Yocto Project Lifecycle policy

Yocto Project is tracked by BlackTree as an operating system or system software product. Its lifecycle page separates release identity, maintenance and security boundaries using the publisher's registered source.

Evidence status

This record passed BlackTree's automatic primary-source checks with a confidence score of 82. It is returned for operational research without requiring routine manual approval. Confirm edition and deployment applicability before acting.

This discovery does not establish a product-specific support or retirement date. A missing date does not mean support continues.

Product overview

Main capabilities

Application and workload execution
Hardware, networking and storage management
Security updates and platform maintenance

Typical use

Used on endpoints, servers, appliances, virtual machines or cloud instances.

Deployment

Installed on physical or virtual systems, or delivered as an appliance or cloud image.

This category-level context is generated from the registered product identity. Confirm exact product capabilities on the publisher's page .

Collected lifecycle data

Product	Yocto Project
Release	Lifecycle policy
Start or release	Not extracted
Lifecycle boundary	Continuous or not dated in the source
Date precision	Unknown

Known exploited vulnerabilities

Catalogue updated 2 Oct 2026

These are product-family matches in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. Confirm the affected product version in the vendor advisory.

No CISA known-exploited entries currently match this mapped product family.

This does not mean the product has no vulnerabilities.

Package vulnerability advisories

OSV advisories are matched through the registered package URL. A package-family match does not prove that the installed release is affected. Check the affected and fixed versions before remediation.

No package advisories have been linked for this product identity.

This is not evidence that the product has no vulnerabilities.

Source evidence

PRIMARYManual

Yocto Project official lifecycle source

Current Maintainers list | Release Lifecycle | The project releases every six months in April and October (spring and fall). This is necessary to bring development together to a focus point and provide points of increased testing and focus on stability. There are two possible lifecycles a release may follow: | Initial Release -> Stable -> Community -> EOL | Initial Release -> LTS -> Community -> EOL | The change in status of a given release series should be announced in the weekly status report and reflected on the “Releases” wiki page. | The stages have the following properties:

Publisher identity used by product-specific official-source collectors.

First collected 12 Sep 2026 · Last collected 28 Sep 2026 · Review state accepted

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