LZ4 Linux & Open-Source News |
| Linux 7.2 Power Management Adds New Hardware Support While Dropping AMD Elan | Hardware | 2026-06-16 |
| Linux EFS File-System May Have New Maintainer - Or It Might Just Get Removed | Linux Storage | 2026-06-08 |
| Intel QAT Driver With Linux 7.1 Adding Zstd Offload Support | Intel | 2026-04-07 |
| New Patch Can Boost Linux ZRAM Compression Performance By Over 50% | Linux Storage | 2026-03-10 |
| LXQt 2.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support | Desktop | 2025-11-05 |
| Turbosqueeze Realtime Multi-Threaded Compression Aims To Compete With Zstd, Snappy | Free Software | 2025-10-27 |
| Rust-Written Redox OS Enables Multi-Threading By Default | Operating Systems | 2025-10-06 |
| NVIDIA CUDA 13.0 Available With Unified Arm Platform Support | NVIDIA | 2025-08-04 |
| EROFS Lands Support For Tapping Intel QAT Accelerators | Intel | 2025-05-29 |
| Microsoft Continues Enhancing Its Azure Linux 3.0 Distribution With February Update | Microsoft | 2025-02-10 |
| Redox OS Ends 2024 On A High Note With Dynamic Linking Progress, ifconfig Port | Operating Systems | 2025-01-08 |
| Intel Battlemage, Raspberry Pi 500 & Linux 6.13 Excited Linux Users In December | Phoronix | 2025-01-03 |
| Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing On Gzip & Zstd | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-08 |
| Clang AutoFDO & Propeller Optimization Support Sent In For Linux 6.13: 5~10% More Performance | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-30 |
| LZ4 v1.10 Introduces Multi-Threading Support For Major Compression Speedups | Free Software | 2024-07-22 |
| Linux 6.10 On RISC-V Allows Configurable Boot Image Compression | RISC-V | 2024-05-25 |
| EROFS Adds Zstd & Btrfs Gets Minor Performance Work In Linux 6.10 | Linux Storage | 2024-05-17 |
| Zstd Compression For EROFS Published: Better Than LZ4 But Higher CPU Costs | Linux Storage | 2024-05-08 |
| Microsoft Rolls Out Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 With Security Fixes & Other Patches | Hardware | 2024-04-10 |
| AMD P-State Preferred Core Submitted For Linux 6.9 While Intel Meteor Lake Gets Tuned | AMD | 2024-03-11 |
| Awesome Changes Coming With Linux 6.9: Lots From Intel/AMD, FUSE Passthrough & More Rust | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-10 |
| LZ4 Compression For Hibernation Images Queued For Linux 6.9: Faster Restore Times | Linux Kernel | 2024-02-13 |
| LZ4 Support Revised For Faster Restore From Linux Hibernation | Linux Kernel | 2023-12-05 |
| EROFS No Longer Treating MicroLZMA Compression As Experimental | Linux Storage | 2023-11-08 |
| More Optimizations Made For Making GNOME/VTE Terminals Go Faster | GNOME | 2023-10-21 |
| Linux Patches Allow Changing Hibernation Compression Format For Better Performance | Linux Kernel | 2023-10-04 |
| EROFS Lands DEFLATE Compression, F2FS Improves Zoned Devices In Linux 6.6 | Linux Storage | 2023-09-02 |
| Intel QAT Adapted For Zstd To Provide Big Performance/Efficiency Wins | Intel | 2023-08-17 |
| EROFS File-System Adding DEFLATE Compression Support | Linux Storage | 2023-07-25 |
| PostgreSQL 15 Released With Better Sort Performance, Supports LZ4 & Zstd Compression | Free Software | 2022-10-13 |
| Generic EFI Compressed Boot Support Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-25 |
| LZ4 v1.9.4 Achieves 20~70% Speedups For Some CPUs & Configurations | Free Software | 2022-08-15 |
| EROFS-Utils 1.5 Released With ZTailPacking, FSCK Extraction | Linux Storage | 2022-06-13 |
| PostgreSQL Moves Ahead With Employing Zstd Compression | Programming | 2022-03-13 |
| Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February | Phoronix | 2022-03-01 |
| PostgreSQL Begins Working On Zstd Compression Support | Free Software | 2022-02-19 |
| Hyperscalers Have Been Making CentOS 9 Stream More Attractive With New Features | Red Hat | 2022-01-10 |
