diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2a5fc69..f28a509 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - The `Header::parse_header` function gained a speed up related to parsing of the binary headers.
 - Added `zstdmt` feature which sets zstd compression to use all available cores.
 - Added feature flags for every compression algorithm to support disabling unused ones.
+- Removed bzip2 from the compression options enabled by default.
 
 ### Breaking Changes
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 15f1305..07b9e48 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ default = [
     "gzip-compression",
     "zstd-compression",
     "xz-compression",
-    "bzip2-compression"
 ]
 
 gzip-compression = ["flate2"]
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 3d91826..16ac6b2 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 //! A library providing API to parse rpms as well as
 //! creating rpms from individual files.
 //!
-//! All supported compression types are behind feature flags which are enabled by default. They can
-//! be disable if these compression algorithms are unused.
+//! All supported compression types are behind feature flags. All of them except bzip2 are enabled
+//! by default. They can be disable if these compression algorithms are unused.
 //!
 //! # Example
 //!
diff --git a/src/rpm/compressor.rs b/src/rpm/compressor.rs
index aea44f6..a3b31e0 100644
--- a/src/rpm/compressor.rs
+++ b/src/rpm/compressor.rs
@@ -168,9 +168,6 @@ impl Default for CompressionWithLevel {
         #[cfg(feature = "xz-compression")]
         return CompressionType::Xz.into();
 
-        #[cfg(feature = "bzip2-compression")]
-        return CompressionType::Bzip2.into();
-
         CompressionType::None.into()
     }
 }