March 22, 2021 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Join us this week at the Spring edition of Linaro Virtual Connect, as we discuss bringing stateless video decoding support to Linux, and take a look at where we are, and what's to come, for open drivers for Arm GPUs.
March 18, 2021 by Xavier Claessens | Blog
Over the past few months, I've been working on a side project to improve Meson sub-project support. The best stress test is to build projects on Windows, without msys2, because it has no dependencies or tools installed (e.g. pkg-config).
March 10, 2021 by Erik Faye-Lund | News & Events
One year ago, we announced a new partnership with Microsoft to build OpenGL mapping layers to DirectX 12. Today, we're excited to share that the we have passed the OpenGL 3.3 conformance tests, and have now upstreamed the D3D12 driver in Mesa 3D!
March 04, 2021 by Alexandra Pereira | Blog
The most complete automated testing and continuous integration tool for the Linux kernel continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Here's a look at the latest improvements to the KernelCI dashboard, the main web interface used by the project.
March 03, 2021 by Arnaud Ferraris | Blog
In the embedded world, many modern SoCs such as the ST Microelectronics STM32MP1 now include coprocessor cores which can be used for a wide range of tasks and can offload some of the work from the main processor.
February 19, 2021 by Alexandros Frantzis | News & Events
Two months ago we announced a first proposal for a Wayland driver for Wine, the compatibility layer for Windows applications. Here's an update on this effort, which contains more details and instructions for building and running the Wayland driver.
February 17, 2021 by Ezequiel Garcia | News & Events
The first kernel release of 2021 brings a number of highlights contributed by Collaborans, including the new Syscall User Dispatch mechanism, and the destaging of both the H.264 stateless decoding interface and the Rockchip ISP driver.
February 17, 2021 by Benjamin Gaignard | Blog
Our recent efforts on the Hantro kernel driver have resulted in the addition of H.264 decoding support and multiple performance improvements. We are now introducing High Efficiency Video Coding, also known as H.265, decoding support on NXP's i.MX8 M.
February 15, 2021 by Jakob Bornecrantz | News & Events
Monado, the OpenXR runtime for Linux, is now officially conformant! In recognition of this milestone, a first major release version of the OpenXR runtime for Linux is now available, bringing with it a SteamVR driver!
February 08, 2021 by Jakub Adam | Blog
Hwangsaeul, or H8L, a remote surveillance streaming solution, utilizes the capability of libsrt to collect statistics from open SRT sockets and by continuously analyzing the available data tries to detect potential connectivity issues.
February 01, 2021 by Gert Wollny | Blog
Complex, real-world correctness tests and performance analysis are now possible thanks to gltrim, a new tool recently added to apitrace, designed to trim replayable traces to single, user-defined frames.
January 28, 2021 by Aaron Boxer | Blog
Earlier this week, WebRTC became an official W3C and IETF standard. GStreamer has a powerful and rapidly maturing WebRTC implementation. So, the obvious question is: how do we build this on Windows?
October 31, 2025 by Frederic Plourde | Blog
Collabora has advanced Monado's accessibility by making the OpenXR runtime supported by Google Cardboard and similar mobile VR viewers so that even more can benefit from OpenXR.
October 27, 2025 by Faith Ekstrand | Blog
By resolving critical synchronization bugs in Zink’s Vulkan–OpenGL interop, Faith Ekstrand paved the way for Zink+NVK to become the default OpenGL implementation for Nouveau.
September 25, 2025 by Martyn Welch | Blog
Abandoned vendor-provided BSP roadblocks can be overcome when mainline Open Source projects like the Linux kernel are integrated directly. Get your upstreamed BSPs from day one.
August 06, 2025 by Daniel Almeida | Blog
This second post in the Tyr series dives deeper into GPU driver internals by using the Vulkan-based VkCube application to explain how User Mode Drivers (UMDs) and Kernel Mode Drivers (KMDs) work together to execute GPU workloads.
July 22, 2025 by Olivier Crête | Blog
Getting into kernel development can be daunting. There are layers upon layers of knowledge to master, but no clear roadmap, especially when it comes to debugging drivers or navigating userspace-kernel issues.
July 15, 2025 by Olivier Crête | Blog
This past May, we met with the community at the GStreamer Spring Hackfest in Nice, France, and were able to make great strides, including the integration of AI/ML workflows in GStreamer.
July 03, 2025 by George Kiagiadakis | Blog
As part of the activities Embedded Recipes in Nice, France, Collabora hosted a PipeWire workshop/hackfest, an opportunity for attendees to meet face-to-face with PipeWire developers and participate in direct discussions about the future of PipeWire.
June 25, 2025 by Tathagata Roy | Blog
In collaboration with Inria, the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, Tathagata Roy shares the progress made over the past year on the CoccinelleForRust project, co-sponsored by Collabora
June 23, 2025 by Nicolas Dufresne | Blog
Last month in Nice, active media developers came together for the annual Linux Media Summit to exchange insights and tackle ongoing challenges in the media subsystem. Here’s a brief summary of the key discussions and upcoming areas of focus.
June 09, 2025 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
In this final article based on Matt Godbolt's talk on making APIs easy to use and hard to misuse, I will discuss locking, an area where C++ has produced some interesting ideas, most notably something called RAII — Resource Acquisition Is Initialization.
May 21, 2025 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
In this second article of a three-part series, I look at how Matt Godbolt uses modern C++ features to try to protect against misusing an API that deals with destructive state transition based on a talk he gave on making code easy to use and hard to misuse.
May 12, 2025 by Aaron Boxer | Blog
Powerful video analytics pipelines are easy to make when you're well-equipped. Combining GStreamer and Machine Learning frameworks are the perfect duo to run complex models across multiple streams.
June 12, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Next week we'll be in Long Beach, California for AWE USA 2026. Catch our talk exploring OpenXR, from its practical foundation for cross-platform XR interoperability, to its extension support across devices, and more!
May 21, 2026 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Embedded Recipes returns to Nice for its second standalone edition, along with Linux Media Summit, PipeWire, libcamera, GStreamer Spring Hackfest, and new Display Next Hackfest & BlueZ F2F. Visit our table for Tyr, ML video analytics & Flipper One prototype!
May 21, 2026 by Sjoerd Simons | News & Events
Collabora is proud to share that we've partnered with Flipper Devices to work together on building an open Linux platform for hardware hackers. The long-awaited Flipper One will be built on the Rockchip RK3576!
May 13, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Join us next week in Utrecht for RustWeek! We'll be running a SuperTuxKart tournament to showcase Tyr, the Rust driver for Arm Mali GPUs. Come and see if you've got what it takes!
April 27, 2026 by Adrian Ratiu | News & Events
Collabora's contributions to Git 2.54 and the upcoming 2.55 add powerful config-based hooks with better visibility, opt-in parallel hook execution, and safer submodule handling via path-collision fixes.
April 20, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora is headed to Stuttgart for XR Expo 2026! Visit us in Hall 2, booth 2C22, to experience the latest around Monado and ElectricMaple, and catch our 2 talks!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
June 15 - 18, Long Beach, USA
June 18, Eindhoven, NL
Whether writing a line of code or shaping a longer-term strategic software development plan, we'll help you navigate the ever-evolving world of Open Source.
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