linux/poky.git/documentation, 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

migration-guides: add release notes for 5.0.16

2026-03-25T17:34:13+00:00

(From yocto-docs rev: 60b1c5e635065acc7a7cd2a22f252fc983da223f) Signed-off-by: Lee Chee Yang [AG: apply suggestions/fix formatting, see https://lore.kernel.org/r/DH5U04M8BZDA.18K1BLZXWXIZS@bootlin.com] Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 368c511dd166dc5c951be3c6f8c6c92086b9a60e) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Paul Barker

overview-manual/concepts: list other possible class directories

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

Classes can be located in three different directories since Langdale (4.1), so let's update which directories you can find in a distribution layer. (From yocto-docs rev: 2141bc2b04ef4210e008752a97ed82979d817dae) Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit fd11d75980315d87ef375091efedad69a123f680) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

overview-manual: escape wildcard in inline markup

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

This change escapes the wildcard in 'recipes-*' to properly italicize the string (From yocto-docs rev: 53bc47aedfd924f75ee77b24d13ae69a10eef221) Signed-off-by: Kristiyan Chakarov Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit b5a4dca823bcc04c0254a0f53a28f61969fb6c31) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

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

dev-manual: delete references to "tar" package format

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

There is no "tar" packaging format anymore, so delete these references. (From yocto-docs rev: e7cbf979deb9739ee4b968672d4b03ae65b24424) Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit e2b4d75fc8d738a39c5941591523620b45bc57e3) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

Makefile: pass -silent to latexmk

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

This should drastically decrease the number of lines in the docs build logs, which currently can go up to 1700000 lines on the Autobuilder[1]. [1]: https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/34/builds/400/steps/6/logs/stdio (From yocto-docs rev: ac3766beaff14ea62552f811b2ffcc43f77d8dd5) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 6e9362923d4ab5599730da2074ab9f5a36e8ba14) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

what-i-wish-id-known.rst: replace figure by the new SVG

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

We have a new SVG figure for the Yocto Project workflow figure, which was updated with d2aaf54bee49 ("overview-manual: convert YP-flow-diagram.png to SVG"). The one in the "What I wish I’d known about Yocto Project" is the same. Remove the PNG and make a reference to the new one. (From yocto-docs rev: ef4b9077c04ed825890abf79848f45d8e692bbf7) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit 4023c47cb6628971b0a142067c4a910420408bb9) 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