# Known Issues

This document details the known issues in the current release of screed. All issues for screed are tracked at https://github.com/dib-lab/khmer/labels/screed

## List of known issues

Screed does not support gzip file streaming. This is an issue with Python 2.x and will likely not be fixed in future releases. https://github.com/dib-lab/khmer/issues/700

Screed is overly tolerant of spaces in fast{q,a} which is against spec. https://github.com/dib-lab/khmer/issues/108