1v1.5.2 (Jan, 2022) 2perf: Regain Minimal memset()-ing During Reuse of Compression Contexts (@Cyan4973, #2969) 3build: Build Zstd with `noexecstack` on All Architectures (@felixhandte, #2964) 4doc: Clarify Licensing (@terrelln, #2981) 5 6v1.5.1 (Dec, 2021) 7perf: rebalanced compression levels, to better match the intended speed/level curve, by @senhuang42 8perf: faster huffman decoder, using x64 assembly, by @terrelln 9perf: slightly faster high speed modes (strategies fast & dfast), by @felixhandte 10perf: improved binary size and faster compilation times, by @terrelln 11perf: new row64 mode, used notably in level 12, by @senhuang42 12perf: faster mid-level compression speed in presence of highly repetitive patterns, by @senhuang42 13perf: minor compression ratio improvements for small data at high levels, by @cyan4973 14perf: reduced stack usage (mostly useful for Linux Kernel), by @terrelln 15perf: faster compression speed on incompressible data, by @bindhvo 16perf: on-demand reduced ZSTD_DCtx state size, using build macro ZSTD_DECODER_INTERNAL_BUFFER, at a small cost of performance, by @bindhvo 17build: allows hiding static symbols in the dynamic library, using build macro, by @skitt 18build: support for m68k (Motorola 68000's), by @cyan4973 19build: improved AIX support, by @Helflym 20build: improved meson unofficial build, by @eli-schwartz 21cli : custom memory limit when training dictionary (#2925), by @embg 22cli : report advanced parameters information when compressing in very verbose mode (``-vv`), by @Svetlitski-FB 23 24v1.5.0 (May 11, 2021) 25api: Various functions promoted from experimental to stable API: (#2579-2581, @senhuang42) 26 `ZSTD_defaultCLevel()` 27 `ZSTD_getDictID_fromCDict()` 28api: Several experimental functions have been deprecated and will emit a compiler warning (#2582, @senhuang42) 29 `ZSTD_compress_advanced()` 30 `ZSTD_compress_usingCDict_advanced()` 31 `ZSTD_compressBegin_advanced()` 32 `ZSTD_compressBegin_usingCDict_advanced()` 33 `ZSTD_initCStream_srcSize()` 34 `ZSTD_initCStream_usingDict()` 35 `ZSTD_initCStream_usingCDict()` 36 `ZSTD_initCStream_advanced()` 37 `ZSTD_initCStream_usingCDict_advanced()` 38 `ZSTD_resetCStream()` 39api: ZSTDMT_NBWORKERS_MAX reduced to 64 for 32-bit environments (@Cyan4973) 40perf: Significant speed improvements for middle compression levels (#2494, @senhuang42 @terrelln) 41perf: Block splitter to improve compression ratio, enabled by default for high compression levels (#2447, @senhuang42) 42perf: Decompression loop refactor, speed improvements on `clang` and for `--long` modes (#2614 #2630, @Cyan4973) 43perf: Reduced stack usage during compression and decompression entropy stage (#2522 #2524, @terrelln) 44bug: Improve setting permissions of created files (#2525, @felixhandte) 45bug: Fix large dictionary non-determinism (#2607, @terrelln) 46bug: Fix non-determinism test failures on Linux i686 (#2606, @terrelln) 47bug: Fix various dedicated dictionary search bugs (#2540 #2586, @senhuang42 @felixhandte) 48bug: Ensure `ZSTD_estimateCCtxSize*() `monotonically increases with compression level (#2538, @senhuang42) 49bug: Fix --patch-from mode parameter bound bug with small files (#2637, @occivink) 50bug: Fix UBSAN error in decompression (#2625, @terrelln) 51bug: Fix superblock compression divide by zero bug (#2592, @senhuang42) 52bug: Make the number of physical CPU cores detection more robust (#2517, @PaulBone) 53doc: Improve `zdict.h` dictionary training API documentation (#2622, @terrelln) 54doc: Note that public `ZSTD_free*()` functions accept NULL pointers (#2521, @animalize) 55doc: Add style guide docs for open source contributors (#2626, @Cyan4973) 56tests: Better regression test coverage for different dictionary modes (#2559, @senhuang42) 57tests: Better test coverage of index reduction (#2603, @terrelln) 58tests: OSS-Fuzz coverage for seekable format (#2617, @senhuang42) 59tests: Test coverage for ZSTD threadpool API (#2604, @senhuang42) 60build: Dynamic library built multithreaded by default (#2584, @senhuang42) 61build: Move `zstd_errors.h` and `zdict.h` to `lib/` root (#2597, @terrelln) 62build: Allow `ZSTDMT_JOBSIZE_MIN` to be configured at compile-time, reduce default to 512KB (#2611, @Cyan4973) 63build: Single file library build script moved to `build/` directory (#2618, @felixhandte) 64build: `ZBUFF_*()` is no longer built by default (#2583, @senhuang42) 65build: Fixed Meson build (#2548, @SupervisedThinking @kloczek) 66build: Fix excessive compiler warnings with clang-cl and CMake (#2600, @nickhutchinson) 67build: Detect presence of `md5` on Darwin (#2609, @felixhandte) 68build: Avoid SIGBUS on armv6 (#2633, @bmwiedmann) 69cli: `--progress` flag added to always display progress bar (#2595, @senhuang42) 70cli: Allow reading from block devices with `--force` (#2613, @felixhandte) 71cli: Fix CLI filesize display bug (#2550, @Cyan4973) 72cli: Fix windows CLI `--filelist` end-of-line bug (#2620, @Cyan4973) 73contrib: Various fixes for linux kernel patch (#2539, @terrelln) 74contrib: Seekable format - Decompression hanging edge case fix (#2516, @senhuang42) 75contrib: Seekable format - New seek table-only API (#2113 #2518, @mdittmer @Cyan4973) 76contrib: Seekable format - Fix seek table descriptor check when loading (#2534, @foxeng) 77contrib: Seekable format - Decompression fix for large offsets, (#2594, @azat) 78misc: Automatically published release tarballs available on Github (#2535, @felixhandte) 79 80v1.4.9 (Mar 1, 2021) 81bug: Use `umask()` to Constrain Created File Permissions (#2495, @felixhandte) 82bug: Make Simple Single-Pass Functions Ignore Advanced Parameters (#2498, @terrelln) 83api: Add (De)Compression Tracing Functionality (#2482, @terrelln) 84api: Support References to Multiple DDicts (#2446, @senhuang42) 85api: Add Function to Generate Skippable Frame (#2439, @senhuang42) 86perf: New Algorithms for the Long Distance Matcher (#2483, @mpu) 87perf: Performance Improvements for Long Distance Matcher (#2464, @mpu) 88perf: Don't Shrink Window Log when Streaming with a Dictionary (#2451, @terrelln) 89cli: Fix `--output-dir-mirror`'s Rejection of `..