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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. View the full article

Docstrings generation was requested by @rpardini. https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/7982#issuecomment-2746385084 The following files were modified: lib/functions/bsp/armbian-bsp-cli-deb.sh ℹ️ Note CodeRabbit cannot perform edits on its own pull requests yet. View the full article

Using Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old OpenGL driver, shifting towards an OpenGL on Vulkan. View the full article

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. View the full article

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! View the full article

Description Stop Docker system running Armbina-install to prevent weird results and to speed up. Does it make sense? How Has This Been Tested? [x] Manual test, disabling and installing to eMMC, reboot, works Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

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! View the full article

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. View the full article

Description Since there is one generic config for all boards from 3b up to 5 and to avoid confusion, I suggested to rename board config file to rpi. Though I don't know which parts depending on this file name need adjustments, like auto-builds in armbian/os or armbian/community and homepage entry. All of that needs to be collected and addressed before or while merge. Documentation summary for feature / change How Has This Been Tested? [ ] None Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

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. View the full article

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. View the full article

Description I'm trying to generate a debian iso with armbian's kernel, but live-build keep installing linux-image-rt-arm64. I find it as rec dependency of wireguard-tools. And both linux-image-rt-arm64 from debian and linux-image-generic from ubuntu are providing it. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] ./compile.sh kernel BOARD=rock-5b BRANCH=vendor DEB_COMPRESS=xz Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Our automated builds are broken as reported. Solution is provided. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/49440-helios4-doesnt-boot-after-upgrading-to-linux-6671-linux-image-current-mvebu_2520-trunk343/#comment-212135 How Has This Been Tested? Build but does not boot yet. Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

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. View the full article

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! View the full article

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. View the full article

Switch meson edge to 6.13 kernel Hdmi patches from xdarklight github repo View the full article

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. View the full article

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. View the full article

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! View the full article

jsoninfo: add inventory-artifacts cli, which stops after artifacts-reduced and adds kernels.ndjson and uboots.njdson via jq jsoninfo: add inventory-artifacts cli, which stops after artifacts-reduced and adds kernels.ndjson and uboots.njdson via jq if one runs ./compile.sh inventory-artifacts we shall get: output/info/kernels.ndjson: one line for each kernel build output/info/uboots.ndjson: one line for each u-boot build this is meant as base for other tooling that acts "for each kernel" or "for each u-boot" such as patch/config rewrites, etc View the full article

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. View the full article

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. View the full article

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. View the full article

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. View the full article