Zstandard
Also known as Zstd, RFC 8478, RFC 8878
Zstandard is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook. Zstd is the corresponding reference implementation in C, released as open-source software on 31 August 2016.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Zstandard
- Software.author
- Yann Collet
- Software.developer
- Yann Collet, Nick Terrell, Przemysław Skibiński
- Software.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Data compression
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.license
- BSD-3-Clause or GPL-2.0-or-later (dual-licensed)
- Software.logo
- Zstandard logo.png
- Software.logo_size
- 110px
- Software.platform
- Portable
- File format.name
- Zstandard Dictionary
- File format.extension
- .zst
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Zstandard is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook. Zstd is the corresponding reference implementation in C, released as open-source software on 31 August 2016.
The algorithm was published in 2018 as , which also defines an associated media type "application/zstd", filename extension "zst", and HTTP content encoding "zstd".