`-Containing Paths (#2512, @felixhandte) 90cli: Allow Input From Console When `-f`/`--force` is Passed (#2466, @felixhandte) 91cli: Improve Help Message (#2500, @senhuang42) 92tests: Remove Flaky Tests (#2455, #2486, #2445, @Cyan4973) 93tests: Correctly Invoke md5 Utility on NetBSD (#2492, @niacat) 94tests: Avoid Using `stat -c` on NetBSD (#2513, @felixhandte) 95build: Zstd CLI Can Now be Linked to Dynamic `libzstd` (#2457, #2454 @Cyan4973) 96build: Hide and Avoid Using Static-Only Symbols (#2501, #2504, @skitt) 97build: CMake: Enable Only C for lib/ and programs/ Projects (#2498, @concatime) 98build: CMake: Use `configure_file()` to Create the `.pc` File (#2462, @lazka) 99build: Fix Fuzzer Compiler Detection & Update UBSAN Flags (#2503, @terrelln) 100build: Add Guards for `_LARGEFILE_SOURCE` and `_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE` (#2444, @indygreg) 101build: Improve `zlibwrapper` Makefile (#2437, @Cyan4973) 102contrib: Add `recover_directory` Program (#2473, @terrelln) 103doc: Change License Year to 2021 (#2452 & #2465, @terrelln & @senhuang42) 104doc: Fix Typos (#2459, @ThomasWaldmann) 105 106v1.4.8 (Dec 18, 2020) 107hotfix: wrong alignment of an internal buffer 108 109v1.4.7 (Dec 16, 2020) 110perf: stronger --long mode at high compression levels, by @senhuang42 111perf: stronger --patch-from at high compression levels, thanks to --long improvements 112perf: faster dictionary compression at medium compression levels, by @felixhandte 113perf: small speed & memory usage improvements for ZSTD_compress2(), by @terrelln 114perf: improved fast compression speeds with Visual Studio, by @animalize 115cli : Set nb of threads with environment variable ZSTD_NBTHREADS, by @senhuang42 116cli : accept decompressing files with *.zstd suffix 117cli : provide a condensed summary by default when processing multiple files 118cli : fix : stdin input no longer confused as user prompt 119cli : improve accuracy of several error messages 120api : new sequence ingestion API, by @senhuang42 121api : shared thread pool: control total nb of threads used by multiple compression jobs, by @marxin 122api : new ZSTD_getDictID_fromCDict(), by @LuAPi 123api : zlibWrapper only uses public API, and is compatible with dynamic library, by @terrelln 124api : fix : multithreaded compression has predictable output even in special cases (see #2327) (issue not accessible from cli) 125api : fix : dictionary compression correctly respects dictionary compression level (see #2303) (issue not accessible from cli) 126build: fix cmake script when using path with spaces, by @terrelln 127build: improved compile-time detection of aarch64/neon platforms, by @bsdimp 128build: Fix building on AIX 5.1, by @likema 129build: compile paramgrill with cmake on Windows, requested by @mirh 130doc : clarify repcode updates in format specification, by @felixhandte 131 132v1.4.6 133fix : Always return dstSize_tooSmall when that is the case 134fix : Fix ZSTD_initCStream_advanced() with static allocation and no dictionary 135perf: Improve small block decompression speed by 20%+, by @terrelln 136perf: Reduce compression stack usage by 1 KB, by @terrelln 137perf: Improve decompression speed by improving ZSTD_wildcopy, by @helloguo (#2252, #2256) 138perf: Improve histogram construction, by @cyan4973 (#2253) 139cli : Add --output-dir-mirror option, by @xxie24 (#2219) 140cli : Warn when (de)compressing multiple files into a single output, by @senhuang42 (#2279) 141cli : Improved progress bar and status summary when (de)compressing multiple files, by @senhuang42 (#2283) 142cli : Call stat less often, by @felixhandte (#2262) 143cli : Allow --patch-from XXX and --filelist XXX in addition to --patch-from=XXX and --filelist=XXX, by @cyan4973 (#2250) 144cli : Allow --patch-from to compress stdin with --stream-size, by @bimbashrestha (#2206) 145api : Do not install zbuff.h, since it has long been deprecated, by @cyan4973 (#2166). 146api : Fix ZSTD_CCtx_setParameter() with ZSTD_c_compressionLevel to make 0 mean default level, by @i-do-cpp (#2291) 147api : Rename ZSTDMT_NBTHREADS_MAX to ZSTDMT_NBWORKERS_MAX, by @marxin (#2228). 