Zstandard Linux & Open-Source News |
| LLVM To Begin Offering Zstd-Compressed Binaries For "Significantly Reduced" Downloads | LLVM | 2026-06-04 |
| OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software | Free Software | 2026-05-08 |
| Intel QAT Zstd, QAT Gen6 Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1 | Linux Kernel | 2026-04-19 |
| Intel QAT Driver With Linux 7.1 Adding Zstd Offload Support | Intel | 2026-04-07 |
| Flatpak Adds Support For Building OCI Bundles Using Zstd Compressed Layers | Free Software | 2025-12-15 |
| Meta Opens Up OpenZL As Format-Aware Compression Framework | Free Software | 2025-10-07 |
| Python 3.14 Released With Performance Improvements, Free-Threading & Zstd | Programming | 2025-10-07 |
| Intel QAT Zstd Plugin 1.0 Released With Optimizations, Zstd 1.5.7 Support | Intel | 2025-10-07 |
| Python 3.14 RC1 Released With Free-Threaded Python Officially Supported | Programming | 2025-07-22 |
| Python 3.14 Reaches Beta With New Tail-Call Interpreter For Better Performance | Programming | 2025-05-07 |
| LibreOffice Begins Landing Zstd Integration | LibreOffice | 2025-05-01 |
| Zstd 1.5.7 Lands In Linux 6.15 For Better Performance & APIs For Intel QAT Acceleration | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-27 |
| New Intel/AMD GPU Features, Apple Touch Bar Drivers & Other Likely Changes For Linux 6.15 | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-21 |
| Linux Kernel's Zstd Code Gets A Co-Maintainer | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-18 |
| Linux Patch Posted For Syncing The Kernel Code With Zstd 1.5.7 | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-13 |
| Zstd 1.5.7 Pushing Compression Performance Even Further | Free Software | 2025-02-20 |
| Mozilla Firefox Switches To .tar.xz For Linux Packaging | Mozilla | 2024-11-28 |
| Intel Updates QAT Zstd Plugin For Accelerating Zstandard Compression | Intel | 2024-08-26 |
| EROFS-UTILS 1.8 Brings Multi-Threaded Compression, Intel IAA Acceleration, Initial Zstd | Linux Storage | 2024-08-09 |
| 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 |
| Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices | LVFS | 2024-04-05 |
| Zstd 1.5.6 Released - Celebrating Google Chrome Support For Zstandard Encoding | Free Software | 2024-03-26 |
| Intel QAT Zstd Plugin v0.1 Released For Speeding Up Zstandard Compression | Intel | 2023-09-08 |
| Intel QAT Adapted For Zstd To Provide Big Performance/Efficiency Wins | Intel | 2023-08-17 |
| Zstd 1.5.5 Released With Corruption Fix, Improved Performance In Some Scenarios | Free Software | 2023-04-05 |
| Zstd Gets A Few Fixes For Linux 6.3 While The Big Update Delayed To v6.4 | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-03 |
| Zstd 1.5.4 Released With Many Performance Improvements | Free Software | 2023-02-10 |
| GNU Binutils 2.40 Released With AMD Zen 4 & Upcoming Intel Instructions, Zstd Support | GNU | 2023-01-14 |
| Linux 6.2 Allows For Zstd-Compressed Debug Information | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-20 |
| Updated Zstd Implementation Merged For Linux 6.2 | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-19 |
| Linux 6.2 Aims To Ship Updated Zstd Implementation | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-25 |
| Zstd Compression Being Eyed For Use Within LLVM | LLVM | 2022-06-25 |
| Zstd Compressed Firmware Submitted For Linux 5.19, Other Driver Core Changes | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-03 |
| Zstd Compressed Firmware Will Finally Be Supported With Linux 5.19 | Linux Kernel | 2022-04-25 |
| PostgreSQL Begins Working On Zstd Compression Support | Free Software | 2022-02-19 |
| Linux 5.16's Great Features Include FUTEX2, Folios, AMD Rembrandt, Intel AMX & Much More | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-06 |
| Zstd 1.5.1 Released With Even More Performance Improvements | Free Software | 2021-12-21 |
| Modernized Zstd Merged Into Linux 5.16 For Much Greater Performance | Linux Kernel | 2021-11-13 |
| Updated Zstd Implementation For The Linux Kernel Coming Soon | Linux Kernel | 2021-09-29 |
