O Yocto Project é o sistema de construção de distribuições Linux Embarcado que mais evolui atualmente. O projeto é encabeçado pela The Linux Foundation e conta com a contribuição de diversas empresas como: Intel, Wind River, Dell, Texas Instruments, Freescale, Huawei e LG Electronics.

No dia 31/10/2014 foi anunciado o lançamento da nova versão 1.7, codinome dizzy. Dentre as novas características e melhorias podemos destacar:

gcc 4.9
glibc (version 2.20) is now used in place of eglibc
Significant enhancement of systemd support:
- Upgraded systemd to 216
- Other packages that overlap in functionality are now masked out when systemd is used
- Added support for using systemd with uclibc
- Added support for read-only rootfs when using systemd
- Added os-release recipe to deploy /etc/os-release
- Added systemd service files to acpid, bind, cronie, cups, dhcp, portmap, ppp, tcf-agent (some from meta-systemd)
Core support for musl libc (requires additional meta-musl support layer)
wic image creator 2.0
- Major code cleanup
- Added bootimg-partition plugin
- Added sdimage-bootpart kickstart file for SD card support
- Added vfat support
- Added squashfs partition support
- Added gummiboot support to bootimg-efi
- Added support to find plugins and kickstart (.wks) files in all configured layers
Added bootchart2 and cleaned up bootchart support
Additional recipes: i2c-tools, patchelf, serf, nettle, liberror-perl, libxshmfence, dri3proto, libunwind, pinentry
RPM4 support (in addition to RPM5)
Added support for locked shared state
Extended hardware runtime testing support
- Added base class for hardware runtime testing
- Added support for runtime testing on edgerouter, beaglebone and generic GRUB-based machines
- Added test-remote-image script to download an image and automatically test it on a specified machine
Added runtime test for error messages in kernel and Xorg logs
Added runtime test for running installed ptests
Added runtime testing for SDKs
Added ptest support to gdbm, openssh, openssl, oprofile, pango, sed
autotools class now uses a separate build directory by default (B != S)
Added “devpyshell” interactive python shell
package_deb: Added support for multilib
Add manifest file support for SDKs
Add ability to verify toolchain flags as part of sanity checks
gcc: allow a compiler per architecture, improving build artefact reuse
ddimage: support Mac OS
bind: added support for read-only rootfs
Linux kernel 3.17 available, but not default