I confirm this is a serious issue.
Xenial is LTS version for Ubuntu, so it's going to stay around for a long time.
Meanwhile, zstd v0.5.1 is an experimental version using an incompatible format.
It cannot read from zstd v1+.
It generates data in a format that normal programs without legacy support 
cannot read.

This is a big issue currently, as it makes Ubuntu 16.04 LTS incompatible
with the rest of the world, using v1+ format.

Please update Xenial to latest zstd version (v1.3.1 at this date).
It will solve all problems above.

(note : zstd cli has "legacy support" enabled by default, which means it
will be able to decode data already generated by zstd v0.5.1)

(note 2 : later versions, starting with Yakkety, don't have this
problem)

** Summary changed:

- update xenial to 0.8.0
+ update libzstd package in xenial

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