
+        self.fileNotExists("{D}{prefix}")
+        self.fileExists("{D}{INIT_D_DIR}/{BPN}")
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/binutils.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/binutils.py
index 1688eabe4e..5ff263d342 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/binutils.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/binutils.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class BinutilsCrossSelfTest(OESelftestTestCase, OEPTestResultTestCase):
         features.append('CHECK_TARGETS = "{0}"'.format(suite))
         self.write_config("\n".join(features))
 
-        recipe = "binutils-cross-testsuite"
+        recipe = "binutils-testsuite"
         bb_vars = get_bb_vars(["B", "TARGET_SYS", "T"], recipe)
         builddir, target_sys, tdir = bb_vars["B"], bb_vars["TARGET_SYS"], bb_vars["T"]
 
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/buildoptions.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/buildoptions.py
index 31dafaa9c5..423c31e189 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/buildoptions.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/buildoptions.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class SanityOptionsTest(OESelftestTestCase):
 
         self.write_config("INHERIT:remove = \"report-error\"")
         if "packages-list" not in get_bb_var("ERROR_QA"):
-            self.append_config("ERROR_QA:append = \" packages-list\"")
+            self.append_config("ERROR_QA:append:pn-xcursor-transparent-theme = \" packages-list\"")
 
         self.write_recipeinc('xcursor-transparent-theme', 'PACKAGES += \"${PN}-dbg\"')
         self.add_command_to_tearDown('bitbake -c clean xcursor-transparent-theme')
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ class SanityOptionsTest(OESelftestTestCase):
         self.assertTrue(line and line.startswith("ERROR:"), msg=res.output)
         self.assertEqual(res.status, 1, msg = "bitbake reported exit code %s. It should have been 1. Bitbake output: %s" % (str(res.status), res.output))
         self.write_recipeinc('xcursor-transparent-theme', 'PACKAGES += \"${PN}-dbg\"')
-        self.append_config('ERROR_QA:remove = "packages-list"')
-        self.append_config('WARN_QA:append = " packages-list"')
+        self.append_config('ERROR_QA:remove:pn-xcursor-transparent-theme = "packages-list"')
+        self.append_config('WARN_QA:append:pn-xcursor-transparent-theme = " packages-list"')
         res = bitbake("xcursor-transparent-theme -f -c package")
         self.delete_recipeinc('xcursor-transparent-theme')
         line = self.getline(res, "QA Issue: xcursor-transparent-theme-dbg is listed in PACKAGES multiple times, this leads to packaging errors.")
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ class BuildhistoryTests(BuildhistoryBase):
 
         data = load_bh(os.path.join(history_dir, 'hicolor-icon-theme-dev', 'latest'))
         if 'FILELIST' in data:
-            self.assertEqual(data['FILELIST'], '')
-        self.assertEqual(int(data['PKGSIZE']), 0)
+            self.assertEqual(data['FILELIST'], '/usr/share/pkgconfig/default-icon-theme.pc')
+        self.assertGreater(int(data['PKGSIZE']), 0)
 
 class ArchiverTest(OESelftestTestCase):
     def test_arch_work_dir_and_export_source(self):
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py
index 60cecd1328..3dd3e89d3e 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/cve_check.py
@@ -72,6 +72,54 @@ class CVECheck(OESelftestTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(convert_cve_version("6.2_rc8"), "6.2-rc8")
         self.assertEqual(convert_cve_version("6.2_rc31"), "6.2-rc31")
 
+    def test_product_match(self):
+        from oe.cve_check import has_cve_product_match
+
+        status = {}
+        status["detail"] = "ignored"
+        status["vendor"] = "*"
+        status["product"] = "*"
+        status["description"] = ""
+        status["mapping"] = ""
+
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "some_vendor:some_product"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "*:*"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "some_product"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "glibc"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "glibca"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "aglibc"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "*"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "aglibc glibc test:test"), True)
+
+        status["product"] = "glibc"
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "some_vendor:some_product"), False)
+        # The CPE in the recipe must be defined, no * accepted
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "*:*"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "*"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "some_product"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "glibc"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "glibca"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "aglibc"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "some_vendor:glibc"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "some_vendor:glibc test"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "test some_vendor:glibc"), True)
+
+        status["vendor"] = "glibca"
+        status["product"] = "glibc"
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "some_vendor:some_product"), False)
+        # The CPE in the recipe must be defined, no * accepted
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "*:*"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "*"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "some_product"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "glibc"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "glibca"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "aglibc"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "some_vendor:glibc"), False)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "glibca:glibc"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "test:test glibca:glibc"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "test glibca:glibc"), True)
+        self.assertEqual(has_cve_product_match(status, "glibca:glibc test"), True)
+
 
     def test_recipe_report_json(self):
         config = """
@@ -217,9 +265,10 @@ CVE_CHECK_REPORT_PATCHED = "1"
             # m4 CVE should not be in logrotate
             self.assertNotIn("CVE-2008-1687", found_cves)
             # logrotate has both Patched and Ignored CVEs
+            detail = "version-not-in-range"
             self.assertIn("CVE-2011-1098", found_cves)
             self.assertEqual(found_cves["CVE-2011-1098"]["status"], "Patched")
-            self.assertEqual(len(found_cves["CVE-2011-1098"]["detail"]), 0)
+            self.assertEqual(found_cves["CVE-2011-1098"]["detail"], detail)
             self.assertEqual(len(found_cves["CVE-2011-1098"]["description"]), 0)
             detail = "not-applicable-platform"
             description = "CVE is debian, gentoo or SUSE specific on the way logrotate was installed/used"
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/debuginfod.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/debuginfod.py
index 505b4be837..46c0cd87bb 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/debuginfod.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/debuginfod.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ class Debuginfod(OESelftestTestCase):
 
         raise TimeoutError("Cannot connect debuginfod, still %d scan jobs running" % latest)
 
-    def start_debuginfod(self):
+    def start_debuginfod(self, feed_dir):
         # We assume that the caller has already bitbake'd elfutils-native:do_addto_recipe_sysroot
 
         # Save some useful paths for later
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class Debuginfod(OESelftestTestCase):
             # Disable rescanning, this is a one-shot test
             "--rescan-time=0",
             "--groom-time=0",
-            get_bb_var("DEPLOY_DIR"),
+            feed_dir,
         ]
 
         format = get_bb_var("PACKAGE_CLASSES").split()[0]
@@ -114,11 +114,12 @@ class Debuginfod(OESelftestTestCase):
         self.write_config("""
 TMPDIR = "${TOPDIR}/tmp-debuginfod"
 DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " debuginfod"
+INHERIT += "localpkgfeed"
 """)
-        bitbake("elfutils-native:do_addto_recipe_sysroot xz xz:do_package")
+        bitbake("elfutils-native:do_addto_recipe_sysroot xz xz:do_package xz:do_localpkgfeed")
 
         try:
-            self.start_debuginfod()
+            self.start_debuginfod(get_bb_var("LOCALPKGFEED_DIR", "xz"))
 
             env = os.environ.copy()
             env["DEBUGINFOD_URLS"] = "http://localhost:%d/" % self.port
@@ -141,12 +142,13 @@ DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " debuginfod"
         self.write_config("""
 TMPDIR = "${TOPDIR}/tmp-debuginfod"
 DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " debuginfod"
+INHERIT += "localpkgfeed"
 CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "elfutils xz"
         """)
-        bitbake("core-image-minimal elfutils-native:do_addto_recipe_sysroot")
+        bitbake("core-image-minimal elfutils-native:do_addto_recipe_sysroot xz:do_localpkgfeed")
 
         try:
-            self.start_debuginfod()
+            self.start_debuginfod(get_bb_var("LOCALPKGFEED_DIR", "xz"))
 
             with runqemu("core-image-minimal", runqemuparams="nographic") as qemu:
                 cmd = "DEBUGINFOD_URLS=http://%s:%d/ debuginfod-find debuginfo /usr/bin/xz" % (qemu.server_ip, self.port)
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
index 882225dde3..7d61773980 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
@@ -753,6 +753,25 @@ class DevtoolModifyTests(DevtoolBase):
         result = runCmd('devtool status')
         self.assertNotIn('mdadm', result.output)
 
+    def test_devtool_modify_go(self):
+        import oe.path
+        from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
+        with TemporaryDirectory(prefix='devtoolqa') as tempdir:
+            self.track_for_cleanup(self.workspacedir)
+            self.add_command_to_tearDown('bitbake -c clean go-helloworld')
+            self.add_command_to_tearDown('bitbake-layers remove-layer */workspace')
+            result = runCmd('devtool modify go-helloworld -x %s' % tempdir)
+            self.assertExists(
+                oe.path.join(tempdir, 'src', 'golang.org', 'x', 'example', 'go.mod'),
+                             'Extracted source could not be found'
+            )
+            self.assertExists(
+                oe.path.join(self.workspacedir, 'conf', 'layer.conf'),
+                'Workspace directory not created'
+            )
+            matches = glob.glob(oe.path.join(self.workspacedir, 'appends', 'go-helloworld_*.bbappend'))
+            self.assertTrue(matches, 'bbappend not created %s' % result.output)
+
     def test_devtool_buildclean(self):
         def assertFile(path, *paths):
             f = os.path.join(path, *paths)
@@ -879,13 +898,8 @@ class DevtoolModifyTests(DevtoolBase):
         self.add_command_to_tearDown('bitbake -c clean %s' % testrecipe)
         self.add_command_to_tearDown('bitbake-layers remove-layer */workspace')
         result = runCmd('devtool modify %s -x %s' % (testrecipe, tempdir))
-        srcfile = os.path.join(tempdir, 'oe-local-files/share/dot.bashrc')
-        srclink = os.path.join(tempdir, 'share/dot.bashrc')
+        srcfile = os.path.join(tempdir, 'share/dot.bashrc')
         self.assertExists(srcfile, 'Extracted source could not be found')
-        if os.path.islink(srclink) and os.path.exists(srclink) and os.path.samefile(srcfile, srclink):
-            correct_symlink = True
-        self.assertTrue(correct_symlink, 'Source symlink to oe-local-files is broken')
-
         matches = glob.glob(os.path.join(self.workspacedir, 'appends', '%s_*.bbappend' % testrecipe))
         self.assertTrue(matches, 'bbappend not created')
         # Test devtool status
@@ -956,9 +970,9 @@ class DevtoolModifyTests(DevtoolBase):
         #    others git:// in SRC_URI
         #    cointains a patch
         testrecipe = 'hello-rs'
-        bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['SRC_URI', 'FILE', 'WORKDIR', 'CARGO_HOME'], testrecipe)
+        bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['SRC_URI', 'FILE', 'UNPACKDIR', 'CARGO_HOME'], testrecipe)
         recipefile = bb_vars['FILE']
-        workdir = bb_vars['WORKDIR']
+        unpackdir = bb_vars['UNPACKDIR']
         cargo_home = bb_vars['CARGO_HOME']
         src_uri = bb_vars['SRC_URI'].split()
         self.assertTrue(src_uri[0].startswith('git://'),
@@ -1029,7 +1043,7 @@ class DevtoolModifyTests(DevtoolBase):
             self.assertEqual(parms['type'], 'git-dependency', 'git dependencies uri should have "type=git-dependency"')
             raw_url = raw_url.replace("git://", '%s://' % parms['protocol'])
             patch_line = '[patch."%s"]' % raw_url
-            path_patched = os.path.join(workdir, parms['destsuffix'])
+            path_patched = os.path.join(unpackdir, parms['destsuffix'])
             path_override_line = '%s = { path = "%s" }' % (parms['name'], path_patched)
             # Would have been better to use tomllib to read this file :/
             self.assertIn(patch_line, cargo_config_contents)
@@ -1278,7 +1292,7 @@ class DevtoolUpdateTests(DevtoolBase):
         with open(bbappendfile, 'r') as f:
             self.assertEqual(expectedlines, f.readlines())
         # Drop new commit and check patch gets deleted
-        result = runCmd('git reset HEAD^', cwd=tempsrcdir)
+        result = runCmd('git reset HEAD^ --hard', cwd=tempsrcdir)
         result = runCmd('devtool update-recipe %s -a %s' % (testrecipe, templayerdir))
         self.assertNotExists(patchfile, 'Patch file not deleted')
         expectedlines2 = ['FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"\n',
@@ -1287,6 +1301,7 @@ class DevtoolUpdateTests(DevtoolBase):
             self.assertEqual(expectedlines2, f.readlines())
         # Put commit back and check we can run it if layer isn't in bblayers.conf
         os.remove(bbappendfile)
+        result = runCmd("sed 's!\\(#define VERSION\\W*\"[^\"]*\\)\"!\\1-custom\"!' -i ReadMe.c", cwd=tempsrcdir)
         result = runCmd('git commit -a -m "Add our custom version"', cwd=tempsrcdir)
         result = runCmd('bitbake-layers remove-layer %s' % templayerdir, cwd=self.builddir)
         result = runCmd('devtool update-recipe %s -a %s' % (testrecipe, templayerdir))
@@ -1361,7 +1376,7 @@ class DevtoolUpdateTests(DevtoolBase):
         with open(bbappendfile, 'r') as f:
             self.assertEqual(expectedlines, set(f.readlines()))
         # Drop new commit and check SRCREV changes
-        result = runCmd('git reset HEAD^', cwd=tempsrcdir)
+        result = runCmd('git reset HEAD^ --hard', cwd=tempsrcdir)
         result = runCmd('devtool update-recipe -m srcrev %s -a %s' % (testrecipe, templayerdir))
         self.assertNotExists(os.path.join(appenddir, testrecipe), 'Patch directory should not be created')
         result = runCmd('git rev-parse HEAD', cwd=tempsrcdir)
@@ -1373,6 +1388,7 @@ class DevtoolUpdateTests(DevtoolBase):
             self.assertEqual(expectedlines, set(f.readlines()))
         # Put commit back and check we can run it if layer isn't in bblayers.conf
         os.remove(bbappendfile)
+        result = runCmd('echo "# Additional line" >> Makefile.am', cwd=tempsrcdir)
         result = runCmd('git commit -a -m "Change the Makefile"', cwd=tempsrcdir)
         result = runCmd('bitbake-layers remove-layer %s' % templayerdir, cwd=self.builddir)
         result = runCmd('devtool update-recipe -m srcrev %s -a %s' % (testrecipe, templayerdir))
@@ -1404,11 +1420,12 @@ class DevtoolUpdateTests(DevtoolBase):
         # Try building just to ensure we haven't broken that
         bitbake("%s" % testrecipe)
         # Edit / commit local source
-        runCmd('echo "/* Foobar */" >> oe-local-files/makedevs.c', cwd=tempdir)
-        runCmd('echo "Foo" > oe-local-files/new-local', cwd=tempdir)
+        runCmd('echo "/* Foobar */" >> makedevs.c', cwd=tempdir)
+        runCmd('echo "Foo" > new-local', cwd=tempdir)
         runCmd('echo "Bar" > new-file', cwd=tempdir)
         runCmd('git add new-file', cwd=tempdir)
         runCmd('git commit -m "Add new file"', cwd=tempdir)
+        runCmd('git add new-local', cwd=tempdir)
         runCmd('devtool update-recipe %s' % testrecipe)
         expected_status = [(' M', '.*/%s$' % os.path.basename(recipefile)),
                            (' M', '.*/makedevs/makedevs.c$'),
@@ -1434,8 +1451,8 @@ class DevtoolUpdateTests(DevtoolBase):
         self.assertExists(local_file, 'File makedevs.c not created')
         self.assertExists(patchfile, 'File new_local not created')
 
