When you're working with bitbake, especially when you're maintaining recipes, you might have asked yourself how do I know which recipes I need to update As we all read the YOCTO manual from beginning till the very end (as all good participants;-), you might be aware that you can check the `upstream` status of a package/recipe be running devtool check-upgrade-status myrecipe which returns (if there is an update available) INFO:myrecipe 0.12.8 0.12.9 None 297cb2458a96ea96d5e9d6ef38f1b7305c071f32 that means, currently you're running on version 0.12.8 and there is an update to 0.12.9 available at the defined source you're pulling your sources from. So far so easy - but wait Do I have to do that all manually, each and everytime? Automating things No, of course not. I'm using GitHub for hosting my sources, so I thought it would be quite convenient to let some pipeline create an issue in case a new update was found. Fin