Unmodified sources for zlib-1.2.5 have been included with Mono, this is used to support compression and uncompression in older Linux systems that might have shipped older versions of zlib and to reduce dependencies. They were imported in Oct 22 2010. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated to 1.2.11 July 2019 Sources of truth: https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/zlib1g (or newer, but you get the idea) https://packages.debian.org/stretch/zlib1g-dev (or newer, but you get the idea) https://github.com/madler/zlib/tree/master https://github.com/madler/zlib/tree/develop mono commit b5a0b8e0a8bb2fe790dc2f34a1a846f8efc470db (57ea99c5011aa2d9ce2be308041aafe76a469e5c) Possibly other mono commits. Debian matches master Ubuntu 1804 has one commit from devel and one extra function for compat.