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!
January 28, 2025 by Sebastian Fricke | News & Events
The latest Linux kernel release is here, bringing improvements to the DRM subsystem, further enablement of Rockchip SoCs, a new debugging guide for developers, and more! Here's a recap of Collabora's contributions for 6.13.
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.
August 06, 2025 by Daniel Almeida | Blog
This second post in the Tyr series dives deeper into GPU driver internals by using the Vulkan-based VkCube application to explain how User Mode Drivers (UMDs) and Kernel Mode Drivers (KMDs) work together to execute GPU workloads.
July 22, 2025 by Olivier Crête | Blog
Getting into kernel development can be daunting. There are layers upon layers of knowledge to master, but no clear roadmap, especially when it comes to debugging drivers or navigating userspace-kernel issues.
July 15, 2025 by Olivier Crête | Blog
This past May, we met with the community at the GStreamer Spring Hackfest in Nice, France, and were able to make great strides, including the integration of AI/ML workflows in GStreamer.
July 03, 2025 by George Kiagiadakis | Blog
As part of the activities Embedded Recipes in Nice, France, Collabora hosted a PipeWire workshop/hackfest, an opportunity for attendees to meet face-to-face with PipeWire developers and participate in direct discussions about the future of PipeWire.
June 25, 2025 by Tathagata Roy | Blog
In collaboration with Inria, the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, Tathagata Roy shares the progress made over the past year on the CoccinelleForRust project, co-sponsored by Collabora
June 23, 2025 by Nicolas Dufresne | Blog
Last month in Nice, active media developers came together for the annual Linux Media Summit to exchange insights and tackle ongoing challenges in the media subsystem. Here’s a brief summary of the key discussions and upcoming areas of focus.
June 09, 2025 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
In this final article based on Matt Godbolt's talk on making APIs easy to use and hard to misuse, I will discuss locking, an area where C++ has produced some interesting ideas, most notably something called RAII — Resource Acquisition Is Initialization.
May 21, 2025 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
In this second article of a three-part series, I look at how Matt Godbolt uses modern C++ features to try to protect against misusing an API that deals with destructive state transition based on a talk he gave on making code easy to use and hard to misuse.
May 12, 2025 by Aaron Boxer | Blog
Powerful video analytics pipelines are easy to make when you're well-equipped. Combining GStreamer and Machine Learning frameworks are the perfect duo to run complex models across multiple streams.
May 06, 2025 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
Gustavo Noronha helps break down C++ and shows how that knowledge can open up new possibilities with Rust.
April 29, 2025 by George Kiagiadakis | Blog
Configuring WirePlumber on embedded Linux systems can be somewhat confusing. We take a moment to demystify this process for a particular use case.
April 24, 2025 by Martyn Welch | Blog
Collabora's Board Farm demo, showcasing our recent hardware enablement and continuous integration efforts, has undergone serious development over the years. Here's a look at notable changes and improvements made for Embedded World 2025.
March 19, 2024 by Daniel Morin | News & Events
Thanks to sponsors like STMicroelectronics, Netflix, Living Optics, and ChromeOS, Collabora once again came in first place with the most contributors for this release, with 16 developers taking part.
March 11, 2024 by Muhammad Usama Anjum | News & Events
The latest Linux Kernel 6.8 release brings thousands of new lines of code, improving the core kernel, architecture support, networking, file systems, and more.
March 04, 2024 by Boris Brezillon | News & Events
Late last week, the long-awaited kernel driver supporting 10th-generation Arm Mali GPUs was merged into drm-misc. The existing Gallium driver support has also been extended, effectively enabling GPUs on Rockchip's RK3588 platforms.
March 01, 2024 by Helen Koike | News & Events
This initial version includes static checks (checkpatch and smatch for now) and build tests across various architectures and configurations, and introduces a flexible 'scenarios' mechanism for subsystem-specific extensions.
February 28, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
The merge request has landed, the non-conformant implementation warnings are gone, and NVK's Meson configuration now reads "nouveau" instead of "nouveau-experimental". It's now time to start shipping NVK to users!
February 26, 2024 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
We've recently had some new faces join the team and we are delighted that our talented new joiners have readily jumped in to advance the open source mission.
February 15, 2024 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Collabora's engineers presented six talks over the course of the weekend, with topics including a review of recent improvements to GStreamer, a look at the state of video offloading on the Linux desktop, and more.
February 13, 2024 by Daniel Morin | News & Events
Engineers have widely adopted GStreamer to build video analytics pipelines, and while many companies have indeed built their machine learning analysis framework around GStreamer, no one had made the effort to contribute upstream, until now.
January 30, 2024 by Alexandros Frantzis | News & Events
2023 was a great year for the Wayland driver for Wine. After several merge requests, many people are now already able to use the latest Wine release to enjoy some of their favorite Windows applications in a completely X11-free environment!
January 25, 2024 by Marcus Edel | News & Events
By creating a real-time AI chatbot communication system using WhisperLive and WhisperSpeech, we have addressed the unnatural delay in current bot interactions for seamless conversation.
January 18, 2024 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
With many dedicated souls willing to endure a FOSDEM queue, Collabora's engineers will be giving 6 talks spread out amongst multiple devrooms including Open Media and Testing & Continuous delivery.
January 11, 2024 by Eugen Hristev | News & Events
Collabora's kernel team made a number of key contributions including a new kselftest for verifying driver probe of Devicetree-based platforms, multiple improvements to further improve support for MediaTek SoCs found in Chromebooks, and more.
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
August 25-27, Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 12-15, Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 16, Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 17-18, Lyon, France