diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
index 00620fd..ce7125f 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
@@ -71,7 +71,24 @@
 		bbfatal "No kickstart files from WKS_FILES were found: ${WKS_FILES}. Please set WKS_FILE or WKS_FILES appropriately."
 	fi
 	BUILDDIR="${TOPDIR}" PSEUDO_UNLOAD=1 wic create "$wks" --vars "${STAGING_DIR}/${MACHINE}/imgdata/" -e "${IMAGE_BASENAME}" -o "$build_wic/" -w "$tmp_wic" ${WIC_CREATE_EXTRA_ARGS}
-	mv "$build_wic/$(basename "${wks%.wks}")"*.direct "$out.wic"
+
+	# look to see if the user specifies a custom imager
+	IMAGER=direct
+	eval set -- "${WIC_CREATE_EXTRA_ARGS} --"
+	while [ 1 ]; do
+		case "$1" in
+			--imager|-i)
+				shift
+				IMAGER=$1
+				;;
+			--)
+				shift
+				break
+				;;
+		esac
+		shift
+	done
+	mv "$build_wic/$(basename "${wks%.wks}")"*.${IMAGER} "$out.wic"
 }
 IMAGE_CMD:wic[vardepsexclude] = "WKS_FULL_PATH WKS_FILES TOPDIR"
 do_image_wic[cleandirs] = "${WORKDIR}/build-wic"
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
index a76aaee..db4461e 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += ' CC="${KERNEL_CC}" LD="${KERNEL_LD}" OBJCOPY="${KERNEL_OBJCOPY}" STRIP="${KERNEL_STRIP}"'
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += ' HOSTCC="${BUILD_CC}" HOSTCFLAGS="${BUILD_CFLAGS}" HOSTLDFLAGS="${BUILD_LDFLAGS}" HOSTCPP="${BUILD_CPP}"'
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += ' HOSTCXX="${BUILD_CXX}" HOSTCXXFLAGS="${BUILD_CXXFLAGS}"'
+# Only for newer kernels (5.19+), native pkg-config variables are set for older kernels when building kernel and modules
+EXTRA_OEMAKE += ' HOSTPKG_CONFIG="pkg-config-native"'
 
 KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE ??= ""
 
@@ -356,9 +358,6 @@
 	export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="$PKG_CONFIG_DIR"
 	export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR=""
 
-	# for newer kernels (5.19+) there's a dedicated variable
-	export HOSTPKG_CONFIG="pkg-config-native"
-
 	if [ "${KERNEL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMPS}" != "1" ]; then
 		# kernel sources do not use do_unpack, so SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH may not
 		# be set....
@@ -408,6 +407,13 @@
 
 do_compile_kernelmodules() {
 	unset CFLAGS CPPFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS MACHINE
+
+	# setup native pkg-config variables (kconfig scripts call pkg-config directly, cannot generically be overriden to pkg-config-native)
+	export PKG_CONFIG_DIR="${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${libdir_native}/pkgconfig"
+	export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_DIR:${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/pkgconfig"
+	export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="$PKG_CONFIG_DIR"
+	export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR=""
+
 	if [ "${KERNEL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMPS}" != "1" ]; then
 		# kernel sources do not use do_unpack, so SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH may not
 		# be set....
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/libc-package.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/libc-package.bbclass
index bf160b1..c06a2ce 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/libc-package.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/libc-package.bbclass
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
                 bb.fatal("unknown arch:" + target_arch + " for locale_arch_options")
 
             localedef_opts += " --force --no-hard-links --no-archive --prefix=%s \
-                --inputfile=%s/%s/i18n/locales/%s --charmap=%s %s/%s" \
+                --inputfile=%s/%s/i18n/locales/%s --charmap=%s %s/%s --no-warnings=ascii" \
                 % (treedir, treedir, datadir, locale, encoding, outputpath, name)
 
             cmd = "PATH=\"%s\" I18NPATH=\"%s\" GCONV_PATH=\"%s\" cross-localedef %s" % \
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/meson-routines.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/meson-routines.bbclass
index 9925465..a944a8f 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/meson-routines.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/meson-routines.bbclass
@@ -10,12 +10,6 @@
     items = d.getVar(var).split()
     return repr(items[0] if len(items) == 1 else items)
 
