Linux Firmware Update Utility Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression for Future Releases

Linux Firmware Update Utility Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression for Future Releases

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Marius Nestor
Apr 3, 2024

Fwupd developer and maintainer Richard Hughes announced today that future releases of the popular Linux firmware updater used by GNU/Linux distributions to update the firmware of various hardware devices are moving away from XZ Utils and will adopt Zstandard (zstd) instead.

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Marius Nestor

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