-    def test_devtool_update_recipe_local_files_2(self):
-        """Check local source files support when oe-local-files is in Git"""
+    def _test_devtool_update_recipe_local_files_2(self):
+        """Check local source files support when editing local files in Git"""
         testrecipe = 'devtool-test-local'
         recipefile = get_bb_var('FILE', testrecipe)
         recipedir = os.path.dirname(recipefile)
@@ -1450,17 +1467,13 @@ class DevtoolUpdateTests(DevtoolBase):
         result = runCmd('devtool modify %s -x %s' % (testrecipe, tempdir))
         # Check git repo
         self._check_src_repo(tempdir)
-        # Add oe-local-files to Git
-        runCmd('rm oe-local-files/.gitignore', cwd=tempdir)
-        runCmd('git add oe-local-files', cwd=tempdir)
-        runCmd('git commit -m "Add local sources"', cwd=tempdir)
         # Edit / commit local sources
-        runCmd('echo "# Foobar" >> oe-local-files/file1', cwd=tempdir)
+        runCmd('echo "# Foobar" >> file1', cwd=tempdir)
         runCmd('git commit -am "Edit existing file"', cwd=tempdir)
-        runCmd('git rm oe-local-files/file2', cwd=tempdir)
+        runCmd('git rm file2', cwd=tempdir)
         runCmd('git commit -m"Remove file"', cwd=tempdir)
-        runCmd('echo "Foo" > oe-local-files/new-local', cwd=tempdir)
-        runCmd('git add oe-local-files/new-local', cwd=tempdir)
+        runCmd('echo "Foo" > new-local', cwd=tempdir)
+        runCmd('git add new-local', cwd=tempdir)
         runCmd('git commit -m "Add new local file"', cwd=tempdir)
         runCmd('echo "Gar" > new-file', cwd=tempdir)
         runCmd('git add new-file', cwd=tempdir)
@@ -1469,7 +1482,7 @@ class DevtoolUpdateTests(DevtoolBase):
                                      os.path.dirname(recipefile))
         # Checkout unmodified file to working copy -> devtool should still pick
         # the modified version from HEAD
-        runCmd('git checkout HEAD^ -- oe-local-files/file1', cwd=tempdir)
+        runCmd('git checkout HEAD^ -- file1', cwd=tempdir)
         runCmd('devtool update-recipe %s' % testrecipe)
         expected_status = [(' M', '.*/%s$' % os.path.basename(recipefile)),
                            (' M', '.*/file1$'),
@@ -1544,7 +1557,7 @@ class DevtoolUpdateTests(DevtoolBase):
         # (don't bother with cleaning the recipe on teardown, we won't be building it)
         result = runCmd('devtool modify %s' % testrecipe)
         # Modify one file
-        runCmd('echo "Another line" >> file2', cwd=os.path.join(self.workspacedir, 'sources', testrecipe, 'oe-local-files'))
+        runCmd('echo "Another line" >> file2', cwd=os.path.join(self.workspacedir, 'sources', testrecipe))
         self.add_command_to_tearDown('cd %s; rm %s/*; git checkout %s %s' % (os.path.dirname(recipefile), testrecipe, testrecipe, os.path.basename(recipefile)))
         result = runCmd('devtool update-recipe %s' % testrecipe)
         expected_status = [(' M', '.*/%s/file2$' % testrecipe)]
@@ -2004,6 +2017,52 @@ class DevtoolUpgradeTests(DevtoolBase):
             newlines = f.readlines()
         self.assertEqual(desiredlines, newlines)
 
+    def test_devtool_upgrade_recipe_upgrade_extra_tasks(self):
+        # Check preconditions
+        self.assertTrue(not os.path.exists(self.workspacedir), 'This test cannot be run with a workspace directory under the build directory')
+        self.track_for_cleanup(self.workspacedir)
+        self.add_command_to_tearDown('bitbake-layers remove-layer */workspace')
+        recipe = 'python3-guessing-game'
+        version = '0.2.0'
+        commit = '40cf004c2772ffa20ea803fa3be1528a75be3e98'
+        oldrecipefile = get_bb_var('FILE', recipe)
+        oldcratesincfile = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(oldrecipefile), os.path.basename(oldrecipefile).strip('_git.bb') + '-crates.inc')
+        tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='devtoolqa')
+        self.track_for_cleanup(tempdir)
+        # Check that recipe is not already under devtool control
+        result = runCmd('devtool status')
+        self.assertNotIn(recipe, result.output)
+        # Check upgrade
+        result = runCmd('devtool upgrade %s %s --version %s --srcrev %s' % (recipe, tempdir, version, commit))
+        # Check if srctree at least is populated
+        self.assertTrue(len(os.listdir(tempdir)) > 0, 'srctree (%s) should be populated with new (%s) source code' % (tempdir, commit))
+        # Check new recipe file and new -crates.inc files are present
+        newrecipefile = os.path.join(self.workspacedir, 'recipes', recipe, os.path.basename(oldrecipefile))
+        newcratesincfile = os.path.join(self.workspacedir, 'recipes', recipe, os.path.basename(oldcratesincfile))
+        self.assertExists(newrecipefile, 'Recipe file should exist after upgrade')
+        self.assertExists(newcratesincfile, 'Recipe crates.inc file should exist after upgrade')
+        # Check devtool status and make sure recipe is present
+        result = runCmd('devtool status')
+        self.assertIn(recipe, result.output)
+        self.assertIn(tempdir, result.output)
+        # Check recipe got changed as expected
+        with open(oldrecipefile + '.upgraded', 'r') as f:
+            desiredlines = f.readlines()
+        with open(newrecipefile, 'r') as f:
+            newlines = f.readlines()
+        self.assertEqual(desiredlines, newlines)
+        # Check crates.inc got changed as expected
+        with open(oldcratesincfile + '.upgraded', 'r') as f:
+            desiredlines = f.readlines()
+        with open(newcratesincfile, 'r') as f:
+            newlines = f.readlines()
+        self.assertEqual(desiredlines, newlines)
+        # Check devtool reset recipe
+        result = runCmd('devtool reset %s -n' % recipe)
+        result = runCmd('devtool status')
+        self.assertNotIn(recipe, result.output)
+        self.assertNotExists(os.path.join(self.workspacedir, 'recipes', recipe), 'Recipe directory should not exist after resetting')
+
     def test_devtool_layer_plugins(self):
         """Test that devtool can use plugins from other layers.
 
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/distrodata.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/distrodata.py
index ad952c004b..7771a42e2b 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/distrodata.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/distrodata.py
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ class Distrodata(OESelftestTestCase):
         feature = 'LICENSE_FLAGS_ACCEPTED += " commercial"\n'
         self.write_config(feature)
 
-        pkgs = oe.recipeutils.get_recipe_upgrade_status()
+        pkggroups = oe.recipeutils.get_recipe_upgrade_status()
 
-        regressed_failures = [pkg[0] for pkg in pkgs if pkg[1] == 'UNKNOWN_BROKEN']
-        regressed_successes = [pkg[0] for pkg in pkgs if pkg[1] == 'KNOWN_BROKEN']
+        regressed_failures = [pkg['pn'] for pkgs in pkggroups for pkg in pkgs if pkg['status'] == 'UNKNOWN_BROKEN']
+        regressed_successes = [pkg['pn'] for pkgs in pkggroups for pkg in pkgs if pkg['status'] == 'KNOWN_BROKEN']
         msg = ""
         if len(regressed_failures) > 0:
             msg = msg + """
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ but their recipes claim otherwise by setting UPSTREAM_VERSION_UNKNOWN. Please re
             return False
 
         def is_maintainer_exception(entry):
-            exceptions = ["musl", "newlib", "linux-yocto", "linux-dummy", "mesa-gl", "libgfortran", "libx11-compose-data",
+            exceptions = ["musl", "newlib", "picolibc", "linux-yocto", "linux-dummy", "mesa-gl", "libgfortran", "libx11-compose-data",
                           "cve-update-nvd2-native",]
             for i in exceptions:
                  if i in entry:
@@ -115,3 +115,15 @@ The list of oe-core recipes with maintainers is empty. This may indicate that th
                 self.fail("""
 Unable to find recipes for the following entries in maintainers.inc:
 """ + "\n".join(['%s' % i for i in missing_recipes]))
+
+    def test_common_include_recipes(self):
+        """
+        Summary:     Test that obtaining recipes that share includes between them returns a sane result
+        Expected:    At least cmake and qemu entries are present in the output
+        Product:     oe-core
+        Author:      Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
+        """
+        recipes = oe.recipeutils.get_common_include_recipes()
+
+        self.assertIn({'qemu-system-native', 'qemu', 'qemu-native'}, recipes)
+        self.assertIn({'cmake-native', 'cmake'}, recipes)
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/fitimage.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/fitimage.py
index 347c065377..0b5f4602fb 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/fitimage.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/fitimage.py
@@ -11,6 +11,51 @@ import re
 
 class FitImageTests(OESelftestTestCase):
 
+    def _setup_uboot_tools_native(self):
+        """build u-boot-tools-native and return RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE"""
+        bitbake("u-boot-tools-native -c addto_recipe_sysroot")
+        return get_bb_var('RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE', 'u-boot-tools-native')
+
+    def _verify_fit_image_signature(self, uboot_tools_sysroot_native, fitimage_path, dtb_path, conf_name=None):
+        """Verify the signature of a fit contfiguration
+
+        The fit_check_sign utility from u-boot-tools-native is called.
+        uboot-fit_check_sign -f fitImage -k $dtb_name -c conf-$dtb_name
+        """
+        fit_check_sign_path = os.path.join(uboot_tools_sysroot_native, 'usr', 'bin', 'uboot-fit_check_sign')
+        cmd = '%s -f %s -k %s' % (fit_check_sign_path, fitimage_path, dtb_path)
+        if conf_name:
+            cmd += ' -c %s' % conf_name
+        result = runCmd(cmd)
+        self.logger.debug("%s\nreturned: %s\n%s", cmd, str(result.status), result.output)
+        self.assertIn("Signature check OK", result.output)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _find_string_in_bin_file(file_path, search_string):
+        """find stings in a binary file
+
+        Shell equivalent: strings "$1" | grep "$2" | wc -l
+        return number of matches
+        """
+        found_positions = 0
+        with open(file_path, 'rb') as file:
+            byte = file.read(1)
+            current_position = 0
+            current_match = 0
+            while byte:
+                char = byte.decode('ascii', errors='ignore')
+                if char == search_string[current_match]:
+                    current_match += 1
+                    if current_match == len(search_string):
+                        found_positions += 1
+                        current_match = 0
+                else:
+                    current_match = 0
+                current_position += 1
+                byte = file.read(1)
+        return found_positions
+
+
     def test_fit_image(self):
         """
         Summary:     Check if FIT image and Image Tree Source (its) are built
@@ -53,10 +98,8 @@ FIT_DESC = "A model description"
         fitimage_path = os.path.join(bb_vars['DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE'],
             "fitImage-%s-%s" % (bb_vars['INITRAMFS_IMAGE_NAME'], bb_vars['KERNEL_FIT_LINK_NAME']))
 
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_its_path),
-            "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_path),
-            "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_its_path, "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_path, "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
 
         # Check that the type, load address, entrypoint address and default
         # values for kernel and ramdisk in Image Tree Source are as expected.
@@ -108,19 +151,21 @@ FIT_DESC = "A model description"
         Author:      Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com> based upon
                      work by Usama Arif <usama.arif@arm.com>
         """
+        a_comment = "a smart comment"
         config = """
 # Enable creation of fitImage
 MACHINE = "beaglebone-yocto"
 KERNEL_IMAGETYPES += " fitImage "
-KERNEL_CLASSES = " kernel-fitimage test-mkimage-wrapper "
+KERNEL_CLASSES = " kernel-fitimage "
 UBOOT_SIGN_ENABLE = "1"
 FIT_GENERATE_KEYS = "1"
 UBOOT_SIGN_KEYDIR = "${TOPDIR}/signing-keys"
 UBOOT_SIGN_IMG_KEYNAME = "img-oe-selftest"
 UBOOT_SIGN_KEYNAME = "cfg-oe-selftest"
 FIT_SIGN_INDIVIDUAL = "1"
-UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS = "-c 'a smart comment'"
-"""
+UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS = "-c '%s'"
+""" % a_comment
+
         self.write_config(config)
 
