diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
index 0339d12..86ca77f 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
@@ -968,9 +968,9 @@
                         '}\n')
             if rd.getVarFlag('do_menuconfig','task'):
                 f.write('\ndo_configure:append() {\n'
-                '    if [ ! ${DEVTOOL_DISABLE_MENUCONFIG} ]; then\n'
-                '        cp ${B}/.config ${S}/.config.baseline\n'
-                '        ln -sfT ${B}/.config ${S}/.config.new\n'
+                '    if [ ${@ oe.types.boolean(\'${KCONFIG_CONFIG_ENABLE_MENUCONFIG}\') } = True ]; then\n'
+                '        cp ${KCONFIG_CONFIG_ROOTDIR}/.config ${S}/.config.baseline\n'
+                '        ln -sfT ${KCONFIG_CONFIG_ROOTDIR}/.config ${S}/.config.new\n'
                 '    fi\n'
                 '}\n')
             if initial_rev:
@@ -1629,7 +1629,7 @@
     else:
         patchdir_params = {'patchdir': relpatchdir}
 
-    def srcuri_entry(fname):
+    def srcuri_entry(basepath):
         if patchdir_params:
             paramstr = ';' + ';'.join('%s=%s' % (k,v) for k,v in patchdir_params.items())
         else:
diff --git a/poky/scripts/rpm2cpio.sh b/poky/scripts/rpm2cpio.sh
index 2034373..8199b43 100755
--- a/poky/scripts/rpm2cpio.sh
+++ b/poky/scripts/rpm2cpio.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 }
 
 pkg="$1"
-[ -n "$pkg" -a -e "$pkg" ] ||
+[ -n "$pkg" ] && [ -e "$pkg" ] ||
 	fatal "No package supplied"
 
 _dd() {
@@ -16,14 +16,23 @@
 }
 
 calcsize() {
+
+	case "$(_dd $1 bs=4 count=1 | tr -d '\0')" in
+		"$(printf '\216\255\350')"*) ;; # '\x8e\xad\xe8'
+		*) fatal "File doesn't look like rpm: $pkg" ;;
+	esac
+
 	offset=$(($1 + 8))
 
 	local i b b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7
 
 	i=0
 	while [ $i -lt 8 ]; do
- 		b=$(_dd $(($offset + $i)) bs=1 count=1; echo X)
- 		b=${b%X}
+		# add . to not loose \n
+		# strip \0 as it gets dropped with warning otherwise
+		b="$(_dd $(($offset + $i)) bs=1 count=1 | tr -d '\0' ; echo .)"
+		b=${b%.}    # strip . again
+
 		[ -z "$b" ] &&
 			b="0" ||
 			b="$(exec printf '%u\n' "'$b")"
@@ -35,7 +44,7 @@
 	offset=$(($offset + $rsize))
 }
 
-case "$(_dd 0 bs=8 count=1)" in
+case "$(_dd 0 bs=4 count=1 | tr -d '\0')" in
 	"$(printf '\355\253\356\333')"*) ;; # '\xed\xab\xee\xdb'
 	*) fatal "File doesn't look like rpm: $pkg" ;;
 esac
@@ -46,10 +55,11 @@
 calcsize $(($offset + (8 - ($sigsize % 8)) % 8))
 hdrsize=$rsize
 
-case "$(_dd $offset bs=3 count=1)" in
-	"$(printf '\102\132')"*) _dd $offset | bzip2 -d ;; # '\x42\x5a'
-	"$(printf '\037\213')"*) _dd $offset | gunzip  ;; # '\x1f\x8b'
-	"$(printf '\375\067')"*) _dd $offset | xzcat   ;; # '\xfd\x37'
-	"$(printf '\135\000')"*) _dd $offset | unlzma  ;; # '\x5d\x00'
-	*) fatal "Unrecognized rpm file: $pkg" ;;
+case "$(_dd $offset bs=2 count=1 | tr -d '\0')" in
+	"$(printf '\102\132')") _dd $offset | bunzip2 ;; # '\x42\x5a'
+	"$(printf '\037\213')") _dd $offset | gunzip  ;; # '\x1f\x8b'
+	"$(printf '\375\067')") _dd $offset | xzcat   ;; # '\xfd\x37'
+	"$(printf '\135')") _dd $offset | unlzma      ;; # '\x5d\x00'
+	"$(printf '\050\265')") _dd $offset | unzstd  ;; # '\x28\xb5'
+	*) fatal "Unrecognized payload compression format in rpm file: $pkg" ;;
 esac
diff --git a/poky/scripts/runqemu b/poky/scripts/runqemu
index 56715c3..e1aa5a9 100755
--- a/poky/scripts/runqemu
+++ b/poky/scripts/runqemu
@@ -1015,17 +1015,14 @@
             else:
                 self.nfs_server = '192.168.7.@GATEWAY@'
 
