Project status

[Rogdham]

This repository is a transfer of the original repository of pyzstd. I have contacted Ma Lin after the deletion of the animalize GitHub account, so that the code source of the project is not lost (although of course most of it is in the source distributions on PyPi) and made public again.

In fact, Ma Lin sent me some more code that was committed but never published on PyPi.

My aim with this repository is first and foremost for the source code to find a home again so that it could be maintained. The first steps will be to make a new release 0.15.10 including Ma Lin's latest changes.

Your patience will be appreciated while the transfer is in progress as some time will be needed to set everything up.

[Rogdham]

I'm locking this issue to be able to pin it and redirect people to it while limiting noise at the same time.

So feel free to subscribe to it, I will only update it when significant steps are being made!

If you need to contact me in the meanwhile, you can open an issue or find my email address in git commits.

[Rogdham]

Version 0.15.10 of pyzstd has been released!

No changes were made on top of latest (previously unreleased) code from Ma Lin, except for updating the configuration files (changing old repository URL, etc.).

This concludes the transfer of the project from Ma Lin's to its new home 🎉

[Rogdham]

There is an effort by Emma Smith to include Zstandard as part of the standard library: PEP 784.

As the maintainer of pyzstd, I support this initiative and worked with Emma already.

The future of pyzstd will be revisited once/if the effort succeed.

[Rogdham]

Zstandard support will be part of stdlib in Python 3.14 with the compression.zstd module. That module is very close to the API of pyzstd, as the implementation was adapted from pyzstd's codebase.

I am planning some changes in pyzstd as a result; I have opened an issue to share details and gather feedback.