diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 729378382..4535da099 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
  - #1560, Volatile RPC called with GET now returns 405 Method not Allowed instead of 500 - @wolfgangwalther
  - #1604, Change the default logging level to `log-level=error`. Only requests with a status greater or equal than 500 will be logged. If you wish to go back to the previous behaviour and log all the requests, use `log-level=info` - @steve-chavez
  - #1617, Dropped support for PostgreSQL 9.4 - @wolfgangwalther
-
+ - #1854, Dropped undocumented support for gzip compression (which was surprisingly slow and easily enabled by mistake). In some use-cases this makes Postgres up to 3x faster - @aljungberg
+ 
 ## [7.0.1] - 2020-05-18
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/src/PostgREST/Middleware.hs b/src/PostgREST/Middleware.hs
index ee41e58fd..d8b09529e 100644
--- a/src/PostgREST/Middleware.hs
+++ b/src/PostgREST/Middleware.hs
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ pgrstFormat minStatus date req status responseSize =
 pgrstMiddleware :: LogLevel -> Wai.Application -> Wai.Application
 pgrstMiddleware logLevel =
     logger
-  . Wai.gzip Wai.def
   . Wai.cors corsPolicy
   . Wai.staticPolicy (Wai.only [("favicon.ico", "static/favicon.ico")])
   where