diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 92d87639d3..d19aa7bef8 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'com.google.guava:guava:31.0.1-jre'
     // compression of messages between client and server
     implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.22'
-    implementation 'org.tukaani:xz:1.9'
+    implementation 'com.github.luben:zstd-jni:1.5.5-3'
     // intellij forms runtime
     implementation 'com.jetbrains.intellij.java:java-gui-forms-rt:223.7571.182'
     // layout for forms created in code
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/rptools/clientserver/simple/AbstractConnection.java b/src/main/java/net/rptools/clientserver/simple/AbstractConnection.java
index 635d865991..c57208c089 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/rptools/clientserver/simple/AbstractConnection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/rptools/clientserver/simple/AbstractConnection.java
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 import net.rptools.clientserver.ActivityListener;
 import net.rptools.clientserver.ActivityListener.Direction;
 import net.rptools.clientserver.ActivityListener.State;
-import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.lzma.LZMACompressorInputStream;
-import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.lzma.LZMACompressorOutputStream;
+import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.zstandard.ZstdCompressorInputStream;
+import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.zstandard.ZstdCompressorOutputStream;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public synchronized void addMessage(Object channel, byte[] message) {
   private byte[] compress(byte[] message) {
     try {
       ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(message.length);
-      OutputStream ios = new LZMACompressorOutputStream(baos);
+      OutputStream ios = new ZstdCompressorOutputStream(baos);
       ios.write(message);
       ios.close();
 
@@ -96,10 +96,9 @@ private byte[] compress(byte[] message) {
   }
 
   private byte[] inflate(byte[] compressedMessage) {
-    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(compressedMessage.length);
     InputStream bytesIn = new ByteArrayInputStream(compressedMessage);
     try {
-      InputStream ios = new LZMACompressorInputStream(bytesIn);
+      InputStream ios = new ZstdCompressorInputStream(bytesIn);
       var decompressed = ios.readAllBytes();
       ios.close();
       return decompressed;