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

Posted by hanuca on Apr 7, 2024 11:11 AM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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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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