Linux Firmware Update Utility Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression for Future Releases - 9to5Linux
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Linux firmware update utility fwupd is moving away from XZ Utils and will use zstd (Zstandard) for future releases for compressing metadata.

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

The devs are also considering enforcing signed commits in an attempt to prevent supply chain issues like the XZ backdoor.

Edit: note for downvotes: I understand some of you disagree with the need for a switch. However, are you downvoting the news itself (i.e. shooting the messenger?)

  • bizdelnick
    231·
    6 months ago

    Look at what libs zstd is linked to. You’ll be surprised.

    • Laser@feddit.de
      11·
      6 months ago

      Here, it’s libzstd.so, libc and glibc, and libzstd only libc and glibc. What do you mean? At first I thought you were implying an liblzma dependency, but there’s no such thing, at least can’t see it.

      • bizdelnick
        7·
        6 months ago
        % libtree /usr/bin/zstd
/usr/bin/zstd 
├── libz.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
├── liblz4.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
└── liblzma.so.5 [ld.so.conf]
% lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release:        12
Codename:       bookworm
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        • Laser@feddit.de
          11·
          6 months ago

          Maybe Debian’s goal is to make liblzma a dependency of everything possible? It wasn’t a standard dependency of OpenSSH either, but rather something they patched in. ;)

          • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
            3·
            6 months ago

            Canonical is delaying Noble by more than a week so they can rebuild every binary in a clean environment, just in case the build process itself was affected.

          • bizdelnick
            2·
            6 months ago
            % xz --version 
xz (XZ Utils) 5.4.1
liblzma 5.4.1
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            I hope so.