diff --git a/src/journal/compress.c b/src/journal/compress.c
index 4fb09f5965198..3baf9e4ad755a 100644
--- a/src/journal/compress.c
+++ b/src/journal/compress.c
@@ -98,7 +98,12 @@ int compress_blob_lz4(const void *src, uint64_t src_size, void *dst, size_t *dst
         if (src_size < 9)
                 return -ENOBUFS;
 
-        r = LZ4_compress_limitedOutput(src, dst + 8, src_size, src_size - 8 - 1);
+#if LZ4_VERSION_NUMBER >= 10700
+        r = LZ4_compress_default(src, (char*)dst + 8, src_size, src_size - 8 - 1);
+#else
+        r = LZ4_compress_limitedOutput(src, (char*)dst + 8, src_size, src_size - 8 - 1);
+#endif
+
         if (r <= 0)
                 return -ENOBUFS;
 
@@ -458,7 +463,7 @@ int compress_stream_lz4(int fdf, int fdt, off_t max_bytes) {
 
                 total_in += n;
 
-                r = LZ4_compress_continue(&lz4_data, buf, out, n);
+                r = LZ4_compress_fast_continue(&lz4_data, buf, out, n, LZ4_COMPRESSBOUND(LZ4_BUFSIZE), 0);
                 if (r == 0) {
                         log_error("LZ4 compression failed.");
                         return -EBADMSG;
@@ -634,7 +639,7 @@ int decompress_stream_lz4(int fdf, int fdt, off_t max_bytes) {
                 total_out += r;
 
                 if (max_bytes != -1 && total_out > (size_t) max_bytes) {
-                        log_debug("Decompressed stream longer than %zd bytes", max_bytes);
+                        log_debug("Decompressed stream longer than %zd bytes", (size_t) max_bytes);
                         return -EFBIG;
                 }
 
diff --git a/src/journal/compress.h b/src/journal/compress.h
index 136dda6d390c3..0f62a58d6e02d 100644
--- a/src/journal/compress.h
+++ b/src/journal/compress.h
@@ -35,15 +35,9 @@ int compress_blob_lz4(const void *src, uint64_t src_size, void *dst, size_t *dst
 
 static inline int compress_blob(const void *src, uint64_t src_size, void *dst, size_t *dst_size) {
         int r;
-#ifdef HAVE_LZ4
-        r = compress_blob_lz4(src, src_size, dst, dst_size);
-        if (r == 0)
-                return OBJECT_COMPRESSED_LZ4;
-#else
         r = compress_blob_xz(src, src_size, dst, dst_size);
         if (r == 0)
                 return OBJECT_COMPRESSED_XZ;
-#endif
         return r;
 }
 
@@ -75,12 +69,7 @@ int compress_stream_lz4(int fdf, int fdt, off_t max_bytes);
 int decompress_stream_xz(int fdf, int fdt, off_t max_size);
 int decompress_stream_lz4(int fdf, int fdt, off_t max_size);
 
-#ifdef HAVE_LZ4
-#  define compress_stream compress_stream_lz4
-#  define COMPRESSED_EXT ".lz4"
-#else
 #  define compress_stream compress_stream_xz
 #  define COMPRESSED_EXT ".xz"
-#endif
 
 int decompress_stream(const char *filename, int fdf, int fdt, off_t max_bytes);
diff --git a/src/journal/journal-file.c b/src/journal/journal-file.c
index 0fd59ec07300c..ebc8e62305d18 100644
--- a/src/journal/journal-file.c
+++ b/src/journal/journal-file.c
@@ -2615,9 +2615,8 @@ int journal_file_open(
         f->flags = flags;
         f->prot = prot_from_flags(flags);
         f->writable = (flags & O_ACCMODE) != O_RDONLY;
-#if defined(HAVE_LZ4)
-        f->compress_lz4 = compress;
-#elif defined(HAVE_XZ)
+
+#if defined(HAVE_XZ)
         f->compress_xz = compress;
 #endif
 #ifdef HAVE_GCRYPT