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zstd-nginx-module: Maintained, Tested and Packaged
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Technical Briefing: Maintained zstd Module for NGINX — Streaming Fixes, Packaging, and Audit Response Problem Statement The original tokers/zstd-nginx-module (by Alex Zhang) has not seen a release since 2023 and carries bugs in its streaming path that silently truncate large responses. Over the buffer size, the filter could close the zstd frame over unconsumed input, delivering a valid but short file with no error and no log line — a failure mode that passes header assertions and is invisible w…