148build: Install pkg-config file with CMake and MinGW, by @tonytheodore (#2183) 149build: Install DLL with CMake on Windows, by @BioDataAnalysis (#2221) 150build: Fix DLL install location with CMake, by @xantares and @bimbashrestha (#2186) 151build: Add ZSTD_NO_UNUSED_FUNCTIONS macro to hide unused functions 152build: Add ZSTD_NO_INTRINSICS macro to avoid explicit intrinsics 153build: Add STATIC_BMI2 macro for compile time detection of BMI2 on MSVC, by @Niadb (#2258) 154build: Fix -Wcomma warnings, by @cwoffenden 155build: Remove distutils requirement for meson build, by @neheb (#2197) 156build: Fix cli compilation with uclibc 157build: Fix cli compilation without st_mtime, by @ffontaine (#2246) 158build: Fix shadowing warnings in library 159build: Fix single file library compilation with Enscripten, by @yoshihitoh (#2227) 160misc: Improve single file library and include dictBuilder, by @cwoffenden 161misc: Allow compression dictionaries with missing symbols 162misc: Add freestanding translation script in contrib/freestanding_lib 163misc: Collect all of zstd's libc dependencies into zstd_deps.h 164doc : Add ZSTD_versionString() to manual, by @animalize 165doc : Fix documentation for ZSTD_CCtxParams_setParameter(), by @felixhandte (#2270) 166 167v1.4.5 (May 22, 2020) 168fix : Compression ratio regression on huge files (> 3 GB) using high levels (--ultra) and multithreading, by @terrelln 169perf: Improved decompression speed: x64 : +10% (clang) / +5% (gcc); ARM : from +15% to +50%, depending on SoC, by @terrelln 170perf: Automatically downsizes ZSTD_DCtx when too large for too long (#2069, by @bimbashreshta) 171perf: Improved fast compression speed on aarch64 (#2040, ~+3%, by @caoyzh) 172perf: Small level 1 compression speed gains (depending on compiler) 173cli : New --patch-from command, create and apply patches from files, by @bimbashreshta 174cli : New --filelist= : Provide a list of files to operate upon from a file 175cli : -b -d command can now benchmark decompression on multiple files 176cli : New --no-content-size command 177cli : New --show-default-cparams information command 178api : ZDICT_finalizeDictionary() is promoted to stable (#2111) 179api : new experimental parameter ZSTD_d_stableOutBuffer (#2094) 180build: Generate a single-file libzstd library (#2065, by @cwoffenden) 181build: Relative includes no longer require -I compiler flags for zstd lib subdirs (#2103, by @felixhandte) 182build: zstd now compiles cleanly under -pedantic (#2099) 183build: zstd now compiles with make-4.3 184build: Support mingw cross-compilation from Linux, by @Ericson2314 185build: Meson multi-thread build fix on windows 186build: Some misc icc fixes backed by new ci test on travis 187misc: bitflip analyzer tool, by @felixhandte 188misc: Extend largeNbDicts benchmark to compression 189misc: Edit-distance match finder in contrib/ 190doc : Improved beginner CONTRIBUTING.md docs 191doc : New issue templates for zstd 192 193v1.4.4 (Nov 6, 2019) 194perf: Improved decompression speed, by > 10%, by @terrelln 195perf: Better compression speed when re-using a context, by @felixhandte 196perf: Fix compression ratio when compressing large files with small dictionary, by @senhuang42 197perf: zstd reference encoder can generate RLE blocks, by @bimbashrestha 198perf: minor generic speed optimization, by @davidbolvansky 199api: new ability to extract sequences from the parser for analysis, by @bimbashrestha 200api: fixed decoding of magic-less frames, by @terrelln 201api: fixed ZSTD_initCStream_advanced() performance with fast modes, reported by @QrczakMK 202cli: Named pipes support, by @bimbashrestha 203cli: short tar's extension support, by @stokito 204cli: command --output-dir-flat= , generates target files into requested directory, by @senhuang42 205cli: commands --stream-size=# and --size-hint=#, by @nmagerko 206cli: command --exclude-compressed, by @shashank0791 207cli: faster `-t` test mode 208cli: improved some error messages, by @vangyzen 209cli: fix command `-D dictionary` on Windows, reported by @artyompetrov 210cli: fix rare deadlock condition within dictionary builder, by @terrelln 211build: single-file decoder with emscripten compilation script, by @cwoffenden 212build: fixed zlibWrapper compilation on Visual Studio, reported by @bluenlive 213build: fixed deprecation warning for certain gcc version, reported by @jasonma163 214build: fix compilation on old gcc versions, by @cemeyer 215build: improved installation directories for cmake script, by Dmitri Shubin 216pack: modified pkgconfig, for better integration into openwrt, requested by @neheb 217misc: Improved documentation : ZSTD_CLEVEL, DYNAMIC_BMI2, ZSTD_CDict, function deprecation, zstd format 218misc: fixed educational decoder : accept larger literals section, and removed UNALIGNED() macro 219 220v1.4.3 (Aug 20, 2019) 221bug: Fix Dictionary Compression Ratio Regression by @cyan4973 (#1709) 222bug: Fix Buffer Overflow in legacy v0.3 decompression by @felixhandte (#1722) 223build: Add support for IAR C/C++ Compiler for Arm by @joseph0918 (#1705) 224 225v1.4.2 (Jul 26, 2019) 226bug: Fix bug in zstd-0.5 decoder by @terrelln (#1696) 227bug: Fix seekable decompression in-memory API by @iburinoc (#1695) 228misc: Validate blocks are smaller than size limit by @vivekmg (#1685) 229misc: Restructure source files by @ephiepark (#1679) 230 231v1.4.1 (Jul 20, 2019) 232bug: Fix data corruption in niche use cases by @terrelln (#1659) 233bug: Fuzz legacy modes, fix uncovered bugs by @terrelln (#1593, #1594, #1595) 234bug: Fix out of bounds read by @terrelln (#1590) 235perf: Improve decode speed by ~7% @mgrice (#1668) 236perf: Slightly improved compression ratio of level 3 and 4 (ZSTD_dfast) by @cyan4973 (#1681) 237perf: Slightly faster compression speed when re-using a context by @cyan4973 (#1658) 238perf: Improve compression ratio for small windowLog by @cyan4973 (#1624) 239perf: Faster compression speed in high