diff --git a/wp-admin/options.php b/wp-admin/options.php
index 809bd5ab7..a651df4bc 100644
--- a/wp-admin/options.php
+++ b/wp-admin/options.php
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ $whitelist_options = array(
 	'misc' => array( 'hack_file', 'use_linksupdate', 'uploads_use_yearmonth_folders', 'upload_path' ),
 	'media' => array( 'thumbnail_size_w', 'thumbnail_size_h', 'thumbnail_crop', 'medium_size_w', 'medium_size_h', 'large_size_w', 'large_size_h', 'image_default_size', 'image_default_align', 'image_default_link_type' ),
 	'privacy' => array( 'blog_public' ),
-	'reading' => array( 'posts_per_page', 'posts_per_rss', 'rss_use_excerpt', 'blog_charset', 'gzipcompression', 'show_on_front', 'page_on_front', 'page_for_posts' ),
+	'reading' => array( 'posts_per_page', 'posts_per_rss', 'rss_use_excerpt', 'blog_charset', 'show_on_front', 'page_on_front', 'page_for_posts' ),
 	'writing' => array( 'default_post_edit_rows', 'use_smilies', 'ping_sites', 'mailserver_url', 'mailserver_port', 'mailserver_login', 'mailserver_pass', 'default_category', 'default_email_category', 'use_balanceTags', 'default_link_category', 'enable_app', 'enable_xmlrpc' ),
 	'options' => array( '' ) );
 if ( !defined( 'WP_SITEURL' ) ) $whitelist_options['general'][] = 'siteurl';