         # fitImage is created as part of linux recipe
@@ -133,10 +178,8 @@ UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS = "-c 'a smart comment'"
         fitimage_path = os.path.join(bb_vars['DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE'],
             "fitImage-%s.bin" % (bb_vars['KERNEL_FIT_LINK_NAME']))
 
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_its_path),
-            "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_path),
-            "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_its_path, "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_path, "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
 
         req_itspaths = [
             ['/', 'images', 'kernel-1'],
@@ -195,10 +238,8 @@ UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS = "-c 'a smart comment'"
                 self.assertEqual(value, reqvalue)
 
         # Dump the image to see if it really got signed
-        bitbake("u-boot-tools-native -c addto_recipe_sysroot")
-        result = runCmd('bitbake -e u-boot-tools-native | grep ^RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE=')
-        recipe_sysroot_native = result.output.split('=')[1].strip('"')
-        dumpimage_path = os.path.join(recipe_sysroot_native, 'usr', 'bin', 'dumpimage')
+        uboot_tools_sysroot_native = self._setup_uboot_tools_native()
+        dumpimage_path = os.path.join(uboot_tools_sysroot_native, 'usr', 'bin', 'dumpimage')
         result = runCmd('%s -l %s' % (dumpimage_path, fitimage_path))
         in_signed = None
         signed_sections = {}
@@ -224,17 +265,15 @@ UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS = "-c 'a smart comment'"
             value = values.get('Sign value', None)
             self.assertEqual(len(value), 512, 'Signature value for section %s not expected length' % signed_section)
 
-        # Check for UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS
-        result = runCmd('bitbake -e virtual/kernel | grep ^T=')
-        tempdir = result.output.split('=', 1)[1].strip().strip('')
-        result = runCmd('grep "a smart comment" %s/run.do_assemble_fitimage' % tempdir, ignore_status=True)
-        self.assertEqual(result.status, 0, 'UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS value did not get used')
+        # Search for the string passed to mkimage: 1 kernel + 3 DTBs + config per DTB = 7 sections
+        # Looks like mkimage supports to add a comment but does not support to read it back.
+        found_comments = FitImageTests._find_string_in_bin_file(fitimage_path, a_comment)
+        self.assertEqual(found_comments, 7, "Expected 7 signed and commented section in the fitImage.")
 
-        # Check for evidence of test-mkimage-wrapper class
-        result = runCmd('grep "### uboot-mkimage wrapper message" %s/log.do_assemble_fitimage' % tempdir, ignore_status=True)
-        self.assertEqual(result.status, 0, 'UBOOT_MKIMAGE did not work')
-        result = runCmd('grep "### uboot-mkimage signing wrapper message" %s/log.do_assemble_fitimage' % tempdir, ignore_status=True)
-        self.assertEqual(result.status, 0, 'UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN did not work')
+        # Verify the signature for all configurations = DTBs
+        for dtb in ['am335x-bone.dtb', 'am335x-boneblack.dtb', 'am335x-bonegreen.dtb']:
+            self._verify_fit_image_signature(uboot_tools_sysroot_native, fitimage_path,
+                                             os.path.join(bb_vars['DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE'], dtb), 'conf-' + dtb)
 
     def test_uboot_fit_image(self):
         """
@@ -287,10 +326,8 @@ FIT_SIGN_INDIVIDUAL = "1"
         fitimage_path = os.path.join(deploy_dir_image,
             "u-boot-fitImage-%s" % (machine,))
 
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_its_path),
-            "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_path),
-            "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_its_path, "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_path, "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
 
         # Check that the type, load address, entrypoint address and default
         # values for kernel and ramdisk in Image Tree Source are as expected.
@@ -351,7 +388,6 @@ UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT = "0x80080000"
 UBOOT_FIT_DESC = "A model description"
 KERNEL_IMAGETYPES += " fitImage "
 KERNEL_CLASSES = " kernel-fitimage "
-INHERIT += "test-mkimage-wrapper"
 UBOOT_SIGN_ENABLE = "1"
 FIT_GENERATE_KEYS = "1"
 UBOOT_SIGN_KEYDIR = "${TOPDIR}/signing-keys"
@@ -372,10 +408,8 @@ UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS = "-c 'a smart U-Boot comment'"
         fitimage_path = os.path.join(deploy_dir_image,
             "u-boot-fitImage-%s" % (machine,))
 
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_its_path),
-            "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_path),
-            "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_its_path, "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_path, "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
 
         # Check that the type, load address, entrypoint address and default
         # values for kernel and ramdisk in Image Tree Source are as expected.
@@ -425,6 +459,7 @@ UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS = "-c 'a smart U-Boot comment'"
                      work by Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com> and
                      Usama Arif <usama.arif@arm.com>
         """
+        a_comment = "a smart U-Boot comment"
         config = """
 # There's no U-boot deconfig with CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE yet, so we need at
 # least CONFIG_SPL_LOAD_FIT and CONFIG_SPL_OF_CONTROL set
@@ -434,7 +469,6 @@ SPL_BINARY = "MLO"
 # The kernel-fitimage class is a dependency even if we're only
 # creating/signing the U-Boot fitImage
 KERNEL_CLASSES = " kernel-fitimage"
-INHERIT += "test-mkimage-wrapper"
 # Enable creation and signing of the U-Boot fitImage
 UBOOT_FITIMAGE_ENABLE = "1"
 SPL_SIGN_ENABLE = "1"
@@ -446,17 +480,17 @@ UBOOT_LOADADDRESS = "0x80000000"
 UBOOT_DTB_LOADADDRESS = "0x82000000"
 UBOOT_ARCH = "arm"
 SPL_MKIMAGE_DTCOPTS = "-I dts -O dtb -p 2000"
-SPL_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS = "-c 'a smart U-Boot comment'"
+SPL_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS = "-c '%s'"
 UBOOT_EXTLINUX = "0"
 UBOOT_FIT_GENERATE_KEYS = "1"
 UBOOT_FIT_HASH_ALG = "sha256"
-"""
+""" % a_comment
+
         self.write_config(config)
 
         # The U-Boot fitImage is created as part of the U-Boot recipe
         bitbake("virtual/bootloader")
 
-        image_type = "core-image-minimal"
         deploy_dir_image = get_bb_var('DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE')
         machine = get_bb_var('MACHINE')
         fitimage_its_path = os.path.join(deploy_dir_image,
@@ -464,10 +498,8 @@ UBOOT_FIT_HASH_ALG = "sha256"
         fitimage_path = os.path.join(deploy_dir_image,
             "u-boot-fitImage-%s" % (machine,))
 
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_its_path),
-            "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_path),
-            "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_its_path, "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_path, "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
 
         req_itspaths = [
             ['/', 'images', 'uboot'],
@@ -516,10 +548,8 @@ UBOOT_FIT_HASH_ALG = "sha256"
                 self.assertEqual(value, reqvalue)
 
         # Dump the image to see if it really got signed
-        bitbake("u-boot-tools-native -c addto_recipe_sysroot")
-        result = runCmd('bitbake -e u-boot-tools-native | grep ^RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE=')
-        recipe_sysroot_native = result.output.split('=')[1].strip('"')
-        dumpimage_path = os.path.join(recipe_sysroot_native, 'usr', 'bin', 'dumpimage')
+        uboot_tools_sysroot_native = self._setup_uboot_tools_native()
+        dumpimage_path = os.path.join(uboot_tools_sysroot_native, 'usr', 'bin', 'dumpimage')
         result = runCmd('%s -l %s' % (dumpimage_path, fitimage_path))
         in_signed = None
         signed_sections = {}
@@ -542,16 +572,14 @@ UBOOT_FIT_HASH_ALG = "sha256"
             self.assertEqual(len(value), 512, 'Signature value for section %s not expected length' % signed_section)
 
         # Check for SPL_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS
-        result = runCmd('bitbake -e virtual/bootloader | grep ^T=')
-        tempdir = result.output.split('=', 1)[1].strip().strip('')
-        result = runCmd('grep "a smart U-Boot comment" %s/run.do_uboot_assemble_fitimage' % tempdir, ignore_status=True)
-        self.assertEqual(result.status, 0, 'SPL_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS value did not get used')
+        # Looks like mkimage supports to add a comment but does not support to read it back.
+        found_comments = FitImageTests._find_string_in_bin_file(fitimage_path, a_comment)
+        self.assertEqual(found_comments, 2, "Expected 2 signed and commented section in the fitImage.")
+
+        # Verify the signature
+        self._verify_fit_image_signature(uboot_tools_sysroot_native, fitimage_path,
+                                         os.path.join(deploy_dir_image, 'u-boot-spl.dtb'))
 
-        # Check for evidence of test-mkimage-wrapper class
-        result = runCmd('grep "### uboot-mkimage wrapper message" %s/log.do_uboot_assemble_fitimage' % tempdir, ignore_status=True)
-        self.assertEqual(result.status, 0, 'UBOOT_MKIMAGE did not work')
-        result = runCmd('grep "### uboot-mkimage signing wrapper message" %s/log.do_uboot_assemble_fitimage' % tempdir, ignore_status=True)
-        self.assertEqual(result.status, 0, 'UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN did not work')
 
     def test_sign_cascaded_uboot_fit_image(self):
         """
@@ -573,6 +601,7 @@ UBOOT_FIT_HASH_ALG = "sha256"
                      work by Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com> and
                      Usama Arif <usama.arif@arm.com>
         """
+        a_comment = "a smart cascaded U-Boot comment"
         config = """
 # There's no U-boot deconfig with CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE yet, so we need at
 # least CONFIG_SPL_LOAD_FIT and CONFIG_SPL_OF_CONTROL set
@@ -588,7 +617,7 @@ UBOOT_DTB_BINARY = "u-boot.dtb"
 UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT  = "0x80000000"
 UBOOT_LOADADDRESS = "0x80000000"
 UBOOT_MKIMAGE_DTCOPTS = "-I dts -O dtb -p 2000"
-UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS = "-c 'a smart cascaded Kernel comment'"
+UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS = "-c '%s'"
 UBOOT_DTB_LOADADDRESS = "0x82000000"
 UBOOT_ARCH = "arm"
 SPL_MKIMAGE_DTCOPTS = "-I dts -O dtb -p 2000"
@@ -598,20 +627,18 @@ UBOOT_FIT_GENERATE_KEYS = "1"
 UBOOT_FIT_HASH_ALG = "sha256"
 KERNEL_IMAGETYPES += " fitImage "
 KERNEL_CLASSES = " kernel-fitimage "
-INHERIT += "test-mkimage-wrapper"
 UBOOT_SIGN_ENABLE = "1"
 FIT_GENERATE_KEYS = "1"
 UBOOT_SIGN_KEYDIR = "${TOPDIR}/signing-keys"
 UBOOT_SIGN_IMG_KEYNAME = "img-oe-selftest"
 UBOOT_SIGN_KEYNAME = "cfg-oe-selftest"
 FIT_SIGN_INDIVIDUAL = "1"
-"""
+""" % a_comment
         self.write_config(config)
 
         # The U-Boot fitImage is created as part of the U-Boot recipe
         bitbake("virtual/bootloader")
 
-        image_type = "core-image-minimal"
         deploy_dir_image = get_bb_var('DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE')
         machine = get_bb_var('MACHINE')
         fitimage_its_path = os.path.join(deploy_dir_image,
@@ -619,10 +646,8 @@ FIT_SIGN_INDIVIDUAL = "1"
         fitimage_path = os.path.join(deploy_dir_image,
             "u-boot-fitImage-%s" % (machine,))
 
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_its_path),
-            "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_path),
-            "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_its_path, "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_path, "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
 
         req_itspaths = [
             ['/', 'images', 'uboot'],
@@ -671,10 +696,8 @@ FIT_SIGN_INDIVIDUAL = "1"
                 self.assertEqual(value, reqvalue)
 
         # Dump the image to see if it really got signed
-        bitbake("u-boot-tools-native -c addto_recipe_sysroot")
-        result = runCmd('bitbake -e u-boot-tools-native | grep ^RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE=')
-        recipe_sysroot_native = result.output.split('=')[1].strip('"')
-        dumpimage_path = os.path.join(recipe_sysroot_native, 'usr', 'bin', 'dumpimage')
+        uboot_tools_sysroot_native = self._setup_uboot_tools_native()
+        dumpimage_path = os.path.join(uboot_tools_sysroot_native, 'usr', 'bin', 'dumpimage')
         result = runCmd('%s -l %s' % (dumpimage_path, fitimage_path))
         in_signed = None
         signed_sections = {}
@@ -697,17 +720,13 @@ FIT_SIGN_INDIVIDUAL = "1"
             self.assertEqual(len(value), 512, 'Signature value for section %s not expected length' % signed_section)
 
         # Check for SPL_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS
-        result = runCmd('bitbake -e virtual/bootloader | grep ^T=')
-        tempdir = result.output.split('=', 1)[1].strip().strip('')
-        result = runCmd('grep "a smart cascaded U-Boot comment" %s/run.do_uboot_assemble_fitimage' % tempdir, ignore_status=True)
-        self.assertEqual(result.status, 0, 'SPL_MKIMAGE_SIGN_ARGS value did not get used')
-
-        # Check for evidence of test-mkimage-wrapper class
-        result = runCmd('grep "### uboot-mkimage wrapper message" %s/log.do_uboot_assemble_fitimage' % tempdir, ignore_status=True)
-        self.assertEqual(result.status, 0, 'UBOOT_MKIMAGE did not work')
-        result = runCmd('grep "### uboot-mkimage signing wrapper message" %s/log.do_uboot_assemble_fitimage' % tempdir, ignore_status=True)
-        self.assertEqual(result.status, 0, 'UBOOT_MKIMAGE_SIGN did not work')
+        # Looks like mkimage supports to add a comment but does not support to read it back.
+        found_comments = FitImageTests._find_string_in_bin_file(fitimage_path, a_comment)
+        self.assertEqual(found_comments, 2, "Expected 2 signed and commented section in the fitImage.")
 
