Yocto 5.0 LTS Released - Now Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Boeing Joins The Project

Yocto 5.0 LTS has been released as the newest version from the Yocto Project that is popular for organizations assembling their own embedded/IoT-minded custom Linux distributions. The Linux Foundation also announced today that Boeing has become a Platinum Member with Yocto.

Yocto 5.0 brings a number of recipe upgrades including the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel, the GCC 13.2 compiler, Glic 2.39, the LLVM 18.1 compiler infrastructure, a number of new architecture-specific enhancements, a number of new core recipes, QEMU enhancements, upgraded Rust support, and various SDK improvements. Among the new core recipes are some Vulkan additions: vulkan-utility-libraries and vulkan-volk.

Yocto 5.0 LTS also adds "genericarm64" kernel support, RISC-V 64-bit is now an SDK host architecture supported, and many other updates for those leveraging it for spinning their own Linux platforms.

More details on the Yocto 5.0 release via YoctoProject.org.

The Linux Foundation also announced today that Boeing has joined the Yocto Project at the Platinum Level. Other Yocto Platinum Level members include AMD, Arm, AWS, BMW Group, Cisco, Comcast, Exein, Intel, LG Electronics, Qualcomm and WindRive.