We’re thrilled to announce Zstandard 1.0, a new compression algorithm and implementation designed to scale with modern hardware and compress smaller and faster. Zstandard combines recent compression breakthroughs, like Finite State Entropy, with a performance-first design — and then optimizes the implementation for the unique properties of modern CPUs. As a result, it improves upon the trade-offs made by other compression algorithms and has a wide range of applicability with very high decompression speed. Zstandard, available now under the BSD license, is designed to be used in nearly every lossless compression scenario, including many where current algorithms aren’t applicable.

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