This new package provides a middleware for compressing HTTP responses with Zstandard, Brotli, or Gzip. It is like Django’s GZipMiddleware with extra support for modern compression algorithms.
See the announcement post:
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Cool, will start using this. Would be nice to have the zstandard part in core at some point.
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OOoo. Sounds good. I hope, what this middleware has a rich documentation. Then i want to use this too.
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Hello @adamchainz tks for your contribution. If im using brotli on nginx and whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage on my django settings.py. Are the results the same as the new middleware?
Checking your site i saw that the new middlware requires python 3.14 and brotli installed at the server.
My scenario uses separate containers to deploy, so only nginx has brotli. I mean the app (django)container dont.
So I came to ask 
hi 
from the blog post:
For Django projects, many deployment situations will let you enable response compression at the web server or CDN level. But there are still cases where you may not have that option or it’s inconvenient, such as with some PaaS providers. In such situations, you can use Django’s built-in GZipMiddleware
so it’s for when you don’t have compression in nginx level