Any idea when zstd support will arrive?

# ktor

[Stefan Oltmann]

Any idea when zstd support will arrive?

[Emre]

Follow and support:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/projects/KT/issues/KTOR-7075/Zstd-support https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/pull/5031

[simon.vergauwen]

Hey @Stefan Oltmann & @Emre,
Just wanted to let you know I raised this, and it's being prioritised to get merged asap. It should get released soon-ish. I'll discuss with the team if this can go in a patch release, or needs to be a minor. (so will get released in October, or December depending on that).

[Stefan Oltmann]

Nice 🙂

[Matt Nelson]

Hey @simon.vergauwen

Before you cut a release of ktor, I noted some pretty serious concerns on the PR which are definitely going to cause problems (especially for Android consumers). See: https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/pull/5031#issuecomment-3690395630

In addition to those issues, ztsd-jni calls Native.load() statically upon referencing of ZstdCompressCtx and ZstdDecompressCtx which can throw several exceptions. The PR does not address those exceptions, nor does it have any sort of pre-loading logic to see if the native library is even available and loaded at runtime.

[simon.vergauwen]

Thank you for brining this to my attention @Matt Nelson. I'll raise this with the team. Due to the holiday weeks we postponed the release until 16th of January.
Happy holidays everyone!