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Zstandard v1.5.7 is a significant release, featuring over 500 commits accumulated over the past year. This update brings enhancements across various domains, including performance, stability, and functionality, and is particularly recommended for 32-bit users due to a bug fix detailed below.
edit: man pages were not properly updated in this package, and are still pointing to v1.5.6. If yo...
This release highlights the deployment of Google Chrome 123, introducing zstd-encoding for Web traffic, offered as a preferable option for compression of dynamic contents. With limited web server support for zstd-encoding due to its novelty, we are launching an updated Zstandard version to facilitate broader adoption.
This is a quick fix release. The primary focus is to correct a rare corruption bug in high compression mode, detected by @danlark1 . The probability to generate such a scenario by random chance is extremely low. It evaded months of continuous fuzzer tests, due to the number and complexity of simultaneous conditions required to trigger it. Nevertheless, @danlark1 from Google shepherds such a humong...
Zstandard v1.5.4 is a pretty big release benefiting from one year of work, spread over > 650 commits. It offers significant performance improvements across multiple scenarios, as well as new features (detailed below). There is a crop of little bug fixes too, a few ones targeting the 32-bit mode are important enough to make this release a recommended upgrade.
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Zstandard v1.5.2 is a bug-fix release, addressing issues that were raised with the v1.5.1 release.
In particular, as a side-effect of the inclusion of assembly code in our source tree, binary artifacts were being marked as needing an executable stack on non-amd64 architectures. This release corrects that issue. More context is available in #2963.
This release also corrects a performance regr...