compression mode for repetitive data by @terrelln (#1635) 240api: Add parameter to generate smaller dictionaries by @tyler-tran (#1656) 241cli: Recognize symlinks when built in C99 mode by @felixhandte (#1640) 242cli: Expose cpu load indicator for each file on -vv mode by @ephiepark (#1631) 243cli: Restrict read permissions on destination files by @chungy (#1644) 244cli: zstdgrep: handle -f flag by @felixhandte (#1618) 245cli: zstdcat: follow symlinks by @vejnar (#1604) 246doc: Remove extra size limit on compressed blocks by @felixhandte (#1689) 247doc: Fix typo by @yk-tanigawa (#1633) 248doc: Improve documentation on streaming buffer sizes by @cyan4973 (#1629) 249build: CMake: support building with LZ4 @leeyoung624 (#1626) 250build: CMake: install zstdless and zstdgrep by @leeyoung624 (#1647) 251build: CMake: respect existing uninstall target by @j301scott (#1619) 252build: Make: skip multithread tests when built without support by @michaelforney (#1620) 253build: Make: Fix examples/ test target by @sjnam (#1603) 254build: Meson: rename options out of deprecated namespace by @lzutao (#1665) 255build: Meson: fix build by @lzutao (#1602) 256build: Visual Studio: don't export symbols in static lib by @scharan (#1650) 257build: Visual Studio: fix linking by @absotively (#1639) 258build: Fix MinGW-W64 build by @myzhang1029 (#1600) 259misc: Expand decodecorpus coverage by @ephiepark (#1664) 260 261v1.4.0 (Apr 17, 2019) 262perf: Improve level 1 compression speed in most scenarios by 6% by @gbtucker and @terrelln 263api: Move the advanced API, including all functions in the staging section, to the stable section 264api: Make ZSTD_e_flush and ZSTD_e_end block for maximum forward progress 265api: Rename ZSTD_CCtxParam_getParameter to ZSTD_CCtxParams_getParameter 266api: Rename ZSTD_CCtxParam_setParameter to ZSTD_CCtxParams_setParameter 267api: Don't export ZSTDMT functions from the shared library by default 268api: Require ZSTD_MULTITHREAD to be defined to use ZSTDMT 269api: Add ZSTD_decompressBound() to provide an upper bound on decompressed size by @shakeelrao 270api: Fix ZSTD_decompressDCtx() corner cases with a dictionary 271api: Move ZSTD_getDictID_*() functions to the stable section 272api: Add ZSTD_c_literalCompressionMode flag to enable or disable literal compression by @terrelln 273api: Allow compression parameters to be set when a dictionary is used 274api: Allow setting parameters before or after ZSTD_CCtx_loadDictionary() is called 275api: Fix ZSTD_estimateCStreamSize_usingCCtxParams() 276api: Setting ZSTD_d_maxWindowLog to 0 means use the default 277cli: Ensure that a dictionary is not used to compress itself by @shakeelrao 278cli: Add --[no-]compress-literals flag to enable or disable literal compression 279doc: Update the examples to use the advanced API 280doc: Explain how to transition from old streaming functions to the advanced API in the header 281build: Improve the Windows release packages 282build: Improve CMake build by @hjmjohnson 283build: Build fixes for FreeBSD by @lwhsu 284build: Remove redundant warnings by @thatsafunnyname 285build: Fix tests on OpenBSD by @bket 286build: Extend fuzzer build system to work with the new clang engine 287build: CMake now creates the libzstd.so.1 symlink 288build: Improve Menson build by @lzutao 289misc: Fix symbolic link detection on FreeBSD 290misc: Use physical core count for -T0 on FreeBSD by @cemeyer 291misc: Fix zstd --list on truncated files by @kostmo 292misc: Improve logging in debug mode by @felixhandte 293misc: Add CirrusCI tests by @lwhsu 294misc: Optimize dictionary memory usage in corner cases 295misc: Improve the dictionary builder on small or homogeneous data 296misc: Fix spelling across the repo by @jsoref 297 298v1.3.8 (Dec 28, 2018) 299perf: better decompression speed on large files (+7%) and cold dictionaries (+15%) 300perf: slightly better compression ratio at high compression modes 301api : finalized advanced API, last stage before "stable" status 302api : new --rsyncable mode, by @terrelln 303api : support decompression of empty frames into NULL (used to be an error) (#1385) 304build: new set of macros to build a minimal size decoder, by @felixhandte 305build: fix compilation on MIPS32, reported by @clbr (#1441) 306build: fix compilation with multiple -arch flags, by @ryandesign 307build: highly upgraded meson build, by @lzutao 308build: improved buck support, by @obelisk 309build: fix cmake script : can create debug build, by @pitrou 310build: Makefile : grep works on both colored consoles and systems without color support 311build: fixed zstd-pgo, by @bmwiedemann 312cli : support ZSTD_CLEVEL environment variable, by @yijinfb (#1423) 313cli : --no-progress flag, preserving final summary (#1371), by @terrelln 314cli : ensure destination file is not source file (#1422) 315cli : clearer error messages, especially when input file not present 316doc : clarified zstd_compression_format.md, by @ulikunitz 317misc: fixed zstdgrep, returns 1 on failure, by @lzutao 318misc: NEWS renamed as CHANGELOG, in accordance with fboss 319 320v1.3.7 (Oct 20, 2018) 321perf: slightly better decompression speed on clang (depending on hardware target) 322fix : performance of dictionary compression for small input < 4 KB at levels 9 and 10 323build: no longer build backtrace by default in release mode; restrict further automatic mode 324build: control backtrace support through build macro BACKTRACE 325misc: added man pages for zstdless and zstdgrep, by @samrussell 326 327v1.3.6 (Oct 6, 2018) 328perf: much faster dictionary builder, by @jenniferliu 329perf: faster dictionary compression on small data when using multiple contexts, by @felixhandte 330perf: faster dictionary decompression when using a very large number of dictionaries simultaneously 331cli : fix : does no longer overwrite destination when source does not exist (#1082) 332cli : new command --adapt, for automatic compression level adaptation 333api : fix : block api can be streamed with > 4 GB, reported by @catid 334api : reduced ZSTD_DDict size by 2 KB 335api : minimum negative compression level is defined, and can be queried using ZSTD_minCLevel(). 