This release updates Zstandard to the latest upstream version, which is a maintenance release with performance improvements and bugfixes.
Zstandard, or zstd as short version, is a fast lossless compression algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level and better compression ratios. http://www.zstd.net/ Besides a standalone compression tool, development headers and a library with comprehensive API are available both for Cygwin native applications and cross-compilation toolchains in the following sub-packages: libzstd-devel-1.4.8-1 libzstd1-1.4.8-1 mingw64-i686-zstd-1.4.8-1 mingw64-x86_64-zstd-1.4.8-1 Notes ----- This version is compiled with support for GZip, LZ4 and Xz compression. Support for legacy formats from versions before 1.0 has been removed. Version 1.4.6 was not released, this version number was used for source synchronisation with the Linux kernel. Version 1.4.7 had an alignment bug that also affected 32bit Cygwin and was fixed with 1.4.8. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple