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Release the panthor!

March 04, 2024 by Boris Brezillon  |   News & Events

Late last week, the long-awaited kernel driver supporting 10th-generation Arm Mali GPUs was merged into drm-misc. The existing Gallium driver support has also been extended, effectively enabling GPUs on Rockchip's RK3588 platforms.

Release the panthor!

Patch submitted to introduce GitLab-CI pipeline for Linux kernel testing

March 01, 2024 by Helen Koike  |   News & Events

This initial version includes static checks (checkpatch and smatch for now) and build tests across various architectures and configurations, and introduces a flexible 'scenarios' mechanism for subsystem-specific extensions.

Patch submitted to introduce GitLab-CI pipeline for Linux kernel testing

NVK is now ready for prime time

February 28, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand  |   News & Events

The merge request has landed, the non-conformant implementation warnings are gone, and NVK's Meson configuration now reads "nouveau" instead of "nouveau-experimental". It's now time to start shipping NVK to users!

NVK is now ready for prime time

Smells like team spirit: Meet our newest Collaborans!

February 26, 2024 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

We've recently had some new faces join the team and we are delighted that our talented new joiners have readily jumped in to advance the open source mission.

Smells like team spirit: Meet our newest Collaborans!

Almost a fully open-source boot chain for Rockchip's RK3588!

February 21, 2024 by Eugen Hristev  |   Blog

Now included in our Debian images & available via our GitLab, you can build a complete, working BL31 (Boot Loader stage 3.1), and replace the closed binary blob with an open-source binary that anyone can compile.

Almost a fully open-source boot chain for Rockchip's RK3588!

What's the latest with WirePlumber?

February 19, 2024 by George Kiagiadakis  |   Blog

Back in 2022, after a series of issues were found in its design, I made the call to rework some of WirePlumber's fundamentals in order to allow it to grow. So where are we now? And what's next? Let's dive in!

What's the latest with WirePlumber?

FOSDEM 2024 - Recorded presentations (videos) now available

February 15, 2024 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Collabora's engineers presented six talks over the course of the weekend, with topics including a review of recent improvements to GStreamer, a look at the state of video offloading on the Linux desktop, and more.

FOSDEM 2024 - Recorded presentations (videos) now available

A framework to share analytics data in GStreamer

February 13, 2024 by Daniel Morin  |   News & Events

Engineers have widely adopted GStreamer to build video analytics pipelines, and while many companies have indeed built their machine learning analysis framework around GStreamer, no one had made the effort to contribute upstream, until now.

A framework to share analytics data in GStreamer

DRM-CI: A GitLab-CI pipeline for Linux kernel testing

February 08, 2024 by Helen Koike  |   Blog

Continuing our Kernel Integration series, we're excited to introduce DRM-CI, a groundbreaking solution that enables developers to test their graphics subsystem patches across numerous devices within the community's shared infrastructure.

DRM-CI: A GitLab-CI pipeline for Linux kernel testing

Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead)

January 30, 2024 by Alexandros Frantzis  |   News & Events

2023 was a great year for the Wayland driver for Wine. After several merge requests, many people are now already able to use the latest Wine release to enjoy some of their favorite Windows applications in a completely X11-free environment!

Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead)

WhisperFusion: Ultra-low latency conversations with an AI chatbot

January 25, 2024 by Marcus Edel  |   News & Events

By creating a real-time AI chatbot communication system using WhisperLive and WhisperSpeech, we have addressed the unnatural delay in current bot interactions for seamless conversation.

WhisperFusion: Ultra-low latency conversations with an AI chatbot

Persian Rug, Part 4 - The limitations of proxies

January 23, 2024 by Edmund Smith  |   Blog

This is the fourth and final part in a series on persian-rug, a Rust crate for interconnected objects. We've touched on the two big limitations: lack of deletion and lack of enforced matching between proxies and containers. Let's look at other solutions.

