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

Published at LXer:

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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OK, so firmware where we do not have access to the source will move from a one compression utility (xz) to another compression utility (zstd). That is fine but doing that buys us nothing since we have no idea what is inside most of the firmware in use.