GNU gzip - Summary
This software is part of the GNU Project.
GNU gzip does (de)compression of individual files. It was originally written by Jean-loup Gailly and is now maintained by Paul Eggert.
Registration Date: Fri 03 Nov 2006 01:14:11 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
posted by meyering, Thu 10 Apr 2025 04:34:47 AM UTC
[...]This is to announce gzip-1.14, a stable release.
Most notable: "gzip -d" is up to 40% faster on x86_64 CPUs with pclmul
support. Why? Because about half of its time was spent computing a CRC
checksum, and that code is far more efficient now. Even on 10-year-old
posted by meyering, Sun 20 Aug 2023 12:33:17 AM UTC
[...]This is to announce gzip-1.13, a stable release.
Thanks to Paul and Bruno for contributing.
There have been 50 commits by 3 people in the 71 weeks since 1.12.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
posted by meyering, Thu 07 Apr 2022 05:07:39 PM UTC
[...]Thanks to Paul Eggert and Lasse Collin for all the work
on fixing the exploitable zgrep bug, and to Paul for
handling most of the other changes.
Here are the compressed sources:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.12.tar.gz (1.3MB)
posted by meyering, Fri 03 Sep 2021 03:00:02 PM UTC
[...]This is to announce gzip-1.11, a stable release.
There have been 43 commits by 5 people in the 2.7(!) years since 1.10.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
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