diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cargo.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cargo.bbclass
index 8c0b92d..0829a58 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cargo.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cargo.bbclass
@@ -30,13 +30,6 @@
 # where the issue occured
 export RUST_BACKTRACE = "1"
 
-# The directory of the Cargo.toml relative to the root directory, per default
-# assume there's a Cargo.toml directly in the root directory
-CARGO_SRC_DIR ??= ""
-
-# The actual path to the Cargo.toml
-MANIFEST_PATH ??= "${S}/${CARGO_SRC_DIR}/Cargo.toml"
-
 RUSTFLAGS ??= ""
 BUILD_MODE = "${@['--release', ''][d.getVar('DEBUG_BUILD') == '1']}"
 # --frozen flag will prevent network access (which is required since only
@@ -44,7 +37,7 @@
 # and will require an up to date Cargo.lock file.
 # This force the package being built to already ship a Cargo.lock, in the end
 # this is what we want, at least, for reproducibility of the build.
-CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS = "-v --frozen --target ${RUST_HOST_SYS} ${BUILD_MODE} --manifest-path=${MANIFEST_PATH}"
+CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS = "-v --frozen --target ${RUST_HOST_SYS} ${BUILD_MODE} --manifest-path=${CARGO_MANIFEST_PATH}"
 
 # This is based on the content of CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS and generally will need to
 # change if CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS changes.
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cargo_common.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cargo_common.bbclass
index b732a1b..0fb443e 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cargo_common.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cargo_common.bbclass
@@ -28,12 +28,22 @@
 # Don't instruct cargo to use crates downloaded by bitbake. Some rust packages,
 # for example the rust compiler itself, come with their own vendored sources.
 # Specifying two [source.crates-io] will not work.
-CARGO_DISABLE_BITBAKE_VENDORING ?= "0"
+CARGO_DISABLE_BITBAKE_VENDORING ??= "0"
 
 # Used by libstd-rs to point to the vendor dir included in rustc src
-CARGO_VENDORING_DIRECTORY ?= "${CARGO_HOME}/bitbake"
+CARGO_VENDORING_DIRECTORY ??= "${CARGO_HOME}/bitbake"
 
-CARGO_RUST_TARGET_CCLD ?= "${RUST_TARGET_CCLD}"
+# The directory of the Cargo.toml relative to the root directory, per default
+# assume there's a Cargo.toml directly in the root directory
+CARGO_SRC_DIR ??= ""
+
+# The actual path to the Cargo.toml
+CARGO_MANIFEST_PATH ??= "${S}/${CARGO_SRC_DIR}/Cargo.toml"
+
+# Path to Cargo.lock
+CARGO_LOCK_PATH ??= "${@ os.path.join(os.path.dirname(d.getVar('CARGO_MANIFEST_PATH', True)), 'Cargo.lock')}"
+
+CARGO_RUST_TARGET_CCLD ??= "${RUST_TARGET_CCLD}"
 cargo_common_do_configure () {
 	mkdir -p ${CARGO_HOME}/bitbake
 
@@ -161,8 +171,7 @@
     # here is better than letting cargo tell (in case the file is missing)
     # "Cargo.lock should be modified but --frozen was given"
 
-    manifest_path = d.getVar("MANIFEST_PATH", True)
-    lockfile = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(manifest_path), "Cargo.lock")
+    lockfile = d.getVar("CARGO_LOCK_PATH", True)
     if not os.path.exists(lockfile):
         bb.fatal(f"{lockfile} file doesn't exist")
 
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cmake-qemu.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cmake-qemu.bbclass
index 76b748f..46a89e2 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cmake-qemu.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/cmake-qemu.bbclass
@@ -5,18 +5,22 @@
 #
 # Not all platforms are supported by Qemu. Using qemu-user therefore
 # involves a certain risk, which is also the reason why this feature
-# is not activated by default.
+# is not part of the main cmake class by default.
+#
+# One use case is the execution of cross-compiled unit tests with CTest
+# on the build machine. If CMAKE_EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED is configured,
+#   cmake --build --target test
+# works transparently with qemu-user. If the cmake project is developed
+# with this use case in mind this works very nicely also out of an IDE
+# configured to use cmake-native for cross compiling.
 
