Did you notice? With the new queue-runner we are compressing all nars with zstd 19.
We'll start publishing nixexprs.tar.zst tarballs soon and hopefully announce the discontinuation of the nixexprs.tar.xz in one year.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/535272
#nixos #zstd
hexa-
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2026-06-25 13:59:22 UTC
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2026-06-25 13:59:22 UTCEvent JSON
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