| Ubuntu Had A Great Year In Switching To Wayland, Continued Commercial Success | Ubuntu | 2021-12-30 |
| Ubuntu Rethinking Its Initramfs Compression Strategy | Ubuntu | 2021-12-08 |
| -O3 Compiler Optimization Level Still Deemed Too Unsafe For The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2021-06-05 |
| EROFS Sends In "Big Pcluster" Support For Linux 5.13, Other Improvements | Linux Kernel | 2021-04-27 |
| Generic USB Display Driver "GUD" Slated For Linux 5.13 | Hardware | 2021-03-25 |
| F2FS With Linux 5.12 Lets You Configure The Zstd/LZ4 Compression Ratio | Linux Storage | 2021-02-18 |
| F2FS With Linux 5.12 To Allow Configuring Compression Level | Linux Storage | 2021-01-12 |
| The New NTFS Linux Driver Updated With Better Compression Handling | Linux Storage | 2020-12-06 |
| F2FS Proposal Adds Support For LZ4HC Compression | Linux Storage | 2020-12-01 |
| OpenSolaris-Derived OmniOS CE Updated With A Ton Of Changes | Operating Systems | 2020-11-04 |
| Bcachefs Linux File-System Sent Out For Review With Exciting Feature Progress | Linux Storage | 2020-10-27 |
| OpenZFS File-System Merges Support For Using Zstd Compression | Linux Storage | 2020-08-22 |
| Zstd-Compressed Linux Kernel Images Look Very Close To Mainline With Great Results | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-26 |
| Zstd'ing The Kernel Might See Mainline With Linux 5.9 For Faster Boot Times | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-07 |
| Zstd Compression Under Review For OpenZFS | Linux Storage | 2020-05-17 |
| Generic USB Display Driver Published For Linux - Allowing Nifty Possibilities With Raspberry Pi, Etc | Raspberry Pi | 2020-04-29 |
| F2FS Added Zstd Compression With Linux 5.7 While Now is Working On LZO-RLE | Linux Storage | 2020-04-16 |
| EROFS-Utils 1.1 Released For This Read-Only Linux File-System | Linux Storage | 2020-04-14 |
| UDisks 2.9 To Support LVM's Virtual Data Optimizer For Deduplication/Compression | Linux Storage | 2020-04-10 |
| F2FS Introduces Zstd Compression Support With The Linux 5.7 Kernel | Linux Storage | 2020-04-07 |
| Some Of The Features To Look Forward To With Linux 5.7 | Linux Kernel | 2020-03-27 |
| F2FS File-System Adding Zstd Compression Support In Linux 5.7 | Linux Storage | 2020-03-23 |
| Zstd Compressed Linux Kernel Images Proposed Once More | Linux Kernel | 2020-03-16 |
| F2FS Experimental Compression Is Ready For Extending Flash Storage Life | Linux Storage | 2020-01-31 |
| Linux 5.6 Is Going To Be A Prominent Kernel With Features From USB4 To WireGuard | Linux Kernel | 2020-01-06 |
| F2FS Data Compression Using LZO/LZ4 + Selective File Extension Handling To Land In 2020 | Linux Storage | 2019-12-23 |
| Many RISC-V Improvements Ready For Linux 5.5: M-Mode, SECCOMP, Other Features | RISC-V | 2019-11-27 |
| F2FS File-System Seeing LZO/LZ4 Compression Support | Linux Storage | 2019-10-24 |
| Arch Linux's Pacman 5.2 Released - Drops Support For Delta Packages, Adds Zstd Support | Arch Linux | 2019-10-21 |
| A Look At The Speedy Clear Linux Boot Time Versus Ubuntu 19.10 | Clear Linux | 2019-09-16 |
| Ubuntu 19.10 To Boot Faster Thanks To LZ4 Compression | Ubuntu | 2019-09-10 |
| EROFS-Utils Adds LZ4 Compression Bits, Finally Has A README | Linux Storage | 2019-07-28 |
| OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Aiming To PGO More Packages, Use IWD For WiFi Connections | Linux Networking | 2019-07-15 |
| Ubuntu Drama, Clear Linux Speed & WSL2 Sparked Lots Of Interest In June | Phoronix | 2019-07-01 |
| A Look At What's On The Table For Linux 5.3 Features | Linux Kernel | 2019-06-29 |
| Huawei Adding New LZ4 Inplace Decompression To EROFS File-System | Linux Storage | 2019-06-28 |
| Zstd-Compressing The Linux Kernel Has Been Brought Up Again | Linux Kernel | 2019-06-10 |
| Ubuntu Moving Ahead With Compressing Their Kernel Image Using LZ4 | Ubuntu | 2019-06-06 |
| Ubuntu 18.10 Beta Now Available For Testing The Cosmic Cuttlefish | Ubuntu | 2018-09-27 |
