April 09, 2025 by Olivier Crête | News & Events
Collabora once again played a key role in the latest release of GStreamer, contributing enhancements such as improved hardware efficiency, support for the MPEG-5 LCEVC codec, and better integration for analytics and machine learning.
March 26, 2025 by Cristian Ciocaltea | News & Events
The kernel release emphasizes the continuing growth and maturity of the Linux ecosystem and delivers new features, improvements, and optimizations that everyone will be eager to explore. See where Collabora's kernel team contributed to this release.
March 26, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora is thrilled to see its partner, Hololight, join the Khronos Group and become an active member of the OpenXR Working Group. We are excited to support their innovative approach and rapid expansion in the XR streaming space.
March 11, 2025 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
Starting with Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will no longer get the old Nouveau OpenGL driver by default and will instead get Zink+NVK.
March 10, 2025 by Sjoerd Simons | News & Events
Towards the end of 2024, MediaTek and Collabora started on a journey to improve upstream support for MediaTek Genio devices. Here's where things stand.
March 07, 2025 by Dylan Aïssi | News & Events
Apertis v2025 has landed with all the updates from Debian 12.9. This release has a variety of updates including new supported boards, improved release processes, and more!
February 27, 2025 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Join us at the NürnbergMesse in Nuremberg, Germany, as we take part in Embedded World 2025, one of the largest trade fairs of its kind, and a global platform for the embedded community!
February 27, 2025 by George Kiagiadakis | Blog
If you are considering deploying BlueZ on your embedded Linux device, the benefits in terms of flexibility, community support, and long-term maintainability make it a worthwhile investment.
February 24, 2025 by Pekka Paalanen | News & Events
It's been a long road for Wayland's recently landed color management extension. We take a brief look back at how this latest feature was formed.
February 19, 2025 by Vineet Suryan | News & Events
We're proud to announce that Whisper is now available in Hindi! With 2,500 hours of Hindi speech data and innovative techniques like Indic Normalization, this model sets a new benchmark for Hindi ASR.
February 04, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund | News & Events
The first release candidate of Mesa 25.0 has recently shipped, bringing with it multiple updates to Panfrost, and most notably to PanVK, the open source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali GPUs.
January 29, 2025 by Frederic Plourde | News & Events
Collabora's involvement in Open Source XR development continues to grow today as we welcome the libsurvive project, the open source lighthouse tracking system, into the fold!
October 11, 2022 by Vineet Suryan | Blog
Taking one step towards democratizing the daunting task of dataset generation by making image synthesis and automatic ground truth data generation maintainable, cheaper, and more repeatable.
September 14, 2022 by Marcus Edel | Blog
Using open source software, Collabora has developed an efficient compression pipeline that enables a face video broadcasting system that achieves the same visual quality as the H.264 standard while only using one-tenth of the bandwidth.
September 07, 2022 by Faith Ekstrand | Blog
Introducing new common code for Mesa Vulkan drivers to support a new Vulkan extension, making it easier for app and game authors to manage Vulkan state - and easier for our drivers too.
September 02, 2022 by Frederic Danis | Blog
Using PipeWire, WirePlumber and a Raspberry Pi, you can create an audio bridge between a Bluetooth® device and an analog speaker system, breathing new life into your old speakers.
July 07, 2022 by Gert Wollny | Blog
Adventures in NIR-land: the past, the present, and what's lies ahead for the native NIR back-end for Mesa's R600 driver.
June 15, 2022 by Manas Chaudhary | Blog
Getting PanVk, an open source driver for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs, closer to conformancy by implementing one of the core Vulkan features: support for secondary command buffers.
June 09, 2022 by Faith Ekstrand | Blog
After fighting with the divide between implicit and explicit synchronization with Vulkan on Linux for over seven years, we may finally have some closure. We're not to synchronization nirvana quite yet, but this is an important step along the way.
May 31, 2022 by Moses Turner | Blog
Optical hand tracking for XR has a bit of a reputation - getting training data, training neural nets, and deploying them in real-time, low-latency environments such as XR is every bit as hard as they say it is.
April 05, 2022 by Mateo de Mayo | Blog
Monado now has initial support for 6DoF ("inside-out") tracking for devices with cameras and an IMU! Three free and open source SLAM/VIO solutions were integrated and adapted to work on XR: Kimera-VIO, ORB-SLAM3, and Basalt.
March 30, 2022 by Xavier Claessens | Blog
When developing an application or a library, it is very common to want to run it without installing it, or to install it into a custom prefix rather than on the system. Here's how Meson can help with that.
March 23, 2022 by Faith Ekstrand | Blog
An incredible amount has changed in Mesa and in the Vulkan ecosystems since we wrote the first Vulkan driver in Mesa for Intel hardware back in 2015. Not only has Vulkan grown, but Mesa has as well.
March 14, 2022 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | Blog
Every file system used in production has tools to try to recover from system crashes. To provide a better infrastructure for those tools, our kernel team developed FAN_FS_ERROR, a new fanotify event which monitors error notifications.
May 22, 2025 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Monado's first stable release of 2025 is here. From enhanced Android support and driver updates to improved runtime stability and tooling, Collabora's XR team delivered a wide array of improvements for the cross-platform, open source OpenXR runtime.
May 01, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Join us in Stuttgart, Germany for XR EXPO 2025! This two-day event will be the meeting place for the XR community to exchange ideas and explore the latest trends.
April 22, 2025 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
As of today, NVK is a conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementation for NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs, and will be enabled by default starting with Mesa 25.1.
April 17, 2025 by Eleni Katsoula | News & Events
Our commitment to open source extends beyond contributing code. We are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of license compliance throughout our development processes.
April 15, 2025 by Mark Filion | News & Events
This May, Embedded Recipes 2025, co-sponsored by Collabora, heads to Nice, France with talks, workshops, and a PipeWire hackfest, all bookended by the Linux Media Summit and the GStreamer Spring Hackfest!
April 14, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund | News & Events
PanVK has reached a new milestone, and is now officially conformant with the Vulkan 1.1 specification on the Arm Mali-G610 GPU! The submission was done from the Mesa 25.0.2 release, and covers both armhf as well as aarch64 architectures.
April 10, 2025 by Daniel Stone | News & Events
Three demos. One stand. From end-to-end HDR and a brand-new SoC running PanVK, to NVK and WebGPU out of the box — discover how Collabora pushed open source graphics forward at Embedded World 2025.
April 09, 2025 by Olivier Crête | News & Events
Collabora once again played a key role in the latest release of GStreamer, contributing enhancements such as improved hardware efficiency, support for the MPEG-5 LCEVC codec, and better integration for analytics and machine learning.
March 26, 2025 by Cristian Ciocaltea | News & Events
The kernel release emphasizes the continuing growth and maturity of the Linux ecosystem and delivers new features, improvements, and optimizations that everyone will be eager to explore. See where Collabora's kernel team contributed to this release.
March 26, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora is thrilled to see its partner, Hololight, join the Khronos Group and become an active member of the OpenXR Working Group. We are excited to support their innovative approach and rapid expansion in the XR streaming space.
March 11, 2025 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
Starting with Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will no longer get the old Nouveau OpenGL driver by default and will instead get Zink+NVK.
March 10, 2025 by Sjoerd Simons | News & Events
Towards the end of 2024, MediaTek and Collabora started on a journey to improve upstream support for MediaTek Genio devices. Here's where things stand.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
May 20-23, Taipei, Taiwan