336build: support Haiku target, by @korli 337build: Read Legacy format is limited to v0.5+ by default. Can be changed at compile time with macro ZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT. 338doc : zstd_compression_format.md updated to match wording in IETF RFC 8478 339misc: tests/paramgrill, a parameter optimizer, by @GeorgeLu97 340 341v1.3.5 (Jun 29, 2018) 342perf: much faster dictionary compression, by @felixhandte 343perf: small quality improvement for dictionary generation, by @terrelln 344perf: slightly improved high compression levels (notably level 19) 345mem : automatic memory release for long duration contexts 346cli : fix : overlapLog can be manually set 347cli : fix : decoding invalid lz4 frames 348api : fix : performance degradation for dictionary compression when using advanced API, by @terrelln 349api : change : clarify ZSTD_CCtx_reset() vs ZSTD_CCtx_resetParameters(), by @terrelln 350build: select custom libzstd scope through control macros, by @GeorgeLu97 351build: OpenBSD patch, by @bket 352build: make and make all are compatible with -j 353doc : clarify zstd_compression_format.md, updated for IETF RFC process 354misc: pzstd compatible with reproducible compilation, by @lamby 355 356v1.3.4 (Mar 27, 2018) 357perf: faster speed (especially decoding speed) on recent cpus (haswell+) 358perf: much better performance associating --long with multi-threading, by @terrelln 359perf: better compression at levels 13-15 360cli : asynchronous compression by default, for faster experience (use --single-thread for former behavior) 361cli : smoother status report in multi-threading mode 362cli : added command --fast=#, for faster compression modes 363cli : fix crash when not overwriting existing files, by Pádraig Brady (@pixelb) 364api : `nbThreads` becomes `nbWorkers` : 1 triggers asynchronous mode 365api : compression levels can be negative, for even more speed 366api : ZSTD_getFrameProgression() : get precise progress status of ZSTDMT anytime 367api : ZSTDMT can accept new compression parameters during compression 368api : implemented all advanced dictionary decompression prototypes 369build: improved meson recipe, by Shawn Landden (@shawnl) 370build: VS2017 scripts, by @HaydnTrigg 371misc: all /contrib projects fixed 372misc: added /contrib/docker script by @gyscos 373 374v1.3.3 (Dec 21, 2017) 375perf: faster zstd_opt strategy (levels 16-19) 376fix : bug #944 : multithreading with shared ditionary and large data, reported by @gsliepen 377cli : fix : content size written in header by default 378cli : fix : improved LZ4 format support, by @felixhandte 379cli : new : hidden command `-S`, to benchmark multiple files while generating one result per file 380api : fix : support large skippable frames, by @terrelln 381api : fix : streaming interface was adding a useless 3-bytes null block to small frames 382api : change : when setting `pledgedSrcSize`, use `ZSTD_CONTENTSIZE_UNKNOWN` macro value to mean "unknown" 383build: fix : compilation under rhel6 and centos6, reported by @pixelb 384build: added `check` target 385 386v1.3.2 (Oct 10, 2017) 387new : long range mode, using --long command, by Stella Lau (@stellamplau) 388new : ability to generate and decode magicless frames (#591) 389changed : maximum nb of threads reduced to 200, to avoid address space exhaustion in 32-bits mode 390fix : multi-threading compression works with custom allocators 391fix : ZSTD_sizeof_CStream() was over-evaluating memory usage 392fix : a rare compression bug when compression generates very large distances and bunch of other conditions (only possible at --ultra -22) 393fix : 32-bits build can now decode large offsets (levels 21+) 394cli : added LZ4 frame support by default, by Felix Handte (@felixhandte) 395cli : improved --list output 396cli : new : can split input file for dictionary training, using command -B# 397cli : new : clean operation artefact on Ctrl-C interruption 398cli : fix : do not change /dev/null permissions when using command -t with root access, reported by @mike155 (#851) 399cli : fix : write file size in header in multiple-files mode 400api : added macro ZSTD_COMPRESSBOUND() for static allocation 401api : experimental : new advanced decompression API 402api : fix : sizeof_CCtx() used to over-estimate 403build: fix : no-multithread variant compiles without pool.c dependency, reported by Mitchell Blank Jr (@mitchblank) (#819) 404build: better compatibility with reproducible builds, by Bernhard M. Wiedemann (@bmwiedemann) (#818) 405example : added streaming_memory_usage 406license : changed /examples license to BSD + GPLv2 407license : fix a few header files to