-        # Figure out a new nfs_instance to allow multiple qemus running.
-        ps = subprocess.check_output(("ps", "auxww")).decode('utf-8')
-        pattern = '/bin/unfsd .* -i .*\.pid -e .*/exports([0-9]+) '
-        all_instances = re.findall(pattern, ps, re.M)
-        if all_instances:
-            all_instances.sort(key=int)
-            self.nfs_instance = int(all_instances.pop()) + 1
+        nfsd_port = 3048 + self.nfs_instance
+        lockdir = "/tmp/qemu-port-locks"
+        self.make_lock_dir(lockdir)
+        while not self.check_free_port('localhost', nfsd_port, lockdir):
+            self.nfs_instance += 1
+            nfsd_port += 1
 
-        nfsd_port = 3049 + 2 * self.nfs_instance
-        mountd_port = 3048 + 2 * self.nfs_instance
-
+        mountd_port = nfsd_port
         # Export vars for runqemu-export-rootfs
         export_dict = {
             'NFS_INSTANCE': self.nfs_instance,
@@ -1087,6 +1084,17 @@
         self.set('NETWORK_CMD', '-netdev bridge,br=%s,id=net0,helper=%s -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 ' % (
             self.net_bridge, os.path.join(self.bindir_native, 'qemu-oe-bridge-helper')))
 
+    def make_lock_dir(self, lockdir):
+        if not os.path.exists(lockdir):
+            # There might be a race issue when multi runqemu processess are
+            # running at the same time.
+            try:
+                os.mkdir(lockdir)
+                os.chmod(lockdir, 0o777)
+            except FileExistsError:
+                pass
+        return
+
     def setup_slirp(self):
         """Setup user networking"""
 
@@ -1105,14 +1113,7 @@
         mac = 2
 
         lockdir = "/tmp/qemu-port-locks"
-        if not os.path.exists(lockdir):
-            # There might be a race issue when multi runqemu processess are
-            # running at the same time.
-            try:
-                os.mkdir(lockdir)
-                os.chmod(lockdir, 0o777)
-            except FileExistsError:
-                pass
+        self.make_lock_dir(lockdir)
 
         # Find a free port to avoid conflicts
         for p in ports[:]:
@@ -1152,20 +1153,17 @@
             logger.error("ip: %s" % ip)
             raise OEPathError("runqemu-ifup, runqemu-ifdown or ip not found")
 
-        if not os.path.exists(lockdir):
-            # There might be a race issue when multi runqemu processess are
-            # running at the same time.
-            try:
-                os.mkdir(lockdir)
-                os.chmod(lockdir, 0o777)
-            except FileExistsError:
-                pass
+        self.make_lock_dir(lockdir)
 
         cmd = (ip, 'link')
         logger.debug('Running %s...' % str(cmd))
         ip_link = subprocess.check_output(cmd).decode('utf-8')
         # Matches line like: 6: tap0: <foo>
-        possibles = re.findall('^[0-9]+: +(tap[0-9]+): <.*', ip_link, re.M)
+        oe_tap_name = 'tap'
+        if 'OE_TAP_NAME' in os.environ:
+            oe_tap_name = os.environ['OE_TAP_NAME']
+        tap_re = '^[0-9]+: +(' + oe_tap_name + '[0-9]+): <.*'
+        possibles = re.findall(tap_re, ip_link, re.M)
         tap = ""
         for p in possibles:
             lockfile = os.path.join(lockdir, p)
@@ -1188,7 +1186,7 @@
             gid = os.getgid()
             uid = os.getuid()
             logger.info("Setting up tap interface under sudo")
-            cmd = ('sudo', self.qemuifup, str(uid), str(gid), self.bindir_native)
+            cmd = ('sudo', self.qemuifup, str(uid), str(gid))
             try:
                 tap = subprocess.check_output(cmd).decode('utf-8').strip()
             except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
@@ -1204,7 +1202,7 @@
             logger.error("Failed to setup tap device. Run runqemu-gen-tapdevs to manually create.")
             sys.exit(1)
         self.tap = tap
-        tapnum = int(tap[3:])
+        tapnum = int(tap[len(oe_tap_name):])
         gateway = tapnum * 2 + 1
         client = gateway + 1
         if self.fstype == 'nfs':
@@ -1603,13 +1601,13 @@
             logger.debug('Running %s' % str(cmd))
             subprocess.check_call(cmd)
         self.release_taplock()
-        self.release_portlock()
 