+        # Verify the signature
+        self._verify_fit_image_signature(uboot_tools_sysroot_native, fitimage_path,
+                                         os.path.join(deploy_dir_image, 'u-boot-spl.dtb'))
 
 
     def test_initramfs_bundle(self):
@@ -755,24 +774,24 @@ FIT_HASH_ALG = "sha256"
         # fitImage is created as part of linux recipe
         bitbake("virtual/kernel")
 
-        image_type = get_bb_var('INITRAMFS_IMAGE')
-        deploy_dir_image = get_bb_var('DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE')
-        machine = get_bb_var('MACHINE')
-        fitimage_its_path = os.path.join(deploy_dir_image,
-                    "fitImage-its-%s-%s-%s" % (image_type, machine, machine))
-        fitimage_path = os.path.join(deploy_dir_image,"fitImage")
-
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_its_path),
-            "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
-        self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(fitimage_path),
-            "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
+        bb_vars = get_bb_vars([
+            'DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE',
+            'FIT_HASH_ALG',
+            'FIT_KERNEL_COMP_ALG',
+            'INITRAMFS_IMAGE',
+            'MACHINE',
+            'UBOOT_ARCH',
+            'UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT',
+            'UBOOT_LOADADDRESS',
+            'UBOOT_MKIMAGE_KERNEL_TYPE'
+            ],
+            'virtual/kernel')
+        fitimage_its_path = os.path.join(bb_vars['DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE'],
+                    "fitImage-its-%s-%s-%s" % (bb_vars['INITRAMFS_IMAGE'], bb_vars['MACHINE'], bb_vars['MACHINE']))
+        fitimage_path = os.path.join(bb_vars['DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE'],"fitImage")
 
-        kernel_load = str(get_bb_var('UBOOT_LOADADDRESS'))
-        kernel_entry = str(get_bb_var('UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT'))
-        kernel_type = str(get_bb_var('UBOOT_MKIMAGE_KERNEL_TYPE'))
-        kernel_compression = str(get_bb_var('FIT_KERNEL_COMP_ALG'))
-        uboot_arch = str(get_bb_var('UBOOT_ARCH'))
-        fit_hash_alg = str(get_bb_var('FIT_HASH_ALG'))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_its_path, "%s image tree source doesn't exist" % (fitimage_its_path))
+        self.assertExists(fitimage_path, "%s FIT image doesn't exist" % (fitimage_path))
 
         its_file = open(fitimage_its_path)
 
@@ -782,31 +801,31 @@ FIT_HASH_ALG = "sha256"
             'kernel-1 {',
             'description = "Linux kernel";',
             'data = /incbin/("linux.bin");',
-            'type = "' + kernel_type + '";',
-            'arch = "' + uboot_arch + '";',
+            'type = "' + str(bb_vars['UBOOT_MKIMAGE_KERNEL_TYPE']) + '";',
+            'arch = "' + str(bb_vars['UBOOT_ARCH']) + '";',
             'os = "linux";',
-            'compression = "' + kernel_compression + '";',
-            'load = <' + kernel_load + '>;',
-            'entry = <' + kernel_entry + '>;',
+            'compression = "' + str(bb_vars['FIT_KERNEL_COMP_ALG']) + '";',
+            'load = <' + str(bb_vars['UBOOT_LOADADDRESS']) + '>;',
+            'entry = <' + str(bb_vars['UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT']) + '>;',
             'hash-1 {',
-            'algo = "' + fit_hash_alg +'";',
+            'algo = "' + str(bb_vars['FIT_HASH_ALG']) +'";',
             '};',
             '};'
         ]
 
         node_str = exp_node_lines[0]
 
-        test_passed = False
-
         print ("checking kernel node\n")
+        self.assertIn(node_str, its_lines)
 
-        if node_str in its_lines:
-            node_start_idx = its_lines.index(node_str)
-            node = its_lines[node_start_idx:(node_start_idx + len(exp_node_lines))]
-            if node == exp_node_lines:
-                print("kernel node verified")
-            else:
-                self.assertTrue(test_passed == True,"kernel node does not match expectation")
+        node_start_idx = its_lines.index(node_str)
+        node = its_lines[node_start_idx:(node_start_idx + len(exp_node_lines))]
+
+        # Remove the absolute path. This refers to WORKDIR which is not always predictable.
+        re_data = re.compile(r'^data = /incbin/\(.*/linux\.bin"\);$')
+        node = [re.sub(re_data, 'data = /incbin/("linux.bin");', cfg_str) for cfg_str in node]
+
+        self.assertEqual(node, exp_node_lines, "kernel node does not match expectation")
 
         rx_configs = re.compile("^conf-.*")
         its_configs = list(filter(rx_configs.match, its_lines))
@@ -822,25 +841,14 @@ FIT_HASH_ALG = "sha256"
 
             node = its_lines[cfg_start_idx:line_idx]
             print("checking configuration " + cfg_str.rstrip(" {"))
-            rx_desc_line = re.compile("^description.*1 Linux kernel.*")
-            if len(list(filter(rx_desc_line.match, node))) != 1:
-                self.assertTrue(test_passed == True,"kernel keyword not found in the description line")
-                break
-            else:
-                print("kernel keyword found in the description line")
+            rx_desc_line = re.compile(r'^description = ".*Linux kernel.*')
+            self.assertEqual(len(list(filter(rx_desc_line.match, node))), 1, "kernel keyword not found in the description line")
 
-            if 'kernel = "kernel-1";' not in node:
-                self.assertTrue(test_passed == True,"kernel line not found")
-                break
-            else:
-                print("kernel line found")
+            self.assertIn('kernel = "kernel-1";', node)
 
-            rx_sign_line = re.compile("^sign-images.*kernel.*")
-            if len(list(filter(rx_sign_line.match, node))) != 1:
-                self.assertTrue(test_passed == True,"kernel hash not signed")
-                break
-            else:
-                print("kernel hash signed")
+            rx_sign_line = re.compile(r'^sign-images = .*kernel.*')
+            self.assertEqual(len(list(filter(rx_sign_line.match, node))), 1, "kernel hash not signed")
 
-            test_passed = True
-            self.assertTrue(test_passed == True,"Initramfs bundle test success")
+        # Verify the signature
+        uboot_tools_sysroot_native = self._setup_uboot_tools_native()
+        self._verify_fit_image_signature(uboot_tools_sysroot_native, fitimage_path, os.path.join(bb_vars['DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE'], 'am335x-bone.dtb'))
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/gcc.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/gcc.py
index 89360178fe..4cc0894d42 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/gcc.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/gcc.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class GccSelfTestBase(OESelftestTestCase, OEPTestResultTestCase):
         features = []
         features.append('MAKE_CHECK_TARGETS = "{0}"'.format(" ".join(targets)))
         if ssh is not None:
-            features.append('TOOLCHAIN_TEST_TARGET = "ssh"')
+            features.append('TOOLCHAIN_TEST_TARGET = "linux-ssh"')
             features.append('TOOLCHAIN_TEST_HOST = "{0}"'.format(ssh))
             features.append('TOOLCHAIN_TEST_HOST_USER = "root"')
             features.append('TOOLCHAIN_TEST_HOST_PORT = "22"')
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/imagefeatures.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/imagefeatures.py
index dc88c222bd..94d01ba116 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/imagefeatures.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/imagefeatures.py
@@ -250,12 +250,7 @@ USERADD_GID_TABLES += "files/static-group"
 DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " pam opengl wayland"
 
 # Switch to systemd
-DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " systemd usrmerge"
-VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
-VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = ""
-VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_syslog = ""
-VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager = "shadow-base"
-DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED = "sysvinit"
+INIT_MANAGER = "systemd"
 
 # Replace busybox
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/base-utils = "packagegroup-core-base-utils"
@@ -319,7 +314,7 @@ SKIP_RECIPE[busybox] = "Don't build this"
         """
         config = """
 DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " api-documentation"
-CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL = "man-pages kmod-doc"
+CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL = "man-pages"
 """
         self.write_config(config)
         bitbake("core-image-minimal")
@@ -330,7 +325,7 @@ CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL = "man-pages kmod-doc"
             self.assertEqual(status, 1, 'Failed to run apropos: %s' % (output))
             self.assertIn("iso_8859_15", output)
 
-            # This manpage is provided by kmod
-            status, output = qemu.run_serial("man --pager=cat modprobe")
+            # This manpage is provided by man-pages
+            status, output = qemu.run_serial("man --pager=cat intro")
             self.assertEqual(status, 1, 'Failed to run man: %s' % (output))
-            self.assertIn("force-modversion", output)
+            self.assertIn("introduction to user commands", output)
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/incompatible_lic.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/incompatible_lic.py
index f4af67a239..be5484bca4 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/incompatible_lic.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/incompatible_lic.py
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE:pn-core-image-minimal = "GPL-3.0* LGPL-3.0*"
 
     def test_bash_and_license(self):
         self.disable_class("create-spdx")
-        self.write_config(self.default_config() + '\nLICENSE:append:pn-bash = " & SomeLicense"')
+        self.write_config(self.default_config() + '\nLICENSE:append:pn-bash = " & SomeLicense"\nERROR_QA:remove:pn-bash = "license-exists"')
         error_msg = "ERROR: core-image-minimal-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Package bash cannot be installed into the image because it has incompatible license(s): GPL-3.0-or-later"
 
         result = bitbake('core-image-minimal', ignore_status=True)
@@ -123,12 +123,12 @@ INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE:pn-core-image-minimal = "GPL-3.0* LGPL-3.0*"
 
     def test_bash_or_license(self):
         self.disable_class("create-spdx")
-        self.write_config(self.default_config() + '\nLICENSE:append:pn-bash = " | SomeLicense"')
+        self.write_config(self.default_config() + '\nLICENSE:append:pn-bash = " | SomeLicense"\nERROR_QA:remove:pn-bash = "license-exists"\nERROR_QA:remove:pn-core-image-minimal = "license-file-missing"')
 
         bitbake('core-image-minimal')
 
     def test_bash_license_exceptions(self):
-        self.write_config(self.default_config() + '\nINCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE_EXCEPTIONS:pn-core-image-minimal = "bash:GPL-3.0-or-later"')
+        self.write_config(self.default_config() + '\nINCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE_EXCEPTIONS:pn-core-image-minimal = "bash:GPL-3.0-or-later"\nERROR_QA:remove:pn-core-image-minimal = "license-exception"')
 
         bitbake('core-image-minimal')
 
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/layerappend.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/layerappend.py
index 379ed589ad..64b17117cc 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/layerappend.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/layerappend.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
 SRC_URI:append = " file://appendtest.txt"
 
 sysroot_stage_all:append() {
-        install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/appendtest.txt ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}/
+        install -m 644 ${UNPACKDIR}/appendtest.txt ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}/
 }
 
 """
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/locales.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/locales.py
index 4ca8ffb7aa..ac4888ef66 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/locales.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/locales.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class LocalesTest(OESelftestTestCase):
         features = []
         features.append('EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "empty-root-password allow-empty-password allow-root-login"')
         features.append('IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " glibc-utils localedef"')
-        features.append('GLIBC_GENERATE_LOCALES = "en_US.UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8"')
+        features.append('GLIBC_GENERATE_LOCALES = "en_US.UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8 en_US.ISO-8859-1 de_DE.UTF-8 fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 zh_HK.BIG5-HKSCS tr_TR.UTF-8"')
         features.append('IMAGE_LINGUAS:append = " en-us fr-fr"')
         if binary_enabled:
             features.append('ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION = "1"')
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/meta_ide.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/meta_ide.py
index ffe0d2604d..5a17ca52ea 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/meta_ide.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/meta_ide.py
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ class MetaIDE(OESelftestTestCase):
         bitbake('meta-ide-support')
         bitbake('build-sysroots -c build_native_sysroot')
         bitbake('build-sysroots -c build_target_sysroot')
-        bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['MULTIMACH_TARGET_SYS', 'DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE', 'COREBASE'])
-        cls.environment_script = 'environment-setup-%s' % bb_vars['MULTIMACH_TARGET_SYS']
+        bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['MACHINE_ARCH', 'TARGET_VENDOR', 'TARGET_OS', 'DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE', 'COREBASE'])
+        cls.environment_script = 'environment-setup-%s%s-%s' % (bb_vars['MACHINE_ARCH'], bb_vars['TARGET_VENDOR'], bb_vars['TARGET_OS'])
         cls.deploydir = bb_vars['DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE']
         cls.environment_script_path = '%s/%s' % (cls.deploydir, cls.environment_script)
         cls.corebasedir = bb_vars['COREBASE']
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/minidebuginfo.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/minidebuginfo.py
index 2919f07939..a8923460f9 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/minidebuginfo.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/minidebuginfo.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import subprocess
 import tempfile
 import shutil
 
+from oeqa.core.decorator import OETestTag
 from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
 from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, get_bb_var, get_bb_vars, runCmd
 
@@ -42,3 +43,18 @@ IMAGE_FSTYPES = "tar.bz2"
                     native_sysroot = native_sysroot, target_sys = target_sys)
             self.assertIn(".gnu_debugdata", r.output)
 