reflect new license (#825) 408 409v1.3.1 (Aug 21, 2017) 410New license : BSD + GPLv2 411perf: substantially decreased memory usage in Multi-threading mode, thanks to reports by Tino Reichardt (@mcmilk) 412perf: Multi-threading supports up to 256 threads. Cap at 256 when more are requested (#760) 413cli : improved and fixed --list command, by @ib (#772) 414cli : command -vV to list supported formats, by @ib (#771) 415build : fixed binary variants, reported by @svenha (#788) 416build : fix Visual compilation for non x86/x64 targets, reported by Greg Slazinski (@GregSlazinski) (#718) 417API exp : breaking change : ZSTD_getframeHeader() provides more information 418API exp : breaking change : pinned down values of error codes 419doc : fixed huffman example, by Ulrich Kunitz (@ulikunitz) 420new : contrib/adaptive-compression, I/O driven compression strength, by Paul Cruz (@paulcruz74) 421new : contrib/long_distance_matching, statistics by Stella Lau (@stellamplau) 422updated : contrib/linux-kernel, by Nick Terrell (@terrelln) 423 424v1.3.0 (Jul 6, 2017) 425cli : new : `--list` command, by Paul Cruz 426cli : changed : xz/lzma support enabled by default 427cli : changed : `-t *` continue processing list after a decompression error 428API : added : ZSTD_versionString() 429API : promoted to stable status : ZSTD_getFrameContentSize(), by Sean Purcell 430API exp : new advanced API : ZSTD_compress_generic(), ZSTD_CCtx_setParameter() 431API exp : new : API for static or external allocation : ZSTD_initStatic?Ctx() 432API exp : added : ZSTD_decompressBegin_usingDDict(), requested by Guy Riddle (#700) 433API exp : clarified memory estimation / measurement functions. 434API exp : changed : strongest strategy renamed ZSTD_btultra, fastest strategy ZSTD_fast set to 1 435tools : decodecorpus can generate random dictionary-compressed samples, by Paul Cruz 436new : contrib/seekable_format, demo and API, by Sean Purcell 437changed : contrib/linux-kernel, updated version and license, by Nick Terrell 438 439v1.2.0 (May 5, 2017) 440cli : changed : Multithreading enabled by default (use target zstd-nomt or HAVE_THREAD=0 to disable) 441cli : new : command -T0 means "detect and use nb of cores", by Sean Purcell 442cli : new : zstdmt symlink hardwired to `zstd -T0` 443cli : new : command --threads=# (#671) 444cli : changed : cover dictionary builder by default, for improved quality, by Nick Terrell 445cli : new : commands --train-cover and --train-legacy, to select dictionary algorithm and parameters 446cli : experimental targets `zstd4` and `xzstd4`, with support for lz4 format, by Sean Purcell 447cli : fix : does not output compressed data on console 448cli : fix : ignore symbolic links unless --force specified, 449API : breaking change : ZSTD_createCDict_advanced(), only use compressionParameters as argument 450API : added : prototypes ZSTD_*_usingCDict_advanced(), for direct control over frameParameters. 451API : improved: ZSTDMT_compressCCtx() reduced memory usage 452API : fix : ZSTDMT_compressCCtx() now provides srcSize in header (#634) 453API : fix : src size stored in frame header is controlled at end of frame 454API : fix : enforced consistent rules for pledgedSrcSize==0 (#641) 455API : fix : error code "GENERIC" replaced by "dstSizeTooSmall" when appropriate 456build: improved cmake script, by @Majlen 457build: enabled Multi-threading support for *BSD, by Baptiste Daroussin 458tools: updated Paramgrill. Command -O# provides best parameters for sample and speed target. 459new : contrib/linux-kernel version, by Nick Terrell 460 461v1.1.4 (Mar 18, 2017) 462cli : new : can compress in *.gz format, using --format=gzip command, by Przemyslaw Skibinski 463cli : new : advanced benchmark command --priority=rt 464cli : fix : write on sparse-enabled file systems in 32-bits mode, by @ds77 465cli : fix : --rm remains silent when input is stdin 466cli : experimental : xzstd, with support for xz/lzma decoding, by Przemyslaw Skibinski 467speed : improved decompression speed in streaming mode for single shot scenarios (+5%) 468memory: DDict (decompression dictionary) memory usage down from 150 KB to 20 KB 469arch: 32-bits variant able to generate and decode very long matches (>32 MB), by Sean Purcell 470API : new : ZSTD_findFrameCompressedSize(), ZSTD_getFrameContentSize(), ZSTD_findDecompressedSize() 471API : changed : dropped support of legacy versions <= v0.3 (can be changed by modifying ZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT value) 472build : new: meson build system in contrib/meson, by Dima Krasner 473build : improved cmake script, by @Majlen 474build : added -Wformat-security flag, as recommended by Padraig Brady 475doc : new : educational decoder, by Sean Purcell 476 477v1.1.3 (Feb 7, 2017) 478cli : zstd can decompress .gz files (can be disabled with `make zstd-nogz` or `make HAVE_ZLIB=0`) 479cli : new : experimental target `make zstdmt`, with multi-threading support 480cli : new : improved dictionary builder "cover" (experimental), by Nick Terrell, based on prior work by Giuseppe Ottaviano. 