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

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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