+    @OETestTag("runqemu")
+    def test_minidebuginfo_qemu(self):
+        """
+        Test minidebuginfo inside a qemu.
+        This runs test_systemd_coredump_minidebuginfo and other minidebuginfo runtime tests which may be added in the future.
+        """
+
+        self.write_config("""
+DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " minidebuginfo"
+INIT_MANAGER = "systemd"
+IMAGE_CLASSES += "testimage"
+TEST_SUITES = "ping ssh systemd"
+        """)
+        bitbake('core-image-minimal')
+        bitbake('-c testimage core-image-minimal')
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/oescripts.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/oescripts.py
index f69efccfee..bfbc33b08d 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/oescripts.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/oescripts.py
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ class OEListPackageconfigTests(OESelftestTestCase):
     def test_packageconfig_flags_option_all(self):
         results = runCmd('%s/contrib/list-packageconfig-flags.py -a' % self.scripts_dir)
         expected_endlines = []
-        expected_endlines.append("pinentry-1.2.1")
+        expected_endlines.append("pinentry-1.3.1")
         expected_endlines.append("PACKAGECONFIG ncurses")
         expected_endlines.append("PACKAGECONFIG[qt] --enable-pinentry-qt, --disable-pinentry-qt, qtbase-native qtbase")
         expected_endlines.append("PACKAGECONFIG[gtk2] --enable-pinentry-gtk2, --disable-pinentry-gtk2, gtk+ glib-2.0")
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/overlayfs.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/overlayfs.py
index e31063567b..580fbdcb9c 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/overlayfs.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/overlayfs.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #
 
 from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
-from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, runqemu
+from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, runqemu, get_bb_vars
 from oeqa.core.decorator import OETestTag
 from oeqa.core.decorator.data import skipIfNotMachine
 
@@ -466,6 +466,45 @@ IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " overlayfs-user"
             line = getline_qemu(output, "Read-only file system")
             self.assertTrue(line, msg=output)
 
+    @skipIfNotMachine("qemux86-64", "tests are qemux86-64 specific currently")
+    def test_postinst_on_target_for_read_only_rootfs(self):
+        """
+        Summary:  The purpose of this test case is to verify that post-installation
+                  on target scripts are executed even if using read-only rootfs when
+                  read-only-rootfs-delayed-postinsts is set
+        Expected: The test files are created on first boot
+        """
+
+        import oe.path
+
+        vars = get_bb_vars(("IMAGE_ROOTFS", "sysconfdir"), "core-image-minimal")
+        sysconfdir = vars["sysconfdir"]
+        self.assertIsNotNone(sysconfdir)
+        # Need to use oe.path here as sysconfdir starts with /
+        targettestdir = os.path.join(sysconfdir, "postinst-test")
+
+        config = self.get_working_config()
+
+        args = {
+            'OVERLAYFS_INIT_OPTION': "",
+            'OVERLAYFS_ETC_USE_ORIG_INIT_NAME': 1,
+            'OVERLAYFS_ROOTFS_TYPE': "ext4",
+            'OVERLAYFS_ETC_CREATE_MOUNT_DIRS': 1
+        }
+
+        # read-only-rootfs is already set in get_working_config()
+        config += 'EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES += "read-only-rootfs-delayed-postinsts"\n'
+        config += 'CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL = "postinst-delayed-b"\n'
+
+        self.write_config(config.format(**args))
+
+        res = bitbake('core-image-minimal')
+
+        with runqemu('core-image-minimal', image_fstype='wic') as qemu:
+            for filename in ("rootfs", "delayed-a", "delayed-b"):
+                status, output = qemu.run_serial("test -f %s && echo found" % os.path.join(targettestdir, filename))
+                self.assertIn("found", output, "%s was not present on boot" % filename)
+
     def get_working_config(self):
         return """
 # Use systemd as init manager
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
index 1aa6c03f8a..38ed7173fe 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
@@ -103,11 +103,37 @@ class PackageTests(OESelftestTestCase):
 
         dest = get_bb_var('PKGDEST', 'selftest-hardlink')
         bindir = get_bb_var('bindir', 'selftest-hardlink')
+        libdir = get_bb_var('libdir', 'selftest-hardlink')
+        libexecdir = get_bb_var('libexecdir', 'selftest-hardlink')
 
         def checkfiles():
             # Recipe creates 4 hardlinked files, there is a copy in package/ and a copy in packages-split/
             # so expect 8 in total.
             self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink" + bindir + "/hello1").st_nlink, 8)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink" + libexecdir + "/hello3").st_nlink, 8)
+
+            # Check dbg version
+            # 2 items, a copy in both package/packages-split so 4
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + bindir + "/.debug/hello1").st_nlink, 4)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libexecdir + "/.debug/hello1").st_nlink, 4)
+
+            # Even though the libexecdir name is 'hello3' or 'hello4', that isn't the debug target name
+            self.assertEqual(os.path.exists(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libexecdir + "/.debug/hello3"), False)
+            self.assertEqual(os.path.exists(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libexecdir + "/.debug/hello4"), False)
+
+            # Check the staticdev libraries
+            # 101 items, a copy in both package/packages-split so 202
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-staticdev" + libdir + "/libhello.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-staticdev" + libdir + "/libhello-25.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-staticdev" + libdir + "/libhello-50.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-staticdev" + libdir + "/libhello-75.a").st_nlink, 202)
+
+            # Check static dbg
+            # 101 items, a copy in both package/packages-split so 202
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libdir + "/.debug-static/libhello.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libdir + "/.debug-static/libhello-25.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libdir + "/.debug-static/libhello-50.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libdir + "/.debug-static/libhello-75.a").st_nlink, 202)
 
             # Test a sparse file remains sparse
             sparsestat = os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink" + bindir + "/sparsetest")
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/picolibc.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/picolibc.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e40b4fc3d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/picolibc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
+from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, get_bb_var
+
+class PicolibcTest(OESelftestTestCase):
+
+    def test_picolibc(self):
+        compatible_machines = ['qemuarm', 'qemuarm64', 'qemuriscv32', 'qemuriscv64']
+        machine = get_bb_var('MACHINE')
+        if machine not in compatible_machines:
+            self.skipTest('This test only works with machines : %s' % ' '.join(compatible_machines))
+        self.write_config('TCLIBC = "picolibc"')
+        bitbake("picolibc-helloworld")
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
index 126906df50..f742dd4d64 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ class RecipetoolAppendTests(RecipetoolBase):
                          '\n',
                          'do_install:append() {\n',
                          '    install -d ${D}${%s}\n' % dirname,
-                         '    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/%s ${D}${%s}/ls\n' % (testfile2name, dirname),
+                         '    install -m 0755 ${UNPACKDIR}/%s ${D}${%s}/ls\n' % (testfile2name, dirname),
                          '}\n']
         self._try_recipetool_appendfile('coreutils', lspath, testfile2, '-r coreutils', expectedlines, [testfile2name])
         # Now try bbappending the same file again, contents should not change
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ class RecipetoolAppendTests(RecipetoolBase):
                          '\n',
                          'do_install:append() {\n',
                          '    install -d ${D}${datadir}\n',
-                         '    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/something\n',
+                         '    install -m 0644 ${UNPACKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/something\n',
                          '}\n']
         self._try_recipetool_appendfile('netbase', '/usr/share/something', self.testfile, '-r netbase', expectedlines, ['testfile'])
         # Try adding another file, this time where the source file is executable
@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ class RecipetoolAppendTests(RecipetoolBase):
                          '\n',
                          'do_install:append() {\n',
                          '    install -d ${D}${datadir}\n',
-                         '    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/something\n',
-                         '    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/%s ${D}${datadir}/scriptname\n' % testfile2name,
+                         '    install -m 0644 ${UNPACKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/something\n',
+                         '    install -m 0755 ${UNPACKDIR}/%s ${D}${datadir}/scriptname\n' % testfile2name,
                          '}\n']
         self._try_recipetool_appendfile('netbase', '/usr/share/scriptname', testfile2, '-r netbase', expectedlines, ['testfile', testfile2name])
 
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ class RecipetoolAppendTests(RecipetoolBase):
                          '\n',
                          'do_install:append() {\n',
                          '    install -d ${D}${bindir}\n',
-                         '    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/testfile ${D}${bindir}/selftest-recipetool-testbin\n',
+                         '    install -m 0755 ${UNPACKDIR}/testfile ${D}${bindir}/selftest-recipetool-testbin\n',
                          '}\n']
         _, output = self._try_recipetool_appendfile('netbase', '/usr/bin/selftest-recipetool-testbin', self.testfile, '-r netbase', expectedlines, ['testfile'])
         self.assertNotIn('WARNING: ', output)
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ class RecipetoolAppendTests(RecipetoolBase):
                          '\n',
                          'do_install:append:mymachine() {\n',
                          '    install -d ${D}${datadir}\n',
-                         '    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/something\n',
+                         '    install -m 0644 ${UNPACKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/something\n',
                          '}\n']
         _, output = self._try_recipetool_appendfile('netbase', '/usr/share/something', self.testfile, '-r netbase -m mymachine', expectedlines, ['mymachine/testfile'])
         self.assertNotIn('WARNING: ', output)
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ class RecipetoolAppendTests(RecipetoolBase):
                          '\n',
                          'do_install:append() {\n',
                          '    install -d ${D}${datadir}\n',
-                         '    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/selftest-replaceme-subdir\n',
+                         '    install -m 0644 ${UNPACKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/selftest-replaceme-subdir\n',
                          '}\n']
         _, output = self._try_recipetool_appendfile('selftest-recipetool-appendfile', '/usr/share/selftest-replaceme-subdir', self.testfile, '', expectedlines, ['testfile'])
         self.assertNotIn('WARNING: ', output)
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ class RecipetoolAppendTests(RecipetoolBase):
                          '\n',
                          'do_install:append() {\n',
                          '    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}\n',
-                         '    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/testfile ${D}${sysconfdir}/selftest-replaceme-patched\n',
+                         '    install -m 0644 ${UNPACKDIR}/testfile ${D}${sysconfdir}/selftest-replaceme-patched\n',
                          '}\n']
         _, output = self._try_recipetool_appendfile('selftest-recipetool-appendfile', '/etc/selftest-replaceme-patched', self.testfile, '', expectedlines, ['testfile'])
         for line in output.splitlines():
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ class RecipetoolAppendTests(RecipetoolBase):
                          '\n',
                          'do_install:append() {\n',
                          '    install -d ${D}${datadir}\n',
-                         '    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/selftest-replaceme-scripted\n',
+                         '    install -m 0644 ${UNPACKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/selftest-replaceme-scripted\n',
                          '}\n']
         _, output = self._try_recipetool_appendfile('selftest-recipetool-appendfile', '/usr/share/selftest-replaceme-scripted', self.testfile, '', expectedlines, ['testfile'])
         self.assertNotIn('WARNING: ', output)
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ class RecipetoolAppendTests(RecipetoolBase):
                          '\n',
                          'do_install:append() {\n',
                          '    install -d ${D}${datadir}\n',
-                         '    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/selftest-replaceme-postinst\n',
+                         '    install -m 0644 ${UNPACKDIR}/testfile ${D}${datadir}/selftest-replaceme-postinst\n',
                          '}\n']
         _, output = self._try_recipetool_appendfile('selftest-recipetool-appendfile', '/usr/share/selftest-replaceme-postinst', self.testfile, '-r selftest-recipetool-appendfile', expectedlines, ['testfile'])
 
@@ -1068,6 +1068,7 @@ class RecipetoolTests(RecipetoolBase):
 
         d = DataConnectorCopy
         d.getVar = Mock(return_value=commonlicdir)
+        d.expand = Mock(side_effect=lambda x: x)
 
         srctree = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='recipetoolqa')
         self.track_for_cleanup(srctree)
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipeutils.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipeutils.py
index 2cb4445f81..9949737172 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipeutils.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipeutils.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class RecipeUtilsTests(OESelftestTestCase):
         expected_patch = """
 --- a/recipes-test/recipeutils/recipeutils-test_1.2.bb
 +++ b/recipes-test/recipeutils/recipeutils-test_1.2.bb
-@@ -8,6 +8,4 @@
+@@ -11,6 +11,4 @@
  
  BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
  
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class RecipeUtilsTests(OESelftestTestCase):
         expected_patch = """
 --- a/recipes-test/recipeutils/recipeutils-test_1.2.bb
 +++ b/recipes-test/recipeutils/recipeutils-test_1.2.bb
-@@ -8,6 +8,3 @@
+@@ -11,6 +11,3 @@
  
  BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
  
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
index 80e830136f..3d3f30eebc 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ class ReproducibleTests(OESelftestTestCase):
     max_report_size = 250 * 1024 * 1024
 
     # targets are the things we want to test the reproducibility of
-    targets = ['core-image-minimal', 'core-image-sato', 'core-image-full-cmdline', 'core-image-weston', 'world']
+    # Have to add the virtual targets manually for now as builds may or may not include them as they're exclude from world
+    targets = ['core-image-minimal', 'core-image-sato', 'core-image-full-cmdline', 'core-image-weston', 'world', 'virtual/librpc', 'virtual/libsdl2', 'virtual/crypt']
 
     # sstate targets are things to pull from sstate to potentially cut build/debugging time
     sstate_targets = []
@@ -273,9 +274,13 @@ class ReproducibleTests(OESelftestTestCase):
             os.chmod(save_dir, stat.S_IRWXU | stat.S_IRGRP | stat.S_IXGRP | stat.S_IROTH | stat.S_IXOTH)
             self.logger.info('Non-reproducible packages will be copied to %s', save_dir)
 
+        # The below bug shows that a few reproducible issues are depends on build dir path length.
+        # https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15554
+        # So, the reproducibleA & reproducibleB directories are changed to reproducibleA & reproducibleB-extended to have different size.
+
         vars_A = self.do_test_build('reproducibleA', self.build_from_sstate)
 