| Feature Development Is Over On Ubuntu 18.10 | Ubuntu | 2018-08-24 |
| Ubuntu/Debian Add LZ4-Compressed Initramfs Support, Will Auto Decide LZ4/XZ Choice | Ubuntu | 2018-08-23 |
| Zstd Compression Support Coming For Linux Pstore | Linux Storage | 2018-08-05 |
| Subversion 1.10 Released With LZ4 Compression, New Conflict Resolver | Free Software | 2018-04-14 |
| Ubuntu 18.10 Looking At LZ4-Compressed Initramfs Image By Default | Ubuntu | 2018-03-19 |
| LWJGL 3.1.4 Adds Zstd & LZ4 Bindings | Linux Gaming | 2017-11-20 |
| Lizard: Yet Another Compression Algorithm Joins The Party | Standards | 2017-11-10 |
| A ZSTD-Compressed Linux Kernel Could Be Up Next | Linux Kernel | 2017-10-11 |
| Borg Backup 1.1 Released | Free Software | 2017-10-08 |
| Facebook Looking To Add Zstd Support To The Linux Kernel, Btrfs | Linux Kernel | 2017-08-04 |
| Ryzen, Linux Laptops, Ethereum, & Graphics Drivers Marked Phoronix's 13th Birthday | Phoronix | 2017-07-01 |
| LZ4m: Taking LZ4 Compression To The Next Level | Free Software | 2017-06-02 |
| Bcachefs Is Still Getting Fixed Up To Be A Next-Gen Linux File-System | Linux Storage | 2017-04-12 |
| GRUB 2.02 Is Still Coming Along With Many Features, Even Morse Code Output | GNU | 2017-02-16 |
| Clear Linux Tests Data Compression Options | Clear Linux | 2017-01-04 |
| OpenVPN 2.4 Released: Adds LZ4 Compression, Android Platform Support | Free Software | 2016-12-27 |
| GNOME 3.22 Beta Released | GNOME | 2016-08-22 |
| There Are Many Features Coming For GRUB 2.02 | GNU | 2016-03-13 |
| New Compression Codecs Risk Making Zlib Obsolete | Standards | 2016-01-18 |
| LZ4 Compression Support Is Unlikely For Btrfs | Linux Storage | 2016-01-13 |
| WebGL Support Becomes Official In Unity 5.3 | Linux Gaming | 2015-12-07 |
| HAMMER2 File-System Now Uses LZ4 Compression By Default | BSD | 2015-05-30 |
| ZFS On Linux Adds New Kernel Support, Asynchronous I/O | Free Software | 2015-04-10 |
| Emile: Enlightenment EFL's Latest Addition | Desktop | 2015-03-17 |
| The Best Changes & Features Of The Linux 3.19 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2015-02-08 |
| Features Of The Linux 3.19 Kernel: Graphics & Disks Rule | Linux Storage | 2014-12-22 |
| Features Added So Far To The Linux 3.19 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2014-12-15 |
| SquashFS In Linux 3.19 Adds LZ4 Compression Support | Linux Kernel | 2014-12-14 |
| Systemd 216 Piles On More Features, Aims For New User-Space VT | systemd | 2014-08-20 |
| Another LZ4 Security Issue Analyzed | Linux Security | 2014-07-13 |
| LZO & LZ4 Security Vulnerabilities Disclosed | Linux Security | 2014-06-28 |
| SquashFS Tools 4.3 Brings An LZ4 Compressor, Big Changes | Linux Kernel | 2014-05-14 |
| The 10 Best Features Of FreeBSD 10.0 | BSD | 2014-01-05 |
| PC-BSD 9.2 Is An Exciting Upgrade | BSD | 2013-10-07 |
| FreeBSD 9.2 Brings ZFS TRIM, ZFS LZ4, Updated DTrace | BSD | 2013-09-30 |
| Recapping The Linux 3.11 Kernel Features | Linux Kernel | 2013-08-31 |
| ZFSOnLinux 0.6.2 Is Faster, Supports Newer Kernels | Free Software | 2013-08-24 |
| LZ4 Compression Proposed For SquashFS | Linux Kernel | 2013-07-23 |
| Interesting Features For FreeBSD 10 | BSD | 2013-07-22 |
| The New & Best Features Of The Linux 3.11 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2013-07-12 |
| Linux Kernels Can Now Be Compressed With LZ4 | Linux Kernel | 2013-07-11 |
| Features Coming In For The Linux 3.9 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2013-02-08 |
| Support For Compressing The Linux Kernel With LZ4 | Linux Kernel | 2013-01-28 |
| Btrfs In Linux 3.4 Kernel Has Big Changes | Linux Storage | 2012-03-30 |
| Linux 3.3 Kernel Officially Released | Linux Kernel | 2012-03-18 |
| The Btrfs File-System Repair Tool Is Available | Linux Storage | 2012-02-21 |
| LZ4 For Btrfs Arrives While Its FSCK Remains M.I.A. | Free Software | 2012-02-19 |