Persian Rug, Part 4 - The limitations of proxies

News from the Debian Cloud Team

March 05, 2019 by Lucas Kanashiro  |   Blog

Since the last Debian release, a number of changes have been made in the Debian Cloud Team, both on the technical & organisational level within the community. Here's a look at what's in store for Buster!

News from the Debian Cloud Team

Panfrost update: A new kernel driver

March 04, 2019 by Tomeu Vizoso  |   Blog

Following two months of work to develop a new kernel driver for Midgard and Bifrost GPUs, the kernel side of Panfrost is now in a form close to be acceptable in the mainline Linux kernel.

Panfrost update: A new kernel driver

Modern USB gadget on Linux & how to integrate it with systemd (Part 1)

February 18, 2019 by Andrzej Pietrasiewicz  |   Blog

A look at how to implement USB gadget devices on Linux machines which have the necessary UDC hardware, automate the manual configfs process via declarative gadget "schemes", and use systemd for gadget composition at boot time.

Modern USB gadget on Linux & how to integrate it with systemd (Part 1)

FOSDEM 2019 - Recorded presentations (videos)

February 15, 2019 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

From the latest on Open Source projects Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) and VirGL (virtual 3D GPU for QEMU), to a state of the union on GStreamer embedded, and a look at how the KernelCI project is getting a second breath, Collaborans presented in five devrooms.

FOSDEM 2019 - Recorded presentations (videos)

A Panfrost milestone

January 07, 2019 by Tomeu Vizoso  |   Blog

Panfrost, a project that delivers an open source implementation of a driver for the newest versions of the Mali family of GPUs, now includes support for running Wayland compositors and zero-copy GPU-accelerated clients.

A Panfrost milestone

A dream come true: Android is finally using DRM/KMS

December 17, 2018 by Gustavo Padovan  |   Blog

Released a few months ago, the Google Pixel 3 is the first Android phone running with the mainline graphics stack. A feat that was deemed impossible 10 years ago is now a reality thanks to a lot of hard work from the entire community.

A dream come true: Android is finally using DRM/KMS

Convincing your manager that upstreaming is in their best interest

November 28, 2018 by Martyn Welch  |   Blog

In an ideal world, everyone would implicitly understand that it just makes good business sense to upstream some of the modifications made when creating your Linux powered devices. Unfortunately, this is a long way from being common knowledge.

Convincing your manager that upstreaming is in their best interest

Metrics for test suite comprehensiveness

November 23, 2018 by Alexandros Frantzis  |   Blog

How can we measure the comprehensiveness of a test suite? Code coverage is the standard metric used in the industry and makes intuitive sense. However, it can often present some difficulties for large scale surveys.

Metrics for test suite comprehensiveness

Gaining eBPF vision: A new way to trace Linux filesystem disk requests

November 21, 2018 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi  |   Blog

A real-world use case of eBPF tracing to understand file access patterns in the Linux kernel and optimize large applications.

Gaining eBPF vision: A new way to trace Linux filesystem disk requests

Quick hack: Speed up your GitLab CI

November 06, 2018 by Xavier Claessens  |   Blog

Did you know you could register your own PC, or a spare laptop collecting dust in a drawer, to get instant CI going on GitLab? Not only will you get faster CI, but you'll also reduce the queue on the shared runner for others!

Quick hack: Speed up your GitLab CI

Introducing Zink, an OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan

October 31, 2018 by Erik Faye-Lund  |   Blog

For the last month or so, I've been playing with a new project during my work at Collabora, and as I've already briefly talked about at XDC 2018, it's about time to talk about it to a wider audience.

Introducing Zink, an OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan

On the low adoption of automated testing in FOSS

October 18, 2018 by Alexandros Frantzis  |   Blog

For projects of any value and significance, having a comprehensive automated test suite is nowadays considered a standard software engineering practice. Why, then, don't we see more prominent FOSS projects employing this practice?

