Gzip 1.15 Released With Many Bug Fixes For Issues Present Since Its Inception

Gzip 1.15 has been released, succeeding Gzip 1.14 from April 2025, with over one hundred commits primarily fixing long-standing bugs. Fixes include a file-deletion race condition, uninitialized memory usage, a buffer overflow when decompressing LZH files after Z files, and corruption issues in LZH decompression that have existed since gzip's inception. The release also adds proper locale support instead of always assuming the C locale, and drops support for FreeBSD 4.11, HP-UX 11.00, Minix 3.1.8, and Windows 8.1 via MinGW without UCRT.

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