diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0ee059db..bce295da 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Incompatibilities:
   and its security goals are undocumented.  If you must enable
   ECMAScript support, it would be prudent to restrict the ELinks
   process with a sandbox of some kind.
+* Gzip decompression support now requires zlib 1.2.0.2 or later.
 * bugs 871, 752: The numbering of terminal.*.colors no longer depends
   on config options.  This change makes elinks.conf portable between
   different configurations but unfortunately not between this and
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index cba0c815..01fdb696 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([EL_CONFIG_OPTIONAL_LIBRARY],
 EL_CONFIG_OPTIONAL_LIBRARY(CONFIG_GPM, gpm, gpm.h, gpm, Gpm_Open,
 	[  --without-gpm           disable gpm (mouse) support])
 
-EL_CONFIG_OPTIONAL_LIBRARY(CONFIG_GZIP, zlib, zlib.h, z, gzdopen,
+EL_CONFIG_OPTIONAL_LIBRARY(CONFIG_GZIP, zlib, zlib.h, z, gzclearerr,
 	[  --without-zlib          disable zlib support])
 
 EL_CONFIG_OPTIONAL_LIBRARY(CONFIG_BZIP2, bzlib, bzlib.h, bz2, BZ2_bzReadOpen,
diff --git a/doc/installation.txt b/doc/installation.txt
index efabb144..95c7da03 100644
--- a/doc/installation.txt
+++ b/doc/installation.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ ifndef::installation-webpage[]
 			See <<lua-scripting,the Elinks - Lua interface>>    \
 endif::installation-webpage[]
 			for more info.
-GNU zip			For handling compressed documents both locally and  \
+zlib 1.2.0.2 or later	For handling compressed documents both locally and  \
 			sent from server.
 bzip2			For handling local compressed documents.
 OpenSSL or GNU TLS	For handling secure HTTP browsing.