xz
brew install xzGeneral-purpose data compression with high compression ratio
License: 0BSD AND GPL-2.0-or-later
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/xz.json
Formula code: xz.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 5.8.4 |
Binaries:
lzcat,
lzcmp,
lzdiff,
lzegrep,
lzfgrep,
lzgrep,
lzless,
lzma,
lzmadec,
lzmainfo,
lzmore,
unlzma,
unxz,
xz,
xzcat,
xzcmp,
xzdec,
xzdiff,
xzegrep,
xzfgrep,
xzgrep,
xzless,
xzmore
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 3,177,987 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 128,550,833 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 340,272 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 9.3× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-13T00:49:41Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-14 to 2026-11-13. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 340,234 | 764,456 | 3,706,229 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 38 | 87 | 507 |
| Installs on Request | 42,817 | 111,652 | 592,724 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 30 | 75 | 466 |
| Build Errors | 475 |