For applications that require data compression, the functions in this
module allow compression and decompression, using the zlib library.
The zlib library has its own home page at
-\url{http://www.gzip.org/zlib/}. Version 1.1.3 is the
-most recent version as of September 2000; use a later version if one
+\url{http://www.gzip.org/zlib/}. Version 1.2.1 is the
+most recent version as of October 2004; use a later version if one
is available. There are known incompatibilities between the Python
module and earlier versions of the zlib library.