-def meson_array_abspath(var, d):
-    import shutil
-    items = d.getVar(var).split()
-    items[0] = shutil.which(items[0]) or items[0]
-    return repr(items[0] if len(items) == 1 else items)
-
 # Map our ARCH values to what Meson expects:
 # http://mesonbuild.com/Reference-tables.html#cpu-families
 def meson_cpu_family(var, d):
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/meson.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/meson.bbclass
index 31675cf..03fa2c0 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/meson.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/meson.bbclass
@@ -64,13 +64,10 @@
 do_write_config[vardeps] += "CC CXX AR NM STRIP READELF OBJCOPY CFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS RUSTC RUSTFLAGS EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED"
 do_write_config() {
     # This needs to be Py to split the args into single-element lists
-    # The generated compile_commands.json file can be used by external IDEs
-    # which do not know the $PATH set-up by bitbake. They need the absolute
-    # compiler paths.
     cat >${WORKDIR}/meson.cross <<EOF
 [binaries]
-c = ${@meson_array_abspath('CC', d)}
-cpp = ${@meson_array_abspath('CXX', d)}
+c = ${@meson_array('CC', d)}
+cpp = ${@meson_array('CXX', d)}
 cython = 'cython3'
 ar = ${@meson_array('AR', d)}
 nm = ${@meson_array('NM', d)}
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/overlayfs.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/overlayfs.bbclass
index 53d65d7..a82763e 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/overlayfs.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/overlayfs.bbclass
@@ -138,4 +138,5 @@
     done
 }
 
+do_create_overlayfs_units[vardeps] += "OVERLAYFS_WRITABLE_PATHS"
 addtask create_overlayfs_units before do_install
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/qemuboot.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/qemuboot.bbclass
index ff32aac..4a563b8 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/qemuboot.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/qemuboot.bbclass
@@ -101,8 +101,13 @@
 QB_RNG ?= "-object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=rng0"
 QB_OPT_APPEND ?= ""
 QB_NETWORK_DEVICE ?= "-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mac=@MAC@"
+
+# qemurunner needs ip information first, so append QB_NO_PNI
+#
+QB_NO_PNI ?= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pni-names', '', 'net.ifnames=0', d)}"
 QB_CMDLINE_IP_SLIRP ?= "ip=dhcp"
-QB_CMDLINE_IP_TAP ?= "ip=192.168.7.@CLIENT@::192.168.7.@GATEWAY@:255.255.255.0::eth0:off:8.8.8.8 net.ifnames=0"
+QB_CMDLINE_IP_TAP ?= "ip=192.168.7.@CLIENT@::192.168.7.@GATEWAY@:255.255.255.0::eth0:off:8.8.8.8 ${QB_NO_PNI}"
+
 QB_ROOTFS_EXTRA_OPT ?= ""
 QB_GRAPHICS ?= ""
 QB_NFSROOTFS_EXTRA_OPT ?= ""
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/testimage.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/testimage.bbclass
index 281de47..ad040ee 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/testimage.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/testimage.bbclass
@@ -149,13 +149,6 @@
     return configuration
 get_testimage_configuration[vardepsexclude] = "DATETIME"
 
-def get_testimage_json_result_dir(d):
-    json_result_dir = os.path.join(d.getVar("LOG_DIR"), 'oeqa')
-    custom_json_result_dir = d.getVar("OEQA_JSON_RESULT_DIR")
-    if custom_json_result_dir:
-        json_result_dir = custom_json_result_dir
-    return json_result_dir
-
 def get_testimage_result_id(configuration):
     return '%s_%s_%s_%s' % (configuration['TEST_TYPE'], configuration['IMAGE_BASENAME'], configuration['MACHINE'], configuration['STARTTIME'])
 
@@ -177,40 +170,6 @@
                 boot_patterns[flag] = flagval.encode().decode('unicode-escape')
     return boot_patterns
 
