xxHash 0.8.3 Brings Runtime Vector Extension Handling For x86/x86_64 phoronix.com/news/xxHash-0.…

Let's kick off the week with a new release of xxHash, v0.8.3 : github.com/Cyan4973/xxHas… . It's a small update, with a few QoL improvements, notably runtime detection of vector extensions on x86/x64 CPUs.

Zstd 1.5.7 Pushing Performance Even Further phoronix.com/news/Zstd-Zsta…

Zstandard v1.5.7 has been released : github.com/facebook/zstd/… . It features several interesting performance improvements, notably multi-threaded CLI by default, better speed for small blocks, new `--max` mode and stronger `--patch-from` differential compression.

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There is a new official C language website maintained by the C Standards Committee c-language.org

Linux Patch Posted For Syncing The Kernel Code With Zstd 1.5.7 phoronix.com/news/Linux-Zst…

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Linux Kernel's Zstd Code Gets A Co-Maintainer phoronix.com/news/Linux-Zst…

The small genomics lab experience optimizing data cold storage biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Btrfs Adding Fast/Realtime Zstd Compression & Other Performance Optimizations phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.1…

Zstd 1.5.7 Lands In Linux 6.15 For Better Performance & APIs For Intel QAT Acceleration phoronix.com/news/Zstd-1.5.…

Using Google's XLS Mid-Level Synthesis toolchain, we developed an open source ZSTD decoder. Read about implementation details and learn how we can help you utilize XLS for software-driven digital block design: antmicro.com/blog/2025/04/b… CHIPSAlliance

LibreOffice Begins Landing Zstd Integration phoronix.com/news/LibreOffi…

Python Enhancement Proposal: Adding Zstandard to the standard library: peps.python.org/pep-0784/ by Emma Harper Smith.

In the next version of Bun fetch() supports zstd decompression

Coming in #Python 3.14 later this year Zstandard is being added to the compression module. Here's an example from the Python docs:

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