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.NET 11 adds Zstandard (Zstd) compression support with new ZstandardStream

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.NET 11 introduces ZstandardStream, adding Zstandard (Zstd) compression support to the .NET ecosystem alongside existing options like DeflateStream, GZipStream, ZLibStream, and BrotliStream. Zstandard is a compression algorithm originally published by Facebook in 2015, designed to offer compression ratios comparable to DEFLATE but with faster performance, especially for decompression. It supports tunable compression levels ranging from -7 (fastest) to 22 (slowest).

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Zstandard was designed to give a compression ratio comparable to that of the DEFLATE algorithm (developed in 1991 and used in the original ZIP and gzip programs), but faster, especially for decompression.

It is tunable with compression levels ranging from negative 7 (fastest)[6] to 22 (slowest in comp

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.NET has had DeflateStream, GZipStream, ZLibStream, and BrotliStream for a while now. In .NET 11, a new one joins the party: ZstandardStream. And now we get to say "Zstd" in .NET.

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