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Google’s Brotli 1.2 Released After Two Years with Faster Compression
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After two years of development, Google has released Brotli 1.2, a significant update to its widely used open-source compression library for Linux systems, web servers, and browsers. The previous version, 1.1, dates back to August 2023, making this release a long-awaited refresh for one of the most efficient compression tools in modern computing.
In the security area, the Python bindings gain a new Decompressor::can_accept_more_data method and an optional output_buffer_limit parameter in Decompressor::process. These help mitigate scenarios in which untrusted input could produce unexpectedly large decompressed output.