-def get_artifacts_list(target, raw_list):
-    result = []
-    # Passed list may contains patterns in paths, expand them directly on target
-    for raw_path in raw_list.split():
-        cmd = f"for p in {raw_path}; do if [ -e $p ]; then echo $p; fi; done"
-        try:
-            status, output = target.run(cmd)
-            if status != 0 or not output:
-                raise Exception()
-            result += output.split()
-        except:
-            bb.note(f"No file/directory matching path {raw_path}")
-
-    return result
-
-def retrieve_test_artifacts(target, artifacts_list, target_dir):
-    import shutil
-
-    local_artifacts_dir = os.path.join(target_dir, "artifacts")
-    if os.path.isdir(local_artifacts_dir):
-        shutil.rmtree(local_artifacts_dir)
-
-    os.makedirs(local_artifacts_dir)
-    for artifact_path in artifacts_list:
-        if not os.path.isabs(artifact_path):
-            bb.warn(f"{artifact_path} is not an absolute path")
-            continue
-        try:
-            dest_dir = os.path.join(local_artifacts_dir, os.path.dirname(artifact_path[1:]))
-            os.makedirs(dest_dir, exist_ok=True)
-            target.copyFrom(artifact_path, dest_dir)
-        except:
-            bb.warn(f"Can not retrieve {artifact_path} from test target")
-
 def testimage_main(d):
     import os
     import json
@@ -224,6 +183,8 @@
     from oeqa.core.target.qemu import supported_fstypes
     from oeqa.core.utils.test import getSuiteCases
     from oeqa.utils import make_logger_bitbake_compatible
+    from oeqa.utils import get_json_result_dir
+    from oeqa.utils.postactions import run_failed_tests_post_actions
 
     def sigterm_exception(signum, stackframe):
         """
@@ -406,11 +367,7 @@
         results = tc.runTests()
         complete = True
         if results.hasAnyFailingTest():
-            artifacts_list = get_artifacts_list(tc.target, d.getVar("TESTIMAGE_FAILED_QA_ARTIFACTS"))
-            if not artifacts_list:
-                bb.warn("Could not load artifacts list, skip artifacts retrieval")
-            else:
-                retrieve_test_artifacts(tc.target, artifacts_list, get_testimage_json_result_dir(d))
+            run_failed_tests_post_actions(d, tc)
     except (KeyboardInterrupt, BlockingIOError) as err:
         if isinstance(err, KeyboardInterrupt):
             bb.error('testimage interrupted, shutting down...')
@@ -426,14 +383,14 @@
     # Show results (if we have them)
     if results:
         configuration = get_testimage_configuration(d, 'runtime', machine)
-        results.logDetails(get_testimage_json_result_dir(d),
+        results.logDetails(get_json_result_dir(d),
                         configuration,
                         get_testimage_result_id(configuration),
                         dump_streams=d.getVar('TESTREPORT_FULLLOGS'))
         results.logSummary(pn)
 
     # Copy additional logs to tmp/log/oeqa so it's easier to find them
-    targetdir = os.path.join(get_testimage_json_result_dir(d), d.getVar("PN"))
+    targetdir = os.path.join(get_json_result_dir(d), d.getVar("PN"))
     os.makedirs(targetdir, exist_ok=True)
     os.symlink(bootlog, os.path.join(targetdir, os.path.basename(bootlog)))
     os.symlink(d.getVar("BB_LOGFILE"), os.path.join(targetdir, os.path.basename(d.getVar("BB_LOGFILE") + "." + d.getVar('DATETIME'))))
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/waf.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/waf.bbclass
index 70bf3be..01707c8 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/waf.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/waf.bbclass
@@ -54,11 +54,21 @@
     wafbin = os.path.join(subsrcdir, 'waf')
     try:
         result = subprocess.check_output([python, wafbin, '--version'], cwd=subsrcdir, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
-        version = result.decode('utf-8').split()[1]
-        if not bb.utils.is_semver(version):
+        # Output looks like:
+        #  # output from lower modules (e.g. warnings, ...)
+        #  waf X.Y.Z ...
+        # So, look for the line starting with "waf "
+        version = None
+        for line in result.decode('utf-8').split("\n"):
+            if line.startswith("waf "):
+                version = line.split()[1]
+                break
+
+        if not version or not bb.utils.is_semver(version):
             bb.warn("Unable to parse \"waf --version\" output. Assuming waf version without bindir/libdir support.")
             bb.warn("waf·--version·output = \n%s" % result.decode('utf-8'))
         elif bb.utils.vercmp_string_op(version, "1.8.7", ">="):
+            bb.note("waf version is high enough to add --bindir and --libdir")
             d.setVar("WAF_EXTRA_CONF", "--bindir=${bindir} --libdir=${libdir}")
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
         bb.warn("Unable to execute waf --version, exit code %d. Assuming waf version without bindir/libdir support." % e.returncode)