-        vars_B = self.do_test_build('reproducibleB', False)
+        vars_B = self.do_test_build('reproducibleB-extended', False)
 
         # NOTE: The temp directories from the reproducible build are purposely
         # kept after the build so it can be diffed for debugging.
@@ -330,7 +335,7 @@ class ReproducibleTests(OESelftestTestCase):
                 # Copy jquery to improve the diffoscope output usability
                 self.copy_file(os.path.join(jquery_sysroot, 'usr/share/javascript/jquery/jquery.min.js'), os.path.join(package_html_dir, 'jquery.js'))
 
-                run_diffoscope('reproducibleA', 'reproducibleB', package_html_dir, max_report_size=self.max_report_size,
+                run_diffoscope('reproducibleA', 'reproducibleB-extended', package_html_dir, max_report_size=self.max_report_size,
                         native_sysroot=diffoscope_sysroot, ignore_status=True, cwd=package_dir)
 
         if fails:
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/retain.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/retain.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..892be45857
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/retain.py
@@ -0,0 +1,241 @@
+# Tests for retain.bbclass
+#
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+import os
+import glob
+import fnmatch
+import oe.path
+import shutil
+import tarfile
+from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, get_bb_vars
+from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
+
+class Retain(OESelftestTestCase):
+
+    def test_retain_always(self):
+        """
+        Summary:     Test retain class with RETAIN_DIRS_ALWAYS
+        Expected:    Archive written to RETAIN_OUTDIR when build of test recipe completes
+        Product:     oe-core
+        Author:      Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>
+        """
+
+        test_recipe = 'quilt-native'
+
+        features = 'INHERIT += "retain"\n'
+        features += 'RETAIN_DIRS_ALWAYS = "${T}"\n'
+        self.write_config(features)
+
+        bitbake('-c clean %s' % test_recipe)
+
+        bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['RETAIN_OUTDIR', 'TMPDIR'])
+        retain_outdir = bb_vars['RETAIN_OUTDIR'] or ''
+        tmpdir = bb_vars['TMPDIR']
+        if len(retain_outdir) < 5:
+            self.fail('RETAIN_OUTDIR value "%s" is invalid' % retain_outdir)
+        if not oe.path.is_path_parent(tmpdir, retain_outdir):
+            self.fail('RETAIN_OUTDIR (%s) is not underneath TMPDIR (%s)' % (retain_outdir, tmpdir))
+        try:
+            shutil.rmtree(retain_outdir)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            pass
+
+        bitbake(test_recipe)
+        if not glob.glob(os.path.join(retain_outdir, '%s_temp_*.tar.gz' % test_recipe)):
+            self.fail('No output archive for %s created' % test_recipe)
+
+
+    def test_retain_failure(self):
+        """
+        Summary:     Test retain class default behaviour
+        Expected:    Archive written to RETAIN_OUTDIR only when build of test
+                     recipe fails, and archive contents are as expected
+        Product:     oe-core
+        Author:      Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>
+        """
+
+        test_recipe_fail = 'error'
+
+        features = 'INHERIT += "retain"\n'
+        self.write_config(features)
+
+        bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['RETAIN_OUTDIR', 'TMPDIR', 'RETAIN_DIRS_ALWAYS', 'RETAIN_DIRS_GLOBAL_ALWAYS'])
+        if bb_vars['RETAIN_DIRS_ALWAYS']:
+            self.fail('RETAIN_DIRS_ALWAYS is set, this interferes with the test')
+        if bb_vars['RETAIN_DIRS_GLOBAL_ALWAYS']:
+            self.fail('RETAIN_DIRS_GLOBAL_ALWAYS is set, this interferes with the test')
+        retain_outdir = bb_vars['RETAIN_OUTDIR'] or ''
+        tmpdir = bb_vars['TMPDIR']
+        if len(retain_outdir) < 5:
+            self.fail('RETAIN_OUTDIR value "%s" is invalid' % retain_outdir)
+        if not oe.path.is_path_parent(tmpdir, retain_outdir):
+            self.fail('RETAIN_OUTDIR (%s) is not underneath TMPDIR (%s)' % (retain_outdir, tmpdir))
+
+        try:
+            shutil.rmtree(retain_outdir)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            pass
+
+        bitbake('-c clean %s' % test_recipe_fail)
+
+        if os.path.exists(retain_outdir):
+            retain_dirlist = os.listdir(retain_outdir)
+            if retain_dirlist:
+                self.fail('RETAIN_OUTDIR should be empty without failure, contents:\n%s' % '\n'.join(retain_dirlist))
+
+        result = bitbake('-c compile %s' % test_recipe_fail, ignore_status=True)
+        if result.status == 0:
+            self.fail('Build of %s did not fail as expected' % test_recipe_fail)
+
+        archives = glob.glob(os.path.join(retain_outdir, '%s_*.tar.gz' % test_recipe_fail))
+        if not archives:
+            self.fail('No output archive for %s created' % test_recipe_fail)
+        if len(archives) > 1:
+            self.fail('More than one archive for %s created' % test_recipe_fail)
+        for archive in archives:
+            found = False
+            archive_prefix = os.path.basename(archive).split('.tar')[0]
+            expected_prefix_start = '%s_workdir' % test_recipe_fail
+            if not archive_prefix.startswith(expected_prefix_start):
+                self.fail('Archive %s name does not start with expected prefix "%s"' % (os.path.basename(archive), expected_prefix_start))
+            with tarfile.open(archive) as tf:
+                for ti in tf:
+                    if not fnmatch.fnmatch(ti.name, '%s/*' % archive_prefix):
+                        self.fail('File without tarball-named subdirectory within tarball %s: %s' % (os.path.basename(archive), ti.name))
+                    if ti.name.endswith('/temp/log.do_compile'):
+                        found = True
+            if not found:
+                self.fail('Did not find log.do_compile in output archive %s' % os.path.basename(archive))
+
+
+    def test_retain_global(self):
+        """
+        Summary:     Test retain class RETAIN_DIRS_GLOBAL_* behaviour
+        Expected:    Ensure RETAIN_DIRS_GLOBAL_ALWAYS always causes an
+                     archive to be created, and RETAIN_DIRS_GLOBAL_FAILURE
+                     only causes an archive to be created on failure.
+                     Also test archive naming (with : character) as an
+                     added bonus.
+        Product:     oe-core
+        Author:      Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>
+        """
+
+        test_recipe = 'quilt-native'
+        test_recipe_fail = 'error'
+
+        features = 'INHERIT += "retain"\n'
+        features += 'RETAIN_DIRS_GLOBAL_ALWAYS = "${LOG_DIR};prefix=buildlogs"\n'
+        features += 'RETAIN_DIRS_GLOBAL_FAILURE = "${STAMPS_DIR}"\n'
+        self.write_config(features)
+
+        bitbake('-c clean %s' % test_recipe)
+
+        bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['RETAIN_OUTDIR', 'TMPDIR', 'STAMPS_DIR'])
+        retain_outdir = bb_vars['RETAIN_OUTDIR'] or ''
+        tmpdir = bb_vars['TMPDIR']
+        if len(retain_outdir) < 5:
+            self.fail('RETAIN_OUTDIR value "%s" is invalid' % retain_outdir)
+        if not oe.path.is_path_parent(tmpdir, retain_outdir):
+            self.fail('RETAIN_OUTDIR (%s) is not underneath TMPDIR (%s)' % (retain_outdir, tmpdir))
+        try:
+            shutil.rmtree(retain_outdir)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            pass
+
+        # Test success case
+        bitbake(test_recipe)
+        if not glob.glob(os.path.join(retain_outdir, 'buildlogs_*.tar.gz')):
+            self.fail('No output archive for LOG_DIR created')
+        stamps_dir = bb_vars['STAMPS_DIR']
+        if glob.glob(os.path.join(retain_outdir, '%s_*.tar.gz' % os.path.basename(stamps_dir))):
+            self.fail('Output archive for STAMPS_DIR created when it should not have been')
+
+        # Test failure case
+        result = bitbake('-c compile %s' % test_recipe_fail, ignore_status=True)
+        if result.status == 0:
+            self.fail('Build of %s did not fail as expected' % test_recipe_fail)
+        if not glob.glob(os.path.join(retain_outdir, '%s_*.tar.gz' % os.path.basename(stamps_dir))):
+            self.fail('Output archive for STAMPS_DIR not created')
+        if len(glob.glob(os.path.join(retain_outdir, 'buildlogs_*.tar.gz'))) != 2:
+            self.fail('Should be exactly two buildlogs archives in output dir')
+
+
+    def test_retain_misc(self):
+        """
+        Summary:     Test retain class with RETAIN_ENABLED and RETAIN_TARBALL_SUFFIX
+        Expected:    Archive written to RETAIN_OUTDIR only when RETAIN_ENABLED is set
+                     and archive contents are as expected. Also test archive naming
+                     (with : character) as an added bonus.
+        Product:     oe-core
+        Author:      Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>
+        """
+
+        test_recipe_fail = 'error'
+
+        features = 'INHERIT += "retain"\n'
+        features += 'RETAIN_DIRS_ALWAYS = "${T}"\n'
+        features += 'RETAIN_ENABLED = "0"\n'
+        self.write_config(features)
+
+        bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['RETAIN_OUTDIR', 'TMPDIR'])
+        retain_outdir = bb_vars['RETAIN_OUTDIR'] or ''
+        tmpdir = bb_vars['TMPDIR']
+        if len(retain_outdir) < 5:
+            self.fail('RETAIN_OUTDIR value "%s" is invalid' % retain_outdir)
+        if not oe.path.is_path_parent(tmpdir, retain_outdir):
+            self.fail('RETAIN_OUTDIR (%s) is not underneath TMPDIR (%s)' % (retain_outdir, tmpdir))
+
+        try:
+            shutil.rmtree(retain_outdir)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            pass
+
+        bitbake('-c clean %s' % test_recipe_fail)
+        result = bitbake('-c compile %s' % test_recipe_fail, ignore_status=True)
+        if result.status == 0:
+            self.fail('Build of %s did not fail as expected' % test_recipe_fail)
+
+        if os.path.exists(retain_outdir) and os.listdir(retain_outdir):
+            self.fail('RETAIN_OUTDIR should be empty with RETAIN_ENABLED = "0"')
+
+        features = 'INHERIT += "retain"\n'
+        features += 'RETAIN_DIRS_ALWAYS = "${T};prefix=recipelogs"\n'
+        features += 'RETAIN_TARBALL_SUFFIX = "${DATETIME}-testsuffix.tar.bz2"\n'
+        features += 'RETAIN_ENABLED = "1"\n'
+        self.write_config(features)
+
+        result = bitbake('-c compile %s' % test_recipe_fail, ignore_status=True)
+        if result.status == 0:
+            self.fail('Build of %s did not fail as expected' % test_recipe_fail)
+
+        archives = glob.glob(os.path.join(retain_outdir, '%s_*-testsuffix.tar.bz2' % test_recipe_fail))
+        if not archives:
+            self.fail('No output archive for %s created' % test_recipe_fail)
+        if len(archives) != 2:
+            self.fail('Two archives for %s expected, but %d exist' % (test_recipe_fail, len(archives)))
+        recipelogs_found = False
+        workdir_found = False
+        for archive in archives:
+            contents_found = False
+            archive_prefix = os.path.basename(archive).split('.tar')[0]
+            if archive_prefix.startswith('%s_recipelogs' % test_recipe_fail):
+                recipelogs_found = True
+            if archive_prefix.startswith('%s_workdir' % test_recipe_fail):
+                workdir_found = True
+            with tarfile.open(archive, 'r:bz2') as tf:
+                for ti in tf:
+                    if not fnmatch.fnmatch(ti.name, '%s/*' % (archive_prefix)):
+                        self.fail('File without tarball-named subdirectory within tarball %s: %s' % (os.path.basename(archive), ti.name))
+                    if ti.name.endswith('/log.do_compile'):
+                        contents_found = True
+            if not contents_found:
+                # Both archives should contain this file
+                self.fail('Did not find log.do_compile in output archive %s' % os.path.basename(archive))
+        if not recipelogs_found:
+            self.fail('No archive with expected "recipelogs" prefix found')
+        if not workdir_found:
+            self.fail('No archive with expected "workdir" prefix found')
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py
index 12000aac16..27090ae5cd 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS += " slirp"
         import subprocess, os
 
         distro = oe.lsb.distro_identifier()
-        if distro and (distro in ['debian-9', 'debian-10', 'centos-7', 'centos-8', 'ubuntu-16.04', 'ubuntu-18.04'] or
+        if distro and (distro in ['debian-9', 'debian-10', 'centos-7', 'centos-8', 'centos-9', 'ubuntu-16.04', 'ubuntu-18.04'] or
             distro.startswith('almalinux') or distro.startswith('rocky')):
             self.skipTest('virgl headless cannot be tested with %s' %(distro))
 
