Issues

• *easy first issue* Add optional plain text description field to project.conf

  apache/buildstream#2197 · Filter by author nathanwilliams-ct opened on Oct 7, 2026

• _testing._sourcetests: shared repo-kind tests assume the datafiles fixture copy is writable, which breaks when package data is installed read-only

  apache/buildstream#2196 · Filter by author shymega opened on Sep 27, 2026

• Confusing error message when the workspace directory of a junction is missing

  apache/buildstream#2194 · Filter by author abderrahim opened on Sep 17, 2026

• Modification time of an element with an open workspace propagates into consumer element's sandbox

  bug
  apache/buildstream#2186 · Filter by author AlgebraicWolf opened on Aug 25, 2026
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• Find replacement for ujson (ujson is in maintenance-only mode)

  apache/buildstream#2184 · Filter by author jjardon opened on Aug 23, 2026 · BuildStream 2.9
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• Using ".." allows loading elements from outside of element-path

  bugfrontendnewcomers
  apache/buildstream#2178 · Filter by author abderrahim opened on Aug 18, 2026 · BuildStream 2.9
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• CI breaks when tagging a release, requiring a manual PR to fix

  apache/buildstream#2177 · Filter by author nathanwilliams-ct opened on Aug 17, 2026 · BuildStream 2.9

• Avoid repeated Element dependency graph traversal

  apache/buildstream#2176 · Filter by author kotborealis opened on Aug 17, 2026
  1

• workspacedir doesn't actually support relative paths?

  apache/buildstream#2171 · Filter by author Anrock opened on Aug 12, 2026
  4

• Source fetching should have a configurable exponential backoff.

  apache/buildstream#2169 · Filter by author shymega-ct opened on Aug 11, 2026

• Documentation should have a slug that resolves to the latest tag of the project.

  apache/buildstream#2168 · Filter by author shymega-ct opened on Aug 11, 2026

• Support fetching CAS objects via the Bazel HTTP caching protocol (enables CDN-backed remote storage)

  cache serverenhancement
  apache/buildstream#2165 · Filter by author jjardon opened on Aug 10, 2026 · BuildStream 2.9
  

• .netrc behaviour is not documented

  documentation
  apache/buildstream#2159 · Filter by author tmewett opened on Jul 29, 2026 · BuildStream 2.9
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• Add a global --format option for machine-readable output

  apache/buildstream#2158 · Filter by author ipsavitsky opened on Jul 28, 2026

• Artifacts stop pulling without visible failure

  cache server
  apache/buildstream#2156 · Filter by author ada-magicat opened on Jul 25, 2026
  4

• bst shell is giving a bug trace when using --mount

  logging
  apache/buildstream#2151 · Filter by author wsalmonct opened on Jul 9, 2026
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• Configure verbose logging to off by default

  logging
  apache/buildstream#2150 · Filter by author ada-magicat opened on Jul 9, 2026
  3

• Credentials for different URLs isn't possible if they are under the same domain

  enhancement
  apache/buildstream#2148 · Filter by author edcope-ct opened on Jul 7, 2026
  5

• Multiple empty lines are still printed when message-lines (and error-lines) is set to 0

  buglogging
  apache/buildstream#2145 · Filter by author ada-magicat opened on Jul 2, 2026

• Do not print 'START' messages in interactive mode

  enhancementfrontendlogging
  apache/buildstream#2144 · Filter by author ada-magicat opened on Jul 2, 2026

• Unclear how to delete a specific hash of a cached element

  question
  apache/buildstream#2143 · Filter by author ada-magicat opened on Jul 2, 2026
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• Do not print build commands for every element being built

  enhancementlogging
  apache/buildstream#2142 · Filter by author ada-magicat opened on Jul 2, 2026
  2

• Do not print all elements and their status on every invocation

  enhancementfrontendlogging
  apache/buildstream#2141 · Filter by author ada-magicat opened on Jul 2, 2026
  5

• Do not print project configuration on every invocation

  enhancementfrontendlogging
  apache/buildstream#2140 · Filter by author ada-magicat opened on Jul 2, 2026

• Skipped by default configuration stage may be not so useful

  apache/buildstream#2138 · Filter by author eunovm opened on Jun 25, 2026
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