diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-global/insane.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-global/insane.bbclass
index dc46857..df2c40c 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-global/insane.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-global/insane.bbclass
@@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@
 
     for url in d.getVar("SRC_URI").split():
         # Search for github and gitlab URLs that pull unstable archives (comment for future greppers)
-        if re.search(r"git(hu|la)b\.com/.+/.+/archive/.+", url):
+        if re.search(r"git(hu|la)b\.com/.+/.+/archive/.+", url) or "//codeload.github.com/" in url:
             oe.qa.handle_error("src-uri-bad", "%s: SRC_URI uses unstable GitHub/GitLab archives, convert recipe to use git protocol" % pn, d)
 
 python do_qa_unpack() {
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-global/mirrors.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-global/mirrors.bbclass
index 81fef7f..8b984de 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-global/mirrors.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-global/mirrors.bbclass
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@
 BB_GIT_SHALLOW:pn-binutils-cross-testsuite = "1"
 BB_GIT_SHALLOW:pn-binutils-crosssdk-${SDK_SYS} = "1"
 BB_GIT_SHALLOW:pn-binutils-native = "1"
+BB_GIT_SHALLOW:pn-nativesdk-binutils = "1"
+
 BB_GIT_SHALLOW:pn-glibc = "1"
 PREMIRRORS += "git://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \
               git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/"
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-global/package.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-global/package.bbclass
index 2d985d8..7a0a428 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-global/package.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-global/package.bbclass
@@ -490,16 +490,31 @@
         bb.debug(1, 'ELF file {} has no debuginfo, skipping minidebuginfo injection'.format(file))
         return
 
+    # minidebuginfo does not make sense to apply to ELF objects other than
+    # executables and shared libraries, skip applying the minidebuginfo
+    # generation for objects like kernel modules.
+    for line in subprocess.check_output([readelf, '-h', debugfile], universal_newlines=True).splitlines():
+        if not line.strip().startswith("Type:"):
+            continue
+        elftype = line.split(":")[1].strip()
+        if not any(elftype.startswith(i) for i in ["EXEC", "DYN"]):
+            bb.debug(1, 'ELF file {} is not executable/shared, skipping minidebuginfo injection'.format(file))
+            return
+        break
+
     # Find non-allocated PROGBITS, NOTE, and NOBITS sections in the debuginfo.
     # We will exclude all of these from minidebuginfo to save space.
     remove_section_names = []
     for line in subprocess.check_output([readelf, '-W', '-S', debugfile], universal_newlines=True).splitlines():
-        fields = line.split()
-        if len(fields) < 8:
+        # strip the leading "  [ 1]" section index to allow splitting on space
+        if ']' not in line:
+            continue
+        fields = line[line.index(']') + 1:].split()
+        if len(fields) < 7:
             continue
         name = fields[0]
         type = fields[1]
-        flags = fields[7]
+        flags = fields[6]
         # .debug_ sections will be removed by objcopy -S so no need to explicitly remove them
         if name.startswith('.debug_'):
             continue
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass
index 606444ca..bc188ee 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass
@@ -625,11 +625,9 @@
     # never again until the sanity version or host distrubution id/version changes.
 
     # Check the python install is complete. Examples that are often removed in
-    # minimal installations: glib-2.0-natives requries # xml.parsers.expat and icu
-    # requires distutils.sysconfig.
+    # minimal installations: glib-2.0-natives requries # xml.parsers.expat
     try:
         import xml.parsers.expat
-        import distutils.sysconfig
     except ImportError as e:
         status.addresult('Your Python 3 is not a full install. Please install the module %s (see the Getting Started guide for further information).\n' % e.name)
 
@@ -1005,13 +1003,6 @@
     if status.messages != "":
         raise_sanity_error(sanity_data.expand(status.messages), sanity_data, status.network_error)
 
-# Create a copy of the datastore and finalise it to ensure appends and 
-# overrides are set - the datastore has yet to be finalised at ConfigParsed
-def copy_data(e):
-    sanity_data = bb.data.createCopy(e.data)
-    sanity_data.finalize()
-    return sanity_data
-
 addhandler config_reparse_eventhandler
 config_reparse_eventhandler[eventmask] = "bb.event.ConfigParsed"
 python config_reparse_eventhandler() {
@@ -1022,13 +1013,13 @@
 check_sanity_eventhandler[eventmask] = "bb.event.SanityCheck bb.event.NetworkTest"
 python check_sanity_eventhandler() {
     if bb.event.getName(e) == "SanityCheck":
-        sanity_data = copy_data(e)
+        sanity_data = bb.data.createCopy(e.data)
         check_sanity(sanity_data)
         if e.generateevents:
             sanity_data.setVar("SANITY_USE_EVENTS", "1")
         bb.event.fire(bb.event.SanityCheckPassed(), e.data)
     elif bb.event.getName(e) == "NetworkTest":
-        sanity_data = copy_data(e)
+        sanity_data = bb.data.createCopy(e.data)
         if e.generateevents:
             sanity_data.setVar("SANITY_USE_EVENTS", "1")
         bb.event.fire(bb.event.NetworkTestFailed() if check_connectivity(sanity_data) else bb.event.NetworkTestPassed(), e.data)
diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-global/sstate.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-global/sstate.bbclass
index 2c8e7b8..21959ff 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-global/sstate.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-global/sstate.bbclass
@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@
 
     logit("Considering setscene task: %s" % (str(taskdependees[task])), log)
 
-    directtasks = ["do_populate_lic", "do_deploy_source_date_epoch", "do_shared_workdir", "do_stash_locale", "do_gcc_stash_builddir", "do_create_spdx"]
+    directtasks = ["do_populate_lic", "do_deploy_source_date_epoch", "do_shared_workdir", "do_stash_locale", "do_gcc_stash_builddir", "do_create_spdx", "do_deploy_archives"]
 
     def isNativeCross(x):
         return x.endswith("-native") or "-cross-" in x or "-crosssdk" in x or x.endswith("-cross")