@@ -310,10 +310,7 @@ class Postinst(OESelftestTestCase):
                 features += 'IMAGE_FEATURES += "package-management empty-root-password"\n'
                 features += 'PACKAGE_CLASSES = "%s"\n' % classes
                 if init_manager == "systemd":
-                    features += 'DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " systemd usrmerge"\n'
-                    features += 'VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"\n'
-                    features += 'DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED = "sysvinit"\n'
-                    features += 'VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = ""\n'
+                    features += 'INIT_MANAGER = "systemd"\n'
                 self.write_config(features)
 
                 bitbake('core-image-minimal')
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/rust.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/rust.py
index ad14189c6d..cbe6366f75 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/rust.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/rust.py
@@ -66,132 +66,45 @@ class RustSelfTestSystemEmulated(OESelftestTestCase, OEPTestResultTestCase):
         # bless: First runs rustfmt to format the codebase,
         # then runs tidy checks.
         exclude_list =  [
-                            'compiler/rustc',
-                            'compiler/rustc_interface/src/tests.rs',
-                            'library/panic_abort',
-                            'library/panic_unwind',
-                            'library/test/src/stats/tests.rs',
-                            'src/bootstrap/builder/tests.rs',
+                            'src/bootstrap',
                             'src/doc/rustc',
                             'src/doc/rustdoc',
                             'src/doc/unstable-book',
                             'src/librustdoc',
                             'src/rustdoc-json-types',
                             'src/tools/compiletest/src/common.rs',
+                            'src/tools/jsondoclint',
                             'src/tools/lint-docs',
+                            'src/tools/replace-version-placeholder',
                             'src/tools/rust-analyzer',
                             'src/tools/rustdoc-themes',
-                            'src/tools/tidy',
+                            'src/tools/rust-installer',
+                            'src/tools/suggest-tests',
+                            'src/tools/tidy/src/',
                             'tests/assembly/asm/aarch64-outline-atomics.rs',
                             'tests/codegen/abi-main-signature-32bit-c-int.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/abi-repr-ext.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/abi-x86-interrupt.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/branch-protection.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/catch-unwind.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/cf-protection.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/enum-bounds-check-derived-idx.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/force-unwind-tables.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/intrinsic-no-unnamed-attr.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/issues/issue-103840.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/issues/issue-47278.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/issues/issue-73827-bounds-check-index-in-subexpr.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/lifetime_start_end.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/local-generics-in-exe-internalized.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/match-unoptimized.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/noalias-rwlockreadguard.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/non-terminate/nonempty-infinite-loop.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/noreturn-uninhabited.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/repr-transparent-aggregates-3.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/riscv-abi/call-llvm-intrinsics.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/riscv-abi/riscv64-lp64f-lp64d-abi.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/riscv-abi/riscv64-lp64d-abi.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/sse42-implies-crc32.rs',
+                            'tests/codegen/i128-x86-align.rs',
+                            'tests/codegen/issues/issue-122805.rs',
                             'tests/codegen/thread-local.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/uninit-consts.rs',
-                            'tests/pretty/raw-str-nonexpr.rs',
+                            'tests/mir-opt/',
                             'tests/run-make',
                             'tests/run-make-fulldeps',
                             'tests/rustdoc',
                             'tests/rustdoc-json',
                             'tests/rustdoc-js-std',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/cfg-test.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/check-cfg-test.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/display-output.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/doc-comment-multi-line-attr.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/doc-comment-multi-line-cfg-attr.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/doc-test-doctest-feature.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/doctest-multiline-crate-attribute.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/doctest-output.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/doc-test-rustdoc-feature.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/failed-doctest-compile-fail.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/issue-80992.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/issue-91134.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/nocapture-fail.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/nocapture.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/no-run-flag.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/run-directory.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/test-no_std.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/test-type.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc/unit-return.rs',
                             'tests/ui/abi/stack-probes-lto.rs',
                             'tests/ui/abi/stack-probes.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/array-slice-vec/subslice-patterns-const-eval-match.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/asm/x86_64/sym.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/associated-type-bounds/fn-apit.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/associated-type-bounds/fn-dyn-apit.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/associated-type-bounds/fn-wrap-apit.rs',
+                            'tests/ui/codegen/mismatched-data-layouts.rs',
                             'tests/ui/debuginfo/debuginfo-emit-llvm-ir-and-split-debuginfo.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/drop/dynamic-drop.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/empty_global_asm.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/functions-closures/fn-help-with-err.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/linkage-attr/issue-10755.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/macros/restricted-shadowing-legacy.rs',
+                            'tests/ui-fulldeps/',
                             'tests/ui/process/nofile-limit.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/process/process-panic-after-fork.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/process/process-sigpipe.rs',
-                            'tests/ui/simd/target-feature-mixup.rs',
                             'tests/ui/structs-enums/multiple-reprs.rs',
-                            'src/tools/jsondoclint',
-                            'src/tools/replace-version-placeholder',
-                            'tests/codegen/abi-efiapi.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/abi-sysv64.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/align-byval.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/align-fn.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/asm-powerpc-clobbers.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/async-fn-debug-awaitee-field.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/binary-search-index-no-bound-check.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/call-metadata.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/debug-column.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/debug-limited.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/debuginfo-generic-closure-env-names.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/drop.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/dst-vtable-align-nonzero.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/enable-lto-unit-splitting.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/enum/enum-u128.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/fn-impl-trait-self.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/inherit_overflow.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/inline-function-args-debug-info.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/intrinsics/mask.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/intrinsics/transmute-niched.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/issues/issue-73258.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/issues/issue-75546.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/issues/issue-77812.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/issues/issue-98156-const-arg-temp-lifetime.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/llvm-ident.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/mainsubprogram.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/move-operands.rs',
-                            'tests/codegen/repr/transparent-mips64.rs',
-                            'tests/mir-opt/',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-json',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/doc-test-rustdoc-feature.rs',
-                            'tests/rustdoc-ui/no-run-flag.rs',
-                            'tests/ui-fulldeps/',
-                            'tests/ui/numbers-arithmetic/u128.rs'
+                            'tidyselftest'
                         ]
 
         exclude_fail_tests = " ".join([" --exclude " + item for item in exclude_list])
         # Add exclude_fail_tests with other test arguments
-        testargs =  exclude_fail_tests + " --doc --no-fail-fast --bless"
+        testargs =  exclude_fail_tests + " --no-fail-fast --bless"
 
         # wrap the execution with a qemu instance.
         # Tests are run with 512 tasks in parallel to execute all tests very quickly
@@ -210,9 +123,8 @@ class RustSelfTestSystemEmulated(OESelftestTestCase, OEPTestResultTestCase):
             tmpdir = get_bb_var("TMPDIR", "rust")
 
             # Set path for target-poky-linux-gcc, RUST_TARGET_PATH and hosttools.
-            cmd = " export PATH=%s/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin:$PATH;" % rustlibpath
-            cmd = cmd + " export TARGET_VENDOR=\"-poky\";"
-            cmd = cmd + " export PATH=%s/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/%s:%s/hosttools:$PATH;" % (rustlibpath, tcpath, tmpdir)
+            cmd = "export TARGET_VENDOR=\"-poky\";"
+            cmd = cmd + " export PATH=%s/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/python3-native:%s/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin:%s/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/%s:%s/hosttools:$PATH;" % (rustlibpath, rustlibpath, rustlibpath, tcpath, tmpdir)
             cmd = cmd + " export RUST_TARGET_PATH=%s/rust-targets;" % rustlibpath
             # Trigger testing.
             cmd = cmd + " export TEST_DEVICE_ADDR=\"%s:12345\";" % qemu.ip
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/spdx.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/spdx.py
index 05fc4e390b..be595babb3 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/spdx.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/spdx.py
@@ -6,29 +6,37 @@
 
 import json
 import os
+import textwrap
+from pathlib import Path
 from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
-from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, get_bb_var, runCmd
+from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, get_bb_var, get_bb_vars, runCmd
 
-class SPDXCheck(OESelftestTestCase):
 
+class SPDX22Check(OESelftestTestCase):
     @classmethod
     def setUpClass(cls):
-        super(SPDXCheck, cls).setUpClass()
+        super().setUpClass()
         bitbake("python3-spdx-tools-native")
         bitbake("-c addto_recipe_sysroot python3-spdx-tools-native")
 
     def check_recipe_spdx(self, high_level_dir, spdx_file, target_name):
-        config = """
-INHERIT += "create-spdx"
-"""
+        config = textwrap.dedent(
+            """\
+            INHERIT:remove = "create-spdx"
+            INHERIT += "create-spdx-2.2"
+            """
+        )
         self.write_config(config)
 
         deploy_dir = get_bb_var("DEPLOY_DIR")
         machine_var = get_bb_var("MACHINE")
+        spdx_version = get_bb_var("SPDX_VERSION")
         # qemux86-64 creates the directory qemux86_64
         machine_dir = machine_var.replace("-", "_")
 
-        full_file_path = os.path.join(deploy_dir, "spdx", machine_dir, high_level_dir, spdx_file)
+        full_file_path = os.path.join(
+            deploy_dir, "spdx", spdx_version, machine_dir, high_level_dir, spdx_file
+        )
 
         try:
             os.remove(full_file_path)
@@ -43,8 +51,13 @@ INHERIT += "create-spdx"
                 self.assertNotEqual(report, None)
                 self.assertNotEqual(report["SPDXID"], None)
 
-            python = os.path.join(get_bb_var('STAGING_BINDIR', 'python3-spdx-tools-native'), 'nativepython3')
-            validator = os.path.join(get_bb_var('STAGING_BINDIR', 'python3-spdx-tools-native'), 'pyspdxtools')
+            python = os.path.join(
+                get_bb_var("STAGING_BINDIR", "python3-spdx-tools-native"),
+                "nativepython3",
+            )
+            validator = os.path.join(
+                get_bb_var("STAGING_BINDIR", "python3-spdx-tools-native"), "pyspdxtools"
+            )
             result = runCmd("{} {} -i {}".format(python, validator, filename))
 
         self.assertExists(full_file_path)
@@ -52,3 +65,106 @@ INHERIT += "create-spdx"
 
     def test_spdx_base_files(self):
         self.check_recipe_spdx("packages", "base-files.spdx.json", "base-files")
+
+
+class SPDX3CheckBase(object):
+    """
+    Base class for checking SPDX 3 based tests
+    """
+
+    def check_spdx_file(self, filename):
+        import oe.spdx30
+
+        self.assertExists(filename)
+
+        # Read the file
+        objset = oe.spdx30.SHACLObjectSet()
+        with open(filename, "r") as f:
+            d = oe.spdx30.JSONLDDeserializer()
+            d.read(f, objset)
+
+        return objset
+
+    def check_recipe_spdx(self, target_name, spdx_path, *, task=None, extraconf=""):
+        config = textwrap.dedent(
+            f"""\
+            INHERIT:remove = "create-spdx"
+            INHERIT += "{self.SPDX_CLASS}"
+            {extraconf}
+            """
+        )
+        self.write_config(config)
+
+        if task:
+            bitbake(f"-c {task} {target_name}")
+        else:
+            bitbake(target_name)
+
+        filename = spdx_path.format(
+            **get_bb_vars(
+                [
+                    "DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE",
+                    "DEPLOY_DIR_SPDX",
+                    "MACHINE",
+                    "MACHINE_ARCH",
+                    "SDKMACHINE",
+                    "SDK_DEPLOY",
+                    "SPDX_VERSION",
+                    "TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME",
+                ],
+                target_name,
+            )
+        )
+
+        return self.check_spdx_file(filename)
+
+    def check_objset_missing_ids(self, objset):
+        if objset.missing_ids:
+            self.assertTrue(
+                False,
+                "The following SPDXIDs are unresolved:\n  "
+                + "\n  ".join(objset.missing_ids),
+            )
+
+
+class SPDX30Check(SPDX3CheckBase, OESelftestTestCase):
+    SPDX_CLASS = "create-spdx-3.0"
+
+    def test_base_files(self):
+        self.check_recipe_spdx(
+            "base-files",
+            "{DEPLOY_DIR_SPDX}/{MACHINE_ARCH}/packages/base-files.spdx.json",
+        )
+
+    def test_core_image_minimal(self):
+        objset = self.check_recipe_spdx(
+            "core-image-minimal",
+            "{DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/core-image-minimal-{MACHINE}.rootfs.spdx.json",
+        )
+
+        # Document should be fully linked
+        self.check_objset_missing_ids(objset)
+
+    def test_core_image_minimal_sdk(self):
+        objset = self.check_recipe_spdx(
+            "core-image-minimal",
+            "{SDK_DEPLOY}/{TOOLCHAIN_OUTPUTNAME}.spdx.json",
+            task="populate_sdk",
+        )
+
+        # Document should be fully linked
+        self.check_objset_missing_ids(objset)
+
+    def test_baremetal_helloworld(self):
+        objset = self.check_recipe_spdx(
+            "baremetal-helloworld",
+            "{DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/baremetal-helloworld-image-{MACHINE}.spdx.json",
+            extraconf=textwrap.dedent(
+                """\
+                TCLIBC = "baremetal"
+                """
+            ),
+        )
+
+        # Document should be fully linked
+        self.check_objset_missing_ids(objset)
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/sstatetests.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/sstatetests.py
index 86d6cd7464..ae295bef5f 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/sstatetests.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/sstatetests.py
@@ -378,7 +378,6 @@ class SStateHashSameSigs(SStateBase):
         self.write_config("""
 MACHINE = "qemux86"
 TMPDIR = "${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = ""
 BUILD_ARCH = "x86_64"
 BUILD_OS = "linux"
 SDKMACHINE = "x86_64"
@@ -390,7 +389,6 @@ BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
         self.write_config("""
 MACHINE = "qemux86"
 TMPDIR = "${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash2"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = ""
 BUILD_ARCH = "i686"
 BUILD_OS = "linux"
 SDKMACHINE = "i686"
@@ -426,7 +424,6 @@ BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
 
         self.write_config("""
 TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash\"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = \"\"
 NATIVELSBSTRING = \"DistroA\"
 BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
 """)
@@ -434,7 +431,6 @@ BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
         bitbake("core-image-weston -S none")
         self.write_config("""
 TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash2\"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = \"\"
 NATIVELSBSTRING = \"DistroB\"
 BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
 """)
@@ -463,17 +459,17 @@ class SStateHashSameSigs2(SStateBase):
 
         configA = """
 TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash\"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = \"\"
 MACHINE = \"qemux86-64\"
 BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
 """
         #OLDEST_KERNEL is arch specific so set to a different value here for testing
         configB = """
 TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash2\"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = \"\"
 MACHINE = \"qemuarm\"
 OLDEST_KERNEL = \"3.3.0\"
 BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
+ERROR_QA:append = " somenewoption"
+WARN_QA:append = " someotheroption"
 """
         self.sstate_common_samesigs(configA, configB, allarch=True)
 
