November 11, 2025 by Marcus Edel | Blog
Collabora extended the AdobeVFR dataset and trained a FasterViT-2 font recognition model on millions of samples. The result is a state-of-the-art model for fine-grained font identification that can also be used for downstream tasks.
November 05, 2025 by Mark Filion | News & Events
As a trusted partner of industry leaders like CLAAS, Ag Leader, and CCI, we are delighted to exhibit for the first time at one of the world’s leading agricultural trade fairs, taking place November 9–15. Meet us at the Digital Farm Center in Hall 21!
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.
October 16, 2025 by AngeloGioacchino Del Regno | News & Events
Collabora and MediaTek are advancing upstream Linux support for the latest Genio IoT boards and Chromebook Plus laptops, enabling full hardware functionality, improved security, and broader access to the open source community.
October 15, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora is proud to sponsor this year's annual GStreamer conference, taking place in London, UK. Join us as we showcase the latest with machine learning analytics, WirePlumber, and more.
September 30, 2025 by Nicolas Frattaroli | News & Events
The kernel 6.17 release benefits from improvements in the graphics subsystem, hardware enablement, and more! See where Collabora's kernel team contributed to this release.
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.
September 24, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Next week, Collabora will be taking part in the 2025 edition X.Org Developer's Conference! Taking place in Vienna, our engineers will be presenting 6 talks and a workshop to help local students discover the embedded graphics stack! Join us!
September 19, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Join us next week in Paris for Kernel Recipes! We're delighted to sponsor this kernel-focused event and contribute with a talk on GPU drivers.
September 17, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund | News & Events
AFBC support has been merged to PanVK and will be available in the Mesa 25.3 release! This new enablement reduces memory bandwidth and boosts performance.
September 15, 2025 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Visit us at the STMicroelectronics booth, where Collabora will highlight how the STM32MP2 chip empowers edge AI solutions for industrial applications.
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.
March 08, 2022 by George Kiagiadakis | Blog
The PipeWire project made major strides over the past few years, bringing shiny new features, and paving the way for new possibilities in the Linux multimedia scene. A look what was accomplished in 2021, and what lies ahead for 2022.
February 08, 2022 by André Almeida | Blog
Over the past 18 months, we have been on a roller-coaster ride developing futex2, a new set of system calls. As part of this effort, the futex_waitv() syscall has now landed in Linux 5.16. But what exactly is futex?
January 27, 2022 by Alyssa Rosenzweig | Blog
Until now, no Valhall devices (Mali-G57, Mali-G78) ran mainline Linux - whilst this made driver development obviously difficult, there’s no better time to write drivers than before the devices even get into the hands of end users.
January 25, 2022 by Pekka Paalanen | Blog
My work on Wayland and Weston color management and HDR support has been full of learning new concepts and terms. Many of them are crucial for understanding how color works, and what the values in a pixel actually mean.
December 22, 2021 by Alexandros Frantzis | Blog
It has been just over a year since we first announced our effort to implement a Wayland driver for Wine. Here's a recap of what has been done since then to improve both the functionality and stability of the driver.
November 26, 2021 by Antonio Caggiano | Blog
A step-by-step guide on how to enable 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications in QEMU through the new Venus experimental Vulkan driver for VirtIO-GPU with a local development environment.
October 26, 2021 by Xavier Claessens | Blog
Maintaining a non-trivial set of GStreamer patches can be tricky. Thanks to the recent move to a single, unified git repo, you can now easily run a GStreamer continuous integration pipeline on your own GitLab instance. Here's how.
October 08, 2021 by Nícolas F. R. A. Prado | Blog
Earlier this year, I joined Collabora as an intern to work on improving testing in libcamera and automating it through KernelCI. Having recently completed the internship, here's a look back at this experience and what was accomplished.
September 30, 2021 by Adrian Ratiu | Blog
With the LLVM toolchain seeing increasing development and adoption alongside the older, more established GNU toolchain, projects needing to support both, in particular the GNU C library (glibc), are facing challenges and questions.
September 10, 2021 by Lubosz Sarnecki | Blog
This summer, Christoph Haag and I had the pleasure of taking part in Google Summer of Code as mentors for xrdesktop, the Open Source project bringing the Linux desktop to VR on Valve's SteamVR & Monado. Here's what was accomplished.
July 24, 2024 by Deborah Brouwer | News & Events
OpenQA is a tool for functional, end-to-end testing of operating system distributions. Earlier this year, Collabora undertook a project, sponsored by Meta, to reproduce Fedora’s openQA deployment in the AWS cloud.
July 18, 2024 by Sebastian Reichel | News & Events
The latest kernel 6.10 release brings multiple core changes and updates to BH workqueues. Let's examine the developments implemented by Collabora's engineers.
July 15, 2024 by Eric Smith | News & Events
The Panthor kernel driver and Mesa Panfrost driver combination has achieved official conformance for OpenGL ES 3.1 on the Mali-G610 chip, ensuring reliable performance for users on Mesa version 24.1.1.
June 19, 2024 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Making its debut this week at Augmented World Expo (AWE) in Long Beach, ElectricMaple is an innovative, open source project by Collabora and PlutoVR designed to enhance standalone XR experiences through remote-rendering.
May 30, 2024 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Join us at Augmented World Expo for a first-hand look at our recent XR work including ElectricMaple remote rendering, and xrdesktop showcasing a fully open-source 3-window desktop configuration with gaze-driven window selection.
May 22, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
Mesa 24.1 is out, and the graphics team at Collabora has been working hard to bring a slew of new features and bug fixes to Panfrost, Zink, NVK, and Mesa in general. Here's a look at their contributions for this release cycle.
May 16, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
This week we merged support for the VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier extension in NVK, the new open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware. We've also back-ported the code to the Mesa 24.1 staging branch, part of the upcoming Mesa 24.1 release.
May 14, 2024 by Nícolas Prado | News & Events
Collabora's engineers continue to be involved in the hardware enablement for a few different system-on-chips (SoCs) and platforms, and have also contributed significant improvements to kernel testing.
May 10, 2024 by Ludovico de Nittis | News & Events
Highlighting some of the key changes Collabora worked on with Valve to improve the system update tooling on SteamOS, including the move to Desync, making applying system updates significantly faster and more reliable.
May 09, 2024 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
This year will be Collabora's first time exhibiting at IOTSWC, in partnership with STMicroelectronics. Collabora will be showcasing how the STM32MP2 is an ideal chip to enable edge AI solution in industrial environments.
April 29, 2024 by Aaron Boxer | News & Events
GStreamer's support for diverse hardware and software platforms extends to its upstream Machine Learning capabilities, exemplified by its cross-platform ONNX Runtime implementation.
April 22, 2024 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
As part of our commitment to social responsibility, we've been part of the 1% for the Planet Network since 2022. The environmental partners we support help to better the planet.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
January 31 - February 13, Brussels, Belgium
March 10 - 12, Nuremberg, Germany
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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