Fabrice Canel from Microsoft announced that BingBot now fully supports Brotli compression and will soon be testing zstd Zstandard compression, a lossless data compression, for its crawler. Fabrice ...

Following the discovery of malicious code, fwupd, the popular firmware update utility, has decided to transition from xz to zstd compression for its metadata. Richard Hughes, the lead developer behind ...

Debian and Ubuntu developer Julian Andres Klode reports today that Canonical plans to implement Facebook's zstd compression algorithm by default in future releases of their Ubuntu Linux operating ...

Just shy of one year ago Meta announced OpenZL as a format-ware compression framework focused on delivering both high ...

In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is ...

August 7, 2024 -- ZeroPoint Technologies is proud to announce the availability of zstd decompression as a hardware IP. This innovation brings the power and efficiency of the zstd algorithm to hardware ...

Hi! As new compressors get invented, they tend to find their way into the kernel, yet we never prune superseded ones. It's time to do so. In particular, BZIP2 is drastically slower than other ...