zlibb Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library (Also Free, Not to Mention Unencumbered by Patents) (Not Related to the Linux zlibc Compressing File-IO Library) Welcome to the zlib home page web pages originally created by Greg Roelofs and maintained by Mark Adler: If this page seems suspiciously similar to the PNG Home Page rest assured that the similarity is completely coincidental. No, really: zlib was written by Jean-loup Gailly (compression) and Mark Adler (decompression). Current release: zlib 1.211 January 15, 2017 Version 1.2.11 has these key improvements over 1.2.10: Fix deflate stored bug when pulling last block from window Permit immediate deflateParams changes before any deflate input Due to the bug fixes, any installations of 1.2.9 or 1.2.10 should be immediately replaced with 1.2.11. Version 1.2.10 has these key improvements over 1.2.9: Fix bug in deflate_stored() for zero-length input Fix bug in gzwrite.€ that produced corrupt = files Version 1.2.9 has these key improvements over 1.2.8: gzip