The well oiled wheel of the Linux release cycle has just produced another kernel: Linus Torvalds announced the release of v6.17, which contains a number of contributions from Igalia. This cycle, which started immediately after the release of kernel v6.16 on the July 27 and ended on September 28 (63 days), includes 13089 new commits: $ git log --oneline --no-merges v6.16..v6.17 | wc -l 13089 And, as usual, the list of new features and changes is huge and scattered all over the code. Here are s...| Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions...| Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions...| Igalia
Igalia is excited to announce that next year’s Web Engines Hackfest will be held Monday June 15th through Wednesday June 17th, 2026, at the Palexco meeting centre in the heart of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Mark your calendars now to join us for three days of presentations, attendee-organized breakout sessions, in-depth conversations, and more! Earlier this year, the Hackfest saw more than 150 browser engineers, code contributors, and interested parties from around the world gather to share ...| Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions...| Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions...| Igalia
For the past five years, Igalia has joined with browser vendors to work on the annual Interop project. Together, we’ve helped to promote greater browser interoperability by working to jointly prioritize an achievable set of goals. Each year, the process begins with a call for proposals, asking the larger web development community what features they want to see included in the next year’s Interop project. For 2026, that call begins today and lasts through September 24, 2025. The submission...| Igalia
The second major conference season of the year usually gets underway in September, and this year is no different. Igalia will be right in the thick of it with eighteen talks across eight different events — and even more impressive, we don’t even get started until the middle of the month! Here’s where to find us, and some details on what we’ll be presenting: IBC2025, September 12–15 — Thibault Saunier will give a talk titled “GStreamer: Powering cloud video editing and post-prod...| Igalia
Igalia has been contributing to the Linux kernel for many years at this point, helping our clients upstream changes, fixing bugs or adding new features, and the latest release is no different. Linux 6.16 brings a lot of enhancements made by the general community, including: Support for Intel Trusted Domain Extensions: this CPU feature encrypts the memory of the guest VM, for confidential computing use cases in a cloud environment. Support for USB audio offload: this huge patchset allows audio...| Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions...| Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions...| Igalia
In our home hemisphere, it’s fully summer. Though the days are long and hot, we’re keeping active with a trio of events this month, including one we hosted last year. Display Next Hackfest, July 8–10 — Our own Melissa Wen will deliver a first-day talk on “Async pageflip failures” as well as co-present a talk about “CI, DRM CI, IGT” on the second day. DebConf 2025, July 14–19 — New Igalian Helen Koike will be presenting a talk about “virtme-ng: quickly test a kernel fro...| Igalia
