Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing on Gzip, ZSTD(phoronix.com) The Linux kernel EFI Zboot code for carrying the Linux kernel image for EFI systems in compressed form is doing away with its "compression library museum" of offering Gzip, LZ4, LZMA, LZO, XZ, and Zstd compression options to instead just focus on Gzip and Zstd compression support.
BC7 optimal solid-color blocks(wordpress.com) That’s right, it’s another texture compression blog post! I’ll keep it short. By “solid-color block”, I mean a 4×4 block of pixels that all have the same color. ASTC has a dedicated encoding for these (“void-extent blocks”), BC7 does not. Therefore we have an 8-bit RGBA input color and want to figure out how to best encode that color with the encoding options we have.
PeaZip 10.0.0 Released(peazip.github.io) PeaZip 10.0.0 comes with a revamped GUI, providing more icon sizes, updated Themes and compression pre-sets, and better organized menus.
SQLite Transparent Compression(github.com/phiresky) Extension for sqlite that provides transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for sqlite. This basically allows you to compress entries in a sqlite database almost as well as if you were compressing the whole DB file, but while retaining random access.