481cli : new : advanced commands for detailed parameters, by Przemyslaw Skibinski 482cli : fix zstdless on Mac OS-X, by Andrew Janke 483cli : fix #232 "compress non-files" 484dictBuilder : improved dictionary generation quality, thanks to Nick Terrell 485API : new : lib/compress/ZSTDMT_compress.h multithreading API (experimental) 486API : new : ZSTD_create?Dict_byReference(), requested by Bartosz Taudul 487API : new : ZDICT_finalizeDictionary() 488API : fix : ZSTD_initCStream_usingCDict() properly writes dictID into frame header, by Gregory Szorc (#511) 489API : fix : all symbols properly exposed in libzstd, by Nick Terrell 490build : support for Solaris target, by Przemyslaw Skibinski 491doc : clarified specification, by Sean Purcell 492 493v1.1.2 (Dec 15, 2016) 494API : streaming : decompression : changed : automatic implicit reset when chain-decoding new frames without init 495API : experimental : added : dictID retrieval functions, and ZSTD_initCStream_srcSize() 496API : zbuff : changed : prototypes now generate deprecation warnings 497lib : improved : faster decompression speed at ultra compression settings and 32-bits mode 498lib : changed : only public ZSTD_ symbols are now exposed 499lib : changed : reduced usage of stack memory 500lib : fixed : several corner case bugs, by Nick Terrell 501cli : new : gzstd, experimental version able to decode .gz files, by Przemyslaw Skibinski 502cli : new : preserve file attributes 503cli : new : added zstdless and zstdgrep tools 504cli : fixed : status displays total amount decoded, even for file consisting of multiple frames (like pzstd) 505cli : fixed : zstdcat 506zlib_wrapper : added support for gz* functions, by Przemyslaw Skibinski 507install : better compatibility with FreeBSD, by Dimitry Andric 508source tree : changed : zbuff source files moved to lib/deprecated 509 510v1.1.1 (Nov 2, 2016) 511New : command -M#, --memory=, --memlimit=, --memlimit-decompress= to limit allowed memory consumption 512New : doc/zstd_manual.html, by Przemyslaw Skibinski 513Improved : slightly better compression ratio at --ultra levels (>= 20) 514Improved : better memory usage when using streaming compression API, thanks to @Rogier-5 report 515Added : API : ZSTD_initCStream_usingCDict(), ZSTD_initDStream_usingDDict() (experimental section) 516Added : example/multiple_streaming_compression.c 517Changed : zstd_errors.h is now installed within /include (and replaces errors_public.h) 518Updated man page 519Fixed : zstd-small, zstd-compress and zstd-decompress compilation targets 520 521v1.1.0 (Sep 28, 2016) 522New : contrib/pzstd, parallel version of zstd, by Nick Terrell 523added : NetBSD install target (#338) 524Improved : speed for batches of small files 525Improved : speed of zlib wrapper, by Przemyslaw Skibinski 526Changed : libzstd on Windows supports legacy formats, by Christophe Chevalier 527Fixed : CLI -d output to stdout by default when input is stdin (#322) 528Fixed : CLI correctly detects console on Mac OS-X 529Fixed : CLI supports recursive mode `-r` on Mac OS-X 530Fixed : Legacy decoders use unified error codes, reported by benrg (#341), fixed by Przemyslaw Skibinski 531Fixed : compatibility with OpenBSD, reported by Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado (#319) 532Fixed : compatibility with Hurd, by Przemyslaw Skibinski (#365) 533Fixed : zstd-pgo, reported by octoploid (#329) 534 535v1.0.0 (Sep 1, 2016) 536Change Licensing, all project is now BSD, Copyright Facebook 537Small decompression speed improvement 538API : Streaming API supports legacy format 539API : ZDICT_getDictID(), ZSTD_sizeof_{CCtx, DCtx, CStream, DStream}(), ZSTD_setDStreamParameter() 540CLI supports legacy formats v0.4+ 541Fixed : compression fails on certain huge files, reported by Jesse McGrew 542Enhanced documentation, by Przemyslaw Skibinski 543 544v0.8.1 (Aug 18, 2016) 545New streaming API 546Changed : --ultra now enables levels beyond 19 547Changed : -i# now selects benchmark time in second 548Fixed : ZSTD_compress* can now compress > 4 GB in a single pass, reported by Nick Terrell 549Fixed : speed regression on specific patterns (#272) 550Fixed : support for Z_SYNC_FLUSH, by Dmitry Krot (#291) 551Fixed : ICC compilation, by Przemyslaw Skibinski 552 553v0.8.0 (Aug 2, 2016) 554Improved : better speed on clang and gcc -O2, thanks to Eric Biggers 555New : Build on FreeBSD and DragonFly, thanks to JrMarino 556Changed : modified API : ZSTD_compressEnd() 557Fixed : legacy mode with ZSTD_HEAPMODE=0, by Christopher Bergqvist 558Fixed : premature end of frame when zero-sized raw block, reported by Eric Biggers 559Fixed : large dictionaries (> 384 KB), reported by Ilona Papava 560Fixed : checksum correctly checked in single-pass mode 561Fixed : combined --test amd --rm, reported by Andreas M. Nilsson 562Modified : minor compression level adaptations 563Updated : compression format specification to v0.2.0 564changed : zstd.h moved to /lib directory 565 566v0.7.5 (Aug 1, 2016) 567Transition version, supporting decoding of v0.8.x 568 569v0.7.4 (Jul 17, 2016) 570Added : homebrew for Mac, by Daniel Cade 571Added : more examples 572Fixed : segfault when using small dictionaries, reported by Felix Handte 573Modified : default compression level for CLI is now 3 574Updated : specification, to v0.1.1 575 576v0.7.3 (Jul 9, 2016) 577New : compression format specification 578New : `--` separator, stating that all following arguments are file names. Suggested by Chip Turner. 