diff --git a/changes/440.feature.rst b/changes/440.feature.rst
index b99d99de..63a3e4be 100644
--- a/changes/440.feature.rst
+++ b/changes/440.feature.rst
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Change default compression to lz4.
+Change default compression to lz4. The previous default was no compression.