docs: Default zstd support for Python 3.14+

mollymorphous · mollymorphous · commit 824f3f54de3e · 2025-07-25T14:47:36.000-04:00
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ As well as these optional installs:
 * `rich` - Rich terminal support. *(Optional, with `httpx[cli]`)*
 * `click` - Command line client support. *(Optional, with `httpx[cli]`)*
 * `brotli` or `brotlicffi` - Decoding for "brotli" compressed responses. *(Optional, with `httpx[brotli]`)*
-* `zstandard` - Decoding for "zstd" compressed responses. *(Optional, with `httpx[zstd]`)*
+* `zstandard` - Decoding for "zstd" compressed responses before Python 3.14. *(Optional, with `httpx[zstd]`)*
 
 A huge amount of credit is due to `requests` for the API layout that
 much of this work follows, as well as to `urllib3` for plenty of design
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ As well as these optional installs:
 * `rich` - Rich terminal support. *(Optional, with `httpx[cli]`)*
 * `click` - Command line client support. *(Optional, with `httpx[cli]`)*
 * `brotli` or `brotlicffi` - Decoding for "brotli" compressed responses. *(Optional, with `httpx[brotli]`)*
-* `zstandard` - Decoding for "zstd" compressed responses. *(Optional, with `httpx[zstd]`)*
+* `zstandard` - Decoding for "zstd" compressed responses before Python 3.14. *(Optional, with `httpx[zstd]`)*
 
 A huge amount of credit is due to `requests` for the API layout that
 much of this work follows, as well as to `urllib3` for plenty of design
diff --git a/docs/quickstart.md b/docs/quickstart.md
@@ -100,8 +100,9 @@ b'<!doctype html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title>Example Domain</title>...'
 
 Any `gzip` and `deflate` HTTP response encodings will automatically
 be decoded for you. If `brotlipy` is installed, then the `brotli` response
-encoding will be supported. If `zstandard` is installed, then `zstd`
-response encodings will also be supported.
+encoding will be supported. The `zstd` response encoding is supported by
+default on Python 3.14 and later, and optionally available on earlier Python
+versions with `zstandard` installed.
 
 For example, to create an image from binary data returned by a request, you can use the following code:
 
