Igalia is an open source consulting firm 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…
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Linux 7.2 Released Linux 7.2 was tagged and released this week, on the regular schedule. This cycle was one of the busiest ever, only been beaten by 6.7. This is considered the “new normal”, given that the last 3 or 4 cycles had been pretty busy, especially regarding fixes. There’s some interesting achievements this cycle, like cache-aware scheduling, improvements on MGLRU, the concept of…
Google AI Edge and Raspberry Pi have published a joint announcement on running on-device AI on the Raspberry Pi 5 with LiteRT, Google’s on-device inference runtime, and the Gemma family of open models. The announcement — published on the Google for Developers blog and the Raspberry Pi website — shows a Raspberry Pi 5 running language, vision, and speech models entirely locally, including the…
Igalia is pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with the workers of Bocoup to become part of our collective effort, bringing their well-aligned experience and values. Igalia has grown steadily in recent years, expanding our cooperative with more and more people who care deeply about open source, the web, and collaborative ways of working. This union with the workers of Bocoup…
FOSSY (Free and Open Source Yearly), hosted by the Software Freedom Conservancy, is happening this weekend, in Vancouver, Canada! It’s taking place from August 6-9, 2026. Igalia is there, and will be presenting two talks about the company from different perspectives: “From Corporate To Co-op: Working on Chrome at Igalia and Google” by Sharon Yang - Igalia is a small, cooperative consulting firm…
GUADEC, the GNOME community’s annual conference, is coming to A Coruña — Igalia’s hometown — this year, taking place from July 16th to 20th at the Facultade de Informática of the Universidade da Coruña. Igalia has a long history of contributing to GNOME, and we’re glad to see the community gathering so close to home. Several Igalians will be there in person, and we’re presenting three talks: “Some…
Igalia, an open source engineering consulting firm with over 25 years of experience in Linux-based systems and Web engine development, is pleased to announce a collaboration under the umbrella of the Yocto Project with Wind River, a global leader in embedded Linux platforms, to deliver a production-ready Web runtime for embedded devices. The joint solution combines WPE WebKit, the open source Web…
Last week (June 15–17), Igalia hosted the 2026 edition of the Web Engines Hackfest at Palexco in A Coruña. More than 150 browser developers, standards tinkerers, low-level engineers, and interested folks from around the world joined us, in person and remotely, for three days of talks, breakout sessions, and in-depth conversations. Thanks to everyone who came — the event wouldn’t be the same…
Linux 7.1 Released Linux 7.1 has been tagged and released, closing this development cycle with over 15,000 commits. This second release in the 7.x cycle brings quite a few noteworthy things: a brand-new NTFS driver, proper battery metrics on MacBook laptops with the Apple SMC driver, and several improvements across the graphics and DRM stack. It also continues the ongoing cleanup of older and…
Next week, Open Source Summit North America 2026 takes place in Minneapolis, MN, on May 18–20, with the Embedded Linux Conference running alongside it. Organized by the Linux Foundation, OSS NA is a vendor-neutral gathering that pulls together maintainers, developers, and community leaders from across the open source ecosystem. It also acts as an umbrella for a number of co-located events —…
BlinkOn is the annual Chromium contributor summit. BlinkOn 21 runs April 20–21 this year, and for the first time ever, it will be hosted by Microsoft in Redmond, WA, instead of by Google in Silicon Valley. We’re proud to be long-time and leading contributors to Chromium’s codebase, so members of our Chromium and Web Platform teams will be at the summit, in person and remotely. Several are…
