zstd-1.5.4

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

v1.5.4 (Feb 2023)

• perf: +20% faster huffman decompression for targets that can't compile x64 assembly
• perf: up to +10% faster streaming compression at levels 1-2
• perf: +4-13% for levels 5-12 by optimizing function generation
• pref: +3-11% compression speed for arm target
• perf: +5-30% faster dictionary compression at levels 1-4
• perf: +10-20% cold dict compression speed by prefetching CDict tables
• perf: +1% faster compression by removing a branch in ZSTD_fast_noDict
• perf: Small compression ratio improvements in high compression mode
• perf: small speed improvement by better detecting STATIC_BMI2 for clang
• perf: Improved streaming performance when ZSTD_c_stableInBuffer is set
• cli: Asynchronous I/O for improved cli speed
• cli: Change zstdless behavior to align with zless
• cli: Keep original file if -c or --stdout is given
• cli: Keep original files when result is concatenated into a single output with -o
• cli: Preserve Permissions and Ownership of regular files
• cli: Print zlib/lz4/lzma library versions with -vv
• cli: Print checksum value for single frame files with -lv
• cli: Print dictID when present with -lv
• cli: when stderr is *not* the console, disable status updates, but preserve final summary
• cli: support --best and --no-name in gzip compatibility mode
• cli: support for posix high resolution timer clock_gettime(), for improved benchmark accuracy
• cli: improved help/usage (-h, -H) formatting
• cli: Fix better handling of bogus numeric values
• cli: Fix input consists of multiple files _and_ stdin
• cli: Fix tiny files passthrough
• cli: Fix for -r on empty directory
• cli: Fix empty string as argument for --output-dir-*
• cli: Fix decompression memory usage reported by -vv --long
• cli: Fix infinite loop when empty input is passed to trainer
• cli: Fix --adapt doesn't work when --no-progress is also set
• api: Support for Block-Level Sequence Producer
• api: Support for in-place decompression
• api: New ZSTD_CCtx_setCParams() function, set all parameters defined in a ZSTD_compressionParameters structure
• api: Streaming decompression detects incorrect header ID sooner
• api: Window size resizing optimization for edge case
• api: More accurate error codes for busy-loop scenarios
• api: Fix limit overflow in compressBound and decompressBound
• api: Deprecate several advanced experimental functions: streaming
• bug: Fix corruption that rarely occurs in 32-bit mode with wlog=25
• bug: Fix for block-splitter
• bug: Fixes for Sequence Compression API
• bug: Fix leaking thread handles on Windows
• bug: Fix timing issues with cmake/meson builds
• build: Allow user to select legacy level for cmake
• build: Enable legacy support by default in cmake
• build: Meson build script improvements
• build: Add aarch64 to supported architectures for zstd_trace
• build: support AIX architecture
• build: Fix ZSTD_LIB_MINIFY build macro, which now reduces static library size by half
• build: Fix Windows issues with Multithreading translation layer
• build: Fix cmake script
• doc: Updated man page, providing more details for --train mode
• doc: Add decompressor errata document
• misc: Enable Intel CET
• misc: Fix contrib/ seekable format
• misc: Improve speed of the one-file library generator

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit c6550e11c86cf253a48910ede162a962a7d6b08d

Update to iana-etc-20230202.
Update to zstd-1.5.4.
Update to Python3-3.11.2.
Update to e2fsprogs-1.47.0.
Update to dbus-1.14.6.
Update to linux-6.1.11.
Update to libcap-2.67.
Update to bc-6.2.4.