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Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library. Version 2.32.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-01.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install isa-l

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add isa-l

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · isa-l · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install isa-l

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · isa-l · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#isa-l

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/is/isa-l/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S isa-l

Arch Linux sync databases · isa-l · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install igzip

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · igzip · source: download.opensuse.org

overview

Package summary

Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library

Commands and aliases

  • igzip

history

Project history and usage

Intel ISA-L, the Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library, is a collection of optimized low-level routines for storage software. The upstream README describes erasure coding, CRC, RAID parity, deflate-compatible compression, and inflate-compatible decompression, while the Homebrew package exposes the `igzip` command-line tool from that library.

Project history

The public intel/isa-l repository was created in 2016, but the project represents Intel's earlier storage-acceleration work around data protection, compression, and integrity primitives. The official API PDF notes the first open release of the erasure-code unit and documents `igzip` as a user program for compression and decompression.

ISA-L evolved as a performance library closely tied to processor instruction sets. Its release notes and wiki track additions for CPU features, CRC and erasure-code performance, build-system changes, and architecture support such as PowerPC fixes and riscv64 feature detection.

Adoption history

ISA-L spread through storage systems because erasure coding and checksum throughput are central to distributed filesystems, object stores, backup systems, and data pipelines. The input metadata shows packaging across Homebrew, Alpine, Fedora, Nix, Arch, and openSUSE, with some distributions exposing the user-facing tool as igzip.

The package is also visible in higher-level systems: Hadoop documentation describes HDFS erasure coding as able to leverage Intel ISA-L for accelerated encoding and decoding calculations.

How it is used

Library users link against ISA-L for Reed-Solomon erasure coding, CRC functions, RAID parity, and deflate/inflate routines. Package users often encounter it through `igzip`, which gives a command-line entry point into ISA-L's fast deflate-compatible compression path.

Why package nerds care

ISA-L is package-nerd material because it packages CPU-specific assembly and runtime dispatch behind ordinary distribution names. Maintainers care about NASM versions, architecture coverage, ABI expectations, and whether consumers get the accelerated path or silently fall back to slower code.

It also demonstrates a common packaging split: the real value is a library used indirectly by storage software, while the obvious executable in a package database is a compression utility.

Timeline

  • 2016: Public intel/isa-l GitHub repository created.
  • 2019: Release notes document CRC and erasure-code performance work in the v2.27-v2.29 era.
  • 2020: v2.30 appears in the upstream release wiki.
  • 2024: v2.31 release notes document API and platform maintenance.
  • 2026: v2.32 release notes add CMake work and initial riscv64 support.

Related projects

  • ISA-L is related to zlib-compatible compression tools, Reed-Solomon erasure-code libraries, RAID implementations, Hadoop HDFS erasure coding, Ceph erasure-code plugins, and Intel's ISA-L Crypto sibling project.

Sources

  • The official API PDF documents open erasure-code release context and igzip.
  • The official README and Intel overview describe the library scope and storage-acceleration purpose.
  • The upstream wiki and GitHub releases provide release chronology and feature evolution.

security posture

Risk level: green

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • library-like package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:library-like

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
igzipcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version2.32.1
manager updated2026-07-01
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv2.32.1

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:isa-l
Version2.32.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/isa-l
Homepagehttps://github.com/intel/isa-l
Repositoryhttps://github.com/intel/isa-l
Upstream docshttps://github.com/intel/isa-l#readme
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Source archivehttps://github.com/intel/isa-l/archive/refs/tags/v2.32.1.tar.gz
Last updated2026-07-01T10:12:00Z
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciesautoconf, automake, libtool
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameisa-l
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

isa-l

nix profile install nixpkgs#isa-l
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/is/isa-l/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
apk95%

isa-l 2.31.0-r1

Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

sudo apk add isa-l
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: isa-l
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: isa-l from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

isa-l-dev 2.31.0-r1

Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (development files)

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

sudo apk add isa-l-dev
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: isa-l
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: isa-l-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

isa-l-doc 2.31.0-r1

Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (documentation)

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

sudo apk add isa-l-doc
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: isa-l
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: isa-l-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

isa-l-static 2.31.0-r1

Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (static library)

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

sudo apk add isa-l-static
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: isa-l
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: isa-l-static from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

isa-l 2.32.0-1.fc45

Intel(R) Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

sudo dnf install isa-l
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: isa-l
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: isa-l from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

isa-l-devel 2.32.0-1.fc45

Intel(R) Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library - devel files

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

sudo dnf install isa-l-devel
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: isa-l
  • 3 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: isa-l-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

isa-l-tools 2.32.0-1.fc45

Intel(R) Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library - tool

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

sudo dnf install isa-l-tools
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: isa-l
  • 4 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: isa-l-tools from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

isa-l 2.32.0-1

Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

sudo pacman -S isa-l
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: isa-l from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

igzip 2.32.0-2.2

gzip backed by the ISA-L deflate library

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

sudo zypper install igzip
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Productivity/Archiving/Compression
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: isa-l
  • 2 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: igzip from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

isa-l-devel 2.32.0-2.2

Development files for the Intel Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

sudo zypper install isa-l-devel
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: isa-l
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: isa-l-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

libisal2 2.32.0-2.2

Intel Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library

https://github.com/intel/isa-l

sudo zypper install libisal2
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: System/Libraries
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: isa-l
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Isa L
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libisal2 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

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