| Ubuntu 21.10 Compressing Debian Packages With Zstd | Ubuntu | 2021-07-05 |
| Libzip 1.8 Released With Support For Zstd Compressed ZIP Files | Programming | 2021-06-19 |
| New + Updated Benchmarks For May 2021 - Now At 661 Tests, ~36d19h Average Total Runtime | Phoronix Test Suite | 2021-06-02 |
| Zstd 1.5 Released With Big Performance Improvements | Standards | 2021-05-14 |
| Zstd 1.4.9 Released With ~2x Faster Performance For Long Mode | Programming | 2021-03-03 |
| There Is Another Attempt At Allowing Zstd-Compressed Firmware For The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-28 |
| OpenZFS File-System Merges Support For Using Zstd Compression | Linux Storage | 2020-08-22 |
| Now That The Linux Kernel Can Be Zstd-Compressed, The Next Step Is The Firmware | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-21 |
| Zstd-Compressed Linux Kernel Images Look Very Close To Mainline With Great Results | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-26 |
| Zstd 1.4.5 Released With 5~10% Faster Decompression For x86_64, 15~50% For ARM64 | Free Software | 2020-05-22 |
| Zstd Compression Under Review For OpenZFS | Linux Storage | 2020-05-17 |
| Proxmox VE 6.2 Released With Zstd Backups, Live Migration With ZFS Storage Replication | Virtualization | 2020-05-12 |
| 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 |
| Solus 4.1 Released With Application Changes, ESYNC Support For Linux Gaming | Operating Systems | 2020-01-25 |
| OpenMandriva Is The Latest Linux Distribution Using Zstd To Compress Packages | Operating Systems | 2020-01-07 |
| Arch's Switch To Zstd: ~0.8% Increase In Package Size For ~1300% Speedup In Decompression Time | Operating Systems | 2020-01-04 |
| The FreeBSD Migration To OpenZFS Is Still Looking To Be A Great Change | BSD | 2019-11-08 |
| Zstd 1.4.4 Released With Faster Compression & Decompression Support | Programming | 2019-11-05 |
| Arch Linux Nears Roll-Out Of Zstd Compressed Packages For Faster Pacman Installs | Arch Linux | 2019-10-16 |
| Zstd 1.4.1 Further Improves Decode Speed, Other Optimizations | Standards | 2019-07-19 |
| GCC 10 Lands The Zstd LTO Bytecode Compression Support | GNU | 2019-07-06 |
| GCC Is Looking At Zstd For Compressing Its LTO Data | GNU | 2019-06-21 |
| Zstd-Compressing The Linux Kernel Has Been Brought Up Again | Linux Kernel | 2019-06-10 |
| Zstd 1.4 Brings Even Better Compression / Decompression Performance | Free Software | 2019-04-17 |
| Btrfs For Linux 5.1 Brings Configurable Zstd Compression Level, A Number Of Fixes | Linux Storage | 2019-03-04 |
| Configurable Zstd Compression Level Support Is Revived For Btrfs | Linux Storage | 2019-01-29 |
| Fedora Still Needs Help Testing The New Zchunk Metadata Support | Fedora | 2019-01-17 |
| GNU Tar 1.31 Released With Zstd Support | GNU | 2019-01-02 |
| Fedora Rawhide Users Can Now Test The Experimental Zchunk Metadata Support | Fedora | 2018-12-25 |
| GRUB Picks Up Zstd Support To Handle Compressed Btrfs File-Systems | GNU | 2018-11-27 |
| Patches Revived For A Zstd-Compressed Linux Kernel While Dropping LZMA & BZIP2 | Linux Kernel | 2018-11-09 |
| Zstd Compression Support Coming For Linux Pstore | Linux Storage | 2018-08-05 |
| Zstd 1.3.5 Released With Greater Dictionary Compression Performance | Free Software | 2018-07-07 |
| OpenZFS Will Soon Have Zstd Compression Support | Linux Storage | 2018-03-25 |
| LWJGL 3.1.4 Adds Zstd & LZ4 Bindings | Linux Gaming | 2017-11-20 |
| A ZSTD-Compressed Linux Kernel Could Be Up Next | Linux Kernel | 2017-10-11 |
| The Changes So Far For The Linux 4.14 Kernel: Zstd, Cgroup2 Threads, EXT4 Scalability | Linux Kernel | 2017-09-10 |
| Zstd Compression For Btrfs & Squashfs Set For Linux 4.14, Already Used Within Facebook | Linux Kernel | 2017-09-08 |
| Btrfs Zstd Support Coming To Linux 4.14 | Linux Storage | 2017-09-01 |
| Ryzen 7, Threadripper & Radeon RX Vega Generated A Ton Of Linux Buzz | Phoronix | 2017-09-01 |
| Facebook Looking To Add Zstd Support To The Linux Kernel, Btrfs | Linux Kernel | 2017-08-04 |
