diff --git a/commafeed-server/pom.xml b/commafeed-server/pom.xml
index 3d44caec..63ef07fb 100644
--- a/commafeed-server/pom.xml
+++ b/commafeed-server/pom.xml
@@ -461,6 +461,10 @@
             <artifactId>ayza-for-apache5</artifactId>
             <version>10.1.0</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.github.luben</groupId>
+            <artifactId>zstd-jni</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.seancfoley</groupId>
             <artifactId>ipaddress</artifactId>
diff --git a/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/NativeImageClasses.java b/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/NativeImageClasses.java
index bda41f0f..9fba6031 100644
--- a/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/NativeImageClasses.java
+++ b/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/NativeImageClasses.java
@@ -350,15 +350,7 @@ import io.quarkus.runtime.annotations.RegisterForReflection;
         })
 public class NativeImageClasses {
 
-    // disable zstd and brotli runtime detection because it causes native image failure
-    @TargetClass(className = "org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.ZstdRuntime")
-    static final class ZstdRuntime {
-        @Substitute
-        public static boolean available() {
-            return false;
-        }
-    }
-
+    // disable brotli runtime detection because it causes native image failure
     @TargetClass(className = "org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.Brotli4jRuntime")
     static final class Brotli4jRuntime {
         @Substitute
diff --git a/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpClientFactory.java b/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpClientFactory.java
index 368c1e34..cea1dd98 100644
--- a/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpClientFactory.java
+++ b/commafeed-server/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpClientFactory.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import org.apache.hc.client5.http.DnsResolver;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.SystemDefaultDnsResolver;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.async.methods.InflatingAsyncDataConsumer;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.async.methods.InflatingGzipDataConsumer;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.async.methods.InflatingZstdDataConsumer;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.config.ConnectionConfig;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.config.TlsConfig;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.entity.compress.ContentCoding;
@@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ public class HttpClientFactory {
         contentDecoderMap.put(
                 ContentCoding.DEFLATE.token(), d -> new InflatingAsyncDataConsumer(d, null));
         contentDecoderMap.put(ContentCoding.GZIP.token(), InflatingGzipDataConsumer::new);
+        contentDecoderMap.put(ContentCoding.ZSTD.token(), InflatingZstdDataConsumer::new);
 
         RedirectStrategy redirectStrategy =
                 config.httpClient().blockLocalAddresses()
diff --git a/commafeed-server/src/test/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetterTest.java b/commafeed-server/src/test/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetterTest.java
index 1d24ce55..73c0b207 100644
--- a/commafeed-server/src/test/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetterTest.java
+++ b/commafeed-server/src/test/java/com/commafeed/backend/HttpGetterTest.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import com.commafeed.backend.HttpGetter.HttpResponseException;
 import com.commafeed.backend.HttpGetter.HttpResult;
 import com.commafeed.backend.HttpGetter.NotModifiedException;
 import com.commafeed.backend.HttpGetter.TooManyRequestsException;
+import com.github.luben.zstd.ZstdOutputStream;
 import com.google.common.net.HttpHeaders;
 
 import io.quarkus.runtime.configuration.MemorySize;
@@ -417,7 +418,7 @@ class HttpGetterTest {
     @Nested
     class Compression {
 
-        private static final String ACCEPT_ENCODING = "deflate, gzip";
+        private static final String ACCEPT_ENCODING = "deflate, gzip, zstd";
 
         @Test
         void gzip() throws Exception {
@@ -429,6 +430,11 @@ class HttpGetterTest {
             supportsCompression("deflate", DeflaterOutputStream::new);
         }
 
+        @Test
+        void zstd() throws Exception {
+            supportsCompression("zstd", ZstdOutputStream::new);
+        }
+
         void supportsCompression(String encoding, CompressionFunction compressionFunction)
                 throws Exception {
             String body = "my body";