--- title: Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.8 | daily.dev description: Collabora contributed 101 patches from 8 engineers to Linux Kernel 4.8, marking their largest single-release contribution to date. Key work included: Gustavo... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/collabora-contributions-to-linux-kernel-4-8-t3dsz1y5u twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.8 | daily.dev og:description: Collabora contributed 101 patches from 8 engineers to Linux Kernel 4.8, marking their largest single-release contribution to date. Key work included: Gustavo... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/collabora-contributions-to-linux-kernel-4-8-t3dsz1y5u og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/T3dsZ1Y5U.png og:image:alt: Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.8 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.8 **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Collabora contributed 101 patches from 8 engineers to Linux Kernel 4.8, marking their largest single-release contribution to date. Key work included: Gustavo Padovan's 50 patches advancing Explicit Synchronization for Buffer Sharing (fence_array support, SW_SYNC de-staging, DRM vblank API cleanup); Thierry Escande's 26 patches improving the NFC digital layer; Enric Balletbo's audio improvements for Rockchip rk3288 SoC; Helen Koike's ASoC subsystem cleanups; and fixes for Bluetooth memory leaks, uvcvideo YUV plane calculations, and ChromeOS EC helpers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What did Collabora contribute to Linux Kernel 4.8? Collabora contributed 101 patches from 8 engineers to Linux Kernel 4.8, their largest single-release contribution at that time. The work spanned DRM explicit synchronization (fence_array support, vblank API modernization), NFC digital layer improvements, Rockchip rk3288 audio support, ASoC subsystem cleanups, a Bluetooth stack memory leak fix, and a uvcvideo YUV bytes-per-line calculation fix. _Kernel contributors and embedded Linux developers track patch activity and release coverage on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/collabora-contributions-to-linux-kernel-4-8-t3dsz1y5u) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Collabora contributions to Linux Kernel 4.8","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/collabora-contributions-to-linux-kernel-4-8-t3dsz1y5u","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/collabora-contributions-to-linux-kernel-4-8-t3dsz1y5u"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:55:42.107Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:28:52.504Z","description":"Collabora contributed 101 patches from 8 engineers to Linux Kernel 4.8, marking their largest single-release contribution to date. 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