ZLib
A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library. (by madler)
Minizip-ng
Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution. (by nmoinvaz)
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| ZLib | Minizip-ng | |
|---|---|---|
| 49 | - | |
| 5,278 | 1,160 | |
| - | 2.1% | |
| 8.9 | 8.0 | |
| 10 days ago | 24 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ZLib
Posts with mentions or reviews of ZLib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-25.
- Zlib 1.3.1 Out
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Vulnerability found after scanning debian 12 bookworm VM
A fix has been checked into the upstream git repo: https://github.com/madler/zlib/pull/843 but a release has not yet been made including it.
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ZLib VS jdeflate - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 25 Nov 2023
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CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome)
So the real issue here is that the lack of tree validation before the tree construction, I believe. I'm surprised that this check was not yet implemented (I actually checked libwebp to make sure that I was missing one). Given this blind spot, an automated test based on the domain knowledge is likely useless to catch this bug.
[1] https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/master/examples/enough.c
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Notes: Advanced Node.js Concepts by Stephen Grider
In the source code of the Node.js opensource project, lib folder contains JavaScript code, mostly wrappers over C++ and function definitions. On the contrary, src folder contains C++ implementations of the functions, which pulls dependencies from the V8 project, the libuv project, the zlib project, the llhttp project, and many more - which are all placed at the deps folder.
- Zlib 1.3 · madler/zlib 09155ea
- Zlib 1.3 – A Spiffy yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library
- Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01
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Dear Pirates Donate as much as you can
Seeing the text in red got me thinking for a moment, "wow, didn't realize pirates had such love for an open-source compression library"
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Updated packages: do Arch devs update/build the original source as is or...
cd "${srcdir}/zlib-$pkgver/contrib/minizip" make install DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/zlib-$pkgver/LICENSE" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/minizip/LICENSE" # https://github.com/madler/zlib/pull/229 rm "${pkgdir}/usr/include/minizip/crypt.h"
Minizip-ng
Posts with mentions or reviews of Minizip-ng.
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We haven't tracked posts mentioning Minizip-ng yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ZLib and Minizip-ng you can also consider the following projects:
zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
zlib-ng - zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems.
LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor
LZMA - (Unofficial) Git mirror of LZMA SDK releases
Onion - C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications.
brotli - Brotli compression format
smaz - Small strings compression library