Zstandard in the base system is outdated

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The Zstandard version, in the base system, is outdated compared with the ports version:

> /usr/bin/zstd -V
*** zstd command line interface 64-bits v1.3.4, by Yann Collet ***
> /usr/local/bin/zstd -V
*** zstd command line interface 64-bits v1.4.4, by Yann Collet ***

A curiosity: why NomadBSD needs Zstandard in the base system ?

Thanks

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Ops! Answered by myself.
The outdated Zstandard is in the FreeBSD base system.
Sorry for the noise.

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If your question was still ‘why is it in the base system?’ then my understanding is back in 2017 Allan Jude brought it into FreeBSD as he was working on a proof of concept implementation of getting zstd compression into zfs. It is now available for coredumps too as can be found in dumpon(8) and savecore(8).

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