How to install zlib-ng in CentOS/RHEL 9 (aarch64)

Drop-in replacement of zlib with massive performance improvements

License: zlib Vendor: GetPageSpeed LLC https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng

Install

sudo dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo dnf -y install zlib-ng

Description

zlib-ng is a zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems. It is a drop-in replacement (ZLIB_COMPAT mode) for the standard zlib library, providing substantial performance improvements through SIMD acceleration (SSE2/SSSE3/SSE4/AVX2/AVX512 on x86_64; NEON on aarch64) and modern deflate/inflate strategies. This package installs into an isolated directory and uses ld.so.conf.d to take precedence over the system zlib at runtime, without replacing it on disk. Existing installs of the deprecated intel-zlib and cloudflare-zlib packages are obsoleted on upgrade.

RPMs

zlib-ng-2.3.3-1.el9.aarch64 [80 KiB]

Danila Vershinin (2026-04-22) — - Initial packaging of zlib-ng as drop-in replacement for system zlib. · - Obsoletes the archived intel-zlib (Intel archived 2024-03) and deprecated · cloudflare-zlib (Cloudflare steers users to zlib-rs) packages.