September 01, 2021 by Mark Filion | News & Events
September's busy conference schedule kicks off next week with the Fall edition of Linaro Virtual Connect. Join us as we look at how to master your PipeWire streams with WirePlumber, and de-mystify GFX virtualization with VirGL!
July 20, 2021 by Alyssa Rosenzweig | News & Events
After a month of reverse-engineering the Arm Mali G78, we’re excited to release documentation on the Valhall instruction set, available as a PDF, as well as a Valhall assembler and disassembler to be used as a reverse-engineering aid.
July 08, 2021 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | News & Events
Collabora's team working directly on the Linux kernel is growing. Collaborans continue to expand on their efforts to close the gap between hardware support on vendor trees and mainline.
June 23, 2021 by Daniel Almeida | Blog
Earlier this year, from January to April 2021, I worked on adding support for stateless decoders for GStreamer as part of a multimedia internship at Collabora. Here's a recap of this completed work.
June 21, 2021 by Shreeya Patel | News & Events
Earlier this month, Collabora took part in the very first KernelCI hackfest, initiated as a joint effort with the Google Chrome OS team. Here's a look at what led to our participation and what was accomplished.
June 21, 2021 by Erica Ryoo | News & Events
Despite the many obstacles brought on by the pandemic, Collabora has continued to grow its teams for the road ahead. Join us in welcoming Kiril, Benjamin, Daniel, Shreeya, Ariel, Nicolas and James!
June 17, 2021 by Marcus Edel | Blog
In our previous post, we presented a project backed by INVEST-AI which introduces a multi-stage neural network-based solution. Now let's dive into the machine learning details of our innovative, open source hand-tracking pipeline.
June 15, 2021 by Nícolas F. R. A. Prado | Blog
Initiated as a joint effort by the Google Chrome OS team and Collabora, the recent KernelCI hackfest brought the addition of new tests including the ability to detect regressions on the Linux kernel that can directly affect cameras.
June 14, 2021 by Erik Faye-Lund | Blog
There's a lot that has happened in the world of Zink since my last update, so let's see if I can bring you up to date on the most important stuff, including upstream development, support for OpenGL 4.6 & GLES 3.1, and more.
June 11, 2021 by Alyssa Rosenzweig | Blog
Panfrost, the open source driver for Arm Mali, now supports OpenGL ES 3.1 on both Midgard (Mali T760 and newer) and Bifrost (Mali G31, G52, G72) GPUs, adding a number of features, notably including compute shaders.
June 07, 2021 by Alexandros Frantzis | News & Events
We first announced our work on the driver last December, and posted an update earlier this year. We are now happy to announce a second update for this driver, adding several major features which increase its scope and utility.
June 02, 2021 by Marius Vlad | News & Events
Simplifying AGL's existing Wayland-based graphical stack and avoiding the use of modules that aren't maintained upstream has lead to the creation of a new compositor based on libweston, bringing more reliable and fine-grained system control.
January 27, 2016 by Philip Withnall | Blog
As JSON becomes used more and more in place of XML, we need a replacement for tools like xmllint to check that JSON documents follow whatever format they are supposed to be following.
January 12, 2016 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
Linux Kernel 4.4 was released this week and Collabora engineers helped in the development of the new kernel in a few different areas. A total of 38 patches from 8 Collabora engineers were added, making it the kernel release with the most Collabora developers…
November 12, 2015 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
Collabora developers contributed a total of 48 patches to kernel 4.3 as part of our current projects.
October 13, 2015 by Philip Withnall | Blog
For those who like their I/O packetised, GLib now has a companion for its GIOStream class — the GDatagramBasedinterface, which we’ve implemented as part of R&D work at Collabora.
September 15, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | Blog
Standing on the shoulders of giants. As Collabora turns 10 years this month, we are forced to stop and marvel at the accomplishments of GNU in its 30 years of existence. Happy 30th anniversary GNU
August 25, 2015 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog
Kernel.org Collabora contributions
August 24, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog
Kernel.org Collabora contributions
August 06, 2015 by Alex Shtyrov | Blog
A student intership experience at Collabora
June 08, 2015 by Simon McVittie | Blog
Why udisks2 and polkit are the way they are
May 11, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog
Collabora upstream work on Linux kernel
May 01, 2015 by Tomeu Vizoso | Blog
Describes ability of performing work while the machine is in a low power state such as suspend.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 17, 2026 by Olivier Crête | News & Events
With its latest release, GStreamer adds native support for AI inference engines including ONNX Runtime, LiteRT, and Burn, along with tensor decoders for YOLO, face detection, tracking, and more.
February 10, 2026 by Michael Riesch | News & Events
Collabora continues to be a key contributor to the Linux kernel, with 125 patches from 21 developers! Highlights include Arm Mali GPU improvements, expanded MediaTek and Rockchip SoC support, Rust integration progress, and new Rockchip video capture functionality.
January 15, 2026 by Sjoerd Simons | News & Events
With openwrt-one-debian, you can now install and run a full Debian system leveraging the OpenWrt One’s NVMe storage, enabling everything from custom services and containers to development tools and lightweight server workloads, all on open hardware.
January 13, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
At this year's edition of FOSDEM Collabora will be present with 7 talks! Join us to get the latest on video capture on Rockchip SoCs, Tyr, machine learning in GStreamer, and more!
December 24, 2025 by Alexandros Frantzis | News & Events
A deep dive on the current status of Chromium enablement on MediaTek Genio SoCs, including what the numbers look like when MediaTek’s hardware codecs are driven by Chromium’s V4L2 paths.
December 17, 2025 by Alexandros Frantzis | News & Events
As Chromium becomes the default UI runtime on embedded Linux devices, we’re closing long-standing V4L2 gaps and enabling efficient hardware video encoding and decoding on MediaTek platforms for both downstream and upstream.
December 10, 2025 by Frederic Plourde | News & Events
Released as UnitedXR wraps up in Brussels, this latest update to the cross-platform Open-Source OpenXR runtime delivers major improvements across hand tracking, device support, and the core runtime infrastructure.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
May 29 - 30, Nice, France
May 29 - 31, Nice, France
May 29 - 31, Nice, France
May 30 - 31, Nice, France
June 2 - 5, Taipei, Taiwan