@@ -484,7 +480,6 @@ BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
 
         configA = """
 TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash\"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = \"\"
 MACHINE = \"qemux86-64\"
 require conf/multilib.conf
 MULTILIBS = \"multilib:lib32\"
@@ -493,7 +488,6 @@ BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
 """
         configB = """
 TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash2\"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = \"\"
 MACHINE = \"qemuarm\"
 require conf/multilib.conf
 MULTILIBS = \"\"
@@ -511,7 +505,6 @@ class SStateHashSameSigs3(SStateBase):
 
         self.write_config("""
 TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash\"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = \"\"
 MACHINE = \"qemux86\"
 require conf/multilib.conf
 MULTILIBS = "multilib:lib32"
@@ -522,7 +515,6 @@ BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
         bitbake("world meta-toolchain -S none")
         self.write_config("""
 TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash2\"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = \"\"
 MACHINE = \"qemux86copy\"
 require conf/multilib.conf
 MULTILIBS = "multilib:lib32"
@@ -559,7 +551,6 @@ BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
 
         self.write_config("""
 TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash\"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = \"\"
 MACHINE = \"qemux86\"
 require conf/multilib.conf
 MULTILIBS = "multilib:lib32"
@@ -570,7 +561,6 @@ BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
         bitbake("binutils-native  -S none")
         self.write_config("""
 TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash2\"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = \"\"
 MACHINE = \"qemux86copy\"
 BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
 """)
@@ -598,7 +588,6 @@ class SStateHashSameSigs4(SStateBase):
 
         self.write_config("""
 TMPDIR = "${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = ""
 BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "${@oe.utils.cpu_count()}"
 PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 1"
 DL_DIR = "${TOPDIR}/download1"
@@ -613,7 +602,6 @@ BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = "OEBasicHash"
         bitbake("world meta-toolchain -S none")
         self.write_config("""
 TMPDIR = "${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstatesamehash2"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = ""
 BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "${@oe.utils.cpu_count()+1}"
 PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 2"
 DL_DIR = "${TOPDIR}/download2"
@@ -724,7 +712,6 @@ class SStateFindSiginfo(SStateBase):
         """
         self.write_config("""
 TMPDIR = \"${TOPDIR}/tmp-sstates-findsiginfo\"
-TCLIBCAPPEND = \"\"
 MACHINE = \"qemux86-64\"
 require conf/multilib.conf
 MULTILIBS = "multilib:lib32"
@@ -917,15 +904,24 @@ INHERIT += "base-do-configure-modified"
 """,
 expected_sametmp_output, expected_difftmp_output)
 
-@OETestTag("yocto-mirrors")
-class SStateMirrors(SStateBase):
-    def check_bb_output(self, output, exceptions, check_cdn):
+class SStateCheckObjectPresence(SStateBase):
+    def check_bb_output(self, output, targets, exceptions, check_cdn):
         def is_exception(object, exceptions):
             for e in exceptions:
                 if re.search(e, object):
                     return True
             return False
 
+        # sstate is checked for existence of these, but they never get written out to begin with
+        exceptions += ["{}.*image_qa".format(t) for t in targets.split()]
+        exceptions += ["{}.*deploy_source_date_epoch".format(t) for t in targets.split()]
+        exceptions += ["{}.*image_complete".format(t) for t in targets.split()]
+        exceptions += ["linux-yocto.*shared_workdir"]
+        # these get influnced by IMAGE_FSTYPES tweaks in yocto-autobuilder-helper's config.json (on x86-64)
+        # additionally, they depend on noexec (thus, absent stamps) package, install, etc. image tasks,
+        # which makes tracing other changes difficult
+        exceptions += ["{}.*create_.*spdx".format(t) for t in targets.split()]
+
         output_l = output.splitlines()
         for l in output_l:
             if l.startswith("Sstate summary"):
@@ -960,18 +956,9 @@ class SStateMirrors(SStateBase):
         self.assertEqual(len(failed_urls), missing_objects, "Amount of reported missing objects does not match failed URLs: {}\nFailed URLs:\n{}\nFetcher diagnostics:\n{}".format(missing_objects, "\n".join(failed_urls), "\n".join(failed_urls_extrainfo)))
         self.assertEqual(len(failed_urls), 0, "Missing objects in the cache:\n{}\nFetcher diagnostics:\n{}".format("\n".join(failed_urls), "\n".join(failed_urls_extrainfo)))
 
+@OETestTag("yocto-mirrors")
+class SStateMirrors(SStateCheckObjectPresence):
     def run_test(self, machine, targets, exceptions, check_cdn = True, ignore_errors = False):
-        # sstate is checked for existence of these, but they never get written out to begin with
-        exceptions += ["{}.*image_qa".format(t) for t in targets.split()]
-        exceptions += ["{}.*deploy_source_date_epoch".format(t) for t in targets.split()]
-        exceptions += ["{}.*image_complete".format(t) for t in targets.split()]
-        exceptions += ["linux-yocto.*shared_workdir"]
-        # these get influnced by IMAGE_FSTYPES tweaks in yocto-autobuilder-helper's config.json (on x86-64)
-        # additionally, they depend on noexec (thus, absent stamps) package, install, etc. image tasks,
-        # which makes tracing other changes difficult
-        exceptions += ["{}.*create_spdx".format(t) for t in targets.split()]
-        exceptions += ["{}.*create_runtime_spdx".format(t) for t in targets.split()]
-
         if check_cdn:
             self.config_sstate(True)
             self.append_config("""
@@ -987,7 +974,7 @@ MACHINE = "{}"
         bitbake("-S none {}".format(targets))
         if ignore_errors:
             return
-        self.check_bb_output(result.output, exceptions, check_cdn)
+        self.check_bb_output(result.output, targets, exceptions, check_cdn)
 
     def test_cdn_mirror_qemux86_64(self):
         exceptions = []
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
index 99186175e5..acc3b073bd 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
@@ -117,8 +117,11 @@ class OESelftestTestContext(OETestContext):
                     newbblayers += 'BBLAYERS = "%s"\n' % ' '.join(bblayers_abspath)
                     f.write(newbblayers)
 
+        # Rewrite builddir paths seen in environment variables
         for e in os.environ:
-            if builddir + "/" in os.environ[e]:
+            # Rewrite paths that absolutely point inside builddir
+            # (e.g $builddir/conf/ would be rewritten but not $builddir/../bitbake/)
+            if builddir + "/" in os.environ[e] and builddir + "/" in os.path.abspath(os.environ[e]):
                 os.environ[e] = os.environ[e].replace(builddir + "/", newbuilddir + "/")
             if os.environ[e].endswith(builddir):
                 os.environ[e] = os.environ[e].replace(builddir, newbuilddir)
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/__init__.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/__init__.py
index 53bdcbf266..e03f7e33bb 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/__init__.py
@@ -96,4 +96,10 @@ def get_json_result_dir(d):
     custom_json_result_dir = d.getVar("OEQA_JSON_RESULT_DIR")
     if custom_json_result_dir:
         json_result_dir = custom_json_result_dir
-    return json_result_dir
\ No newline at end of file
+    return json_result_dir
+
+def get_artefact_dir(d):
+    custom_json_result_dir = d.getVar("OEQA_ARTEFACT_DIR")
+    if custom_json_result_dir:
+        return custom_json_result_dir
+    return os.path.join(d.getVar("LOG_DIR"), 'oeqa-artefacts')
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/commands.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/commands.py
index 575e380017..bf2f49d0c0 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/commands.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/commands.py
@@ -314,7 +314,23 @@ def create_temp_layer(templayerdir, templayername, priority=999, recipepathspec=
 @contextlib.contextmanager
 def runqemu(pn, ssh=True, runqemuparams='', image_fstype=None, launch_cmd=None, qemuparams=None, overrides={}, discard_writes=True):
     """
-    launch_cmd means directly run the command, don't need set rootfs or env vars.
+    Starts a context manager for a 'oeqa.targetcontrol.QemuTarget' resource.
+    The underlying Qemu will be booted into a shell when the generator yields
+    and stopped when the 'with' block exits.
+
+    Usage:
+
+        with runqemu('core-image-minimal') as qemu:
+            qemu.run_serial('cat /proc/cpuinfo')
+
+    Args:
+        pn (str): (image) recipe to run on
+        ssh (boolean): whether or not to enable SSH (network access)
+        runqemuparams (str): space-separated list of params to pass to 'runqemu' script (like 'nographics', 'ovmf', etc.)
+        image_fstype (str): IMAGE_FSTYPE to use
+        launch_cmd (str): directly run this command and bypass automatic runqemu parameter generation
+        overrides (dict): dict of "'<bitbake-variable>': value" pairs that allows overriding bitbake variables
+        discard_writes (boolean): enables qemu -snapshot feature to prevent modifying original image
     """
 
     import bb.tinfoil
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/postactions.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/postactions.py
index ecdddd2d40..8f787838b9 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/postactions.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/postactions.py
@@ -7,23 +7,20 @@
 # Run a set of actions after tests. The runner provides internal data
 # dictionary as well as test context to any action to run.
 
-from oeqa.utils import get_json_result_dir
-
-def create_artifacts_directory(d, tc):
-    import shutil
-
-    local_artifacts_dir = os.path.join(get_json_result_dir(d), "artifacts")
-    if os.path.isdir(local_artifacts_dir):
-        shutil.rmtree(local_artifacts_dir)
-
-    os.makedirs(local_artifacts_dir)
+import datetime
+import io
+import os
+import stat
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+from oeqa.utils import get_artefact_dir
 
 ##################################################################
 # Host/target statistics
 ##################################################################
 
-def get_target_disk_usage(d, tc):
-    output_file = os.path.join(get_json_result_dir(d), "artifacts", "target_disk_usage.txt")
+def get_target_disk_usage(d, tc, artifacts_list, outputdir):
+    output_file = os.path.join(outputdir, "target_disk_usage.txt")
     try:
         (status, output) = tc.target.run('df -h')
         with open(output_file, 'w') as f:
@@ -32,10 +29,10 @@ def get_target_disk_usage(d, tc):
     except Exception as e:
         bb.warn(f"Can not get target disk usage: {e}")
 
-def get_host_disk_usage(d, tc):
+def get_host_disk_usage(d, tc, artifacts_list, outputdir):
     import subprocess
 
-    output_file = os.path.join(get_json_result_dir(d), "artifacts", "host_disk_usage.txt")
+    output_file = os.path.join(outputdir, "host_disk_usage.txt")
     try:
         with open(output_file, 'w') as f:
             output = subprocess.run(['df', '-hl'], check=True, text=True, stdout=f, env={})
@@ -61,25 +58,21 @@ def get_artifacts_list(target, raw_list):
 
     return result
 
-def retrieve_test_artifacts(target, artifacts_list, target_dir):
-    local_artifacts_dir = os.path.join(target_dir, "artifacts")
-    for artifact_path in artifacts_list:
-        if not os.path.isabs(artifact_path):
-            bb.warn(f"{artifact_path} is not an absolute path")
-            continue
-        try:
-            dest_dir = os.path.join(local_artifacts_dir, os.path.dirname(artifact_path[1:]))
-            os.makedirs(dest_dir, exist_ok=True)
-            target.copyFrom(artifact_path, dest_dir)
-        except Exception as e:
-            bb.warn(f"Can not retrieve {artifact_path} from test target: {e}")
-
-def list_and_fetch_failed_tests_artifacts(d, tc):
-    artifacts_list = get_artifacts_list(tc.target, d.getVar("TESTIMAGE_FAILED_QA_ARTIFACTS"))
+def list_and_fetch_failed_tests_artifacts(d, tc, artifacts_list, outputdir):
+    artifacts_list = get_artifacts_list(tc.target, artifacts_list)
     if not artifacts_list:
         bb.warn("Could not load artifacts list, skip artifacts retrieval")
-    else:
-        retrieve_test_artifacts(tc.target, artifacts_list, get_json_result_dir(d))
+        return
+    try:
+        cmd = "tar zcf - " + " ".join(artifacts_list)
+        (status, output) = tc.target.run(cmd, raw = True)
+        if status != 0 or not output:
+            raise Exception("Error while fetching compressed artifacts")
+        archive_name = os.path.join(outputdir, "tests_artifacts.tar.gz")
+        with open(archive_name, "wb") as f:
+            f.write(output)
+    except Exception as e:
+        bb.warn(f"Can not retrieve artifacts from test target: {e}")
 
 
 ##################################################################
@@ -87,12 +80,22 @@ def list_and_fetch_failed_tests_artifacts(d, tc):
 ##################################################################
 
 def run_failed_tests_post_actions(d, tc):
+    artifacts = d.getVar("TESTIMAGE_FAILED_QA_ARTIFACTS")
+    # Allow all the code to be disabled by having no artifacts set, e.g. for systems with no ssh support
+    if not artifacts:
+        return
+
+    outputdir = get_artefact_dir(d)
+    os.makedirs(outputdir, exist_ok=True)
+    datestr = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d')
+    outputdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='oeqa-target-artefacts-%s-' % datestr, dir=outputdir)
+    os.chmod(outputdir, stat.S_IRWXU | stat.S_IRGRP | stat.S_IXGRP | stat.S_IROTH | stat.S_IXOTH)
+
     post_actions=[
-        create_artifacts_directory,
         list_and_fetch_failed_tests_artifacts,
         get_target_disk_usage,
         get_host_disk_usage
     ]
 
     for action in post_actions:
-        action(d, tc)
+        action(d, tc, artifacts, outputdir)