         if self.nfs_running:
             logger.info("Shutting down the userspace NFS server...")
             cmd = ("runqemu-export-rootfs", "stop", self.rootfs)
             logger.debug('Running %s' % str(cmd))
             subprocess.check_call(cmd)
+        self.release_portlock()
 
         if self.saved_stty:
             subprocess.check_call(("stty", self.saved_stty))
diff --git a/poky/scripts/runqemu-gen-tapdevs b/poky/scripts/runqemu-gen-tapdevs
index a6ee451..a00c79c 100755
--- a/poky/scripts/runqemu-gen-tapdevs
+++ b/poky/scripts/runqemu-gen-tapdevs
@@ -1,53 +1,58 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
 # Create a "bank" of tap network devices that can be used by the
-# runqemu script. This script needs to be run as root, and will
-# use the tunctl binary from the build system sysroot. Note: many Linux 
-# distros these days still use an older version of tunctl which does not
-# support the group permissions option, hence the need to use the build
-# system provided version.
+# runqemu script. This script needs to be run as root
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2010 Intel Corp.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 #
 
-uid=`id -u`
 gid=`id -g`
-if [ -n "$SUDO_UID" ]; then
-    uid=$SUDO_UID
-fi
 if [ -n "$SUDO_GID" ]; then
     gid=$SUDO_GID
 fi
 
 usage() {
-	echo "Usage: sudo $0 <uid> <gid> <num> <staging_bindir_native>"
-	echo "Where <uid> is the numeric user id the tap devices will be owned by"
+	echo "Usage: sudo $0 <gid> <num>"
 	echo "Where <gid> is the numeric group id the tap devices will be owned by"
 	echo "<num> is the number of tap devices to create (0 to remove all)"
-	echo "<native-sysroot-basedir> is the path to the build system's native sysroot"
 	echo "For example:"
 	echo "$ bitbake qemu-helper-native"
-	echo "$ sudo $0 $uid $gid 4 tmp/sysroots-components/x86_64/qemu-helper-native/usr/bin"
+	echo "$ sudo $0 $gid 4"
 	echo ""
 	exit 1
 }
 
-if [ $# -ne 4 ]; then
+# Allow passing 4 arguments for backward compatibility with warning
+if [ $# -gt 4 ]; then
+	echo "Error: Incorrect number of arguments"
+	usage
+fi
+if [ $# -gt 3 ]; then
+	echo "Warning: Ignoring the <native-sysroot-basedir> parameter. It is no longer needed."
+fi
+if [ $# -gt 2 ]; then
+	echo "Warning: Ignoring the <uid> parameter. It is no longer needed."
+	GID=$2
+	COUNT=$3
+elif [ $# -eq 2 ]; then
+	GID=$1
+	COUNT=$2
+else
 	echo "Error: Incorrect number of arguments"
 	usage
 fi
 
-TUID=$1
-GID=$2
-COUNT=$3
-STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE=$4
 
-TUNCTL=$STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE/tunctl
-if [[ ! -x "$TUNCTL" || -d "$TUNCTL" ]]; then
-	echo "Error: $TUNCTL is not an executable"
-	usage
+if [ -z "$OE_TAP_NAME" ]; then
+	OE_TAP_NAME=tap
+fi
+
+# check if COUNT is a number and >= 0
+if ! [ $COUNT -ge 0 ]; then
+	echo "Error: Incorrect count: $COUNT"
+	exit 1
 fi
 
