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xz compresses 25% better than bz2, reducing download times and server load. It also decompresses twice as fast, however compression needs four times as long. Current Linux archives also include the UID/GID of whatever user account happens to be used for building by the blender.org infrastructure. If someone then installs these archives as root e.g. to /usr/local/... and doesn't pay full attention the files remain owned by a regular user, which is a serious security issue. This patch fixes that by setting the UID/GID to 0.

xz compresses 25% better than bz2, reducing download times and server load. The numbers: blender-2.80-linux-glibc217-x86_64.tar.bz2 (release): 134 886 174 bytes with xz: 96 181 604 bytes (-28.7%) with xz -9: 93 871 548 bytes (-30.4%) blender-2.81-7c1fbe24ca33-linux-glibc217-x86_64.tar.bz2 (beta): 173 600 363 bytes with xz: 133 100 664 bytes (-23.3%) with xz -9: 129 534 124 bytes (-25.4%) xz also decompresses more than twice as fast as bz2, however compression needs four times as long (on my 7-year-old laptop 3-4 minutes instead of <1). Also xz has become more common than bz2, e.g. Debian/Ubuntu deb packages have been xz-compressed for years, so the dpkg package manager as well as systemd and grub all depend on liblzma being present, whereas bz2 is becoming more and more optional. Current Linux archives also include the UID/GID of whatever user account happens to be used for building by the blender.org infrastructure. If someone then installs these archives as root e.g. to /usr/local/... and doesn't pay full attention the files remain owned by a regular user, which is a serious security issue. This patch fixes that by setting the UID/GID to 0.

xz compresses 25% better than bz2, reducing download times and server load. It also decompresses twice as fasThe numbers: blender-2.80-linux-glibc217-x86_64.tar.bz2 (release): 134 886 174 bytes with xz: 96 181 604 bytes (-28.7%) with xz -9: 93 871 548 bytes (-30.4%) blender-2.81-7c1fbe24ca33-linux-glibc217-x86_64.tar.bz2 (beta): 173 600 363 bytes with xz: 133 100 664 bytes (-23.3%) with xz -9: 129 534 124 bytes (-25.4%) xz also decompresses more than twice as fast as bz2, however compression needs four times as long (on my 7-year-old laptop 3-4 minutes instead of <1). Also xz has become more common than bz2, e.g. Debian/Ubuntu deb packages have been xz-compressed for years, so the dpkg package manager as well as systemd and grub all depend on liblzma being present, however compression needs four times as longwhereas bz2 is becoming more and more optional. Current Linux archives also include the UID/GID of whatever user account happens to be used for building by the blender.org infrastructure. If someone then installs these archives as root e.g. to /usr/local/... and doesn't pay full attention the files remain owned by a regular user, which is a serious security issue. This patch fixes that by setting the UID/GID to 0.