linux/poky.git/documentation/ref-manual, branch yocto-5.0.17

ref-manual/system-requirements.rst: add CentOS Stream 9 to supported distros

2026-03-31T08:08:51+00:00

Add CentOS Stream 9 to the list of supported distros, after it was added to poky.conf with [1]. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f87e76ef6bd6745038616876af07c6a74b49f8c9.1773966064.git.yoann.congal@smile.fr (From yocto-docs rev: aa7226705451e6c1ef964d49963bbed29b267c27) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Paul Barker

ref-manual/system-requirements.rst: update end-of-life distros

2026-03-16T10:25:52+00:00

Fedora 41 was made obsolete on 2025-12-15 [1]. [1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/eol/ (From yocto-docs rev: ef9af4a9d2a0b7f08c97961958c7535b49bf0739) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

ref-manual/classes.rst: fix broken links to U-Boot documentation

2026-02-27T17:45:07+00:00

In the chapter describing the "uboot-sign" class (From yocto-docs rev: 7ad53da253f6b03b75322ecc53ad6ff8fb1a4809) Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 7d1caa1d3229fb49d6d08ca4952b046c3164e628) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

ref-manual/system-requirements.rst: update untested distros

2026-02-27T17:45:07+00:00

Some distros were removed from the autobuilder 5 months ago: * 070e6bf (config.py: Drop ubuntu2004 workers, 2025-10-01) * 8238327 (config.py: ubuntu24010 was replaced with ubuntu2504, 2025-10-01) Update their status in the supported distros list. (From yocto-docs rev: 2c9de0d74659fef6d7b0054dfd76905fba6ef81d) Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

ref-manual/variables.rst: document the CCACHE_TOP_DIR variable

2026-01-26T09:41:31+00:00

Added by commit 35d7fe73bba1 ("ccache.bbclass: Make it can be shared between different builds") in OE-Core. Fixes [YOCTO #16052] (From yocto-docs rev: 32818c927bde8014e855b10b1d78d3f09beec024) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 550ef8340b550f8d4e9c3d0672190dc09592c621) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

ref-manual/release-process.rst: add a "Development Cycle" section

2026-01-26T09:41:31+00:00

Add a new section to release-process.rst to document the development cycle of each release and namely the milestones and feature freeze occuring after M3. Fixes [YOCTO #15979] (From yocto-docs rev: 1cc5321c162ce36079d661ea1d35c2694c20ed9b) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 77c04cc5944acda7575546a7434e014e4a75ba58) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

ref-manual/classes.rst: document the image-container class

2026-01-26T09:41:30+00:00

Add documentation for the image-container class, which is a simple class to generate an image suitable for creating a container. This answers in part to questions asked in [YOCTO #14368]. It also adds documentation for IMAGE_CONTAINER_NO_DUMMY, which was added in OE-Core with commit f0645e172bb8 ("image-container.bbclass: Error if not using linux-dummy"). Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz (From yocto-docs rev: 85fb6e4a964ea2dea9c3083ba2c4ceb336f34b1a) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 6ce00e5875eb3469fefd55cc22acaaeaf620053a) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

ref-manual/svg/releases.svg: mark whinlatter as current release

2026-01-26T09:41:30+00:00

Whinlatter is the new current Yocto Project release, mark it as an active one. Move it as released in December 2025. (From yocto-docs rev: b0ae6483dd916eea3d144466e597a8e86187d9f7) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 6f8e97c6e529f3c47f45f34d9e04e3ad7bddd587) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

ref-manual/svg/releases.svg: mark styhead and walnascar EOL

2026-01-26T09:41:30+00:00

Walnascar has stopped being updated a while ago, and Styhead is EOL since May 2025. Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz (From yocto-docs rev: 71b03c21dc9d8a9fd0b5cc92808a7944f6c7fe28) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 834de77b543de43ee3c1c12ca1d6277e67e126de) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

documentation: link to the Releases page on yoctoproject.org instead of wiki

2025-11-26T15:50:36+00:00

We have a machine-generated Releases page[1] which is preferable to the wiki. [1] https://www.yoctoproject.org/development/releases/ (From yocto-docs rev: 5af5e64e42732c0919cad499e79ff35ca4255a86) Signed-off-by: Ross Burton Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 46a9172fd17aa518028e35b8c874e74889079094) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman