January 24, 2025 by Sebastian Fricke | News & Events
Collabora's deep involvement with the MediaTek community continued to shine this week with the release of Linux 6.13, which saw multiple improvements land for MediaTek SoCs.
January 15, 2025 by Gert Wollny | Blog
With VirGL, Venus, and vDRM, virglrenderer offers three different approaches to obtain access to accelerated GFX in a virtual machine. Here are the latest updates around each of these approaches.
January 07, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
A testament to its long standing community interest and devote volunteers, FOSDEM will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Join us as we take the stage to discuss BlueZ, GStreamer, Open Source AI models, & more!
December 20, 2024 by Sebastian Reichel | News & Events
The Rockchip RK3588 upstream support has progressed a lot over the last few years. As 2024 comes to a close, it is a great time to have a look at the recent changes, work in progress, and the current state in general.
December 19, 2024 by Vineet Suryan | Blog
In the world of deep learning optimization, two powerful tools stand out: torch.compile, PyTorch’s just-in-time (JIT) compiler, and NVIDIA’s TensorRT, a platform for high-performance deep learning inference.
December 09, 2024 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora will be at NeurIPs this week to dive into the latest academic findings in machine learning and research advancements that are changing the industry.
December 05, 2024 by Dylan Aïssi | News & Events
Now based on Debian Bookworm, Apertis is a collaborative OS platform that includes an operating system, but also tools and cloud services to optimize development and increase reliability.
December 03, 2024 by Sebastian Reichel | News & Events
Initial support for Rockchip's RK3576, a new SoC introduced earlier this year, has landed in Linux kernel 6.12. With the main target being industrial applications, it is less of a powerhouse than the RK3588, but it still reuses many components.
December 02, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
Today, Khronos announced the release of the Vulkan 1.4 specification, and NVK is one of the day-zero conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementations! Vulkan 1.4 support in NVK has been merged into Mesa and will be part of the Mesa 25.0 release in early 2025.
November 27, 2024 by Marius Vlad | News & Events
Recently, both Weston 14.0, and 14.0.1 (bug fix) were released. Here's at look at some of the highlights and changes for this latest release of Wayland's reference compositor.
November 26, 2024 by Dmitry Osipenko | News & Events
Linux kernel 6.12 is here with real-time preemption support and an extensible scheduler class. Take a look at the contributions our kernel team made for this release.
November 15, 2024 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
The Linux Foundation Member Summit is an opportune time to gather on the state of open source. Our talk will address the concerns and challenges of maintaining a stable kernel.
October 31, 2014 by Philip Withnall | Blog
Introductory talk on libnice (done as part of Collabora's tea time training)
October 11, 2014 by Javier Canillas | Blog
Collabora contributions to the Linux kernel 3.17
October 06, 2014 by Alban Crequy | Blog
Eight security issues were discovered, fixed and attributed a CVE.
October 01, 2014 by Philip Withnall | Blog
A discussion of dynamic relocation, position independent code, the -fPIC flag and how it affects generated assembly. The focus would be on the practical implications of it all, including when to (and when not to) use -fPIC.
September 01, 2014 by Marco Barisione | Blog
Collabora has been working with the Raspberry Pi Foundation on various projects including a web browser optimised for the Raspberry Pi. Since the first beta release we have made huge improvements; now the browser is more responsive, it’s faster, and…
August 27, 2014 by Nicolas Dufresne | Blog
A team at Samsung (and many core Linux contributors) started adding new type of drivers to the Linux Media Infrastructure API (also known as Video4Linux 2).
August 13, 2014 by Daniel Stone | Blog
Predictable media latency, low power usage and vastly improved A/V sync. Wayland versus X11 explained on ARM MALI
July 16, 2014 by Vince Sanders | Blog
It is no great secret that my colleagues at Collabora have been doing work with the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
January 06, 2014 by Vince Sanders | Blog
Once again the NetSurf developers congregated in Cambridge at the Collabora offices where we were made welcome in a nice environment for the event.
Enhancing the graphic software stack for the Raspberry Pi.
April 26, 2013 by Vince Sanders | Blog
Collabora recently had a problem with a project's ARM build farm. In a nice change of pace it was not that the kernel was crashing, nor indeed any of the software or hardware.
November 05, 2012 by Vince Sanders | Blog
The weekend saw some of the NetSurf developers gather once again to do battle against the Red Queen...no, wait. I mean plan and write code.
September 23, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
The annual X.Org Developer's Conference returns to Toronto September 28-30, and as a Gold Sponsor, Collabora's graphics team will present six talks and a workshop spanning Vulkan and Open Source GPU drivers.
September 17, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Next week we'll be in Paris for Kernel Recipes! We’re pleased to sponsor this gathering of the kernel community and contribute a talk on upstream H.264 and HEVC decoding for Rockchip RK3588/RK3576.
September 15, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Visit us at the STMicroelectronics booth at SIDO to see how the STM32MP2 platform enables responsive edge-AI applications for industrial use cases.
September 11, 2026 by Santosh Mahto | News & Events
Working closely with Google, we built the first RDK-based Chrobalt reference platform for third-party devices, enabling Chromium-based YouTube support, certification, and automation on embedded TVs and set-top boxes.
September 10, 2026 by Valentine Burley | News & Events
Turnip is the first Mesa driver to achieve official Vulkan conformance on Android, with stronger Android integration, shared Vulkan runtime improvements, and real-device CI testing on Qualcomm Adreno hardware.
September 08, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Join us in Montreal for the 10th edition of RustConf! Catch our talk on Tyr, the new Rust kernel driver for Arm Mali GPUs.
September 08, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora is heading to Amsterdam! Join us at Booth A63 in Hall 14 to see GStreamer Analytics with machine learning, standalone XR remote rendering, and our MediaTek Genio-powered Magic Mirror for virtual clothing swaps.
August 18, 2026 by Deborah Brouwer | News & Events
Linux kernel 7.2 adds broad core, Rust, and hardware-support updates, with Collabora contributing 102 patches across graphics, media, virtualization, networking, power management, and SoC enablement.
August 12, 2026 by Julien Massot | News & Events
Collabora and MediaTek continue expanding upstream support across the Genio IoT family, with HDMI 2.0 now enabled for existing boards, Genio 520 and 720 support progressing in Linux, and Genio Pro 5100 enablement extending into U-Boot and Trusted Firmware-A.
July 30, 2026 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
Kraid, the new compiler for the Panfrost driver stack, now passes all Vulkan CTS compute shader tests. This marks a major milestone, with work continuing on additional shader stages, code quality, and performance optimization.
July 28, 2026 by Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne | News & Events
RADV’s experimental Windows port brings Mesa’s open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs closer to running real workloads, while highlighting the need for a stable interface to AMD’s proprietary kernel driver.
July 17, 2026 by Denis Pynkin | News & Events
The Holo Core aarch64 preview provides early binaries, sources, and containers for an Arch Linux-based aarch64 port, backed by tooling and CI work for reproducible rolling-release builds.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
September 28 - 30, Toronto, Canada
September 29 - 30, London, UK
September 30 - October 1, Berlin, Germany
October 1, Frankfurt, Germany
October 5 - 7, Prague, Czech Republic
October 5 - 9, Calgary, Canada