--- title: Linux Kernel 4.6: More active Collabora contributors... description: Linux Kernel 4.6 was released with 9 Collabora engineers contributing — the company's highest headcount for a single kernel release. They submitted 42 patches... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-4-6-more-active-collabora-contributors-than-ever-before-srb0tltbv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linux Kernel 4.6: More active Collabora contributors than ever before | daily.dev og:description: Linux Kernel 4.6 was released with 9 Collabora engineers contributing — the company's highest headcount for a single kernel release. They submitted 42 patches... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-4-6-more-active-collabora-contributors-than-ever-before-srb0tltbv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SrB0tLtbv.png og:image:alt: Linux Kernel 4.6: More active Collabora contributors than ever before 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. # Linux Kernel 4.6: More active Collabora contributors than ever before **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Linux Kernel 4.6 was released with 9 Collabora engineers contributing — the company's highest headcount for a single kernel release. They submitted 42 patches total, covering areas including the Android Sync Framework cleanup, virtio DRM vblank event support, ARM device configs, USB device IDs, wireless fixes, and Rockchip DRM improvements. Notable contributors include Gustavo Padovan, Tomeu Vizoso, and Sjoerd Simons. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How many patches did Collabora contribute to Linux Kernel 4.6? Collabora contributed 42 patches to Linux Kernel 4.6, submitted by 9 engineers — the highest number of Collabora engineers to contribute to a single Linux kernel release. Contributors included Gustavo Padovan (17 patches), Sjoerd Simons (6), Emilio López (4), Peter Senna Tschudin (4), Tomeu Vizoso (4), Enric Balletbo i Serra (3), Martyn Welch (2), and one each from Andrew Shadura and Daniel Stone. _Engineers tracking Linux kernel contribution trends and open source consulting activity follow developments like these on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-4-6-more-active-collabora-contributors-than-ever-before-srb0tltbv) ```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":"Linux Kernel 4.6: More active Collabora contributors than ever before","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-4-6-more-active-collabora-contributors-than-ever-before-srb0tltbv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-4-6-more-active-collabora-contributors-than-ever-before-srb0tltbv"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:55:40.483Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:34:05.277Z","description":"Linux Kernel 4.6 was released with 9 Collabora engineers contributing — the company's highest headcount for a single kernel release. 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