On the low adoption of automated testing in FOSS

YouTube Device Partner Summit 2026

April 14, 2026 by Olivier Crête  |   News & Events

This week, Collabora is at the YouTube Device Partner Summit in Tokyo showcasing our ongoing work with YouTube, notably on their TV app and the RDK platform, which has resulted in the RDK's integration as a core platform for Cobalt development.

YouTube Device Partner Summit 2026

From Panthor to RK3588: Advancing graphics, video and SoC support in Linux kernel 7.0

April 13, 2026 by Loic Molinari  |   News & Events

Kernel 7.0 is out with broad hardware enablement and performance updates. Collabora contributed 227 patches from 24 developers, spanning major graphics work, multimedia fixes, and substantial enablement for Rockchip and MediaTek.

From Panthor to RK3588: Advancing graphics, video and SoC support in Linux kernel 7.0

Mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588

April 13, 2026 by Michael Riesch  |   News & Events

After over five years of development and collaboration across the Open Source community, initial mainline Linux support for Rockchip RK3588's video capture hardware has finally landed.

Mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588

Wayland 1.25 Documentation Update

April 09, 2026 by Pekka Paalanen  |   News & Events

Wayland 1.25 refreshes its documentation with three new chapters covering Wayland XML specification, content model updates, and color management design.

Wayland 1.25 Documentation Update

16 contributors, cross-stack improvements: Collabora's work on GStreamer 1.28

April 08, 2026 by Olivier Crête  |   News & Events

Our multimedia engineering team delivered major improvements to GStreamer 1.28: hardware acceleration and zero-copy pipelines, HDR and color support for Wayland, AI inference integration, plus critical codec and RTP/WebRTC interoperability fixes.

16 contributors, cross-stack improvements: Collabora's work on GStreamer 1.28

Springing into AI: PyTorch Conference Europe & ICLR 2026

April 02, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora presents "Bringing BitNet to ExecuTorch via Vulkan" at PyTorch Conference Europe in Paris (April 7-8) and attends ICLR in Rio de Janeiro (April 23-27). Connect with our team to discuss machine learning and open source innovation!

Springing into AI: PyTorch Conference Europe & ICLR 2026

Apertis v2026: A modern foundation for industrial embedded development

March 31, 2026 by Walter Lozano  |   News & Events

Based on Debian 13 (Trixie), Apertis v2026 delivers updated system libraries, development tools, compilers, and core services, alongside a new default Wayland compositor, a reworked SDK, and smarter packaging pipelines.

Apertis v2026: A modern foundation for industrial embedded development

How Monado became the foundation for OpenXR runtimes

March 26, 2026 by Frederic Plourde  |   News & Events

Google's AndroidXR. Qualcomm's Snapdragon Spaces. NVIDIA CloudXR. What do they have in common? Monado, the Open Source, cross-platform OpenXR runtime Collabora launched as an alternative to proprietary XR stacks.

How Monado became the foundation for OpenXR runtimes

Collabora at Embedded World 2026: Open Source AI and Embedded Innovation

March 05, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

As champions of open source development in the embedded community, Collabora will be at Booth 4-404 with an impressive lineup of live demonstrations spanning graphics, machine learning, continuous testing, and real-world applications.

Collabora at Embedded World 2026: Open Source AI and Embedded Innovation

RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel

February 25, 2026 by Detlev Casanova  |   News & Events

Support for Rockchip’s VDPU381 and VDPU383 decoders is now upstream in Linux, bringing mainline H.264/HEVC decode support, robust IOMMU-reset recovery, and new HEVC V4L2 UAPI controls aligned with Vulkan Video.

RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel

Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

February 19, 2026 by Marius Vlad  |   News & Events

Weston 15.0 has arrived, bringing a brand new Lua-based shell for fully customizable window management, an experimental Vulkan renderer, and a host of improvements to color handling, media playback, and display performance.

Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

Monado at the core of Android XR

February 18, 2026 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Collabora is excited to see Monado at the heart of the new OpenXR runtime for Android XR, a major milestone for Open Source XR interoperability.

Monado at the core of Android XR

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