 if [ $EUID -ne 0 ]; then
@@ -62,48 +67,41 @@
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-IFCONFIG=`which ip 2> /dev/null`
-if [ -z "$IFCONFIG" ]; then
-	# Is it ever anywhere else?
-	IFCONFIG=/sbin/ip
-fi
-if [ ! -x "$IFCONFIG" ]; then
-       echo "$IFCONFIG cannot be executed"
-       exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ $COUNT -ge 0 ]; then
-	# Ensure we start with a clean slate
-	for tap in `$IFCONFIG link | grep tap | awk '{ print \$2 }' | sed s/://`; do
-		echo "Note: Destroying pre-existing tap interface $tap..."
-		$TUNCTL -d $tap
-	done
-	rm -f /etc/runqemu-nosudo
+if interfaces=`ip tuntap list` 2>/dev/null; then
+	interfaces=`echo "$interfaces" |cut -f1 -d: |grep -E "^$OE_TAP_NAME.*"`
 else
-	echo "Error: Incorrect count: $COUNT"
+	echo "Failed to call 'ip tuntap list'" >&2
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-if [ $COUNT -gt 0 ]; then
-	echo "Creating $COUNT tap devices for UID: $TUID GID: $GID..."
-	for ((index=0; index < $COUNT; index++)); do
-		echo "Creating tap$index"
-		ifup=`$RUNQEMU_IFUP $TUID $GID $STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE 2>&1`
-		if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-			echo "Error running tunctl: $ifup"
-			exit 1
-		fi
-	done
+# Ensure we start with a clean slate
+for tap in $interfaces; do
+	echo "Note: Destroying pre-existing tap interface $tap..."
+	ip tuntap del $tap mode tap
+done
+rm -f /etc/runqemu-nosudo
 
-	echo "Note: For systems running NetworkManager, it's recommended"
-	echo "Note: that the tap devices be set as unmanaged in the"
-	echo "Note: NetworkManager.conf file. Add the following lines to"
-	echo "Note: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf"
-	echo "[keyfile]"
-	echo "unmanaged-devices=interface-name:tap*"
-
-	# The runqemu script will check for this file, and if it exists,
-	# will use the existing bank of tap devices without creating
-	# additional ones via sudo.
-	touch /etc/runqemu-nosudo
+if [ $COUNT -eq 0 ]; then
+	exit 0
 fi
+
+echo "Creating $COUNT tap devices for GID: $GID..."
+for ((index=0; index < $COUNT; index++)); do
+	echo "Creating $OE_TAP_NAME$index"
+	if ! ifup=`$RUNQEMU_IFUP $GID 2>&1`; then
+		echo "Error bringing up interface: $ifup"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+done
+
+echo "Note: For systems running NetworkManager, it's recommended"
+echo "Note: that the tap devices be set as unmanaged in the"
+echo "Note: NetworkManager.conf file. Add the following lines to"
+echo "Note: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf"
+echo "[keyfile]"
+echo "unmanaged-devices=interface-name:$OE_TAP_NAME*"
+
+# The runqemu script will check for this file, and if it exists,
+# will use the existing bank of tap devices without creating
+# additional ones via sudo.
+touch /etc/runqemu-nosudo
diff --git a/poky/scripts/runqemu-ifdown b/poky/scripts/runqemu-ifdown
index e0eb534..78be288 100755
--- a/poky/scripts/runqemu-ifdown
+++ b/poky/scripts/runqemu-ifdown
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
 # QEMU network configuration script to bring down tap devices. This
-# utility needs to be run as root, and will use the tunctl binary
-# from the native sysroot. 
+# utility needs to be run as root, and will use the ip utility
 #
 # If you find yourself calling this script a lot, you can add the
 # the following to your /etc/sudoers file to be able to run this
@@ -33,22 +32,19 @@
 TAP=$1
 STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE=$2
 
-TUNCTL=$STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE/tunctl
-if [ ! -e "$TUNCTL" ]; then
-	echo "Error: Unable to find tunctl binary in '$STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE', please bitbake qemu-helper-native"
+if !ip tuntap del $TAP mode tap 2>/dev/null; then
+	echo "Error: Unable to run up tuntap del"
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-$TUNCTL -d $TAP
-
-IFCONFIG=`which ip 2> /dev/null`
-if [ "x$IFCONFIG" = "x" ]; then
+IPTOOL=`which ip 2> /dev/null`
+if [ "x$IPTOOL" = "x" ]; then
 	# better than nothing...
-	IFCONFIG=/sbin/ip
+	IPTOOL=/sbin/ip
 fi
-if [ -x "$IFCONFIG" ]; then
-	if `$IFCONFIG link show $TAP > /dev/null 2>&1`; then
-		$IFCONFIG link del $TAP
+if [ -x "$IPTOOL" ]; then
+	if `$IPTOOL link show $TAP > /dev/null 2>&1`; then
+		$IPTOOL link del $TAP
 	fi
 fi
 # cleanup the remaining iptables rules
diff --git a/poky/scripts/runqemu-ifup b/poky/scripts/runqemu-ifup
index bb66174..c65ceaf 100755
--- a/poky/scripts/runqemu-ifup
+++ b/poky/scripts/runqemu-ifup
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
 # QEMU network interface configuration script. This utility needs to
-# be run as root, and will use the tunctl binary from a native sysroot.
-# Note: many Linux distros these days still use an older version of
-# tunctl which does not support the group permissions option, hence
-# the need to use build system's version.
+# be run as root, and will use the ip utility
 #
 # If you find yourself calling this script a lot, you can add the
 # the following to your /etc/sudoers file to be able to run this
@@ -24,7 +21,7 @@
 #
 
