Open Source Summit Europe 2024

The latest Long Term Support release of the Yocto Project, code named “scarthgap”, has support until April 2028. With proven techniques to upgrade from older releases we hope to encourage you to move forward with confidence. We will start with recommendations for how to set up your own “distribution”, board-support package (BSP) and software layers. We will share some techniques for managing and discovering layers. We will discuss best practices to ensure your public layers are ready for the Layer Index. We will investigate how to use meta-lts-mixin layers to be able to use newer releases of components like Rust, Go and U-Boot. As supply chain becomes increasingly important, we will cover the latest Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and license compliance (SPDX) tools. We will share some tools for discovering software vulnerabilities (CVEs) in your project. New IDE tools were added in this release and we share ways to leverage them, along with containers to ensure your builds are consistent and reproducible. We will cover some of the over the air update tools which are available. Our examples will leverage some of the newest single-board computers: Raspberry Pi 5 and Beagle Play.