gzip: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for gzip from Free Software Foundation, Inc.

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-11

What is gzip?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementGZip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression. The program was created by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, and intended for use by GNU (the "g" is from "GNU"). Version 0.1 was first publicly released on 31 October 1992, and version 1.0 followed in February 1993.
 

The entire lifecycle of gzip

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of gzip. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
gzip (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) release, version and end-of-life information
Xgzip (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product gzip (Free Software Foundation, Inc.)
 

Facts and figures about gzip

Product
gzip
Vendor
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Latest version
1.14
Number of releases
12
Number of versions
14
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
11
Licence
GNU General Public License v3
Licence details
https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip
 
 

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