-inherit qemu
+inherit qemu cmake
 
-CMAKE_EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED:class-native = "False"
-CMAKE_EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED:class-nativesdk = "False"
-CMAKE_EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED ?= "${@bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES', 'qemu-usermode', 'True', 'False', d)}"
-DEPENDS:append = "${@' qemu-native' if d.getVar('CMAKE_EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED') == 'True' else ''}"
+DEPENDS:append:class-target = "${@' qemu-native' if bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES', 'qemu-usermode', True, False, d) else ''}"
 
 cmake_do_generate_toolchain_file:append:class-target() {
-    if [ "${CMAKE_EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED}" = "True" ]; then
-        # Write out a qemu wrapper that will be used as exe_wrapper so that camake
+    if [ "${@bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES', 'qemu-usermode', 'True', 'False', d)}" ]; then
+        # Write out a qemu wrapper that will be used as exe_wrapper so that cmake
         # can run target helper binaries through that. This also allows to execute ctest.
         qemu_binary="${@qemu_wrapper_cmdline(d, '${STAGING_DIR_HOST}', ['${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/${libdir}','${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/${base_libdir}'])}"
         echo "#!/bin/sh" > "${WORKDIR}/cmake-qemuwrapper"
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image-live.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image-live.bbclass
index 95dd44a..da919d5 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image-live.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image-live.bbclass
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
                         virtual/kernel:do_deploy \
                         ${MLPREFIX}syslinux:do_populate_sysroot \
                         syslinux-native:do_populate_sysroot \
-                        ${@'%s:do_image_%s' % (d.getVar('PN'), d.getVar('LIVE_ROOTFS_TYPE').replace('-', '_')) if d.getVar('ROOTFS') else ''} \
+                        ${@'%s:do_image_%s' % (d.getVar('PN'), d.getVar('LIVE_ROOTFS_TYPE').replace('-', '_').split('.')[0]) if d.getVar('ROOTFS') else ''} \
                         "
 
 
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image_types.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image_types.bbclass
index d615b41..3733bdf 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image_types.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image_types.bbclass
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@
 7ZIP_COMPRESSION_METHOD ?= "BZip2"
 7ZIP_EXTENSION ?= "7z"
 
-ZSTD_COMPRESSION_LEVEL ?= "-3"
-
 JFFS2_SUM_EXTRA_ARGS ?= ""
 IMAGE_CMD:jffs2 = "mkfs.jffs2 --root=${IMAGE_ROOTFS} --faketime --output=${IMGDEPLOYDIR}/${IMAGE_NAME}.jffs2 ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD}"
 
@@ -337,7 +335,7 @@
 CONVERSION_CMD:lzo = "lzop -9 ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type}"
 CONVERSION_CMD:zip = "zip ${ZIP_COMPRESSION_LEVEL} ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type}.zip ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type}"
 CONVERSION_CMD:7zip = "7za a -mx=${7ZIP_COMPRESSION_LEVEL} -mm=${7ZIP_COMPRESSION_METHOD} ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type}.${7ZIP_EXTENSION} ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type}"
-CONVERSION_CMD:zst = "zstd -f -k -T0 -c ${ZSTD_COMPRESSION_LEVEL} ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type} > ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type}.zst"
+CONVERSION_CMD:zst = "zstd -f -k -c ${ZSTD_DEFAULTS} ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type} > ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type}.zst"
 CONVERSION_CMD:sum = "sumtool -i ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type} -o ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type}.sum ${JFFS2_SUM_EXTRA_ARGS}"
 CONVERSION_CMD:md5sum = "md5sum ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type} > ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type}.md5sum"
 CONVERSION_CMD:sha1sum = "sha1sum ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type} > ${IMAGE_NAME}.${type}.sha1sum"
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/nativesdk.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/nativesdk.bbclass
index 08288fd..de6debd 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/nativesdk.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/nativesdk.bbclass
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@
 LIBCOVERRIDE = ":${NATIVESDKLIBC}"
 CLASSOVERRIDE = "class-nativesdk"
 MACHINEOVERRIDES = ""
-MACHINE_FEATURES = ""
+
+MACHINE_FEATURES = "${SDK_MACHINE_FEATURES}"
+DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL = ""
+MACHINE_FEATURES_BACKFILL = ""
 
