March 23, 2026 by Faith Ekstrand | Blog
PanVK’s new framebuffer abstraction for Mali GPUs removes OpenGL-specific constraints, unlocking more flexible tiled rendering features in Vulkan.
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.
March 02, 2026 by Nicolas Frattaroli | Blog
Get the recap of Nicolas Frattaroli's FOSDEM talk detailing Rockchip’s mainline progress, including Vulkan 1.4 and NPU support as a vital path to sustainable, affordable hardware.
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.
May 31, 2023 by Eugen Hristev | Blog
A while back I presented USB 2.0 host support that was added to U-boot for the Radxa Rock-5B RK3588 Rockchip board. This time, USB 3.0 was added with support for the host and gadget.
May 18, 2023 by Eugen Hristev | Blog
Work continues on the Radxa ROCK5B RK388, as PCIe and RTL8125B networking support in U-boot have now been added. Publishing code as Open Source can benefit many different other projects, and allows anyone to benefit.
May 03, 2023 by Rebecca Mckeever | Blog
NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware that is part of Mesa, now supports the Vulkan extension VK_KHR_multiview.
April 27, 2023 by Eugen Hristev | Blog
The beauty of Open Source is that we can reuse code written by many other people, keep their authorship, and credit them for their work, without needing to reinvent anything!
April 18, 2023 by Xavier Claessens | Blog
Want to develop your Meson project in a modern IDE? Make sure to install Meson VSCode extension which is now fully functional with the recent release of Meson 1.1.0!
April 05, 2023 by Vineet Suryan | Blog
Labeling errors are common in present open-source 3D perception datasets, which could have impactful consequences. To tackle this issue, we used Carlafox to automatically generate an error-free synthetic dataset for 3D perception.
March 10, 2023 by Rebecca McKeever | Blog
Since joining the graphics team at Collabora as a Software Engineering Intern last November, I have implemented several Vulkan API extensions for NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa.
March 03, 2023 by Rafael Garcia Ruiz | Blog
Rewriting bmaptool in Rust to remove Python dependencies, create statically linked binary, and allow the bmap sparse file format to be used in other Rust projects.
February 17, 2023 by Muhammad Usama Anjum | Blog
Just over a year has passed since the futex_waitv() syscall, part of the new futex2 systems calls, landed in Linux 5.16. But why are both needed? What role do they play in the context of gaming on Linux? Let's find out.
February 02, 2023 by Faith Ekstrand | Blog
Over the course of the last decade, Rust has emerged as a new programming language for writing safe low-level code. This blog post is the first in a series exploring the area of using Rust to write Mesa Vulkan drivers.
January 17, 2023 by Jakub Piotr Cłapa | Blog
MLfix is an open-source tool that combines novel unsupervised machine-learning pipelines with a new user interface concept that, together, help annotators and machine-learning engineers identify and filter out label errors.
January 17, 2023 by Adrian Ratiu | Blog
Times are changing: LLVM has become more than a spare to GCC, such that glibc - the last big GCC bastion, is now working towards supporting LLVM as a first-class citizen.
May 27, 2025 by Detlev Casanova | News & Events
The latest Linux kernel brings expanded hardware support for MediaTek and Rockchip, enhanced graphics drivers, and more. Collabora played a key role in this release, with no less than 20 authored contributors!
May 26, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund | News & Events
Just about 6 weeks after we announced Vulkan 1.1 conformance for PanVK on G610 GPUs, Vulkan 1.2 is now also checked off the list!
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 1.3 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.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
April 28 - 29, Stuttgart, Germany
April 29, San Jose, USA
April 30, San Francisco, USA
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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