 usage() {
-	echo "sudo $(basename $0) <uid> <gid> <native-sysroot-basedir>"
+	echo "sudo $(basename $0) <gid>"
 }
 
 if [ $EUID -ne 0 ]; then
@@ -32,41 +29,43 @@
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
+if [ $# -eq 2 ]; then
+	echo "Warning: uid parameter is ignored. It is no longer needed."
+	GROUP="$2"
+elif [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
+	GROUP="$1"
+else
 	usage
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-USERID="-u $1"
-GROUP="-g $2"
-STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE=$3
 
-TUNCTL=$STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE/tunctl
-if [ ! -x "$TUNCTL" ]; then
-       echo "Error: Unable to find tunctl binary in '$STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE', please bitbake qemu-helper-native"
+if [ -z "$OE_TAP_NAME" ]; then
+	OE_TAP_NAME=tap
+fi
+
+if taps=$(ip tuntap list 2>/dev/null); then
+	tap_no_last=$(echo "$taps" |cut -f 1 -d ":" |grep -E "^$OE_TAP_NAME.*" |sed "s/$OE_TAP_NAME//g" | sort -rn | head -n 1)
+	if [ -z "$tap_no_last" ]; then
+		tap_no=0
+	else
+		tap_no=$(("$tap_no_last" + 1))
+	fi
+	ip tuntap add "$OE_TAP_NAME$tap_no" mode tap group "$GROUP" && TAP=$OE_TAP_NAME$tap_no
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$TAP" ]; then
+	echo "Error: Unable to find a tap device to use"
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-TAP=`$TUNCTL -b $GROUP 2>&1`
-STATUS=$?
-if [ $STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
-# If tunctl -g fails, try using tunctl -u, for older host kernels 
-# which do not support the TUNSETGROUP ioctl
-	TAP=`$TUNCTL -b $USERID 2>&1`
-	STATUS=$?
-	if [ $STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
-		echo "tunctl failed:"
-		exit 1
-	fi
-fi
-
-IFCONFIG=`which ip 2> /dev/null`
-if [ "x$IFCONFIG" = "x" ]; then
+IPTOOL=`which ip 2> /dev/null`
+if [ "x$IPTOOL" = "x" ]; then
 	# better than nothing...
-	IFCONFIG=/sbin/ip
+	IPTOOL=/sbin/ip
 fi
-if [ ! -x "$IFCONFIG" ]; then
-	echo "$IFCONFIG cannot be executed"
+if [ ! -x "$IPTOOL" ]; then
+	echo "$IPTOOL cannot be executed"
 	exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -79,22 +78,22 @@
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-n=$[ (`echo $TAP | sed 's/tap//'` * 2) + 1 ]
-$IFCONFIG addr add 192.168.7.$n/32 broadcast 192.168.7.255 dev $TAP
+n=$[ (`echo $TAP | sed "s/$OE_TAP_NAME//"` * 2) + 1 ]
+$IPTOOL addr add 192.168.7.$n/32 broadcast 192.168.7.255 dev $TAP
 STATUS=$?
 if [ $STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to set up IP addressing on $TAP"
     exit 1
 fi
-$IFCONFIG link set dev $TAP up
+$IPTOOL link set dev $TAP up
 STATUS=$?
 if [ $STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to bring up $TAP"
     exit 1
 fi
 
-dest=$[ (`echo $TAP | sed 's/tap//'` * 2) + 2 ]
-$IFCONFIG route add to 192.168.7.$dest dev $TAP
+dest=$[ (`echo $TAP | sed "s/$OE_TAP_NAME//"` * 2) + 2 ]
+$IPTOOL route add to 192.168.7.$dest dev $TAP
 STATUS=$?
 if [ $STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to add route to 192.168.7.$dest using $TAP"