 MULTILIBS = ""
 
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
index dfd4bb1..8fadfef 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/populate_sdk_base.bbclass
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
     dir_walk(SCAN_ROOT)
 }
 
-SDKTAROPTS = "--owner=root --group=root"
+SDKTAROPTS = "--owner=root --group=root --clamp-mtime --mtime=@${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}"
 
 fakeroot archive_sdk() {
 	# Package it up
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/ptest-cargo.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/ptest-cargo.bbclass
index ff57be8..c46df36 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/ptest-cargo.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/ptest-cargo.bbclass
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     cargo = bb.utils.which(d.getVar("PATH"), d.getVar("CARGO", True))
     cargo_build_flags = d.getVar("CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS", True)
     rust_flags = d.getVar("RUSTFLAGS", True)
-    manifest_path = d.getVar("MANIFEST_PATH", True)
+    manifest_path = d.getVar("CARGO_MANIFEST_PATH", True)
     project_manifest_path = os.path.normpath(manifest_path)
     manifest_dir = os.path.dirname(manifest_path)
 
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/python_maturin.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/python_maturin.bbclass
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c39d6c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/python_maturin.bbclass
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+inherit python_pyo3 python_setuptools_build_meta
+
+DEPENDS += "python3-maturin-native"
+
+python_maturin_do_configure() {
+    python_pyo3_do_configure
+    cargo_common_do_configure
+    python_pep517_do_configure
+}
+
+EXPORT_FUNCTIONS do_configure
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/rust-common.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/rust-common.bbclass
index ae96d9c..6940093 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/rust-common.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/rust-common.bbclass
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 RUSTLIB = "-L ${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${rustlibdir}"
 RUST_DEBUG_REMAP = "--remap-path-prefix=${WORKDIR}=${TARGET_DBGSRC_DIR}"
 RUSTFLAGS += "${RUSTLIB} ${RUST_DEBUG_REMAP}"
-RUSTLIB_DEP ?= "libstd-rs"
-RUST_PANIC_STRATEGY ?= "unwind"
+RUSTLIB_DEP ??= "libstd-rs"
+RUST_PANIC_STRATEGY ??= "unwind"
 
 def target_is_armv7(d):
     '''Determine if target is armv7'''
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/testimage.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/testimage.bbclass
index 7c56fe9..f36d941 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/testimage.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/testimage.bbclass
@@ -109,21 +109,6 @@
 
 TESTIMAGE_UPDATE_VARS ?= "DL_DIR WORKDIR DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE IMAGE_LINK_NAME"
 
-testimage_dump_target () {
-    top -bn1
-    ps
-    free
-    df
-    # The next command will export the default gateway IP
-    export DEFAULT_GATEWAY=$(ip route | awk '/default/ { print $3}')
-    ping -c3 $DEFAULT_GATEWAY
-    dmesg
-    netstat -an
-    ip address
-    # Next command will dump logs from /var/log/
-    find /var/log/ -type f 2>/dev/null -exec echo "====================" \; -exec echo {} \; -exec echo "====================" \; -exec cat {} \; -exec echo "" \;
-}
-
 testimage_dump_monitor () {
     query-status
     query-block
@@ -352,7 +337,6 @@
     target_kwargs['serialcontrol_cmd'] = d.getVar("TEST_SERIALCONTROL_CMD") or None
     target_kwargs['serialcontrol_extra_args'] = d.getVar("TEST_SERIALCONTROL_EXTRA_ARGS") or ""
     target_kwargs['testimage_dump_monitor'] = d.getVar("testimage_dump_monitor") or ""
-    target_kwargs['testimage_dump_target'] = d.getVar("testimage_dump_target") or ""
 
     def export_ssh_agent(d):
         import os