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Zlib 1.4 Released With More Than One Dozen Security Fixes

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Zlib 1.4, a widely used open-source data compression library, has been released with more than a dozen security fixes. Because zlib is embedded in countless operating systems, applications, and network services, teams building on it should check their dependencies and plan upgrades to close known vulnerabilities.

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