Contributions to Open Source Projects Q2 2026

The emlix team has yet again made several contributions to open source projects in the last few months, fixing problems and improving code.

The ST MEMS IIO drivers did not build on kernels from 6.18 onward, which has been reported upstream and new versions are now available.

Systemd 256 has changed the way that overlayfs mount units are handled, which can break some usecases as the created directories are now always owned by root. A seriesof 3patches has been published that would restore the old behavior.

An error regarding FetchData in bitbake has been fixed by passing unpack_tracer to fetch2.

When using Yocto wrynose wrong warnings about "firmwaredir" are now avoided as it has only been introduced in Yocto blacksail.

While doing security assessments tthe quality of the actual advirories is crucial. Several issues that were found have been reported and fixed, e.g. in Gstreamer (and again, and then another one was reported and fixed), mbedTLS, Python, jq, and still unmerged in GnuTLS.