Linux Firmware Update Utility Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression for Future Releases
The devs are also considering enforcing signed commits in an attempt to prevent supply chain issues like the XZ backdoor.
Edit: note for downvotes: I understand some of you disagree with the need for a switch. However, are you downvoting the news itself (i.e. shooting the messenger?)
Bookworm was unaffected by this though, right?
Canonical is delaying Noble by more than a week so they can rebuild every binary in a clean environment, just in case the build process itself was affected.
% xz --version xz (XZ Utils) 5.4.1 liblzma 5.4.1 %I hope so.