579New : `ZSTD_getDecompressedSize()` 580New : OpenBSD target, by Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado 581New : `examples` directory 582fixed : dictBuilder using HC levels, reported by Bartosz Taudul 583fixed : legacy support from ZSTD_decompress_usingDDict(), reported by Felix Handte 584fixed : multi-blocks decoding with intermediate uncompressed blocks, reported by Greg Slazinski 585modified : removed "mem.h" and "error_public.h" dependencies from "zstd.h" (experimental section) 586modified : legacy functions no longer need magic number 587 588v0.7.2 (Jul 4, 2016) 589fixed : ZSTD_decompressBlock() using multiple consecutive blocks. Reported by Greg Slazinski. 590fixed : potential segfault on very large files (many gigabytes). Reported by Chip Turner. 591fixed : CLI displays system error message when destination file cannot be created (#231). Reported by Chip Turner. 592 593v0.7.1 (Jun 23, 2016) 594fixed : ZBUFF_compressEnd() called multiple times with too small `dst` buffer, reported by Christophe Chevalier 595fixed : dictBuilder fails if first sample is too small, reported by Руслан Ковалёв 596fixed : corruption issue, reported by cj 597modified : checksum enabled by default in command line mode 598 599v0.7.0 (Jun 17, 2016) 600New : Support for directory compression, using `-r`, thanks to Przemyslaw Skibinski 601New : Command `--rm`, to remove source file after successful de/compression 602New : Visual build scripts, by Christophe Chevalier 603New : Support for Sparse File-systems (do not use space for zero-filled sectors) 604New : Frame checksum support 605New : Support pass-through mode (when using `-df`) 606API : more efficient Dictionary API : `ZSTD_compress_usingCDict()`, `ZSTD_decompress_usingDDict()` 607API : create dictionary files from custom content, by Giuseppe Ottaviano 608API : support for custom malloc/free functions 609New : controllable Dictionary ID 610New : Support for skippable frames 611 612v0.6.1 (May 13, 2016) 613New : zlib wrapper API, thanks to Przemyslaw Skibinski 614New : Ability to compile compressor / decompressor separately 615Changed : new lib directory structure 616Fixed : Legacy codec v0.5 compatible with dictionary decompression 617Fixed : Decoder corruption error (#173) 618Fixed : null-string roundtrip (#176) 619New : benchmark mode can select directory as input 620Experimental : midipix support, VMS support 621 622v0.6.0 (Apr 13, 2016) 623Stronger high compression modes, thanks to Przemyslaw Skibinski 624API : ZSTD_getFrameParams() provides size of decompressed content 625New : highest compression modes require `--ultra` command to fully unleash their capacity 626Fixed : zstd cli return error code > 0 and removes dst file artifact when decompression fails, thanks to Chip Turner 627 628v0.5.1 (Feb 18, 2016) 629New : Optimal parsing => Very high compression modes, thanks to Przemyslaw Skibinski 630Changed : Dictionary builder integrated into libzstd and zstd cli 631Changed (!) : zstd cli now uses "multiple input files" as default mode. See `zstd -h`. 632Fix : high compression modes for big-endian platforms 633New : zstd cli : `-t` | `--test` command 634 635v0.5.0 (Feb 5, 2016) 636New : dictionary builder utility 637Changed : streaming & dictionary API 638Improved : better compression of small data 639 640v0.4.7 (Jan 22, 2016) 641Improved : small compression speed improvement in HC mode 642Changed : `zstd_decompress.c` has ZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT to 0 by default 643fix : bt search bug 644 645v0.4.6 (Jan 13, 2016) 646fix : fast compression mode on Windows 647New : cmake configuration file, thanks to Artyom Dymchenko 648Improved : high compression mode on repetitive data 649New : block-level API 650New : ZSTD_duplicateCCtx() 651 652v0.4.5 (Dec 18, 2015) 653new : -m/--multiple : compress/decompress multiple files 654 655v0.4.4 (Dec 14, 2015) 656Fixed : high compression modes for Windows 32 bits 657new : external dictionary API extended to buffered mode and accessible through command line 658new : windows DLL project, thanks to Christophe Chevalier 659 660v0.4.3 (Dec 7, 2015) 661new : external dictionary API 662new : zstd-frugal 663 664v0.4.2 (Dec 2, 2015) 665Generic minor improvements for small blocks 666Fixed : big-endian compatibility, by Peter Harris (#85) 667 668v0.4.1 (Dec 1, 2015) 669Fixed : ZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT=0 build mode (reported by Luben) 670removed `zstd.c` 671 672v0.4.0 (Nov 29, 2015) 673Command line utility compatible with high compression levels 674Removed zstdhc => merged into zstd 675Added : ZBUFF API (see zstd_buffered.h) 676Rolling buffer support 677 678v0.3.6 (Nov 10, 2015) 679small blocks params 680 681v0.3.5 (Nov 9, 2015) 682minor generic compression improvements 683 684v0.3.4 (Nov 6, 2015) 685Faster fast cLevels 686 687v0.3.3 (Nov 5, 2015) 688Small compression ratio improvement 689 690v0.3.2 (Nov 2, 2015) 691Fixed Visual Studio 692 693v0.3.1 (Nov 2, 2015) 694Small compression ratio improvement 695 696v0.3 (Oct 30, 2015) 697HC mode : compression levels 2-26 698 699v0.2.2 (Oct 28, 2015) 700Fix : Visual Studio 2013 & 2015 release compilation, by Christophe Chevalier 701 702v0.2.1 (Oct 24, 2015) 703Fix : Read errors, advanced fuzzer tests, by Hanno Böck 704 705v0.2.0 (Oct 22, 2015) 706**Breaking format change** 707Faster decompression speed 708Can still decode v0.1 format 709 710v0.1.3 (Oct 15, 2015) 711fix uninitialization warning, reported by Evan Nemerson 712 713v0.1.2 (Sep 11, 2015) 714frame concatenation support 715 716v0.1.1 (Aug 27, 2015) 717fix compression bug 718detects write-flush errors 719 720v0.1.0 (Aug 25, 2015) 721first release 722