tukaani-project/xz
XZ Utils
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
Loading star history...
Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 46 days ago, with 62 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 33% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a general-purpose data compression library and command-line tools using the .xz file format with LZMA2 compression.
- Delivers higher compression ratios than gzip with reasonable decompression speed and supports multithreaded compression.
- Use for compressing software packages to reduce distribution size while maintaining fast decompression on client machines.
- Use for embedding efficient compression in C applications requiring a zlib-like API for easy integration.
- Use for compressing executable files by chaining filters like BCJ with LZMA2 to improve compression ratios.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Other
GitHub could not identify this license; read the LICENSE file before depending on it.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- License not identified by GitHub; read the LICENSE file before depending on it.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
1.2. Documentation for command-line tools
1.3. Documentation for liblzma
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
276+22
Open issues
24+2
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| mattpocock/skills | 315.4K | +8.7K | 35 | 7 days ago |
| stablyai/orca | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | today |
| obra/superpowers | 313.1K | +4.5K | 53 | 2 days ago |
| Panniantong/Agent-Reach | 109.3K | +3.0K | 60 | 4 days ago |
| tukaani-project/xz | 1.7K | — | 52 | 46 days ago |
| Category median | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | — |
Discover Repositories
Search across tracked repositories by name or description